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WTR and AXR partners up with Cadillac for 2025

Thursday September 5th, 2024Wednesday September 4th, 2024 Jens Jensen

Cadillac Racing has announced their two teams for the upcoming 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. It’s officially announced now, that there will be three official Cadillac V-Series.R for next season. Action Express Racing will continue with a single car, just like they have done for the past many seasons. Wayne Taylor Racing will return to the GM brand, with whom they were associated with for so many years, prior to becoming an Acura works team. The drivers for the there cars will be announced at a later stage, but it’s…

Gibson continues in LMP2

Saturday October 21st, 2023 Jens Jensen

The future for the LMP2 engines has been announced. It will once again be Gibson Technology, who will deliver the engines for the popular prototypes. The deal is for five more seasons, starting in 2026, and will be a 4,2 liter naturally aspirated 4,2 liter V8, just like the current GK428 engine is. This is an exclusive deal, just like the one that Gibson got in 2017, when the current generation of LMP2 cars were introduced. Prior to that, there was a free choice of engine manufacturer, as well as…

Hanley confirmed at UA

Tuesday October 17th, 2023 Jens Jensen

United Autosports has all six drivers signed for the upcoming IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship 2024 season. Ben Hanley has confimed as teammate to Ben Keating and Alex Quinn in one of the team’s cars. Hanley is already a well known face at UA, where he has been substitute throughout the 2023 season, when Filipe Albuquerque has been busy in the IMSA series. Hanley is one of the very best LMP2 drivers in the world, and he has been at a lot of teams, doing either full season driving, or as…

Pfaff switches brand

Tuesday October 10th, 2023Tuesday October 10th, 2023 Jens Jensen

Pfaff Motorsports has chosen to switch brand, when the 2023 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season is over. The team has been associated with Porsche, ever since they entered IWSC in 2019. They are however the official McLaren importer in Canada since 2012, including two dealerships in Toronto and Vancouver. So now they have chosen to switch to the British marque, to compete in the GTD Pro category with a single car in 2024. The team won the GTD title in 2021, and then moved up to the GTD Pro category,…

UA names three IMSA drivers

Thursday September 28th, 2023Sunday October 15th, 2023 Jens Jensen

United Autosports has named three drivers for the upcoming 2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. The British-American team will move across the Atlantic, to do a full IMSA season, after the LMP2 category in the FIA World Endurance Championship no longer will exist after 2023. Ben Keating and Alex Quinn were announced in the first car for the team about a month ago, but it has later turned out that Quinn will be the third driver on the car for the endurance rounds, and not a full-season teammate to Keating,…

IMSA moves WGI

Thursday September 7th, 2023Thursday September 7th, 2023 Jens Jensen

IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship has moved the date of the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen 2024. The new date will be 23 June, with the previous date clashing with the 24 hours race at Spa Francorchamps in Europe. That made several manufacturers very upset, with some of the drivers doing both the Belgian classic, in addition to the 6-hour race at Watkins Glen, north of New York. That will make it a super busy month for sportscar drivers in 2024. On 1-2 June there is 24 hours at the…

Keating and Quinn move to UA

Tuesday August 22nd, 2023 Jens Jensen

United Autosports has announced their first two drivers for their upcoming IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship programme in 2024. It’s none other than Ben Keating and Alex Quinn, who switches over from PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports. Keating and Quinn started working together at PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports in 2023, after his teammates from the two previous seasons, Scott Huffaker and Mikkel Jensen, were snatched by TDS Racing. United Autosports announced an LMP2 programme for the IMSA series, since the category will disappear from the FIA World Endurance Championship following the conclusion of the 2023…

Petit Le Mans with Newgarden and Vanthoor

Monday August 21st, 2023 Jens Jensen

Porsche Penske Motorsport has announced their three drivers for the years 10 hours race at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta – also known as Petit Le Mans. The team has had different third drivers for the endurance rounds this year. At Daytona and Sebring they were helped by the two FIA WEC drivers Dane Cameron and Michael Christensen in car #6 and #7 respectively. There is a change regarding those seats, so Nick Tandy/Mathieu Jaminet in car #6, and Matt Campbell/Felipe Nasr in car #7 will have Laurens Vanthoor and Josef Newgarden…

Button gets GTP debut at Petit Le Mans

Friday August 18th, 2023 Jens Jensen

Jenson Button is far from done with sportscar racing in 2023. The 2009 Formula 1 World Champion is not only making his IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship debut, but also in the GTP category, once the 2023 season finale will be run at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. Button has signed with JDC-Miller Motorsports, to race in their Porsche 963 together with Mike Rockenfeller and Tijmen van der Helm. The Brit was part of the Garage56 NASCAR project at Le Mans in June, where the team completed the race with only a few…

WTRAndretti announces four drivers

Thursday August 17th, 2023Thursday August 17th, 2023 Jens Jensen

Wayne Taylor Racing Andretti Autosport (WTRAndretti) has announced their four full-season drivers for the 2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. The team is currently competing with a single Acura ARX-06 GTP category, being run with Konica Minolta livery, with Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque as the full-season drivers, and will continue to be in 2024. That pairing is currently leading the standings, and has done quite well at the endurance rounds, where Louis Deletraz has been third driver for the team. He will get a huge pat on the back,…

