The Frenchman outdid the Brits

Florian Latorre continued his progress through the season, when the 4th round of the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup was run at Silverstone. The young French driver had grabbed Pole Position for the race this Sunday, ahead of the defending Championship Michael Ammermüller and Dylan Pereira. Mattia Drudi was in fourth ahead of the local guest driver Tom Wrigley, surprising everybody with fifth fastest time, right ahead of Julien Andlauer. P3 in the Championship, Nick Yelloly started the race in P7. Jaap van Lagen once again had problems in the qualifying,…

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The youth dominated in Austria

The third round of Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup 2018 was run at the Red Bull Ring in Austria today, in stunning sunshine. The Porsche Junior drivers Thomas Preining and Julien Andlauer grabbed the two first two positions on the starting grid, and that’s the first time for Preining to qualify that far up the grid. Andlauer’s teammate, Florian Latorre started P3. Championship leader Michael Ammermüller started all the way back in P6, right ahead of Mikkel Overgaard Pedersen, while Nick Yelloly, P2 in the Championship, started 8th. It was even…

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Good Monaco race for PMSC

Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup delivered some good old-fashioned racing, when they were support series to the Formula 1 at the Monaco Grand Prix. Nick Yelloly had out-tricked the defending Champion Michael Ammermüller in the qualifying, grabbing first starting position from the German. Zaid Ashkanani started third ahead of Dylan Pereira. Dane Mikkel Overgaard Pedersen had his best qualifying to date, starting 7th. Pablo Otero had an accident during practice, and without his damaged car, we had 27 starts for the race. Yelloly got the best start ahead of Ammermüller and…

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Bentley-boy goes into retirement

Another Bentley-boy has decided to go into retirement. 43 year-old Guy Smith has opted to end his professional career at Bentley Team M-Sport in their GT3 programme. By doing that, all of the drivers from the 2003 24 Hours of Le Mans winning combination, have now chosen a live where not everything is about racing car – and then still a bit of cars left. Smith is still connected to Bentley as test- and development driver, and as the press release a bit cryptically says, he will still be available…

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Good start to the PMSC season

Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup got the season started at Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona in Spain. A total of 30 cars started the race, in a good mix of new and old names. The defending Champion Michael Ammermüller had taken Pole Position ahead of the new super star at Porsche, Julien Andlauer. Florian Latorre, teammate to Andlauer, had grabbed a surprising third position, ahead of the experienced drivers Jaap van Lagen, Nick Yelloly and Mattia Drudi. Ammermüller got the best of starts, while Latorre really blew it. Jaap van Lagen…

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Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup starts this weekend

The Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup starts this weekend at Circuit de Catalunya in Spain. The start of the season happen at the Spanish Formula 1 Grand Prix, and a massive line-up of 28 full season drivers are ready, with a few extras doing selected races. The defending Champion Michael Ammermüller will once again run for Lechner Racing, who will run pink cars this year, since they have gotten BWT as sponsors, like we know from teams like Force India. He will be joined by the Porsche Junior driver Thomas Preining,…

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Racing drivers wanted

Even though the start of the season is getting closer, there are still some seats available out there. One example for that is the Audi Sport ABT TT Cup, who still have some vacated seats for the upcoming season. The Audi Sport TT Cup had announced that 2017 would be the final season of the season. But Abt Sportsline has decided to take over the category, and will from now on do all the service en running of the fast one-make series. Like in previous seasons, they are going to…

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Danish driver in Porsche Supercup once again

When the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup starts their new season in May, there will once again be a Dane on the starting grid. 21 year-old Mikkel Overgaard Pedersen will once again represent the Danish colours in the International one-make series, which runs as a support to the European and once over seas round of the Formula 1 World Championship. That will be the fourth season for him in the Championship, with 2015 only being a single round at COTA in the USA. He did Barcelona, Monaco and Hockenheim in 2016,…

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Porsche with full entry

Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup is heading towards a great season, with all available spots taken up already. 28 cars will be racing for the full season, with room for four extra local entries at each round, for drivers who wants to start one or a few selected races. The names of the teams and drivers haven’t been announced by the series just yet, since the teams have until 15 April to get the full season drivers signed. But they have revealed that there will be teams from 7 different countries…

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Thanks for 2017 – full throttle ahead in 2018

