‘Give us time’ with IMSA program
BMW M Team WRT team principal Vincent Vosse has called for patience for the program’s efforts in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. This year’s Rolex 24 marks the first official race for Team WRT’s expanded efforts into IMSA’s Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) category. The end of last season in IMSA saw BMW end its 17-year […]
WRT could replace Rahal Letterman Lanigan as BMW’s 2026 IMSA representative
The Belgian WRT team is in the running to expand its programme with the BMW M Hybrid V8 LMDh into the IMSA SportsCar Championship next season. BMW’s representative in the World Endurance Championship has revealed that it is in negotiation to take over Rahal Letterman Lanigan’s IMSA programme, after the German manufacturer opted against renewing […]
Long Beach pole makes three in a row for #24 BMW
Whether it’s back-to-back or three-in-a-row — the teams set to lead Saturday’s IMSA race field on the historic streets of Long Beach this weekend have managed to show their dominance in the series (or Long Beach) and are making sure to maintain their stake in that ‘leading’ claim. This weekend, only the Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) […]
BMW pips Acura by 0.009s in second practice
BMW’s Connor De Phillippi topped second practice session for this weekend’s IMSA SportsCar Championship round at Road America. De Phillippi beat the Acuras of Filipe Albuquerque and Jordan Taylor in the 90-minute session ahead of Sunday’s 2h40m race around the four-mile track that’s the self-proclaimed ‘America’s National Park of Speed’ and features a 47-car entry. […]
Arrow McLaren IndyCar signing Lundgaard has “zero interest” in F1
Recent Arrow McLaren IndyCar signing for 2025, Christian Lundgaard, says he has “zero interest” in getting an opportunity with the team’s Formula 1 squad. In tandem with his European open-wheel career, Lundgaard signed to the Renault Sport Academy in 2017 and tested its F1 car at the Hungaroring and Jerez. He later drove a 2018-spec […]
BMW beats Cadillac in FP2 but sister car shunts
BMW’s Philipp Eng set the pace in opening practice for the sixth round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship at Watkins Glen, but the marque’s sister car crashed in the closing moments. IMSA brings a 56-car field to the classic 3.4-mile road course, which hosted the United States Grand Prix for 20 years, located amid the […]
BMW pips Porsche, Cadillac by a tenth in FP2
On the series’ debut on the tight and twisty 1.654-mile, nine-turn temporary street circuit in downtown Detroit, Eng beat Nick Tandy’s Porsche and Cadillac’s Sebastien Bourdais to the fastest time in this two-hour session for GTP and GTD Pro cars. The FP1 pacesetting #6 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 of Tandy and Mathieu Jaminet was given […]
BMW beats Cadillac to quickest time in FP2
Eng, whose BMW is run by Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, beat Sebastien Bourdais (Cadillac V-Series.R) and the second BMW of Connor De Phillippi in the 90-minute practice session. This weekend’s 2h40m event is being run for GTP and GTD machinery only. After the Porsche Penske Motorsport 963s of Nick Tandy and Felipe Nasr swapped the […]
Cadillac scores 1-2 in action-packed sprint race
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Bourdais and van der Zande took a ‘no tires’ pit strategy to get ahead of the sister Action Express-run Cadillac V-Series.R of Pipo Derani and Jack Aitken to score a 1-2 finish for the marque around the 1.968-mile temporary circuit. From pole position, despite crashing in the closing moments of qualifying, Derani […]