Charlotte Motor Speedway’s Roval has undergone several additional changes in advance of the Sept. 28-30 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race on the 2.28-mile track.
Driver Jesse Little and JJL Motorsports will increase their involvement in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards this season.
World Rally Championship driver Hayden Paddon has confirmed his entry for the Otago Rally in April as part of the New Zealand Rally Championship. A reduced WRC schedule has given Paddon the opportunity to return to Dunedin to push for a record-breaking sixth victory. Paddon will team up with long-time co-driver, John Kennard, in the Hyundai i20 AP4+ that debuted and won with at the same event in 2016. ...
The first 24 Hours of Daytona was held in 1966, just in time for the Ford versus Ferrari sportscar battles. It has seen the likes of Ford, Ferrari, Porsche and Lola fighting for the overall victory. The races status has fluctuated over the decades – sometimes being part of a World Championship, others being part of the national IMSA GT Championship. Since the late 90s, the event has been the opening round of the Grand Am Series and lends its name to the Daytona Prototype class.
A London native now living in Nottingham, Parfitt’s victory in the 2017 Sunoco Challenge UK in GT3 competition – the narrowest in the Challenge’s history at 0.42 points – gained him eligibility to race in the BMW Endurance Challenge.
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr. has been named the recipient of the Richard Petty Driver of the Year Award by the National Motorsports Press Ass'n.
This is the moment BMW Motorsport has been waiting for: after months of intensive development, the new BMW M8 GTE will make its race debut this weekend. The new top model for international GT racing will take to the track at the legendary 24-hour race in Daytona (USA), the opener of the 2018 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The 56th edition of the endurance classic takes place on 27th/28th January.
The No. 66 Ford GT team won the event’s GTLM class title last year and all three drivers – Joey Hand, Dirk Müller and Sébastien Bourdais – will be back to defend the win. On the other side of the garage, while the No. 67 Ford GT finished 10th, drivers Richard Westbrook (1:43.385) and Ryan Briscoe (1:43.433) recorded the two quickest lap times of the class in 2017 while sharing the car with endurance addition Scott Dixon.
A year after qualifying for the 2017 Daytona 500, Gaunt Brothers Racing and D.J. Kennington are returning to Daytona Int'l Speedway to once again attempt to qualify for the season opening Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race.
Love’s Travel Stops and Front Row Motorsports have extended their sponsorship agreement for the sixth-straight season in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series.
The racing season of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo will officially start during the first weekend in February. The 2018 season of the famous one-make series for Huracán Super Trofeos will kick off from the Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi, with the first round of the Middle East series that precedes, by a few months, the start of the three continental series Europe, Asia and North America.
United Autosports adds another chapter to its already impressive nine-year racing history when the double European sports-prototype championship winning outfit competes in the Rolex 24 At Daytona as a stand-alone team for the first-time next weekend (27-28 Jan). The Anglo-American outfit enters North America’s premier sportscar race with its two Ligier JS P217 LMP2 sports-prototypes vying for overall honours in the top class and with a seven-driver squad who can boast multiple championship title success globally.
With a new year comes new changes, and that is particularly true for TeamTGM in 2018 as the team looks forward to the four-hour IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge season-opener at Daytona International Speedway this Friday.