Yelloly admits BMW GTP victory “wasn’t the way we wanted to win”
The #25 M Hybrid V8 of Yelloly and Connor De Phillippi lost the lead in the final six minutes of the six-hour race at the iconic Watkins Glen track in upstate New York to the #6 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963. But the Nick Tandy/Mathieu Jaminet-crewed Porsche was stripped of victory when its underfloor skid block […]
Porsche stripped of Watkins Glen win, BMW inherits landmark victory
The #6 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 of Nick Tandy and Mathieu Jaminet scored a dramatic overall victory at Watkins Glen after passing the #25 BMW M Team RLL BMW M Hybrid V8 of Nick Yelloly and Connor De Phillippi with just six minutes of the six-hour race remaining. That’s the way the cars finished as […]
Porsche snatches last-gasp win from BMW
Jaminet passed Connor De Phillippi’s Rahal Letterman Lanigan-run BMW with just six minutes of the six-hour race remaining. The race went full-course yellow moments later, as a BMW GTD car somersaulted on the approach to the final corner. The fifth round of America’s premier sportscar series began with the prototype classes starting in championship order, […]
Qualifying abandoned after huge LMP2/3 pile-up
Mixed weather conditions greeted the fifth round of America’s premier sportscar series but, following the multi-car shunt that halted the LMP2/P3 session, that and the GTP session that was meant to follow were abandoned. That means all the prototypes will line up in championship order, with the #6 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 of Nick Tandy […]
Acura beats BMW by 0.004s in second practice
The 1h45m session ran in dry conditions throughout – following yesterday’s briefly dry then mainly wet session – with the 57-car field keen to maximize their running. BMW held an early 1-2 in the premier GTP class, with Philipp Eng heading Nick Yelloly by half a second. Matt Campbell then took over at the top in […]
Acura tops first practice from Porsche and Cadillac
The 90-minute session began in dry conditions with an early Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 1-2, before Braun took the top spot in Meyer Shank Racing’s Daytona 24 Hours-winning ARX-06 with a lap of 1m33.563s. Felipe Nasr was second quickest for the Porsche factory team in the #5 car, 1.2s off the pace but a tenth […]
Chevrolet confirms two-car factory Corvette IMSA GTD Pro attack in 2024
The factory-supported effort will run alongside additional customer programs, run under the Corvette Racing umbrella, which are set to announce in the coming weeks as will the driving lineup for the Pratt Miller-run works cars. In total, four of the new cars are expected to be on the IMSA grid next year. It extends Corvette […]
Chevrolet confirms two-car Corvette IMSA GTD Pro attack in 2024
The factory-supported effort will run alongside additional customer programs, run under the Corvette Racing umbrella, which are set to announce in the coming weeks as will the driving lineup for the Pratt Miller-run works cars. In total, four of the new cars are expected to be on the IMSA grid next year. It extends Corvette […]
Habsburg’s Rebel Team scheme to open voting on young talents
The fan-funded scheme is to open voting among its members that will enable a protege to compete in the FIA Formula 3 Championship, the new LMGT3 division in the World Endurance Championship, or the headline LMP2 class of the ELMS, in which Habsburg was triumphant last season. This covers the three main bases of the […]