Corvette Racing announces 2024 drivers

Thursday August 17th, 2023Thursday August 17th, 2023 Jens Jensen

Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports has announced their four full-season drivers for the 2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. Antonio Garcia is the only full-season IMSA driver from 2023, to stay with the team for 2024. But the three other drivers have been seen in the yellow race suits before. Nicky Catsburg has been a full-season driver in the FIA World Endurance Championship car this year, where he already has secured the GTE AM title alongside Nicolas Varrone and Ben Keating, with two rounds to go. Catsburg has also…

Changes at Whelen Engineering in 2024

Thursday August 17th, 2023Thursday August 17th, 2023 Jens Jensen

Whelen Engineering Cadillac #31 has made some changes to their driver line-up for the 2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. The team has opted to swap Alexander Sims in the full-time seat with Jack Aitken, who has been their endurance driver this year. Sims will be moving back to Corvette Racing, for which he has raced for in the past. Pipo Derani, Sims, and Aitken won the 12 Hours of Sebring in March this year, but haven’t had the best results this year otherwise. Having said that, we currently have…

Sean Creech confirms LMP2 programme

Tuesday July 18th, 2023Saturday July 22nd, 2023 Jens Jensen

Sean Creech Motorsports has confirmed their future plans in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. They are going to enter the LMP2 category, once the LMP3 category in the American series closes after this season. But the choice is not on the popular ORECA 07, which pretty much every team around the world uses. But the team has opted for a Ligier JS P217. They already know Ligier from running LMP3, and as the team points out in their press release, several of their mechanics already have LMP2 experience. The new…

Lamborghini shows new LMDh

Thursday July 13th, 2023Saturday July 15th, 2023 Jens Jensen

Lamborghini has shown their new LMDh car to the public for the first time. The physical presentation happened at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in Great Britain, on the 60-year anniversary of the very first car from the Italian brand. The car will be called SC63, consisting of Squadra Corse and (19)63 is the first year that their first car left the factory near Bologna. The team has already confirmed that they are going to participate in the full FIA World Endurance Championship in 2024, plus the four Michelin Endurance…

IE: The programmes almost ready for 2024

Sunday July 9th, 2023Sunday July 9th, 2023 Jens Jensen

Inter Europol Competition are really close to having the programmes for the 2024 season ready. The Polish team has been a long time member of the FIA World Endurance Championship and European Le Mans Series paddocks, while they have been a bit in and out of the Asian Le Mans Series, Michelin Le Mans Cup, Ligier European Series, and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. With the new rules in FIA WEC in 2024, with LMP2 no longer being a part of the series, the team has to move in other directions.…

Proton with WeatherTech livery in WEC and IMSA

Wednesday June 28th, 2023Wednesday June 28th, 2023 Jens Jensen

Proton Competition will once again run in WeatherTech colors, when the team makes their debut at the brand new Porsche 963 in the FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The German started working with WeatherTech in 201, where they would run the IMSA car, in addition to Cooper MacNeil in the European Le Mans Series, as a warm up for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. They moved away from the Porsche to a Mercedes AMG GT3 in the IMSA series instead, but the collaboration with Proton…

UA moves to full American season

Friday June 9th, 2023Friday June 9th, 2023 Jens Jensen

United Autosports has announced their overall plans for the 2024 season. The British-American team has been a part of the FIA World Endurance Championship for the past many seasons in the LMP2 category, but that category will disappear after the 2023 season, so their focus moves towards a full IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship campaign. They have only done selected races so far, including the Daytona 24 Hours and Sebring 12 Hours, but now they want to compete at all the rounds, that LMP2 cars are present at. The team will…

LMP2 no longer part of FIA WEC

Friday June 9th, 2023Friday June 9th, 2023 Jens Jensen

It has been rumoured for a long time, but it was made official today. The LMP2 category will no longer be part of the FIA World Endurance Championship, following the conclusion of the 2023 season. The category has been there from the very start of the championship back in 2012, and has been a platform for many drivers, to make a step up to the LMP1 or the current Hypercar category. The reason for the category to disappear is down to physical space for it in the FIA WEC. The…

Proton ready for both WEC and IMSA

Tuesday June 6th, 2023 Jens Jensen

Proton Competition is ready with their new Porsche 963, which they are going to race in both the FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The German team was very early to put in an order for the brand new LMDh car from Porsche, who will compete in the Hypercar category in the FIA WEC, and the GTP category in IMSA. The team will run with both Gianmaria Bruni and Harry Tincknell as the two drivers for both championships. A third driver will be announced for the FIA WEC…

Rexy goes to Le Mans

Wednesday May 24th, 2023 Jens Jensen

The 24 Hours of Le Mans often delivers some special liveries, that maybe, maybe not will only be seen once, and are instant iconic for the future. We saw that with the Pink Pig design at Porsche in 1971, which was revived for the 2018 race – and won the GTE pro category. Another design that has already become an instant classic is Rexy. It made its first appearance with AO Racing for the 12 hours of Sebring, and was immediately a favourite amongst the fans. Their Porsche 911 GT3…