Sentences with phrase «gt race series»

Nismo, the motorsport arm of Nissan, entered the Nissan GT - R in the Super GT race series in the GT500 class for the 2008 season, replacing the Nissan 350Z.

Honda, pleased with how well the CR - Z has performed, is introducing it to the Japanese Super GT Race Series, hoping to bring more awareness about the CR - Z and its environmentally - friendly performance.Honda will start competition with a CR - Z equipped with a racing hybrid system, supporting the racing activities of Team Mugen through a joint project with -LSB-...]

Joining the midnight delivery ceremony was Steve Millen, long - time Nissan race driver and the winningest driver in IMSA GT race series history.

In 2008, the second - generation IS 350 was entered in the Super GT race series in the GT300 class (cars with approximately 300 horsepower).

Starting in 2018, the Pure McLaren GT race series will officially launch with events at European race circuits.

After a calendar gap of eight weeks, Corvette Racing's Oliver Gavin can't wait to return to the American Le Mans Series for the fourth round of North America's leading sportscar and GT racing series.

Qualifying in the GT class was as tight and unpredictable as ever for the fourth round of North America's leading sportscar and GT racing series, and a red flag half way through ensured it was as exciting as possible.

This sports car is Nissan's official vehicle for the 2014 Super GT racing series.

As a thoroughbred sports car, the Toyota Supra built a reputation both as a formidable performer on the road and as an all - conquering machine on the racetrack, dominating Japan's top - level GT racing series and earning legions of fans.

The 1993 Supra, the model's fourth generation, competed in the All - Japan GT Racing series, now known as the Super GT Series, and it won the GT500 class four times.

Kyle Marcelli just wrapped up a year racing for Toronto - based R.Ferri Motorsports Racing with Ferrari in the Pirelli World Challenge, North America's premier GT racing series, piloting the Ferrari 488 GT3.

It appears that unlike the Lexus LF - A, the Honda Sports Velocity has no plans of becming a production vehicle, instead of homologating the new car, Honda has found a place in the Japanese GT racing series» rule book stating that possible production vehicles are allowed to compete.

For those unfamiliar with Super GT, it's Japan's most relevant GT racing series.

Not exact matches

Well that's what happened during Race 3 of the Australian GT series, when Paul Kelly lost control of his Ferrari 458 and speared across the track in front of the rest of the field.

Bruni's raced in championships across the world, from the American Le Mans Series to Super GT, FIA WEC and GT Asia.

GT Sport will be the series» first entry onto the current generation of consoles, and unlike previous titles will feature a cut back, more focused roster of cars with an emphasis on racing simulation and online features — including the first ever FIA - sanctioned online racing championship.

The German marque has never actually raced in the FIA WEC and last raced at Le Mans in 2011, but will join the series in the GTE category with a new GT car.

It'll be his first race in the Super GT series, racing a Honda NSX - GT for Team Mugen, and he's already been out testing the car at Suzuka.

Racing game fan ADRIANF1esp saddles up in the McLaren MP4 - 12C GT3 that Sébastien Loeb drove in the 2013 Blancpain GT Series and takes it for a spin around two laps of the Nurburgring GP circuit.

GT Sport will attempt to rewrite the series» DNA with a vested approach to competitive online racing.

What has impressed me so much about the GT series is that it always has provided different types of racing from regular asphalt to dirt as well as ice, and to be honest all three of them work great.

Building the NSX GT race car to GT3 spec would make it eligible to compete in a number of different series, but not the premier event in sports car racing.

(LC race cars have already competed and won in Japan's Super GT series.)

McLaren will announce venues and dates for the first races of the Pure McLaren GT Series in the future.

Ganassi will race two Ford GTs in the WeatherTech series using the crew that was devoted to the Daytona Prototype program, which will likely end after this month's Rolex 24.

Other nods to BMW heritage on car number 25 include images of the M1 race car from 1980, the BMW V12 LMR which claimed a Le Mans and Sebring win back in 1999 and a picture of an M3 GT which claimed every title in its class in the 2011 American Le Mans Series.

The Ford GT supercar will compete in Le Mans in 2016, as well as in the full WEC and TUDOR United SportsCar Championship racing series.

Audi and its Quattro all - wheel - drive systems go together like peanut butter and strawberry jelly, but when the brand decided to go racing in the SCCA Speedvision World Challenge GT series at the turn of the millennium, it chose the very non-Audi rear - wheel - drive configuration.

Equipped with Dunlop Sport Maxx GT racing tyres and supported by Total fuels, the firm will hope to add to its 23 victories in the series.

The Nurburgring also offers amateur racers the opportunity to test their mettle with names such as Kazunori Yamauchi (creator of the Gran Turismo game series) racing a Nissan GT - R after a credible 4th in class last year at the wheel of a Lexus IS - F.

By 1993 such was the GT - R's superiority that the JTCC was all but a one - make series with no fewer than sixteen R32s slugging it out, but the spectacle still drew 94,500 fans to watch the final race at Fuji in October 1993 — the last - ever for the Group A monsters.

He joined Nissan's racing efforts in 1987 and rose to direct the company's 1994 Le Mans campaign with the R33 - series Skyline GT - R.

