JDC-Miller MotorSports’ Sebastien Bourdais, Loic Duval and Tristan Vautier charged back after getting involved in two separate on-track incidents to win the Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring presented by Advance Auto Parts Saturday (March 20). It is the team’s first overall victory since the 2018 Sahlen Six Hours at the Glen when they were …
Tuesday (Jan. 19) and Wednesday (Jan. 20) saw a series of updates to the entry lists for this weekend’s ROAR Before the 24 at Daytona International Speedway. By extension, these updates in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship will carry over to the Rolex 24 at Daytona. Team Hardpoint/EBM announced that Katherine Legge and Christina Nielsen …
Acura Team Penske’s Helio Castroneves and Ricky Taylor recovered from multiple early penalties to win the TireRack.com Grand Prix Saturday (Sept. 5) at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. It is the second win of the season for the duo as they continued their strong 2020 IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car championship season. “Great team effort today, I …
The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship is back at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta a month early this year for the TireRack.com Grand Prix. Through two practice sessions, things don’t look all that different from last year’s Motul Petit Le Mans. Action Express Racing’s Felipe Nasr was fastest overall with a lap at 132.478 mph. Practice No. …
Saturday brought changeable conditions to Daytona International Speedway. Rains made the second session dicey at times, but Oliver Jarvis kept Mazda Team Joest’s No. 77 Mazda RT24-P on top of the pylon with a lap at 135.257 mph. Session No. 3 In the morning session, Mazda picked up where they left off on Friday. Harry …
During the 15th hour of the Rolex 24 at Daytona, the rain began to fall at Daytona International Speedway. Instantaneously, the race changed. What was a relatively attrition-free affair turned into a punishing wreckfest. Wayne Taylor Racing’s Fernando Alonso slipped past Action Express Racing’s Felipe Nasr with just over two hours to go when Nasr …
Sunday’s America’s Tire 250 at WeatherTech Raceway was a rather rough affair with lots of contact. Mazda Team Joest’s Harry Tincknell made too aggressive of a move in lapped traffic and spun himself out. That allowed Tequila Patron ESM’s Pipo Derani to slip past. From there, Derani pulled away to give himself and teammate Johannes …
Qualifying for Sunday’s Michelin GT Challenge at VIR was held in changeable conditions. Ford Chip Ganassi Racing IMSA’s Richard Westbrook was fastest during the GT Le Mans session in the wet with a lap at 101.852 mph. Despite being 11 seconds slower than the GT Daytona pole time, he will start on the pole for …
After much of the weekend had been dominated by Acura Team Penske, it will be the smallest of the Cadillac squads, Spirit of Daytona Racing, that will start Saturday’s Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring presented by Advance Auto Parts up front. On Friday afternoon (March 16), Tristan Vautier won the pole for the 12-hour …
Bright and early on Friday morning, Acura Team Penske picked right up where they left off on Thursday. Ricky Taylor turned in a lap of 107.076 seconds (125.742 mph), the fastest lap of the whole weekend, in order to top the charts in IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Practice No. 4. It is the third out …
On Thursday, BMW Team RLL announced that Connor De Phillippi will drive full-time for the organization in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2018. He will replace veteran Bill Auberlen, who will step back from full-time racing to become a Brand Ambassador for BMW of North America. The 49-year old Auberlen will still race in …
In endurance racing, victories can come in many ways. One is by sheer dominance. For Tequila Patron ESM’s No. 2 Nissan DPi shared by Ryan Dalziel, Brendon Hartley and Scott Sharp, it was simply being in the right place at the right time. Hartley was third when the top two drivers were penalized for on-track …
