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Photo: Gruppe C Photography/SRO Maro Engel is aiming to return Mercedes-AMG to the top step of the Nürburgring 24 podium, ten years after his and the brand’s last victory in the Eifel endurance classic. The German manufacturer hasn’t won the event since 2016, when it locked-out the top four with its then-new Mercedes-AMG GT3s and Engel was part of the driver crew in the winning No. 4 machine. Engel narrowly missed out on victory in 2018 and finished third in 2022, but has failed to finish the last three races, at the wheel of GetSpeed-entered Mercedes-AMGs. “The hunger to win the race has always been there, it’s always been a very special race for me,” he told Sportscar365. “Personally, we had a few good chances. We came close in 2018, but it just hasn’t clicked in the previous nine years, so hopefully we can make it lucky tenth.” The veteran Mercedes-AMG factory driver will race the No. 80 Mercedes-AMG Team Ravenol entry alongside Luca Stolz, Fabi...

Photo: Toyota Miki Koyama believes that back-to-back podiums in the opening rounds of the SUPER GT season demonstrates the “progress” she has made as part of the apr Lexus squad. Toyota junior driver Koyama, sharing the No. 31 Lexus LC500h GT with Kazuto Kotaka, finished third in last month’s Okayama curtain-raiser and backed that up with the same result in last week’s three-hour Golden Week fixture at Fuji Speedway, where she and Koyama were joined in the cockpit by rookie Charlie Wurz. In the process, she became SUPER GT’s first female driver to score multiple top-three finishes, beating one-time podium finishers June Okanoya and Lilou Wadoux. The strong start to the season for the apr team contrasts to 2025, when Koyama struggled alongside Oliver Rasmussen, failing to score a top-ten finish all year. While Koyama described her run to third in Okayama as “frustrating” owing to the fact she couldn’t clear the Inging Toyota GR86 GT du...

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Photo: Porsche Carrera Cup Asia Porsche junior driver Marcus Amand holds a strong lead in the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia title race at the halfway stage after securing his second and third victories of the season in last weekend’s third round at Fuji Speedway. The 20-year-old Franco-Finnish driver, took a clean sweep of wins aboard his Phantom Global Racing-prepared No. 3 car at the iconic Japanese venue to extend his points lead, adding to his triumph in the opening race of the Zhuhai round in April. It has put Amand 37.5 points clear of Phantom Global stablemate Rodrigo Dias Almeida, who has scored three podiums from the opening six races and scored maximum points in the second Zhuhai race, second on the road behind stand-in Alexander Tauscher. The season began at Shanghai in March, when Carrera Cup Asia became the first series worldwide to debut the all-new Type-992.2 Porsche 911 Cup car, with the wins being shared by Naquib Azlan (EBM) and another guest driver, Luo Kailuo. ...

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Photo: Porsche Circuit of The Americas provided an assortment of experiences for Porsche Sprint Challenge USA West by Yokohama drivers ranging from first wins to scorching temperatures, and to arguably the most crucial of all – additional track time at one of the country’s most technical road courses. Crigler Earns First GT3 Cup Win in USA West A new name topped the GT3 Cup Pro-Am leaderboard for the first time at COTA, as Mark Crigler celebrated his inaugural series victory on Saturday afternoon. It came during the hottest race seen throughout the weekend, as track temperatures reached above 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Crigler and his Crigler Sport team finally broke through after four consecutive podium finishes dating back to the opening weekend at Apex Motor Club. But, Brannan Hankins – Friday’s winner at COTA in the same class – had been dominant since the season’s first green flag with Loftus Motorsports. Hankins did face strong competition, though, en route to his Race 1 win. ...

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