The new, improved Hampton Downs International Motorsport Park will reopen at the end of October after a $25 million upgrade. The Hampton Downs 101 is a new event featuring some of the world’s leading cars including Porsche, Lamborghini and Aston Martin. It’s a little over a year ago since Tony Quinn bought Hampton Downs and […]
Read moreThe No. 4 Black Falcon Mercedes-AMG GT3 of Maro Engel, Bernd Schneider, Adam Christodoulou and Manuel Metzger prevailed in a tense battle with HTP Motorsport’s No. 29 car to win the closest Nürburgring 24 in history. Engel, who qualified the sister No. 9 Black Falcon Mercedes on pole in Friday’s Top-30 Qualifying session, hunted down […]
Read moreBelow is the starting position, and nominated driver for each of the cars that made it into the Top 30 Qualifying shootout that starts at 19:50 local time in Germany: 1 #9 AMG-Team Black Falcon – Maro Engel – Mercedes-AMG GT3 2 #6 Audi Sport Team Phoenix – Rene Rast – Audi R8 LMS 3 […]
Read moreRacing driver, stunt driver and all round good bloke Neil Cunningham has passed away aged just 52 years old. The DSC team received the news of Neil Cunningham’s passing as we neared the Nurburgring for the weekend’s 24 Hour race and there was a difficult moment later in the day when Peter May and the […]
Read moreJono Lester sits third in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia standings after the opening round at Shanghai International Circuit over the weekend; the Kiwi GT driver scoring pole position, fourth and third placings alongside Yasuyuki Uchida in the #23 Air-J Lamborghini Huracan. With no previous experience at the Shanghai F1 circuit – or in […]
Read moreHTP Mercedes drivers Dominik Baumann, Jazeman Jaafar and Maximilian Buhk claimed a narrow victory in the Silverstone round of the Blancpain GT Series. The trio triumphed aboard their Mercedes-AMG GT3 by less than a second over the WRT Audi R8 LMS of Frederic Vervisch and brothers Dries and Laurens Vanthoor at the end of the […]
Read moreThis weekend marks the tenth anniversary of the start of the first GT3 series, the FIA GT3 European Championship, a landmark that is being commemorated at Brands Hatch this weekend. At the end of 2005, SRO Motorsports Group founder and CEO Stephane Ratel introduced the FIA GT3 European Championship. The championship was created to give […]
Read moreThe full entry for the 2016 Nürburgring 24 Hours has been revealed and includes its normal staggering amount of cars. There’s 157 cars listed in total, with 37 of those GT3-spec SP9 machines, and as usual, there’s plenty of other interesting cars on there too. In SP9, there’s a total of eight manufacturers represented: Aston […]
Read moreThe new Garage 59 McLaren squad took a narrow victory at the Monza Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup opener with Rob Bell, Come Ledogar and Shane van Gisbergen. Van Gisbergen withstood a challenge from HTP Mercedes driver Maximilian Buhk over the final 20 minutes to take the flag 0.341s ahead after three hours of racing. […]
Read moreHTP Mercedes driver Maximilian Buhk claimed pole position for the opening round of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup at Monza. The German jumped to the top spot aboard his Mercedes-AMG GT3 in the closing stages of the final 15-minute qualifying session with a 1m47.509s. That gave him the pole by just 0.016s from the […]
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