Dennis Wins Opening Round Of London E-Prix

LONDON, UK. – British driver Jake Dennis delivered a commanding lights-to-flag performance to win the first race in the SABIC London E-Prix double-header, repeating his exploits of last season on the unique outdoor/indoor street circuit at ExCeL London. The ...

Winward’s Last Lap Agony At Lime Rock Park

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Drivers and crew at Winward Racing must be scratching their heads, wondering what they need to do to nail down a win in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. It’s not for lack of trying. In last ...

GTP Ride Awaits Those In Porsche Program

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — At any IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship event in the Porsche Carrera Cup North American support race, it’s possible to catch a glimpse of the next talent who will compete in a Porsche 963 LMDh prototype ...

Porsche, Cadillac Share Track At Sebring

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Two rival manufacturers — Porsche and Cadillac — met at Sebring International Raceway for testing of the cars that will debut next year as the Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) class in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar ...

Development Of Cadillac LMDh Continues At Sebring

DETROIT – On-track testing of the Cadillac LMDh race car is going full speed ahead. Cadillac and Chip Ganassi Racing drivers Sebastien Bourdais, Renger van der Zande, Earl Bamber and Alex Lynn participated in five days of testing last ...

Pfaff Porsche Rolls On With GTD PRO Pole

LAKEVILLE, Conn. – A great season in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship just keeps getting better for Pfaff Motorsports and drivers Matt Campbell and Mathieu Jaminet. On Friday, Campbell guided Pfaff’s No. 9 Porsche 911 GT3 R to the ...

NASCAR Goes To Le Mans

Bill France’s idea could be seen as far-fetched. Taking stock cars built for American short tracks and superspeedways and bringing them to the 1976 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans was certainly out of the ordinary, as ...

Cadillac Preps For GTP With First Testing Laps

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Cadillac Racing is the latest IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship manufacturer to put its LMDh prototype on track, with the eagerly awaited test taking place today at an undisclosed circuit. Chip Ganassi Racing driver Earl Bamber ...

Heart Of Racing Beating Loud In Both GT Classes

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – With increased support from Aston Martin, the Heart of Racing Team expanded to field two Vantage GT3 entries in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s GT Daytona (GTD) class in mid-2021. Since then, the team managed by ...

Three Takeaways from Chevrolet Grand Prix

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Commitment.   It’s a word heard often during the weekend at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, the 10-turn, 2.459-mile jewel just outside Toronto. The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship hadn’t raced at CTMP since 2019, and the Chevrolet Grand ...

Maximum Attack, Full Risk For The No. 01 Cadillac DPi At CTMP

BOWMANVILLE, Ontario – Renger van der Zande’s opportunistic run through late-race traffic produced an unexpected victory for himself and Sebastien Bourdais Sunday in the Chevrolet Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park. Van der Zande guided the No. 01 Cadillac ...

Pfaff Porsche Scores GTD PRO Win On Home Soil

BOWMANVILLE, Ontario – The plaid Pfaff Porsche finished the race where it started – at the head of the class. In the Canadian team’s return to its home track, Pfaff Motorsports extended its points lead in GTD PRO with a ...

Kasmets Masterful In Prototype Challenge At CTMP

BOWMANVILLE, Ontario – Tonis Kasemets showed he had the measure of the IMSA Prototype Challenge field at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park on Sunday. Twice. The Estonian dominated the first hour at CTMP, then fended off a late challenge following ...

Zilisch Sweeps Up At Road America

ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — With a win in Sunday’s Idemitsu Mazda MX-5 Cup presented by BFGoodrich Tires, Connor Zilisch (No. 72 Hixon Motor Sports) completed his domination of the weekend, winning both races at Road America from the pole ...

Wickens, Wilkins Thrill Home Crowd With Win In Canada

BOWMANVILLE, Ontario – It’s been a blur, Robert Wickens said. That’s an understatement. Wickens finished off a whirlwind week Saturday by teaming with Mark Wilkins to win on home turf in the Touring Car (TCR) class of the Canadian Tire ...

Foss Fights off Teammate, Injury To Win Michelin Pilot Challenge

BOWMANVILLE, Ontario – From the outside, few IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge race wins looked as straightforward as the victorious drive Marc Miller and Eric Foss combined to produce in the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park 120 at the racetrack of the ...

History-Making Lap Propels Blomqvist, No. 60 Acura To CTMP Pole

BOWMANVILLE, Ontario – Tom Blomqvist and Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian teammate Oliver Jarvis are tired of losing out to “the other Acura.” Blomqvist and Jarvis have engaged their No. 60 Acura ARX-05 DPi in a compelling Daytona Prototype international ...

Jaminet Serves Up Home Cookin’, Puts Pfaff Porsche On GTD PRO Pole

BOWMANVILLE, Ontario – The plaid Porsche from Canada was nearly perfect on its home track in GTD PRO qualifying for the Chevrolet Grand Prix. Mathieu Jaminet recorded a lap of 1 minute, 15.468 seconds (117.300 mph) Saturday to secure the ...

Mortara Wins Marrakesh E-Prix

MARRAKESH, Morocco – Edoardo Mortara hit the top of the Drivers’ World Championship with victory in the Marrakesh E-Prix as the ROKiT Venturi Racing driver fended off severe pressure from DS TECHEETAH teammates António Félix da Costa and Jean-Éric ...

