Pin in LMGT3 switch with Iron Dames Lamborghini for 2024 WEC
Pin will join Iron Dames regulars Michelle Gatting and Sarah Bovy aboard the #85 entry after contesting the full WEC in 2023 with the Iron Lynx-affiliated Prema LMP2 squad now running Lamborghini’s single SC63 LMDh in the Hypercar class. She took a best finish of third, alongside Lambo factory drivers Mirko Bortolotti and Daniil Kvyat, […]
IMSA admits to “officiating error” in premature Daytona 24 Hours checker
The race featured a thrilling dice for victory between the No. 7 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 of Felipe Nasr and the No. 31 Cadillac V-Series.R of Tom Blomqvist for Action Express Racing. Confusion reigned when the white flag, signaling the final lap, was shown in error with three minutes of the 24 hours still remaining. […]
Winning both Le Mans, Daytona with Ferrari ‘difficult to even dream’
Pier Guidi and James Calado followed up their historical overall triumph in the centenary edition of Le Mans with a GTD Pro class win at Daytona last weekend, as they took the top spot with Davide Rigon and Daniel Serra in a Ferrari 296 GT3 entered by Risi Competizione. It was the Italian manufacturer’s first […]
Rasmussen pace key to “sitting duck” Era’s LMP2 Daytona 24 Hours win
Scotsman Dalziel, who won the Rolex 24 overall in 2010 and the LMP2 class in 2021, made it a hat-trick despite a straightline speed deficit to its class rivals, which were led by Malthe Jakobsen’s Crowdstrike by APR entry in the final stint. Rasmussen – who shared the car with Dalziel, Connor Zilisch and Dwight Merriman […]
Penske targets Le Mans after Porsche Daytona 24 Hours win
Penske’s No. 7 963, crewed by Dane Cameron, Matt Campbell, Josef Newgarden and Felipe Nasr, scored a narrow victory over Cadillac – recording Porsche’s 19th overall win here. Team Penske has two prior sportscar victories at Daytona: a 1966 GT/GTO class win and the overall prize in 1969, when Mark Donohue and Chuck Parsons enjoyed a […]
Lexus suffers early crash, late fire in ill-fated Daytona 24 Hours
Having started from the front row in both GTD classes, the reigning IMSA SportsCar champion No. 14 Vasser Sullivan RC F took the lead of the Pro class with Ben Barnicoat at the wheel. Barnicoat handed over to Toyota’s WEC star Mike Conway, only for an LMP2 car to spin across the track in front […]
Porsche triumphs after epic duel with Cadillac
It was Porsche’s 19th overall win here – it has four more as an engine supplier – and Penske’s first triumph here since 1969. The race boiled down to a straight duel between the #31 Cadillac V-Series.R – run by reigning series champions Action Express Racing – of Pipo Derani, Jack Aitken and Tom Blomqvist and […]
Nasr credits Penske for final pit stop, “confused” with timing of checkered flag
The 31-year-old Brazilian lost the lead to Cadillac Racing’s Tom Blomqvist with 72 minutes remaining in the twice-around-the-clock endurance classic, but a late caution ultimately set up the race-deciding pit stop. Both drivers short filled, but it was Nasr’s No. 7 Porsche Penske Motorsports 963 that managed to pull ahead off pit lane to reclaim […]
Blomqvist rues late caution for costing him another Daytona 24 win
Blomqvist came up just 2s short of the victorious Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 after 24 hours of racing, but was forced to give up his lead during the final round of pitstops – that was caused by a caution period for Parker Thompson’s GTD class Lexus catching fire. He then couldn’t find a way past […]