It must be time for the latest edition of the Motorsports Weekend Guide, wherein Hooniverse gives you a look at who’s racing what and where in the coming days. This weekend finds an entirely paved schedule with no off-road racing on our list, though there’s likely some to be found outside of our list. What you will find instead is plenty of sports car and tin-top racing while most of the big open-wheel series take a breather. Follow the jump for the details.
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World Endurance Championship: 6 Hours of Spa Francorchamps

The WEC’s season opener at Silverstone was one of the most riveting endurance races in recent memory with Audi coming out firing against Porsche and Toyota in the LMP1 class and narrowly coming away victorious. This weekend brings that three-way fight to Spa for another six-hour race, which also serves as the last tune-up before Le Mans Test day. Deep fields in LMP2 and the GTE classes should make it interesting even if the LMP1 race fizzles out, though I suspect that won’t be at all the case.
Of note, Porsche and Audi will both run their third entries for the first time, giving LMP1 newcomers like Earl Bamber and Rene Rast the chance for some wheel-to-wheel seat time in their rocket ships. The cars are spectacularly fast this year and they should rip through Eau Rouge at mind-bending speeds. If Silverstone was any indication of what Le Mans will be like this year, you’re going to want to block out that full day in June for Le Mans and only for Le Mans.
Links: WEC site. Spa site. Event page. Schedule. Entry list. Points.
Support Series: Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Benelux. Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain.
Coverage: Saturday @ 8:30 a.m. ET on FOX Sports 1 and also Saturday @ 1 p.m. ET on FS1. All sessions on RadioLeMans.com.
 

DTM: Hockenheimring

Germany’s tin-top series launches its 2015 campaign with some slightly revamped rules that include only pit stop instead of the two they previously had. The entry list is filled with some of the world’s best race drivers who have starred in everything from Formula 1 test drivers like Daniel Juncadella to GT racing rising stars like Max Gotz.
Expect the three-way manufacturer fights between BMW, Audi, and Mercedes-Benz to be pretty fair, although BMW has won the last two championships. The cars are highly honed aerodynamic beasts that have more in common with prototype cars than touring cars, sharing a design with the Japanese Super GT cars, which use a turbocharged four-cylinder instead of DTM’s V8 powerplants.
Links: DTM site. Hockenheimring site. Event page. Schedule. Entry list.
Support Series: FIA Formula 3 European Championship. Porsche Carrera Cup Germany. Audi Sport TT Cup.
Coverage: Monday @ 1:30 a.m. ET on CBS Sports Network (Replay). F3 Euro  – Live streaming on F3 site on Friday @ 7:10 a.m. ET, on Saturday @ 5:05 a.m. ET, and Sunday @ 11:40 a.m. ET.
 

NASCAR: Geico 500 (Talladega Superspeedway)

Talladega marks the second of Sprint Cup’s restrictor-plate races, meaning that the teams and drivers who manage their cars and catch a bit of luck tend to do well. The massive 2.66-mile D-shaped oval was once renowned for being the fastest oval on the NASCAR circuit and while that’s still probably true, the restrictor plates— whichmake the engines work harder to breathe—reign speeds in just a bit in the interest of safety.
I’ll confess to not having kept up as closely on the Sprint Cup goings on lately, but defending champion Kevin Harvick is on a hell of a run early in the year with eight Top 10 finishes and two wins in nine races. The Jeff Gordon Finale Tour got off to a poor strat, but Gordon has improved and Talladega represents a good chance for Gordon to to win and clinch his spot in the season-ending Chase. The key, you’ll likely hear, is to survive the inevitable “Big One” to have a car at the race’s end and then catch just the right draft to run to the front of the pack.
Links: Sprint Cup site. Talladega site. Event page. Schedule. Entry list. Points.
Support Series: Winn-Dixie 300 (Xfinity Series). International Motorsports Hall of Fame 200 (ARCA Racing Series).
Coverage: Sunday @ 1 p.m. ET on FOX. Qualifying – Saturday @ 1 p.m. ET on Fox Sports 1. Xfinity Series – Saturday @ 3 p.m. ET. Qualifying – Saturday @ 11 a.m. ET. ARCA – Friday @ 5 p.m. ET on Fox Sports 1.
 

