Porsche Ready for Three Car Challenge at Spa
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For the first time, Porsche will field three 919 Hybrids at the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, in preparation for Le Mans in June.
After starting 26th and 63rd, the Marc VDS-run BMW Z4 GT3s finished strongly at the final Nordschleife race before the 24 Hour challenge.
Yesterday, JD Davison won his first race in the Pirelli World Challenge GT class, in the #33 Nissan at Barber Motorsports Park. Martin Fuentes and Colin Thompson won in GTA and GT Cup respectively.
Colorado’s Kris Wilson won yesterday evening’s Pirelli World Challenge GTS race, putting him on the top step of the podium for both races in that class this weekend.
After a thoroughly entertaining round 5 of the PWC GTS class on Friday, Kris Wilson was victorious, with Wilkins and Aquilante behind him.
After strong finishes at Oulton Park, Tolman Motorsport are hoping that the Rockingham round will produce similar results, despite this being the first two-hour race for both drivers.
Claire Cottingham has been announced as Motors TV’s Got Talent’s 2015 winner, and will join the British GT presenting line-up from the Rockingham round onwards.
DTM drivers Timo Glock and Bruno Spengler will join Alex Zanardi to drive ROAL Motorsport’s BMW Z4 GT3 at the 24 Hours of Spa in July, completing BMW’s ‘dream team’.
2014 GT Cup champions United Autosports have a new driver and car ready for the 2015 series, which starts this weekend at Donington.
Sloan Urry missed out on winning the GT Cup class at the Long Beach round of the 2015 Pirelli World Challenge season due to a spin in the final lap.
GT Academy is open for its seventh year, and offers Gran Turismo 6 gamers the opportunity to become a real racing driver.
Craft-Bamboo Racing have signed experienced driver Darryl O’Young and rising star Jonathan Venter for this year’s GT Asia Series in the #99 Aston Martin.
Despite running in 3rd position in GT Cup for most of the race, Fogg had to retire with one lap to go last weekend at Long Beach due to a collision.
Preston Calvert finished the 5th round of the 2015 Pirelli World Challenge season in 4th place, after avoiding the many incidents on the Los Angeles street circuit.
Larbre Competition’s Corvette was as fast as the GTE-Am leaders at Silverstone, but a stop/go penalty and crash with a LMP1 car cost it a podium finish.
James Davison gained 10 places to finish 5th at the incident-packed Pirelli World Challenge race at Long Beach, but teammate Bryan Heitkotter didn’t do so well.
A series of misfortunes cost the #4 Corvette of Gavin and Milner a GTLM podium at Long Beach, and they came home to finish P7.
