The 2017 Blancpain GT Series concluded at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya with a hometown victory for Daniel Juncadella and his AKKA ASP Mercedes-AMG GT3 crew and the first-ever championship trophy for Lamborghini’s Grasser Racing. Photos by Miguel Bosch. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]
Flying high, Pt.II
Dries Vanthoor and Markus Winkelhock took their maiden VLN victory in the 49. ADAC Barbarossapreis. The Belgium-German driver’s duo brought the Land Motorsport Audi R8 LMS GT3 to the lead in the first series of corners and never let go. Photos by Miguel Bosch, Julian Schmidt, JP Wagner and Marcel Wulf. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]
Oliver Kainz: “We were lucky over the whole race”
VLN8 was not the first time this year that Oliver Kainz went to the podium at the Nürburgring. The Wochenspiegel Team Monschau Ferrari 488 GT3 driver took a win in June and has been a front-runner since. With everything falling into place, Kainz and teammates Jochen Krumbach and Georg Weiss once again made their way […]
Yelmer Buurman: “I didn’t expect a podium, but nothing is impossible”
It takes a couple of seconds, then the memory comes back: last time Yelmer Buurman visited the Nürburgring podium was at the end of 2015. It’s been long overdue, but at the 49. ADAC Barbarossapreis the Dutchman finally returned when he drove to second place in what was his first outing in VLN since spring. […]
Dries Vanthoor: “I told myself: ‘it’s everything or nothing'”
Summer has come and gone, but what has remained is Dries Vanthoor’s surge onto the sportscar racing scene. The young Belgian has been a star actor in many of the races he’s competed in since the early months of summer, and continues this stellar form into autumn. Vanthoor’s latest triumph came at the 49. ADAC […]
Flying high
One team, two continents, three races. Land Motorsport went to battle on three fronts simultaneously on the same day. Where many other teams may flounder in the challenge, the Audi team scored a three-win high on one day, with victories stretching from Hockenheim and the Nürburgring all across the Atlantic Ocean to Road Atlanta. The […]
LMP3 Cup season review
The Henderson Insurance Brokers LMP3 Cup wrapped up its first season at Donington Park where Alasdair McCaig and Colin Noble claimed the championship title for the Neilsen Racing run Ecurie Ecosse team. Individual race wins went to United Autosports drivers Tony Wells and Matt Bell in race one and Jack Butel recorded his first victory […]
Andrea Caldarelli: “I didn’t see anything in front of me and just went all inside”
Teammate Christian Engelhart called it the key move. It was celebrating by the tv’s commentators as quite possibly the overtake of the race. When Andrea Caldarelli took the Lamborghini Huracán GT3 bull by the horns in the second stint of the Barcelona season finale and went past no less than three cars in one lap—two […]