IMSA Tudor United Sportscar Championship: Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca

While the WEC is racing in historic Belgium, America’s sports car championship will race at their own historic track on Laguna Seca’s roller coaster. The race was originally intended as a pair of split-class two-hour races, but IMSA has instead decided—at least for now—to make the weekend instead a single 160-minute race. Traffic will be huge with nearly 40 cars from four classes tearing around the track’s 2.2 miles.
Links: IMSA site. MRLS site. Event page. Schedule. Entry list. Points.
Support Series: Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge. Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Series. Mazda MX-5 Cup.
Coverage: Sunday @ 4 p.m. ET on Fox Sports 1. Qualifying – Saturday @ 7:15 p.m. ET on IMSA.com. CTSC  – Saturday @ 4 p.m. ET. IMSA Radio will broadcast all weekend sessions.

MotoGP: Circuito de Jerez

Drama abounds in MotoGP as the two-wheel grand prix series heads to defending champion Marc Marquez’s home country. Marquez suffered a practice injury at the last round and will be racing injured while his usual teammate Repsol Honda teammate Dani Pedrosa sits out with his own arm injury. Marquez crashed out of the last round after tangling with ageless Valentino Rossi, who leads the championship with a pair of wins on his Yamaha over the resurgent Ducatis. If you haven’t been following MotoGP this year, this is a good weekend to start.
Links: Moto GP site. Jerez site. Event page with schedule. Points.
Support Series: Moto2. Moto3.
Coverage: Sunday @ 7:30 a.m. on Fox Sports 1. Moto2 – Sunday @ 8 p.m. ET on FS2 (Replay). Moto3 – Sunday @ 7 p.m. ET on FS2 (Replay).
 

Super GT: Fuji Speedway

Super GT’s opening round took place in the driving rain at Okayama, a fairly typical scene that explains a lot about why Japanese drivers tend to drive well in wet conditions. The series now moves to Fuji’s 2.8 miles of rolling tarmac in the shadow of Mount Fuji. Fun fact: The Super GT-spec Prius that races in the GT300 class is a mid-engined hybrid beast that runs a version of the V8 used in Rebellion’s LMP1 cars before this season.
Links: Super GT site. Fuji site. Event page. Entry list.
Coverage: Sunday @ 12:15 a.m. on Nismo.tv with Radio Le Mans audio.
 

World Touring Car Championship: Hungaroring

As expected, the four-car factory effort from Citroen have absolutely dominated the WTCC this year while the new cars from Lada have floundered. The series rolls into Hungaroring next, although they tested at Nurburgring earlier this week in anticipation of the ‘ring round in two weeks. Citroens? Well, they were predictably fastest around Green Hell.
Links: WTCC site. Hungaroring site. Event page. Schedule. Points.
Support Series: FIA European Touring Car Cup. AutoGP. KIA Lotos Cup.
Coverage: No U.S. TV.
 

British GT: Rockingham

National GT series are the training ground for a country’s next crop of tin-top drivers, typically, and the British GT has produced a steady stream of talent in recent year. Rory Butcher and Liam Griffin currently lead the GT3 championship in an Aston Martin Vantage, which might be the most British-sounding sentence in motorsport.
Links: British GT site. Rockingham site. Event page. Schedule. Entry list. Points.
Support Series: BRDC Formula 4 Championship. Ginetta GT5 Challenge. Volkswagen Racing Cup. MSA Formula Championship. BRSCC Alfashop Alfa Romeo Championship. Ginetta Racing Drivers Club. Maxda MX5 Super Cup.
Coverage: Motors TV in the UK. None in the U.S.
 

Italian GT: Vallelunga

Similarly, the Italian GT series is a training ground, mostly as a place to harvest budding pilotos for Ferrari’s sundry of Gran Touring efforts. Anyone who’s followed de facto Ferrari factory squad AF Corse would do well to keep an eye on the Italian GT points tables throughout the year.
Links: Italian GT site. Vallelunga site. Event page. Schedule. Entry list.
Support Series: Italian GT Cup. Sport Prototypes. Italian Formula 4 Championship.
Coverage: None in the U.S.
 

