Sentences with phrase «gt championships this year»

He was GT1 co-champion with Johnny O'Connell in 2008, and finished second in the GT championship this year with teammate Oliver Gavin.

Even if one ignores the final outcome — a narrow second place in the points last season, and the Overall and Sprint GT championships this year — the way they happened was at opposite ends of the spectrum.

Not exact matches

The Mucke Motorsport team has raced with pink cars in the DTM for the last couple of years thanks to their association with the same sponsor, and this year will see the pink BWT - liveries expand into the German Formula 4 and GT championships as well.

Honda hasn't won a race in Super GT for two years, and the team he's joining are currently only 17th in the championship.

This year's race will be the last in the prestigious Suzuka 1000 km's history, with it departing the Super GT championship to become a 10 - hour GT3 and JAF - GT endurance race.

Button's main duty this year is driving for Honda in Super GT, but with only eight rounds in the championship that leaves plenty of spare time for him to take part in some other events.

Two teams will contest this year's FIA GT championship.

Ireland opened its entire tarmac championship to the R - GT class last year and the Irish fans are amongst the most devoted anywhere in the world.

«It's got to be the top national GT championship in the world and this is the toughest it's been all year.

Their triumph in 2012 victory wrapped up the American Le Mans Series GT championship, and Gavin set the race's fastest lap a year ago.

The first - generation car scored 35 victories in 55 races, won its class at the 12 Hours of Sebring three consecutive years, posted three 1 - 2 finishes in the GTS class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and earned four consecutive ALMS manufacturers championships for Chevrolet.

This year the No. 3 Corvette C6.R scored a quartet of Green X Challenge victories at Laguna Seca, Lime Rock, Mosport, and Road America to capture the Green X Challenge GT team championship and secure the Green X GT manufacturer championship for Chevrolet.

This year was my fifth year with the team, and we've already scored two Le Mans wins and an ALMS GT championship together.

I've been in many championships in the ALMS — in GTS, GT1, GT2 and now GTE — and what it comes down to, as we saw last year with BMW, is that they had a flying start winning the first few races of the year and that set them up for the season.

Built in 40 days in a corner of Carroll Shelby's shop by the 22 - year - old designer and a pickup crew of helpers, the Daytona led a brief but storied run that ended with the first FIA World GT championship for an American car.

Last year's victory for Olly and Jan was instrumental in setting them towards their runner - up finish in the GT drivers» championship.

Just one year removed from winning a driver, team and manufacturers» GT championship in the Pirelli World Challenge, K - Pax Racing is switching to Bentley Continental GT3 cars for the 2018...

The championship has seen a massive growth since, along with the success of Lamborghini's GT3 efforts, which has included GT Daytona class wins in this year's Rolex 24 at Daytona and Twelve Hours of Sebring.

Earlier this year, Chevrolet also earned manufacturer championships in the Verizon IndyCar Series and the Pirelli World Challenge's GTS class.

Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner, last year's GT champions, walked away with third - place championship trophies in the driving category.

In 2012, the Nissan GT - R captured the Super GT championship for the second straight year.

It was the fourth of the year for the duo and delivered three additional trophies: ALMS GT driver, manufacturer and team championships.

Today, a year later, the Huracán GT3 is ready for a global challenge: it has been chosen by more than 20 customer teams, with 40 cars competing over 78 race weekends in 13 of the most prestigious GT championships worldwide: from IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in the United States to Asian Championships such as SuperGT, Asian Le Mans Series and GT Asia, through Europe's major series such as Blancpain GT, ADAC GT Masters, British GT Championship, Campionato Italiano GT, International GT Open, International Endurance Series and Michelin GT3 Cup.

With a win in the GTE Pro class at Le Mans and runner - up finishes in the ALMS GT team and driver championships last year, America's premier production sports car team has focused on improving all aspects of its performance as it prepares its Compuware Corvette C6.R race cars for the 2012 campaign.

Compuware Corvettes come to Elkhart Lake in thick of ALMS GT championships ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (Aug. 6, 2013)-- For more than 50 years, Road...

Now we are heading to VIR, where Tommy and I won four years ago and won the ALMS GT Driver's and Team championships as well as the Manufacturer Championship for Chevrolet in the process.

Win equals GT Le Mans championship leads; Gavin and Milner fourth after penalty WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — In its 15 years of existence, Sunday marked Corvette Racing's first event at Watkins Glen International.

Compuware Corvettes come to Elkhart Lake in thick of ALMS GT championships ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — For more than 50 years, Road America has come to define the quintessential American road racing circuit.

This year alone, Wright's team captured the Pirelli World Challenge Overall GT and Sprint GT championships for the driver, team and manufacturer classes.

Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion This year's Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will showcase Acura's racing heritage with the West Coast debut of the 2017 Acura NSX GT3 racecar, which will be displayed alongside the 1991 RealTime Acura NSX, campaigned by Peter Cunningham (1991 to 2002) and driven by Cunningham to the Speed World Challenge GT championship in 1998.

The hotly - contested GT division of the Pirelli World Challenge has seen its championship fight go right down to the final race the past two years.

Piloting a brand new Audi R8 GT4 machine, Bell is set to compete in the GT division with a professional racing program in the quest for race wins, podiums and ultimately, the end of the year championship.

Today's win comes six years to the day after the 2012 win, which set Milner and Gavin on the path to that year's GT class championship.

The top level John Cooper Works class will support the British GT and BRDC British Formula 3 championships for the second year in succession and, for the first time, the series will be supporting DTM at Brands Hatch on 11 - 12th August 2018.