So far, the Motul Petit Le Mans race weekend is looking a little like last year’s edition. Action Express Racing dominated that weekend and they dominated the speed charts on Thursday (Oct. 15). Filipe Albuquerque was fastest overall in practice with a lap at 132.081 mph. Practice No. 1 In …
Read More »Entry List: Road Race Showcase
There will be 31 cars on track Sunday for the Road Race Showcase, the fourth round of the 2020 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. This is up two teams from Sebring, mainly due to the fact that this is a full round of the championship for the GT Daytona class. In …
Read More »Jesse Lazare Fastest in Road America 120 Practice; Justin Piscitell Rolls
Motorsport In Action’s Jesse Lazare was fastest overall in Michelin Pilot Challenge practice (Aug. 2) at Road America with a lap at 106.135 mph. Practice No. 1 In the morning practice session, it was Park Place Motorsports’ Trent Hindman that was fastest overall in his Porsche Cayman GT4 MR with …
Read More »Entry List: Road America 120
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 …
Read More »JDC-Miller MotorSports Claims First Ever WeatherTech Prototype Victory
With under 36 minutes to go, JDC-Miller MotorSports’ Stephen Simpson took advantage of a battle for the lead between Acura Team Penske’s Juan Pablo Montoya and Wayne Taylor Racing’s Jordan Taylor to sweep into the lead from third with this move. From there, Simpson had to deal with lapped traffic …
Read More »Helio Castroneves, Ricky Taylor Top WeatherTech Thursday Practices
On Thursday, Acura Team Penske’s Ricky Taylor was fastest overall in IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship practice at Sebring International Raceway. Taylor’s time in practice No. 2 of 107.841 seconds (124.850 mph). The lap time was a full one-third of a second faster than the pole time set last year by …
Read More »JDC/Miller MotorSports to Field ORECA 07 Full-Time in 2017
On Thursday, JDC/Miller MotorSports, which currently fields the No. 85 in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Challenge’s Prototype Challenge class, announced that they are moving up to the new Daytona Prototype International (DPi) class full-time in 2017. Â The mount of choice for the team is the ORECA 07 chassis, paired up …
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