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Photo: Racingpixels/Creventic Maxim Dirickx took his second win of the season last weekend at the Nürburgring to maintain his championship lead at the midpoint of the inaugural Prototype Cup Europe season. The Belgian has been on the podium in every race so far this year in his No. 3 Aust Motorsport Ligier JS P325 Toyota and currently tops the championship tables with 86 points. Dirickx, who heads both the overall and Prototype Cup Europe Junior standings, eked out an early lead with a win in the first 55-minute race of the season at Mugello in March. A third place finish in Race 2 of that weekend saw him firmly out front going into the second round at the Nürburgring. British racer Nigel Moore shared driving duties with Dirickx at the German circuit. The pair snatched second place in Race 1 and another win to round out the weekend in Race 2. Aust Motorsport also heads the teams’ points tally thanks to the duo’s efforts. German rival Valentino Catalano now sits 14 points behind ...

Photo: GT World Challenge Asia The third round of the GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS season at Fuji Speedway will be contested by a season-high 25 cars, including multiple guest entries. The SRO Motorsports Group-operated series returns to action at the Toyota-owned venue this weekend for the first of back-to-back events in Japan after an extended break following the rescheduling of June’s Shanghai round until the end of the year . A final entry list for the two 60-minute races was released on Monday , featuring an increase of three cars compared to the previous round at Mandalika in early May and two cars compared to April’s Sepang curtain-raiser. Three guest entries are supplied by Absolute Racing, which will field two extra Porsche 911 GT3 R Evos. These are the No. 20 car for Malaysian pair Aaron Lim Say Joon and Haziq Zairel Oh in the Am class, and the No. 32 car for Porsche Motorsport North America Selected Driver Tom Sargent and Kyle Washington in Silver-Am. A...

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Photo: GT World Challenge Australia Volante Rosso Motorsport has announced the acquisition of a second McLaren 720S GT3 Evo for its GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS. The Sydney-based team entered into a partnership with McLaren at the beginning of the season, fielding a solo 720S to be shared by team owner Josh Hunt and Geoff Emery along with its Trophy class-entered Aston Martin Vantage GT3. Now it has revealed it has purchased the McLaren that finished second in the 2020 running of the Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour in the hands of 59Racing, and which has since raced in New Zealand, which will now be brought to Evo spec. However, the team also revealed that it will not be present for the upcoming round of the series at Hidden Valley Raceway, near Darwin, later this month, with the focus now on preparing for the following round at Sydney Motorsport Park in September. Hunt, who also serves as team director, commented: “We are really pleased to expand our McLaren ...

Photo: Gruppe C Photography Nicki Thiim charged to the summit of the DTM standings after securing Aston Martin’s first series victories on a dominant weekend at the Norisring that featured a frightening collision for Kelvin van der Linde and Maximilian Paul. Thiim was in flying form aboard the No. 7 Comtoyou Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo as he claimed pole for both races. He was able to hold onto the lead at the start of the opener and continued to occupy first place after the pit stop sequence when the race was red-flagged with 20 minutes to go after the scary Turn 1 collision. Paul had hit the barriers in his Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini Temerario GT3 and speared out of control directly into the side of van der Linde’s BMW M4 GT3 EVO, which sent his door flying. Van der Linde was taken to hospital for precautionary checks but escaped injury while Paul suffered a suspected fractured leg. After a lengthy delay to extract the drivers, recover the cars and repai...

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Photo: Laurent Cartalade/MPS Agency Marc VDS Racing founder and owner Marc Van der Straten passed away on Sunday at the age of 78. The Belgian, who most recently lent his team’s name to the 2025 European Le Mans Series LMP2 championship-winning Panis Racing squad, as well as the Boutsen-run VDS Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo that currently competes in GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS, held a storied history in both two and four-wheeled competition. While Marc VDS Racing became a three-time Moto2 World Championship-winning team in 2019, the team achieved considerable success in GT competition, both in the FIA GT1 World Championship and Blancpain Endurance Series, including winning the 24 Hours of Spa in 2015 with a BMW Z4 GT3 featuring drivers Lucas Luhr, Markus Palttala and Nicky Catsburg. The team ended its in-house GT3 racing operations that year to focus entirely on motorcycle racing, although made a comeback in recent years with branding on LMP2 and GT3 machinery. “B...