Reigning Supercars champion Chaz Mostert joins Lexus for Detroit IMSA race
Defending Supercars champion Chaz Mostert will co-drive the No. 15 Lexus RC F GT3 with Aaron Telitz for Vasser Sullivan on May 30. This will be Mostert’s first time competing in the 100-minute sprint race on the streets of Detroit, joining the GTD Pro field. However, it won’t be his first IMSA race. The 34-year-old […]
Porsche’s ‘setback’ is a triumph for Ford, Acura’s Detroit GP
The original headline for Saturday’s IMSA race report read something like “BOP be damned, Porsche Penske proves perfection again in Detroit”…before the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac and #93 Acura Meyer Shank Racing cars instantly changed it, not two-minutes later. The lesson here is that endurance racing can be unpredictable, and never write a lede to […]
Acura Meyer Shank Racing finally ends Porsche Penske’s IMSA win streak in Detroit
Pole positions typically don’t mean much in endurance racing. And while IMSA’s Detroit Grand Prix race is considered a sprint by the series’ and by definition short in length, it doesn’t guarantee that whoever leads the front of the field at the start, will lead it to the checkered flag. Today, though, the action in […]
Acura Meyer Shank Racing finally ends Porsche Penske’s IMSA win streak
Pole positions typically don’t mean much in endurance racing. And while IMSA’s Detroit Grand Prix race is considered a sprint by the series’ and by definition short in length, it doesn’t guarantee that whoever leads the front of the field at the start, will lead it to the checkered flag. Today, though, the action in […]
Acura literally rubs its way into a front row lockout for IMSA’s Detroit GP start
Welcome to Detroit, where the story so far this weekend is «The Taming of the Slippery Track Surface» for both the IndyCar and IMSA Weathertech Sportscar series. Every track session is luckily adding a little more rubber to the track, with hopes there might be enough to lessen the slips and slides that have plagued […]
Why IMSA’s downtown Detroit GTP debut was divisive among drivers
Thanks to the vision of Roger Penske and the Downtown Detroit Partnership, the event – which was a Formula 1 round from 1982 to 1988 – returned last year as a flagship IndyCar Series round in the shadow of General Motors’ imposing towers of its Renaissance Center that forms its global HQ – for now, […]
Acura beats Porsche with stunning pass in wild street fight
On the series’ debut on the tight and twisty 1.654-mile, nine-turn temporary street circuit in downtown Detroit, Taylor beat Porsche’s Mathieu Jaminet after pulling off a great overtaking move inside the final 25 minutes in GTP. AO Racing’s Seb Priaulx and Laurin Heinrich won the GTD Pro class in their Porsche 911. After the pair […]
Detroit race traffic will be “unlike any other” track in U.S.
IMSA’s premier sportscar series makes its racing debut at the tight and twisty 1.654-mile, nine-turn temporary street circuit in downtown Detroit on Saturday, with its GTP and GTD Pro classes making up a 21-car field. Tandy won the pole from Porsche Penske Motorsport team-mate Dane Cameron by 0.124s in qualifying on Friday afternoon, and although […]
Porsche 1-2 in GTP qualifying, Corvette sweeps GTD Pro
On the series’ debut on the tight and twisty 1.654-mile, nine-turn temporary street circuit in downtown Detroit, Tandy beat Penske stable-mate Dane Cameron and Cadillac’s Sebastien Bourdais to the fastest time in qualifying for GTP, while Antonio Garcia scored GTD Pro pole position as Corvette swept the field on home turf. There was an immediate […]