British Superbike Championship: Oulton Park

The street-based two-wheelers in British Superbikes are tremendously entertaining as far as bike racing goes in the world. Racing is competitive and with Brits currently ruling World Superbikes, consider this analogous to the way British GT feeds big-time sports car racing. These are the future stars on the world’s motorcycle racing stage.
Links: BSBK site. Oulton Park site. Event page. Schedule. Entry list. Points.
Support Series: A whole host of bike classes.
Coverage: British Eurosport across the pond. None in the U.S.
 

NASCAR K&N Pro Series West: NAPA Auto Parts Wildcast 150 (Tucson Speedway)

The K&N West series returns to Tucson’s 3/8-mile oval for the first time in 14 years. Only one driver in the field has ever raced there and that driver, Johnny Borneman, won that last K&N round in 2001. I’m not sure if that makes him a favorite or not, but it couldn’t hurt.
Links: K&N West site. Tucson site. Event page. Schedule. Entry list. Points.
Coverage: None live. Delayed broadcast May 7 @ TBD.
 

East Coast Timing Association: Hot Rod Top Speed Challenge (Ohio Mile)

Hot Rod Magazine hosts the first run of the Ohio Mile this year at Airborne Park in Wilmington, Ohio. Entries run a standing mile, reaching their terminal speeds at the one-mile mark of the track’s 9,000 feet. The current record is 244.192 miles per hour, set by Brian Hinson’s 2,200-horsepower C5 Corvette.
Links: ECTA site. Ohio Mile site. Event page. Entry list.
Coverage: No live coverage.
 

SCCA Majors: Blackhawk Farms Raceway (South Beloit, IL)

The Majors Tour’s Northern Conference starts its season this weekend at Blackhawk Farms on the Illinois-Wisconsin border. Blackhawk’s close confines and rhythmic nature make it deceptively tricky despite its relative simplicity on paper.
Links: Majors Tour site. Blackhawk site. Event page. Schedule. Entry list.
Coverage: Live timing on SCCA Live site and also on Race Monitor app for smartphones and devices.
 

SCCA Majors: Buttonwillow Raceway Park

Like most SCCA Majors races in California, the Buttonwillow race features a pile of entries from the open-wheel classes. Buttonwillow features an incredibly modular design, allowing the track to be configured many different ways
Links: Majors Tour site. Buttonwillow site. Event page. Schedule. Entry list.
Coverage: Live timing on SCCA Live site and also on Race Monitor app for smartphones and devices.
 

SCCA Majors: Summit Point

The third Majors event of the weekend actually marks the final Majors weekend for the Southeast Region, allowing teams in the region to prepare for the SCCA Runoffs at Daytona International Speedway this fall.
Links: Majors Tour site. Summit Point site. Event page. Schedule. Entry list.
Coverage: Live timing on SCCA Live site and also on Race Monitor app for smartphones and devices.
 

24 Hours of LeMons: Carolina Motorsports Park

LeMons visits CMP for the 15th time in its history, which makes it the most-visited LeMons track. Some cars—like the Moldecarlo Chevy Monte Carlo—have raced since the first race there in 2008. This remains a favorite venue for racers and organizers alike.
Links: LeMons site. CMP site. Event page with schedule. Entry list. Hooniverse preview.
Coverage: Live timing on Specialty Timing site and also on Race Monitor app for smartphones and devices.
 

World Racing League: Brainerd International Raceway

The WRL runs for its second consecutive weekend after visiting CMP last weekend. Series organizer Joey Todd has run races in the Midwest for many years and should get a good turnout for the weekend’s pair of eight-hour endurance races.
Links: WRL site. Brainerd site. Event page with schedule.
Coverage: Live timing on WRL site and also on Race Monitor app for smartphones and devices.

American Endurance Racing: New Jersey Motorsports Park

East Coast endurance series AER starts its season at NJMP, where they will get a nice publicity bump from our friends over at Jelopnic.
Links: AER site. NJMP site.
Coverage: Live timing on SCCA Live site and also on Race Monitor app for smartphones and devices.
 
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