Patron Highcroft leads the XM de Ferran Acura in what was a thrilling race in 2009

Seven finishes of less than one second since 2005

Despite being the longest circuit on the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón calendar, Road America has had a knack of producing close finishes in the last five years. The 4.048-mile, 14-turn circuit has played host to the Series each year since 2002 and has produced five of its 30 tightest endings.

The Hungarian track will pose a unknown and twisty race for the competitors

The Le Mans Series heads to Hungary for the very first time so the 1,000Km of Hungaroring is a leap in the dark for most of teams and drivers. Team ORECA Matmut took their first victory with the Peugeot 908 HDi FAP one month ago in Portugal and expects to clinch another one in the heat of the night at Budapest.

Jaguar RSR are hoping for another solid finish this weekend

With two solid consecutive top-ten runs in the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón, the JaguarRSR team heads to Road America. Road America is a track that has that has been successful for Principal Partner Paul Gentilozzi and his former squads in Trans-Am and Champ Car. With reliability constant, the #75 JaguarRSR XKR GT will focus on how to reduce lap times and improve race performance.

Super GT will have an eight round championship in 2011 with a special round

On August 9th, GTA Co., LTd announced 2011 event calendar for the SUPER GT series.

9 events (8 series event, 1 non-series event) are scheduled for next season, same number of events as this year. Total of 8 events in the series will be hosted by 6 domestic circuits and 1 overseas circuit.

Nicolas Prost and Neel Jani will now pilot the #6 Matech Ford

Nicolas Prost, the son of four-times Formula One champion, will drive the Matech Ford GT No.6 for the remainder of the season starting at the Nurburgring next weekend.

Yann Clairay will partner Frederic Makowiecki at Hexis AMR

The Hexis AMR team has beefed up its driver line-up for the last five events of the 2010 FIA GT1 World Championship by recruiting Yann Clairay, who will share the No. 9 Aston Martin DBR9 with Frederic Makowiecki.

Piccione checking the times at Spa

Former open wheel racer Clivo Piccione has made the switch to GT racing this season with the Hexis Aston Martin squad.

The man from Monaco has previously campaigned in GP2, A1 Grand Prix and Euroseries 3000. He tells GT1World.com how he is adapting to driving the Aston Martin DB9 and of his fondness for sushi.

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