Indy Road Course traffic could be trickiest of season for IMSA drivers
With 48 entries taking to the 14-turn, 2.439-mile circuit, there is nowhere to hide for Sunday’s Battle on the Bricks, a 2h40m contest in IMSA’s first return to the Racing Capital of the World since 2014. There has been a lot of talk around the paddock about how technical the layout at the IMS Road […]
Neel Jani relishing Petit Le Mans return chance
The Swiss driver will contest the Road Atlanta classic at the wheel of Proton Competition’s Porsche 963 LMDh alongside his regular World Endurance Championship team-mates, Harry Tincknell and Gianmaria Bruni. It will mark Jani’s first Petit outing since he triumphed overall in 2013 driving a Lola B12/60-Toyota for Rebellion Racing (pictured top) together with Nicolas […]
Porsche leads Acura in opening practice
GTP Campbell, the 28-year-old Aussie, extracted a flying lap of 1m15.184s around the 14-turn, 2.439-mile road course to put the Porsche 963 alone at the top. Filipe Albuquerque (Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport) kept it close, trailing by 0.022 of a second in the #10 Acura ARX-06. Sebastien Bourdais and Renger van der Zande […]
JOTA closing on deal to run second Porsche LMDh in WEC 2024
The team has never made any secret of its desire to field an additional 963 in 2024 in the same ‘Hertz Racing Gold’ livery as the car that made its debut at the Spa WEC round this year and has now revealed that an order has already been placed for the extra chassis. JOTA boss […]
JLOC delays Lamborghini Evo2 upgrade for #87 car
For last month’s fourth round of the season at Fuji Speedway, JLOC brought one of its two GT300 contenders, the #88 entry, in Evo2 spec for the first time, having made the upgrade during the two-month break that followed the previous race at Suzuka. However, the team elected to keep the #87 car in its […]
Sugo SUPER GT – schedule, how to watch, entry list
A total of 40 cars, 15 in GT500 and 25 in GT300, are entered for the sixth round of the season, slated to begin at 1.30pm local time on Sunday (GMT +9). After a run of four 450km events, SUPER GT reverts to its traditional 300km event for Sugo, with no three-driver crews. But that […]
10 things we learned from the 2023 WEC 6 Hours of Fuji
The World Endurance Championship’s two-month summer break ended with its annual trip to Fuji, where Toyota continued an unbeaten stretch dating back to 2016 with a 1-2 finish. But the Japanese marque didn’t have it as easy as the result on paper suggested, as Porsche emerged as GR010 HYBRID’s closest challenger to lead the most […]
Cadillac hurt by mid-season IMSA tire switch, says Bourdais
Bourdais, co-driver of the #01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-Series.R with Renger van der Zande, made the remark as he shared his thoughts on the team’s progress ahead of the Battle on the Bricks at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course on September 17. The 44-year-old Frenchman said something that has caught his attention in […]
WEC grid could expand to 40 cars for 2024 season
The planned move up from the 36 cars accepted for this year’s series is a reaction to a significant increase in entries in the Hypercar class and a desire to find room for multiple manufacturers in the new LMGT3 category that replaces GTE Am for next season. There looks certain to be in excess of […]