Acura Team Penske’s Dane Cameron was fastest overall in IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship practice Friday (June 28) at Watkins Glen International. Cameron’s lap at 135.978 mph in Practice No. 2 is more than two seconds faster than last year’s pole speed. Practice No. 1 Mazda Team Joest’s Harry Tincknell was fastest overall in the first …
Acura Team Penske’s Dane Cameron was able to get himself to the lead early Sunday (May 5) at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Once Juan Pablo Montoya got in the car, he spent much of the second half of the race battling with Mazda Team Joest’s Tristan Nunez. Montoya pulled away over the final 25 minutes …
Acura Team Penske’s Dane Cameron won the overall pole position Friday morning (March 15) for Saturday’s Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring presented by Advance Auto Parts. Cameron’s pole lap is an IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship track record for Sebring International Raceway. Cameron’s pole winning lap was at 127.180 mph, the fastest IMSA lap of …
Mazda Team Joest’s Olivier Pla was fastest overall in IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship practice Thursday (March 14) at Sebring International Raceway. Pla’s lap of 126.027 mph is an unofficial IMSA track record for the current configuration. Practice No. 1 In the morning practice session, Action Express Racing’s Felipe Nasr was fastest overall in his Cadillac …
Mazda Team Joest continued Saturday (Jan. 5) to show that they have a lot of speed in their Mazda RT24-P. Jonathan Bomarito turned in the fastest lap of the day during the night session with a lap at 135.571 mph. The lap is less than seven-tenths of a second off of the all-time track record, …
PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports announced Wednesday (Dec. 19) that the team will field their ORECA 07-Gibson for Matt McMurry and Gabriel Aubry full-time in the LMP2 class in 2019. The two youngsters will replace Sebastian Saavedra and Gustavo Yacaman as the team’s full-time drivers. The announcement creates the youngest full-time Prototype lineup in the prototype classes …
For Saturday’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear. 26 cars are currently entered in the Prototype and GT Daytona classes. GT Le Mans teams have the weekend off, partially because the weekend is a partial clash with the Le Mans Test Day. In the Prototype class, there are 14 cars …
The Prototype class saw a number of teams fall victim to cut tires. Wayne Taylor Racing’s No. 10, Action Express Racing’s No. 31 and Tequila Patron ESM’s No. 22 are just three examples of teams that cut right rear tires. That led teams to believe that the tires were just not up to the challenges …
On Friday afternoon, Spirit of Daytona Racing (formerly Visit Florida Racing) announced that they will switch from the Ligier JS P217-Gibson (pictured above) to a Cadillac DPi-V.R. for the 2018 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. In addition, the team will have an all-new driver lineup. The No. 90 Cadillac will be driven full-time by Matt …
Through one-quarter of the Rolex 24 at Daytona, it has been all Cadillac, all the time. The three Cadillac DPi-V.R.’s have been fast all weekend, but they appear to have kicked it up a notch for the race. All three of the Cadillacs have turned laps faster than Joao Barbosa‘s overall pole-winning time from Thursday …
On Monday, IMSA held the WeatherTech Night of Champions at the Georgia Aquarium, where the champions were crowned. However, before trophies could be award, champions feted and even before Vanessa Carlton could perform, IMSA released revised results for Saturday’s Petit Le Mans presented by Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. Normally, this is just a formality, but …
On Tuesday, BAR1 Motorsports announced that they will be fielding two cars for the upcoming IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s Continental Tire Road Race Showcase at Road America on Aug. 7. Matt McMurry, who drove the team’s No. 20 at Lime Rock Park, will remain in the car. He will be joined by veteran Bruno Junqueira. …
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