2017 has been an amazing year for Racing24-7.net. The amount of visitors has almost been tripled during the last 12 months. Of course June was a massive month due to our 24 Hours of Le Mans coverage, but to our surprise, the numbers didn’t drop off too much afterwards and kept rising for the rest of the year. It is great to witness that so many people want to read about motorsport news – in both Danish and English – and it makes all the travels and long hours behind…

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Lausitzring keeps their motorsport activities running

There won’t be any major changes to the motorsport activities at Lausitzring in 2018. The track was bought by DEKRA earlier in the year, who already has a large test area on the large field that is called Lausitzring. There has been many rumours that everything concerning motorsport would be scrapped, and instead having a focus on autonomous vehicles. But all those rumours are turned down in a resent interview with RBB24. DEKRA acquired the area officially on November 1st and then released the plans for the future. The race…

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Campbell wins again – Ammermüller Champion

Sunday saw the final round of this year’s Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup being run at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City. The winner from yesterday, Matt Campbell started from Pole Position, while the two title candidates, Michael Ammermüller and Dennis Olsen, were starting on the two following positions, with the Dan Cammish in fourth. When the five red lights turned off, 30 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup roared towards the narrow Turn 1-2 combination. Everybody but Tom Sharp made it past Turn 2, with the rest of the lap running smooth…

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Campbell wins – Championship to be decided Sunday

Matt Campbell won the Saturday Round of the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup in Mexico. The 22 year-old Australian started the race from P2, in a sandwich between the two title candidates, Dennis Olsen on Pole Position and Michael Ammermüller in P3. Olsen made a small mistake on the second lap of the race, losing two positions, and dropping behind both Campbell and Ammermüller. After six laps of the race, the Safety Car had to come onto the track, closing up the whole field. Once the race was released again, Campbell…

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Hard fought, but close Race of Legends

Audi Sport had chosen to finish off their Audi Sport TT Cup after the third season of running. The talent development class was a successor of series like VW Polo Cup, and Volkswagen Scirocco Cup. As a special gimmick, they had invited 16 of the current and former works driver to the big finale, in a race called Race of Legends. The final was held at Hockenheim and the legends didn’t get their hands on the cars, until after the usual TT Cup drivers had done all their driving on…

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Frank Stippler on Pole Position at Hockenheim

Frank Stippler will start the Audi TT Cup Race of Legends tomorrow from Pole Position. The 42 year-old works driver for Audi beat namesake Frank Biela, while Le Mans record winner Tom Kristensen will start in third ahead of Filipe Albuerquerque. Stephane Ortelli had a few technical problems with his car, so he didn’t get to do as many laps as the others but still managed to do fifth fastest time. Marco Werner got in just in front of the fastest lady in the field, Rahel Frey. Dindo Capello took…

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Audi legends in TT Cup

Audi Sport will put on a bit show at the DTM Season Final at Hockenheim on October 14 and 15. They have just send out a small teaser, where 11 of the big drivers through the years are going to participate in Audi Sport TT Cup cars. It’s not specified if they will run a separate race, or if they will be guests in the normal Audi Sport TT Cup. But it will probably be the first option, since they would take too much focus from the young drivers normally…

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Action packed Monza race for in Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup

It was an unusual start to the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup weekend at Monza, when the 9th round of this years Championship was held at the Italian high speed circuit. Due to heavy rain yesterday, the starting grid was set on the practice times that was run on Friday. That meant that Matt Campbell started from Pole Position ahead of Zaid Ashkanani and Championship leader Michael Ammermüller. Campbell won the start ahead of Ashkanani, while Dennis Olsen and Michael Ammermüller were side by side through the first chicane. There was…

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Another Norwegian victory at Spa

Dennis Olsen started for second consecutive day from Pole Position on Spa Francorchamps, but today it was with Nick Yelloly in second, followed by Michael Ammermüller. There were a lot more action in the race today than yesterday’s, which the spectators around the track certainly enjoyed. Glauco Solieri got unfortunately technical problems already at the start and couldn’t get the car to move. It led to a Safety Car, since the car had to be removed from the track. When the race got restarted, Olsen and Yelloly quickly distanced themselves…

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Norwegian Victory at Spa

Dennis Olsen took a start-to-finish victory when the 7th round of Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup was run at Spa Francorchamps. The Norwegian Porshe junior driver got his second win this season, in a race where he beat Italian Mattia Drudi and German Michael Ammermüller. Behind them there were more battles for the positions, where Matt Campbell lost a few places because he went too wide on turn one. Drudi attempted an outbraking manouvre on Olsen at the end of the long Kemmel Straight on the first lap, but the Italian…

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