Thursday, the 46 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship teams took to the 3.74-mile Sebring International Raceway for three practice sessions. The main story heading into the weekend was how the Cadillacs would fare after being hit with multiple rule changes designed to slow them down. The overall result is that they aren’t necessarily going to run …
Thursday and Friday, teams from the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship took to 3.74-mile Sebring International Raceway for 15 hours of testing ahead of next month’s Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring. For most of the teams, it was their first chance to test out new Balance of Performance guidelines that were designed to bring the …
On Monday, Cadillac Racing announced their 2017 Pirelli World Challenge driver lineup. Their full-time drivers will be unchanged. Four-time GT class champion Johnny O’Connell will return to the No. 3 Cadillac ATS-VR for his seventh year with the team. Meanwhile, Michael Cooper will return for his second year in the No. 8. Cooper’s No. 8 will carry …
In recent years, 24 hour endurance races have turned into sprint races. Much of the 55th running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona was not a sprint, but a test of endurance and traction. Over half of the race was run in the rain. However, once the track finally dried out, the action came to …
Just because Jeff Gordon has no current plans to race again in NASCAR doesn’t meant that his career is completely over. Wayne Taylor Racing announced on Thursday morning (Dec. 1) that the team has signed Gordon to drive the No. 10 Cadillac DPi-V.R. in January’s Rolex 24 at Daytona. He will complete a four-man driving …
On Saturday evening, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s Prototype, Prototype Challenge and GT-Le Mans classes took to Long Beach’s 1.968 mile street course for a 100-minute duel on the streets. While Ricky Taylor was extremely disappointed on missing out on pole Friday, he more than made up for it on the start. As soon as …
On Friday, IMSA announced that Wayne Taylor Racing has been dropped from third-place in the Prototype class and overall all the way back to 16th in class as a result of a drive time violation committed by the team in the closing moments of last weekend’s Rolex 24 at Daytona. In endurance races, IMSA maintains …
Last weekend’s Rolex 24 at Daytona was billed as another battle for supremacy in the Prototype class between the Daytona Prototypes and the P2’s. Despite Michael Shank Racing dominating the time sheets, the P2’s did not factor much into the outcome. From the drop of the green flag, the Ford EcoBoost V6-powered Riley DPG3’s from …
Last weekend, the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) held their annual Roar Before the 24, a three-day test session for teams in the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship and the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge ahead of the season openers for both series. The status quo appears to have been upheld in TUSC, but just barely. Overall, …
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