Compass Racing’s Paul Holton won the overall pole for the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge’s Road America 120 on Saturday morning (Aug. 4). Holton turned a lap at 105.153 mph in his McLaren 570S GT4, a track record for the CTSC. Holton’s lap was a full second faster than CarBahn …
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At Road America Friday (Aug. 3), IMSA held their annual State of the Series press conference. As usual, there were a flurry of announcements made. The biggest of those moves is the decision to split the Prototype class starting in 2019. Starting with January’s Rolex 24 at Daytona, the DPis …
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JD Motorsports announced Friday that IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship veteran Katherine Legge will make her XFINITY Series debut in the team’s No. 15 Chevrolet at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. In addition, Legge will also race at Road America. Sponsorship for Legge’s effort is being provided by Airtec Inc., a …
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JD Motorsports’ Mike Skeen was fastest overall in XFINITY Series practice Friday afternoon (Aug. 3) at Watkins Glen International. The Pirelli World Challenge veteran, who is making his XFINITY Series debut this weekend, turned in a lap at 95.620 mph in the wet during the second session. Due to the …
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36 teams are entered in Saturday’s Road America 120 for the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge. The race is scheduled to go for two hours, but last year’s race was shortened due to lightning. The headlining Grand Sport has 25 entries, up from 20 at Lime Rock. In that group …
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This weekend, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship is back in action with all three of their classes for the first time in nearly a month. 35 teams are entered in Sunday’s sprint race at Road America in Wisconsin. In the Prototype class, there are a couple of changes. Most notably, …
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Split weekends can cause some problems for NASCAR TV partners as their resources get stretched. NBC was no different. Some people went to Iowa while others went to Pocono, expanding a crew with additions that don’t cover the sport full-time. Regardless, viewers got 600-plus miles of racing over the weekend. …
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On Friday, the SRO Motorsport Group held their annual press conference at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, site of this weekend’s Total 24 Hours of Spa. As part of that 56-minute press conference, SRO Motorsports Group CEO Stéphane Ratel and Pirelli World Challenge President/CEO Greg Gill showed off a number of …
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On Wednesday (July 25), NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France made an unannounced call into SiriusXM NASCAR Radio’s Tradin’ Paint with Jim Noble and Chocolate Myers to talk about the current state of NASCAR. According to France, things are changing, but still pretty good. France believes that the sport is …
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For Ford Performance development driver Chase Briscoe, the past couple of weeks have been nothing short of a whirlwind. First, he won his first race in a winged sprint car at Tri-State Speedway in Haubstadt, Ind. Knocked two things off the bucket list last night… Winning in a wing car …
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