Weekend Motorsports Preview: Lots of Touring Car Action

It is another fairly light motorsports weekend. The major touring car series all have races.

Though if you are a fan of racing in the United States there is also an IndyCar Series race from the Milwaukee Mile and a Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series race from Mid-Ohio. There is also the Grand Prix of Catalunya in the MotoGP series, if that interests you.

DTM

The German touring car series heads to the Eurospeedway Lausitz for a 52-lap race around the 3.5km track. The race start is scheduled for 1:33pm local time (11:33am GMT) for Sunday, June 16. As always, if you are not in Germany, the race will be streamed on DTM.tv.

Bruno Spengler currently leads the series by 12 points over Mike Rockenfeller, and BMWBMWGermany, 1918 > present87 models
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leads the constructors' championship by 104 points over AudiAudiGermany, 1909 > present83 models
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NASCAR

NASCAR has a 400-mile, 200-lap race at Michigan International Speedway that starts at 1:00pm local time (5:00pm GMT) on Sunday, June 16.

Jimmie Johnson retains his lead in the championship with 51 points over Carl Edwards.

Super GT

The Japanese touring car series heads to Malaysia for a 54-lap, 300km race at Sepang on Sunday, June 16 at 4pm local time (8am GMT).

After two races the GT500 class team of Takuya Izawa and Takashi Kogure in a Honda HSV-010Honda HSV-010 GTJapan, 2010 > present4 photos
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lead by just a single point over Yuji Tachikawa and Kohei Hirate in a Lexus SC430Lexus SC430Japan, 2001 > present2 photos
. In the GT300 class, Katsuyuki Hiranaka and Bjorn Wirdheim in a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3Germany, 2011 > present19 photos
lead by five points from Morio Nitta and Koki Saga in a Toyota PriusToyota Prius Gen.3Japan, 2010 > present52 versions
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V8 Supercars

The International V8 Supercars head to a three-race weekend at Hidden Valley Raceway in Australia. There is one race on Saturday at 3:10pm (5:10am GMT) and two races on Sunday at 1:15pm (3:15am GMT) and 3:45pm (5:45am GMT).

Jamie Whincup leads the series with 1,217 points after five events this season and many of those had multiple races. Craig Lowndes is in second, 142 points behind Whincup.