Author: Jens Jensen

Heart of Racing team returns to the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2021. The American Aston Martin team continues with their Vantage GT3, in an almost unchanged line-up from 2020. Ian James and Roman DeAngelis will once again be the full-season drivers, while they are going to be joined by the two Aston Martin factory drivers Darren Turner and Ross Gunn for the Rolex 24 at Daytona. Heart Of Racing Team #23 Photo Courtesy of IMSA / Richard DoleThe team made its IMSA series debut at Daytona last year, where…

High Class Racing will enter a mixed European line-up for their Rolex 24 at Daytona entry later this month. Anders Fjordbach and Dennis Andersen will continue their LMP2 collaboration from the European Le Mans Series, over the last four years. The Danish pairing will be joined by Ferdinand Habsburg, who has DTM experience, as well as Daytona experience, from his previous outing with United Autosports. Last but not least, the former Formula 1 driver, Robert Kubica will be part of the team. Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN has given him a…

There will be a Porsche in GTLM in the 2021 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTLM category. Privateers WeatherTech Racing has struck a deal with Proton Competition about the running of a Porsche 911 RSR. Proton Competition has bought the two GTLM cars, that Porsche raced in the GTLM category throughout the 2020 season, so the cars are already in the US. Cooper MacNeil will move up from the GTD category, where he has raced through the past seasons, where he worked together with the Ferrari team Scuderia Corsa. He has…

Rick Ware Racing Eurasia has two more drivers for the Rolex 24 at Daytona, which will be run in the last weekend in January. The American Rick Ware Racing has started a collaboration with Philippines team Eurasia, for running an LMP2 entry at the 24-hour race, where the defending Asian Le Mans Series LMP2-Am Champion Cody Ware was announced as their first driver, a few weeks ago. He will be joined by Salih Yoluc, who we primarily know from the GTE Am category in the FIA World Endurance Championship, and…

Scuderia Corsa will to their roots for the 2021 edition of the Rolex 24 at Daytona. They have been racing under the WeatherTech Racing banner for the previous three seasons, in the white colours of the main sponsor. They will return to the classic red colours once again, with car number 63 on the Ferrari 488 GT3, just like they had in 2016 and 2017, where they won the championship two years in a row with Christina Nielsen and Alessandro Balzan. The programme is only confirmed for Daytona, and doesn’t…

Team TGM will enter the Rolex 24 at Daytona, which will be run next month at Daytona International Speedway. The American team has only been active in the Michelin Pilot Challenge, which they won in 2019, but wants to try running at an IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship round. They will be working together with Wright Motorsports, who has plenty of experience with Porsche GTD cars, finishing second in the IMSA GTD championship in 2020. Ted Giovanis, the man behind Ted Giovanis Motorsports, chose to put the 2020 programme on pause,…

Risi Competizione will bring some of the very best drivers available, when the Daytona 24 hours runs next month. The Ferrari 488 GTE in GTLM category will consist of James Calado, Alessandro Pier Guidi, Davide Rigon plus Jules Gounon. Calado and Pier Guidi has previously won Petit Le Mans in 2019, when they raced for the Risi team. They also won the 24 Hours of Le Mans together for AF Corse in the summer of 2019, and was crowned FIA WEC World Champions 2018. Gounon was part of the Risi…

This article sums up various bits of IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship news, that has been released over the last few days. Wright Motorsport has announced, that they will return to IMSA for 2021 without any changes. Ryan Hardwick will once again share the blue Porsche 911 GT3 R with works driver Patrick Long, while Jan Heylen will join them for the endurance races in the Michelin Endurance Cup. That trio ended the 2020 season by winning the Sebring 12 Hours in the GTD category. They were very close at grabbing…