The Customer Racing teams with the Mercedes-AMG GT3 showed a strong performance in the Italian round of the international 24H Series, the Mugello 12-hour race. ...
At the 12 Hours of Sebring the new Porsche 911 RSR was on course for a podium result until shortly before the finish. A tyre defect and a drive-through penalty put an end to Patrick Pilet’s spectacular charge. ...
This time, there was no controversy – just an old-fashioned butt-whipping by the winning Prototype team.
The No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing/Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi V.R, with Ricky Taylor behind the wheel, won the 2017 Rolex 24 at Daytona, with the No. 5 Action Express Mustang Sampling Cadillac DPi V.R finishing second. But it wasn’t pretty – with just seven minutes left, Taylor nudged the No. 5 out of the way in turn 1, causing the No. 5 to spin.
There’s something about the two-car Corvette Racing C7.R team – when one car has a big problem, the other car seems to step up and win the race.
It happened last year at the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh From Florida: The No. 3 Corvette crashed, ending up 41st overall in the 48-car field. But the No. 4 team car took the GT Le Mans (GTLM) class win.
Up front in the four classes: The familiar No. 5 Action Express Mustang Sampling Cadillac DPi V.R currently driven by veteran Joao Barbosa leads the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi V.R, driven by Ricky Taylor, by two seconds.
This afternoon, Landy started seventh in the second Porsche GT3 Cup race. He got off to a good start and continued to put down consistent laps that put him in the top five about half way into the 45-minute race. From there, he put constant pressure on the cars in front of him as he was knocking on the door of his first GT3 Platinum cup podium finish of the season. Unfortunately, he simply ran out of time.
Among the twenty-one GTDs, six of them are Huracán GT3s, therefore Lamborghini proves again the manufacturer with the largest number of cars fielded by customer teams in this category.
When the Prototype cars arrived in Sebring, it appeared Cadillac would dominate again after posting the fastest lap in three of the four pre-qualifying practice sessions.
However, Cadillac didn’t capture the pole for tomorrow’s 65th Annual Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh From Florida. The qualifying session on Friday afternoon saw record-breaking speeds in three of the four WeatherTech Championship classes, including Prototype, with the fastest lap of 1 minute, 48.178 seconds, set by Neel Jani, driving the No. 13 Rebellion Racing Gibson-powered ORECA P2.
Ford Chip Ganassi Racing’s quest for the ultimate trifecta in sports car endurance racing – three straight victories in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Rolex 24 At Daytona and the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh From Florida – looks entirely within reach after GT Le Mans (GTLM) qualifying Friday afternoon at Sebring International Raceway.
One of Ganassi’s Ford GTs, won its class at the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans on the 50th anniversary of the original Ford GT’s overall victory there. The same car, wearing its familiar No. 66 in WeatherTech Championship competition rather than the No. 68 it sported at Le Mans, also won the 2017 Rolex 24 At Daytona with the same driver lineup – regulars Joey Hand and Dirk Mueller, helped on the longer races by IndyCar driver Sebastien Bourdais.
Watch this amazing video of the Lamborghini Huracán Performante making a record lap of 6:52:01 min on the Nürburgring Nordschleife with Lamborghini test driver Marco Mapelli.
The Renault UK Clio Cup has received a total of 24 entries for its forthcoming 2017 race season – the biggest number of cars for an opening round of the championship in five years
The red-black Playboy livery in which youngster Nico Müller will showcase on the 2017 DTM grid was not the only feature to attract attention during the tests.
Only a week following its world premiere in Geneva, the new Audi RS 5 DTM did its first public test laps on the Italian race track at Vallelunga.
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As soon as IMSA announced the arrival of the new LM P3 prototypes in North America and in the IMSA Prototype Challenge Presented by Mazda series, ANSA Motorsports' team owner, Alain Nadal, was one of the first to announce his desire to field an entry in that series.
ANSA Motorsports has been working on its LM P3 program since November 2016, and after signing driver Matt Dicken, the team has been working on fielding a second car.
After weeks of talks with drivers and evaluating and testing several P3 cars, ANSA Motorsports is coming to the 2017 season opener at Sebring International Raceway for rounds 1 and 2 of the IMSA Prototype Challenge Presented by Mazda series with two brand new Ligier JS P3 race cars in the LM P3 class.