Four years later we can safely say that the transformation from leather - lined boulevard behemoth to the ripped race - winner idling before us in the pits for this weekend's Blancpain GT Series event at Silverstone ranks as one of the most charming, impressive and downright ambitious stories in modern sportscar racing.

Instead, though, it looks like it'll see the light of day as a racing car in Japan's Super GT series.

Electric GT Holdings, Inc. announced today that the FIA, motorsports» international governing body, has officially sanctioned an all - Tesla racing series called the Electric Production Car Sseries called the Electric Production Car SeriesSeries.

The car is powered by the EJ20 turbocharged flat - four from Subaru's BRZ GT300, which competes in Super GT, a Japan - based racing series.

«I'd been through the single - seater series and touring cars, but found that GT endurance racing was a category I really enjoyed and did pretty well in,» Chris explains.

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Gavin Wins First GT Pole of Season for Corvette, Magnussen Takes Second Spot ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — Corvette Racing qualified first and second in the GT class for Sunday's American Le Mans Series powered by eStar at Road America.

Corvettes Run Fastest Lap in GT Class in Every Session of Two - Day Sebring Test SEBRING, Fla. — Corvette Racing's twin Compuware Corvette C6.Rs ran the fastest laps in all four sessions of the two - day American Le Mans Series Winter Test at Sebring International Raceway.

Driving a Corvette for the Phoenix Carsport team in the FIA GT series, Fassler won the prestigious Spa 24 - hour race in 2007, and continued that success in 2008 with five pole positions and a win in Adria, Italy, finishing fourth in the championship.

Former GT series champion Alvaro Parente of Portugal returned to the Pirelli World Challenge winner's circle Sunday at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in the PWC GT Sprint Round 5 50 - minute race as...

There has been surprisingly little news about the Brass Monkey Nissan GT - R race team competing in the World Challenge series — party because other than their introduction, the cars haven't generated much excitement themselves.

Written by K - PAX Racing Staff SAN JOSE, Calif. — K - PAX Racing, winners of three GT Class championships in the Pirelli World Challenge sports car series, today announced it will field -LSB-...]

LEXINGTON, Ohio, — The upcoming Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge, the sixth round of the 2010 American Le Mans Series, will mark the first anniversary of Corvette Racing's debut in the production - based GT category.

Chevrolet Earns Second Consecutive IMSA GT Le Mans Manufacturer Title Championship No. 12 since 1999 in productionbased racing series With GTLM Driver and Team championships secured, Chevrolet and Corvette Racing sweep 2017 IMSA GTLM class titles Third Manufacturer Championship for Chevrolet to date in 2017 racing season Chevrolet captured sixth consecutive IndyCar Series Manufacturer Championship Camaro GT4.R secured World Challenge GTS Manufacturer title for Chevrolet BRASELTON, Ga. (Oct. 7, 2017)-- Chevrolet earned its second consecutive Manufacturer Championship in racing series With GTLM Driver and Team championships secured, Chevrolet and Corvette Racing sweep 2017 IMSA GTLM class titles Third Manufacturer Championship for Chevrolet to date in 2017 racing season Chevrolet captured sixth consecutive IndyCar Series Manufacturer Championship Camaro GT4.R secured World Challenge GTS Manufacturer title for Chevrolet BRASELTON, Ga. (Oct. 7, 2017)-- Chevrolet earned its second consecutive Manufacturer Championship in series With GTLM Driver and Team championships secured, Chevrolet and Corvette Racing sweep 2017 IMSA GTLM class titles Third Manufacturer Championship for Chevrolet to date in 2017 racing season Chevrolet captured sixth consecutive IndyCar Series Manufacturer Championship Camaro GT4.R secured World Challenge GTS Manufacturer title for Chevrolet BRASELTON, Ga. (Oct. 7, 2017)-- Chevrolet earned its second consecutive Manufacturer Championship in Racing sweep 2017 IMSA GTLM class titles Third Manufacturer Championship for Chevrolet to date in 2017 racing season Chevrolet captured sixth consecutive IndyCar Series Manufacturer Championship Camaro GT4.R secured World Challenge GTS Manufacturer title for Chevrolet BRASELTON, Ga. (Oct. 7, 2017)-- Chevrolet earned its second consecutive Manufacturer Championship in racing season Chevrolet captured sixth consecutive IndyCar Series Manufacturer Championship Camaro GT4.R secured World Challenge GTS Manufacturer title for Chevrolet BRASELTON, Ga. (Oct. 7, 2017)-- Chevrolet earned its second consecutive Manufacturer Championship in Series Manufacturer Championship Camaro GT4.R secured World Challenge GTS Manufacturer title for Chevrolet BRASELTON, Ga. (Oct. 7, 2017)-- Chevrolet earned its second consecutive Manufacturer Championship in the...

Mid-Ohio ALMS to Mark First Anniversary of Corvette Racing's GT2 Debut LEXINGTON, Ohio, — The upcoming Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge, the sixth round of the 2010 American Le Mans Series, will mark the first anniversary of Corvette Racing's debut in the production - based GT category.

Lexus Racing has announced that it will be competing in the 2014 Japanese Super GT Series with an all - new LF - CC race car.

«Hopefully this is the start of more Aston Martin Racing works entries in both the Blancpain Sprint and GT Series.»

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.