The Whelen Engineering Cadillac DPi-V.R will start tomorrow’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Sportscar weekend at Road America from the pole position.
Promised as the ‘biggest and best’ ever staged, the very special 30th anniversary edition of The Classic certainly lived up to its weighty birthday billing on all fronts.
The No. 1 Paul Miller Racing team heads to America’s ‘National Park of Speed,’ Road America, on a championship charge in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
Coming off a productive dress rehearsal at Watkins Glen International, Gilbert Korthoff Motorsports is ready for its next test, the IMSA Sportscar Weekend at Road America on August 5-8.
Coming off a win at Watkins Glen last month, Whelen Engineering drivers Pipo Derani (Brazil) and Felipe Nasr (Brazil) look to capture back-to-back wins in this weekend’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship IMSA SportsCar Weekend at Road America.
SRO Motorsports Group, together with Brabham Automotive, is delighted to announce Brabham Automotive’s intent to compete in the invitational class of the 2022 Fanatec GT2 European Series with the new Brabham BT63 GT2 Concept.
In the standout fixture of the 2021 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup last weekend (29th July 1st August), GRT Grasser Racing put in a heroic effort that sadly went unrewarded. The team gave yet another demonstration of its indomitable fighting spirit on the occasion of the legendary 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. After a crash in qualifying, the crew rebuilt the Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO in record time to ensure participation in the endurance classic. Clemens Schmid, Kikko Galbiati and Alberto Di Folco pushed forward relentlessly from last place on the grid. Until they were forced to retire after 15 hours, they had made up no fewer than 28 positions.
The Audi Customer Racing supported group is headed into Road America with its signature black and green machines; the No. 39 Audi R8 GT3 LMS and the No. 93 Audi R8 GT4 LMS. The 14 turn, 4.048-mile course features sweeping turn sequences and long straights that typically are uncomplimentary to the R8 platform. However, the CarBahn with Peregrine Racing group has been focusing on pit performance and driver race craft to maximize the strengths of its program and overcome any on-track lack it may have.
August on the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship schedule brings only one event, but it is at a destination venue: Road America. Porsche customer teams come to the Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin-track seeking the German sports car manufacturer’s 14th class victory on the 4.048-mile road course. On August 5 – 8, America’s National Park of Speed plays host to the IMSA SportsCar Weekend, where Porsche will challenge for GTLM and GTD class wins in the headlining WeatherTech SportsCar Championship round on Sunday, August 8.
The 2021 motorsport season has presented Wright Motorsports with one packed race event after another, and this weekend is no exception. Starting this Thursday, Wright Motorsports will be supporting six Porsche entries at two different events, spanning over 600 miles. In Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, the IMSA-sanctioned series of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Michelin Pilot Challenge, […]
Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill.) and Matt Campbell (Australia) are ready for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Sportscar weekend to run at Road America, August 6-8.
PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports is back to racing this weekend with drivers Ben Keating and Mikkel Jensen at Road America for the 6th round of the 2021 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
Hong Kong race driver Jonathan Hui returned to racing action last weekend for his second race of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup season, after a confidence boosting victory at Paul Ricard last time out. Sky Tempesta Racing headed into the race weekend knowing it would be a tough battle to repeat 2020’s success with Platinum rated star-driver Giancarlo Fisichella not permitted to join the line-up. Hui joined forces with Chris Froggatt, Edward Cheever III and experienced Italian endurance racer Matteo Cressoni at the historic TotalEnergies 24 Hours of Spa in Belgium.
Team Redline Racing have continued their championship challenges in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB as Dan Cammish and Micah Stanley shared three class podium finishes between them at Oulton Park this past weekend (31 July / 01 August).
Ollie Wilkinson notched his first ever 24 hours race result in the TotalEnergies 24 Hour of Spa yesterday with a stand-out seventh place finish in the JOTA McLaren 720S GT3. The result marks the best finish for the marque and model at the historic race in Belgium.
Finlay Hutchison’s hopes of a big result in this year’s TotalEnergies 24 Hours of Spa were dashed less than a quarter of the way through the race late on Saturday night at the famous Belgian track, when Sainteloc Racing team-mate Jamie Green was involved in an accident which led to retirement.
Alex MacDowall delivered his best performance of the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS Endurance Cup season so far during the biggest race of the year over the weekend, taking a well-deserved third place finish in the Silver Cup during the TotalEnergies 24 Hours of Spa.
Aston Martin’s customer-focussed Vantage GT3 achieved its best overall result in the Total Energie Spa 24 Hours this weekend, with the #95 Garage 59-run entry finishing third in the hands of IMSA GTD championship leader Ross Gunn (GBR) and reigning FIA GT world champions Marco Sørensen (DEN) and Nicki Thiim (DEN).