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Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS reached a decisive point in its Endurance Cup campaign at the Nürburgring, with a maiden Silver crown for Team WRT and a second Endurance Cup title for Maro Engel and Luca Stolz sealed alongside Comtoyou Racing's dominant victory. Lucas Auer added a first crown of his own, the trio doing just enough in the #48 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO to clinch matters with a round still to go. Qualifying The #

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS heads to the Nürburgring this weekend (28-30 August) for the penultimate round of the 2026 Endurance Cup, with a 55-car field set to contest a three-hour race on the 5.1km GP-Strecke. It's the 15th time the series has visited the Eifel venue since joining the calendar in 2012, second only to Spa-Francorchamps in visit count, and it marks the first Endurance Cup outing since the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO GT World Challenge Europe's Sprint Cup returned to Magny-Cours for round three with the title picture shaken up on both days. Jules Gounon, deputising for the unwell Chris Lulham, delivered a maiden overall win for Mercedes-AMG Team Verstappen Racing's 2Seas-run entry alongside Dani Juncadella on Saturday, before Ricardo Feller and Bastian Buus hit back for Lionspeed GP on Sunday in a red-flagged Race 2 that also ended points leaders Charles Wee

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO Team WRT's Charles Weerts and Kelvin van der Linde left Misano with a maximum haul, winning both Sprint Cup races on home soil for reigning MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi, who had to make do with a maiden pole and a pair of frustrating results in the #46 BMW. Weerts extended his record tally of series victories to 20 across the weekend and, together with Van der Linde, took over the championship lead from Lionspeed GP's Ricardo Feller and Bastian

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO Thomas Preining, Ricardo Feller and Bastian Buus gave Lionspeed GP a maiden CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa victory, the #80 Porsche 911 GT3 R crossing the line 12.3 seconds ahead of the #48 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 of Luca Stolz, Lucas Auer and Maro Engel. The #51 AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3 of Nicklas Nielsen, Alessio Rovera and Tommaso Mosca completed the podium after one of the more eventful races in recent memory. For Porsche, it was a nint

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO AF Corse's #51 Ferrari 296 GT3 leads the 2026 CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa as the race enters its final six hours, a remarkable turnaround for a car that spent much of Saturday evening two laps off the pace following a puncture while Nielsen was in front. Pro: Ferrari's recovery steals the show The #51 had led comfortably in the opening hours before the puncture dropped it out of contention, handing the advantage first to the #48 MANN FILTER Merc

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO Alessio Rovera gave the #51 AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3 the best possible starting position for the 78th CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa, topping all four segments of the new-format Superpole to claim pole with a 2:18.613 — Ferrari's first pole at this event since 2017. As flagged in our preview, the AF Corse squad and the Lionspeed GP Porsche were expected to be among the pace-setters, and Rovera's performance left little doubt about the Ferrari's spe

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO The GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup season reaches its centerpiece this weekend as the GT World Challenge Europe heads to Spa-Francorchamps for the 78th CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa. A 69-car field representing ten manufacturers will take the green flag at 16:30 (local, 15.30 BST) on Saturday 27 June, with the checkered flag due at the same time on Sunday afternoon. It is the biggest GT3 race on the calendar, and after two rounds that hav

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO/JEP Tresor Attempto Racing claimed one of the most unlikely victories in GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup history at Monza, with the Silver Cup-entered #66 Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II of Ariel Levi, Sebastian Øgaard and Rocco Mazzola triumphing from 29th on the grid. It was Audi's first Endurance Cup win since Hockenheim 2022, and a result shaped entirely by chaos — at the start, and again at the finish. Qualifying HRT Ford Racing took its mai

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO Comtoyou Racing arrives at Monza this weekend as the team to beat, the Belgian outfit leading the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup standings after a dramatic season opener at Circuit Paul Ricard. The 3 Hours of Monza — round two of the Endurance Cup campaign — takes place on Sunday. From Paul Ricard to Monza The #007 Comtoyou Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo of Nicki Thiim, Marco Sørensen and Mattia Drudi snatched victory at Paul Ricard with

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO The opening Sprint Cup round of the 2026 GT World Challenge Europe season at Brands Hatch delivered two contrasting races, a raft of post-race penalties, and a maiden outright series win for Lionspeed GP before the weekend was out. Qualifying Ricardo Feller put the #80 Lionspeed GP Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo on pole for Race 1 with a 1m22.722s on his first flying lap, the only driver to dip below 1m23s alongside Arthur Leclerc, who qualified second i

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO A crowd of over 37,000 at Circuit Paul Ricard witnessed one of the more dramatic finishes in recent GT World Challenge Europe memory, as the #7 Comtoyou Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo snatched victory from the #48 Mercedes-AMG Team Mann-Filter with eight minutes remaining. Nicki Thiim, Marco Sørensen and Mattia Drudi took the win; the #48 crew of Lucas Auer, Maro Engel and Luca Stolz had to settle for second after dominating for the better

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO The GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS opens its 2026 season at Circuit Paul Ricard this weekend, with a 59-car field contesting a six-hour race running from 18:00 through to midnight on Saturday. It is the 14th consecutive year the series has visited the French circuit, and one of the more eventful season openers in recent memory. New in 2026: Lamborghini's Temerario and F1 driver(-s?) The headline addition on the machinery front is the L

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO Lance Stroll will step out of his Aston Martin Formula 1 car and into a GT3 machine next weekend, with the Canadian confirmed for the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup season opener at Circuit Paul Ricard on April 11. Lance Stroll will step out of his Aston Martin Formula 1 car and into a GT3 machine next weekend, with the Canadian confirmed for the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup season opener at Circuit Paul Ricard on April 11. S

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO The 2025 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup season reached a its conclusion at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, where Garage 59 claimed its first overall victory in nearly a decade, while Rutronik Racing secured the drivers’ championship by the narrowest of margins. From pole position, the #58 Garage 59 McLaren GT3 Evo of Dean MacDonald, Adam Smalley, and Louis Prette led from the opening stint and never looked back. A composed drive thr

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO The 2025 GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS season concludes next weekend with a three-hour...

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO The 2025 GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS Sprint Cup came to a conclusion at Circuit Ricardo Tormo...

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO ROWE Racing is back at the top step of the podium in the Endurance Cup with victory at the Nürburgring,...

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO A mere two weeks after the Misano round, under the floodlights of Magny-Cours, two different winners...

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO The GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup returned to Misano World Circuit for a weekend featuring two...