Acura, Cadillac Tie For CTMP Practice

BOWMANVILLE, Ontario – Having two drivers in two distinctly different Daytona Prototype international (DPi) cars tying for fastest time of the day around Canadian Tire Motorsport Park to the thousandth of a second is enough to leave anyone speechless. ...

IMSA Unveils LMP3 & GT4 Series

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A new, multiple-class, sprint-race series will make its debut in 2023 as International Motor Sports Ass’n officials unveiled the IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge, with entitlement sponsorship from longtime pillar IMSA partner VP Racing Fuels. The ...

IMSA Penalizes Two Drivers

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Drivers Fabio Scherer and Dylan Murry have been placed on probation by IMSA for the next four IMSA races they enter for their actions in an incident during last Sunday’s six-hour race at Watkins Glen International. ...

Gen 3 Era Dawns For ABB FIA Formula E World Championship

LONDON, U.K. – The ABB FIA Formula E World Championship will expand in Season 9 and the debut of the Gen 3 race car to include more E-Prix races in more world cities with more race teams on the ...

Wickens Beaming As He Heads Back Home

Robert Wickens has certainly experienced a rollercoaster of emotions since his last victory in a race car in 2017. From scoring podium finishes in the NTT IndyCar Series, to suffering a paralyzing injury and wondering if he would ever ...

Kristensen Named Grand Marshal Of Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion

MONTEREY, Calif. — Complementing the 24 Hours of Le Mans centenary kick-off celebration will be record nine-time 24 Hours of Le Mans champion Tom Kristensen who will serve as Grand Marshal of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. Affectionately known ...

Wright Motorsports To Skip Canadian Tire Motorsports Park

BATAVIA, Ohio – The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship competes this week at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park for the eighth round of the 2022 season. However, Porsche customer racing team Wright Motorsports will not compete in the event, due to ...

Crazy Day Ends In Double Win For Heart Of Racing Team

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – A 60-minute stoppage for lightning three-quarters of the way through the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen threw calculations for minimum drive time and fuel strategy into disarray in Round 7 of the 2022 IMSA ...

Gamble At The Glen Pays Off For Acura In DPi

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – With a bold move, little fuel and a broken car, Filipe Albuquerque turned a weather delay into victory. He took the lead with a daring pass late in the race, then swerved through traffic with ...

No. 95 BMW Snatches Dramatic Win At The Glen

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – A conservative approach wasn’t paying off this year for Bill Auberlen and Turner Motorsport. The most successful driver in American sports car history entered the 2022 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge season determined to focus on ...

Robert Wickens Returns To Victory Lane

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – The excitement and emotion were palpable. Yet Canadian racer Robert Wickens delivered the ultimate of understatements following the victory drive he and co-driver Mark Wilkins put together in the Touring Car (TCR) class of the ...

Record Lap Puts Blomqvist On Watkins Glen Pole

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – Tom Blomqvist picked the right time for his first Motul Pole Award in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Blomqvist turned a lap of 1 minute, 29.580 seconds (136.637 mph) Saturday – a track record for ...

Marcelli, Formal Complete Watkins Glen Sweep In Super Trofeo

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – Kyle Marcelli and Danny Formal capped off the perfect weekend in the Finger Lakes region of New York, sweeping to their second Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America win in as many days Saturday at Watkins ...

De Phillippi Earns GTD Pro Pole At Watkins Glen

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – The No. 25 BMW Team RLL M4 GT3 has been working its way up the GTD PRO grid all season in the 2022 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. That constant improvement in qualifying performance culminated Saturday ...

Fassnacht Goes From Last To First In MX-5 Cup Win

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y.  – He collected his first Idemitsu Mazda MX-5 Cup podium in Friday’s race and now Aidan Fassnacht (No. 15 McCumbee McAleer Racing) has his first win. The rookie started last on the grid and drove through ...

JDC-Miller Named First Porsche Customer GTP Team

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – JDC-Miller MotorSports will field the first customer entry for Porsche Motorsport North America when the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) class debuts in 2023. JDC-Miller will field a single Porsche 963 prototype as ...

Blomqvist Pushes No. 60 Acura To Top of Watkins Glen Practice Chart

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – Tom Blomqvist recorded the fastest lap Friday during the first practice session for the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen at Watkins Glen International. That was the expected part. The unexpected lies with Sunday’s race ...

Patience Pays In Lamborghini Super Trofeo Win At WGI

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – Kyle Marcelli exhibited a characteristic difficult for most race drivers – patience – until it was time to pounce Friday and drive away to victory in the first Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America race of ...

Gonzales Takes MX-5 Cup Win At Watkins Glen

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y.  – Carrying the image of a recently-lost friend on the hood of his Mazda MX-5 Cup race car, Tyler Gonzalez (No. 51 Copeland Motorsports) benefitted from good use of the draft and some good timing to ...

Johnson “In A Better Place” Heading To The Glen

When you look at Jimmie Johnson’s overwhelmingly successful motorsports résumé, it’s difficult to find a track where the seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion hasn’t won. Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International is one of the few places where Johnson hasn’t visited ...

Porsche’s Newest Magic Number? 963 Will Be GTP Prototype

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – For Porsche enthusiasts, status is often measured in numerical nomenclature. 908. 917. 956. 962. All iconic racing car model numbers. Prepare to add “963” to that legendary list. Porsche revealed Friday at the Goodwood Festival ...