Pirelli World Challenge
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Ferraris look to be favorites as PWC visits VIR
Monday, 23 April 2018The "Prancing Horse" logo has made its mark over the years in the Pirelli World Challenge road racing series with the popular Ferrari marque winning GT races with its familiar Ferrari GT3 sports car. In 2017, the TR3 Racing team captured three PWC GT SprintX races (60-minute, two-driver format) with drivers Daniel Mancinelli, Andrea Montermini and Nicolo Schiro taking the No. 31 Ferrari 488 GT3 t...
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Harata glides from downhill skiing to PWC success
Friday, 20 April 2018In just 11 months, Yuki Harata transitioned from his career as a champion downhill skier â where his racing surface was slick and cornering traction was provided by a sharp metal edge â to auto racing in the Pirelli World Challenge, where the surface is grippy and traction in all directions is secured by sticky Pirelli rubber. And he did it relatively easily and quickly, moving from retirement to...
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Green Flag contest for PWC at VIR
Thursday, 19 April 2018The Pirelli World Challenge announced a contest offering the opportunity to throw the green flag on one of the PWC doubleheader races next week in the Grand Prix of Virginia presented by Audi Sport April 28-29 at Virginia International Raceway. A race fan and a friend will receive two weekend race tickets to VIR in his season-opening race weekend when that fan shoots a quick social video and post...
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Long Beach draws best crowd since CART era
Tuesday, 17 April 2018According to the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach, last week's edition of the Toyota Long Beach Grand Prix was the biggest since the glory years of the CART IndyCar Series. The three-day event, led by the Verizon IndyCar Series, IMSA's WeatherTech Sports Car championship, the Pirelli World Challenge series, the Stadium Super Trucks series and the Historic Trans Am Series, put more than 185,00...
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Mancinelli's late move earns PWC GT win at Long Beach; Harata wins in GTA
Sunday, 15 April 2018Italy's Daniel Mancinelli made a bold move on Toni Vilander with just over seven minutes to go in the Pirelli World Challenge Round 3 GT Sprint event, nudging the pole-sitter's R. Ferri Motorsport Ferrari 488 GT3 out of the way to take the lead and hold on for the win in his first race of the season in the No. 31 TR3 Racing/Ferrari of Vancouver Ferrari 488 GT3. Vilander led from the drop of the g...
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Vilander sets Long Beach track record for PWC GT pole
Saturday, 14 April 2018Toni Vilander blew past the track record on the streets of Long Beach Saturday morning, driving the No. 61 R. Ferri Motorsports Ferrari 488 GT3 to his second pole of the year for the Pirelli World Challenge Round 3 GT Sprint event as part of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Vilander â who has started the season off with poles on both street circuits, a podium at St. Pete and two SprintX wins ...
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Mancinelli leads opening PWC Long Beach GT practice
Friday, 13 April 2018Italy's Daniel Mancinelli recorded the quickest lap time Friday in the opening practice for the Pirelli World Challenge Round 3 GT Sprint event in the 44th annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach at the 1.968-mile, 11-turn temporary street circuit along the picturesque Long Beach Harbor. Mancinelli, a three-time 2017 GT SprintX race winner, drove the No. 31 TR3 Racing/Ferrari of Vancouver Ferrari ...
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Moran Jr. enters PWC Long Beach with TruSpeed Autosport
Thursday, 12 April 2018Local favorite Rocky Moran Jr. of Irvine, California, has entered this weekend's Pirelli World Challenge GT Sprint event at the 44th annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach and will drive the No. 71 Trench Shoring/K1 Speed Audi R8 LMS sports car from Costa Mesa's TruSpeed Autosport. Moran, a five-time Long Beach starter in the Atlantic Championship, joins the 21-driver field at the famed "Roar by ...
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Vilander, R.Ferri set sights on PWC championship
Thursday, 12 April 2018Things were looking positive for R.Ferri Motorsport at the beginning of 2017. They had a fast Ferrari factory driver in Alex Riberas, landed on the pole and podium in the second round at St. Petersburg and appeared to be a real contender for the Pirelli World Challenge GT championship. Then it all went wrong at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Canada, as a destroyed Ferrari 488 GT3 put a promisin...
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'Roar by the Shore' set for PWC GT3/GT4 in Long Beach
Wednesday, 11 April 2018Two-time Long Beach GT Sprint race winner Alvaro Parente seeks his third consecutive "Roar by the Shore" victory this weekend when the Pirelli World Challenge GT drivers and sports cars do battle in the annual 50-minute GT Sprint feature at the 44th annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. 20 entries are set to hit the long Beach circuit when practice begins this Friday. Parente, the 2016 GT champ...
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Newcomer Hargrove takes PWC GT points lead into Long Beach
Tuesday, 10 April 2018Scott Hargrove has always set his sights on competing at the famed Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, which stages its 44th edition this weekend (April 13-15) in the streets of the Southern California harbor city. But the 23-year-old racer from Tsawwassen, British Columbia, Canada, believed he would be driving an IndyCar when he made his Long Beach debut after a successful Mazda Road to Indy career...
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Comparing GT3, GT4 and TCR
Tuesday, 03 April 2018With the advent of the new TCR class, there are now three homologated platforms racing in Pirelli World Challenge â GT3 in the GT category, GT4 in GTS and now TCR. They are three different ways to go racing in production-based cars that are homologated, specified and â at least in theory and averaged out over a variety of tracks â equal. Three different ways to purchase a ready-built racecar stra...
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INSIGHT: Why is BHA racing in the PWC?
Thursday, 29 March 2018The name of the game for race teams today is diversity, at least when it comes to sustaining their business. In 2018, Bryan Herta Autosport is venturing into unknown territory, though you wouldn't know it based on their immediate success. With a debut double 1-2 finish in the Pirelli World Challenge TCR class at Circuit of The Americas on March 24-25, Herta's operation adds touring car success to...
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Vilander, Molina give Ferrari GT SprintX sweep
Sunday, 25 March 2018The Ferrari brand swept all three Pirelli World Challenge GT SprintX classes Sunday at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in the Grand Prix of Texas led by Toni Vilander and Miguel Molina co-driving the No. 61 R. Ferri Motorsport Ferrari 488 GT3 for the second round GT SprintX race. Vilander, the past LeMans champion from Finland, and Molina, the factory Ferrari driver from Spain, drove to anothe...
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BHA Hyundais pull off weekend PWC TCR sweep at COTA
Sunday, 25 March 2018On Sunday at Circuit of The Americas, Mark Wilkins led a 1-2 Hyundai sweep with his Bryan Herta Autosport with Curb-Agajanian teammate Michael Lewis in Round 2 of the opening TCR Class events in the Pirelli World Challenge Grand Prix of Texas. Wilkins, pole winner in both TCR contests at COTA this weekend, protected his position entering Turn 1 at the 3.427-mile, 20-turn racetrack southeast of Au...
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