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Sport newsEmirati Khalid Al-Jafla and his co-driver Andrei Rudnitski managed to pass the Portuguese pairing of João Ferreira and Filipe Palmeiro to snatch a dramatic victory on the last 185.30km stage of the Jordan Baja in spectacular Wadi Rum.The 38.5-second win for the Taurus T3 Max driver gave him maximum points in the Challenger category and set up the prospect of a thrilling showdown with Eduardo Pons at his home event in the UAE at…

FIA newsWith Cyan Racing’s Thed Björk having won Saturday’s first race, the Swedish driver was just five points behind going into today’s race, but would start four places behind Michelisz on the grid in tenth position, and so needed to pass him on track to deprive him of the title.The first attempt to start the race was aborted due to heavy rain falling at the Guia circuit throughout the morning, with the race rescheduled for…

Sport newsUgo Ugochukwu has won the 2024 FIA FR World Cup – and the 71st Macau Grand Prix – with a faultless performance throughout the entire weekend. The 17-year-old becomes the first driver from the USA to win this prestigious event since Bob Earl in 1981.Ugochukwu led from start to finish for R-ace GP ahead of Olivier Goethe for MP Motorsport and Noel León for KCMG IXO by Pinnacle Motorsport in a race that saw…

Sport newsRacing fathers are a common feature in junior motor sport paddocks the world over, but when it comes to the Macau Grand Prix, there are only a select few who can offer to pass their advice to the next generation.In 2024, Rintaro Sato has been part of a strong field of junior drivers tackling the FIA FR World Cup for the first time, and his father has been in attendance over the course of…

FIA newsNine years after his victory in the inaugural running of the FIA GT World Cup, the German secured his second triumph in what was also third straight victory for Mercedes-AMG in the world’s most prestigious sprint race for GT3 machinery, following the manufacturer’s successes in the previous two editions with current BMW man Raffaele Marciello.The race got underway with the safety car leading the pack for the first four laps, leaving the 22 runners…

FIA newsNine years after his victory in the inaugural running of the FIA GT World Cup, the German secured his second triumph in what was also third straight victory for Mercedes-AMG in the world’s most prestigious sprint race for GT3 machinery, following the manufacturer’s successes in the previous two edition with current BMW man Raffaele Marciello.The race got underway with the safety car leading the pack for the first four laps, leaving the 22 runners…

Sport newsVanthoor briefly took the lead once the race went underway. The Belgian aboard his BMW M4 GT3 manged to gets his nose ahead of the sister machine of polesitter Raffaele Marciello, but did not get to enjoy his lead for too long, having gone too deep into the Lisboa corner, thus allowing the reigning FIA GT World Cup winner Marciello to resettle into the lad.The younger of the Vanthoor brothers wasn’t, however, willing to…