Porsche leads at one-quarter distance
Acura’s Louis Deletraz led the 54-car field to the green around the undulating 2.54-mile road course in Georgia but Sebastien Bourdais took little time in taking the lead, sweeping his Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac around the Wayne Taylor Racing ARX-06 outside at Turn 1 and quickly pulling clear. But the race quickly went under caution […]
Porsche Penske’s IMSA GTP title hopes hit by major Petit Le Mans crash
Tandy was at the wheel of their works #6 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 heading down Road Atlanta’s long straight toward Turn 10 while pushing through traffic when a pair of cars made contact ahead and triggered the incident. Dennis Andersen was occupying the middle of the track and moved slightly right, but his High Class […]
Honda SUPER GT sub facing steep learning curve
Kimura has been recruited to join Tadasuke Makino aboard the Team Kunimitsu Honda NSX-GT at both Autopolis and next month’s Motegi season finale in the wake of Yamamoto’s major crash last time out at Sugo. After racing for the now-defunct ARTA GT300 operation last season, Kimura has spent 2023 on the sidelines as a Honda […]
ARTA Honda on pole as Nissan struggles
With the top three teams in the standings failing to progress into Q2, ARTA driver Fukuzumi made the most of his rivals’ troubles to clinch a second pole in the space of three rounds. The ex-Formula 2 driver posted a new lap record of 1m31.131s in the #16 Honda NSX-GT, which put him nearly half […]
Keating’s LMP2 quickest as WTR Acura grabs GTP pole
GTP The last category to go out saw persistent rain darken the 2.54-mile, 12-turn road course, leaving every team to swap to rain tires. As the 20-minute session went on, conditions changed and the track began to dry out in areas and the lap times continued to fall. In the final seconds, Deletraz was able […]
Inter Europol Competition partner with PR1/Mathiasen for ’24 IMSA season
The Polish-based team captured a rousing LMP2 class victory at this past year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, but will adjust the program to race in North America “whilst retaining its European roots in both LMP2 and LMP3 competition,” according to the release. The team, which will be recognized as Inter Europol by PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports, […]
Button’s options for WEC could include joining Vettel next year
One of his choices is understood to be racing a second Jota Porsche 963 in WEC competition in 2024, with Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica also in the frame for drives at the Hertz-backed team. Button is making his IMSA GTP debut this weekend in JDC Miller MotorSports’ Porsche 963, alongside Mike Rockenfeller and Tijmen […]
Grosjean gets first run in Lamborghini LMDh as testing resumes after crash
Grosjean drove the hybrid prototype that will carry Lamborghini’s hopes in both the World Endurance Championship and the IMSA SportsCar Championship in the hands of the Iron Lynx team from next year at the Almeria circuit in southern Spain over three days this week. The test at which Andrea Caldarelli also drove was the first […]
What Button can expect on his IMSA debut
Jenson Button has sampled an eclectic mix of racing series in the past few years since his last full-time racing programme in Super GT concluded in 2019. Now 43, the 2009 Formula 1 world champion had a disappointing British GT cameo at Silverstone in 2020 as hidden glitches dogged his McLaren 720S GT3. He then […]