On Wednesday, Turner Motorsport announced that they are downsizing their IMSA effort from two BMW M6 GT3’s to simply one entry, the No. 96. Jens Klingmann, who drove the No. 96 BMW M6 GT3 full-time last year, will return to the team for a second year. He was the only driver for the team to test …
On Friday morning, Magnus Racing announced that they will move over to Pirelli World Challenge for the full 2017 season. The team will also expand from one to two Audi R8 LMS GT3’s. Team owner John Potter will drive in the GTA class full-time in both the Sprint and Sprint-X events starting with the first …
For the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge teams in attendance, they were greeted with 35 degree temperatures on Sunday morning at Daytona International Speedway. Despite that, teams hit the track at 9 a.m. for the first of two one hour sessions. Session No. 5 In the early morning session, Multimatic Motorsports continued to develop their …
In Daytona Beach this time of year, the average high is 68 degrees with lows in the upper 40’s. On Sunday, temperatures barely got to the upper 40’s for highs. In addition, the winds kicked up out of the north to over 20 mph. As a result, a number of teams chose not to participate …
Saturday morning dawned quite chilly in Daytona Beach. Temperatures hovered around 35 degrees when teams arrived at the track for the third and final day of the Roar Before the 24. Some teams chose to do the bare minimum, thinking that they couldn’t learn all that much in the cold weather. Others put themselves out …
Once the sun went down in Daytona on Saturday night, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship teams went back on track for one more 90 minute session. The chilly temperatures (by Central Florida standards) forced most present to bundle themselves up. However, cool temperatures often mean that there is speed to be had. In the Prototypes, …
Much like the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge teams on hand in Daytona had to deal with inclement weather in the morning. Only 12 of the 31 teams in Daytona chose to even participate in Session No. 3, which started at 9 a.m. on a soaked track. For those who ventured …
Overnight thunderstorms and lingering rains made the early morning session No. 3 a complete toss-up for teams in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. A couple of stories did come out of the session. First, Continental’s rain tires are still not as good as Michelin’s, and the margins between the DPi and LMP2 Prototypes can change …
On Thursday, Risi Competizione announced that Toni Vilander and former Formula One racer Giancarlo Fisichella will return for the full season in the No. 62 Ferrari 488 GTE. For Daytona at minimum, Fisichella and Vilander will be joined by James Calado, a regular in the FIA World Endurance Championship for AF Corse. This is the same …
So far in the Roar Before the 24, it is a little difficult to figure out who has the speed in the Prototype class. In the first session, the LMP2-spec ORECA 07-Gibson of REBELLION Racing’s Neel Jani was quickest overall. In the second session, it was more of the same. Jani once again topped the …
In the second session for the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge at Daytona International Speedway, it was a familiar team on top of the charts. However, that familiar team has a new look. Multimatic Motorsports’ Jade Buford topped the charts for the session with a lap of 116.499 seconds (110.010 mph) in the team’s new …
Mid-morning on Friday, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship teams ventured out onto Daytona International Speedway’s road course for their first session of 2017. Unlike the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge session earlier, this one had some problems. Before those problems reared their head, REBELLION Racing’s Neel Jani set the fastest lap of the session (Note: REBELLION’s …
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