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Photo: Gruppe C Photography/SRO BMW squad Team KRC has set its sights on a full Intercontinental GT Challenge campaign next year, while confirming plans to return to the FIA GT World Cup in Macau. The Taiwanese team contested two rounds on this year’s IGTC schedule: Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour, where it finished fifth on debut, and the Suzuka 1000km, where its Bronze Cup entry retired but its Pro-Am M4 GT3 EVO took third in class. Its expansion to a two-car Suzuka effort comes at a time that BMW is scaling back on its IGTC efforts, with no Pro class cars entered for the Japanese event. Now team director Mars Kang has outlined ambitions to take on a full IGTC schedule next year that would allow its regular FIA Bronze-rated driver, ‘Tony’ Ruan Cunfan, to fight for Independent Cup honors. It comes as the team prepares to field an M4 GT3 EVO on the streets of Macau in November for Augusto Farfus, who was part of the squad’s Pro-Am Suzuka 1000km effort an...

Photo: RacingPixels/Creventic Marcus Littlewood sealed the inaugural Radical Cup Europe title in the final round at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. The RSR driver clinched the SR3 championship with a margin of 23 points to title rivals Sebastian Schou and Morten Strømsted. The prototype racing series was new for the 2026 season and was organized in collaboration with Creventic. It was the first time that Radical had hosted a racing series in Europe since the Radical European Masters championship which ran from 2008 to 2018. Littlewood claimed three wins across the season in his No. 3 Radical SR3 XXR. He was the only repeat winner of the year. A double podium at the opening round at Mugello was enough to provide an early lead on the points table. The British driver, who also took the Radical Cup UK title in 2025, had a difficult weekend at the season finale in Barcelona, scoring a best result of fourth in Race 2. However, his successful efforts earlier in the season provided enou...

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Photo: GT World Challenge Asia This weekend’s penultimate round of the GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS season in Beijing has attracted 19 entries, as Loek Hartog makes his second appearance of the year to reinforce Origine Motorsport Porsche driver Lu Wei’s title bid. Released last Sunday, the entry list features the smallest number of cars for any round of the series since its very first post-COVID 19 event at Sepang in 2022, with three fewer cars than the low-water mark for the year so far at Mandalika. Compared to the previous round at Okayama International Circuit in August, three full-season cars have dropped off the grid: the BMW M4 GT3 EVO of Team Studie, which is set to shutter operations entirely , the Garage 75 Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo and the No. 25 Porsche Center Okazaki Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo. Additionally, EBM’s one-off Porsche for Okayama and the LM Corsa Ferrari that contested both Japanese rounds at Fuji and Okayama are absent. The most signific...

Photo: Andrew Miterko/SRO Memo Gidley said he “never won a championship sitting by the car” but the mixed emotions were made up by the SKI Autosports driver taking his tenth GT America powered by AWS victory of the season in Sunday’s race at Barber Motorsports Park. Gidley clinched the SRO3 title under a bizarre set of circumstances on Saturday as his No. 56 Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II stopped on track while on the formation lap for Race 1 of the weekend. While not scoring any points in the race, Gidley’s closest title challenger, Tony Davis, needed to either win or finish second in the race, but the HP-TECH Motorsport driver came home fourth. With the title already in hand, Gidley rebounded on Sunday to take a controlling victory, tying George Kurtz in having the most victories in a single GT America season, and could become the sole all-time leader, with two races still to go. “It’s just been an amazing weekend,” said Gidley. “We struggled a little...

Photo: Andrew Miterko/SRO Memo Gidley scored his tenth GT America powered by AWS victory of the season in Sunday’s final race of the weekend at Barber Motorsports Park after starting from the rear of the SRO3 field. The SKI Autosports driver, who locked up the class title on Saturday despite not starting Race 1 due to a driveshaft issue while on the pace lap, was forced to start eighth on the grid due to not setting a lap time. Gidley charged through the field and was up to third by the opening lap and then passed the No. 50 Chouest Povoledo Racing Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R of Ross Chouest for second. Pole-sitter Tony Davis, in the No. 04 HP-TECH Motorsport Ferrari 296 GT3, then came under attack by Gidley, who ran nose-to-tail for the better part of ten minutes. However, Gidley finally got around Davis for the led, with a move through traffic, with 18 minutes to go, and then cruised to a 1.471-second win over the No. 45 Ruckus Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo of Scott Blind...

Photo: Fred Hardy/SRO Trenton Estep broke through to claim top honors in Saturday’s Pirelli GT4 America race at Barber Motorsports Park after Allen Patten spun around Tony Gaples while battling for the overall lead in an incident-filled race. Estep, in the No. 7 ACI Motorsports Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport that he shared with Yves Baltas, finished two seconds clear of the No. 131 Advance Motorsports McLaren Artura GT4 of Austin Jurs after Patten’s No. 39 Dome Motorsport Mercedes-AMG GT4 was penalized for incident responsibility. Patten made contact with Gaples’ overall race-leading No. 33 Blackdog Racing McLaren on the second-to-last lap, resulting in a time penalty equivalent to a drive-through. It handed the Pro-Am class win to the No. 94 Random Vandals Racing BMW M4 GT4 EVO of Sam Craven and Kenton Koch, which was classified in third overall and by virtue of the late-race incident, have nearly wrapped up the championship due to Blackdog’s misfortun...