Category: IMSA

IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship has chosen to no longer run the LMP3 category, once the 2023 season ends. The category was introduced in the American series for the 2021 series, where the numbers in DPi, LMP2, GTLM and GTD were getting smaller and smaller. That has changed now, with major increases in all categories – especially the GTP category, where an excess of 10 competitors is expected for the full season entry. The LMP3 category has usually delivered just shy of 10 cars, on the race weekends where the cars…

There will be a new car on the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship grid for the 2024 season. A new collaboration between Wayne Taylor Racing and Andretti Autosport was announced earlier this year, in regards to their sportscar programmes. In 2023, they would continue to run separate programmes. WTR currently competes with the Acura ARX-06 LMDh car, plus a GTD programme at the four Michelin Endurance Cup rounds, while Andretti Autosport has two programmes, where they compete with an LMP3 car for the longer races, and a GTD programme for the…

JDC-Miller Motorsports has announced the two drivers, who will debut in their brand-new Porsche 963 in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. It will super-experienced Mike Rockenfeller and the young talent Tijmen van der Helm, who will make his racing debut at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on 14 May 2023. The team was announced as one of the very first privateer Porsche teams back in 2022, but it quickly became clear, that the delivery dates of the new race cars, would be somewhere around late spring, no matter what privateer outfit…

Meyer Shank Racing has been caught cheating during the Rolex 24 at Daytona 2023. The team has been found to have manipulated the data from the tire pressure sensors on the car, so it would appear to be running higher tire pressures than they actually were. The manipulation was also influencing the live data link, which is sent directly to the IMSA, and to all the data stored on the memory card in the cars, which IMSA demands to be physically handed over several times during the 24-hour race. The…

Proton Competition has announced their LMP2 team for the upcoming European Le Mans Series season. Proton Competition is usually associated with GTE racing, but from 2023 onwards, they will be active in prototype racing too. It was announced a couple of months ago, that they have managed to secure one of the brand new Porsche 963 LMDh cars, which they will run in the FIA World Endurance Championship, with Gianmaria Bruni as the first announced driver. Bruni will also be part of the LMP2 outfit in ELMS, where he will…

The defending FIA World Championship winner in LMP2 Pro/Aam, Francois Perrodo, will compete in the Rolex 24 at Daytona 2023 with three very strong teammates. Perrodo will bring his Championship winning teammate from the previous three seasons, Nicklas Nielsen, with him. Nielsen is a Ferrari works driver, and part of their new Hypercar programme in the FIA WEC. Nielsen got his Ferrari breakthrough in GT racing, but moved into LMP2 for 2022, as a warm-up for Hypercar. Matthieu Vaxiviere has previously raced together with Perrodo, when he did LMP2 back…

Magnus Racing with Flex-Box has sorted out their four drivers for the Rolex 24 at Daytona, which will be run in just over three weeks’ time. John Potter, Andy Lally and Spencer Pumpelly will be sharing the car at the four Michelin Endurance Cup rounds of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, just like they did in 2022. The three regular drivers will be joined by a fourth in the Aston Martin Vantage GT3 for the 24 hours race at Daytona, who is no less than a World Champion. Nicki Thiim…

Rick Ware Racing has announced their drivers for the upcoming 2023 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. The two full-season drivers will be Eric Lux and Pietro Fittipaldi, who will do all of the races with the ORECA 07 Gibson LMP2 car #51. Lux has participated in the Daytona 24 hours race 12 times before, and is the defending winner of the race, having raced for DragonSpeed USA. This will be the first time that Fittipaldi will be racing at the event. Several members of his family have already won there,…

Iron Lynx has announced their drivers for the 24 hours of Daytona. The Italian team has moved from the Italian Ferrari brand, to their fellow countrymen at Lamborghini. Car #19 will be shared by Claudio Schiavoni, Rolf Ineichen, Franck Perera and Raffaele Giammaria. Car #63 will have Romain Grosjean, Mirko Bortolotti, Andrea Caldarelli and Jordan Pepper sharing the Huracan GT3 EVO 2, while the Iron Dames #83 will consist of well-known Rahel Frey, Michelle Gatting, Doriane Pin and Sarah Bovy, who won the Spa 24 Hours in 2022. Iron Lynx…

Gradient Racing will enter the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2023, with two new drivers to the team. Sheena Monk and Katherine Legge will be the two drivers, racing the white and green Acura NSX GT3 Evo22 in all the IMSA rounds in the GTD category. They will be joined at the opening round at Daytona by Mario Farnbacher and Marc Miller. This will be the first full season for Gradient Racing. They have slowly added more and more races to their programme, making the very grand step now. Monk…

Wayne Taylor Racing and Andretti Autosport have started a brand new collaboration in the sportscar world. The two teams will work together in the coming IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship seasons, as well as in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America, in which WTR has been active for several years. The team will run under the Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport banner, regarding the Konica Minolta-sponsored Acura ARX-06 #10 LMDh car, while Harrison Contracting Company Acura NSX #93 will run in the GTD category at the 24 Hours of Daytona…

Era Motorsport will do another season of IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship racing. The team from Indianapolis will start their fourth season in LMP2 racing with a well-known full-season lineup. That will be Dwight Merriman and Ryan Dalziel who will race the blue car #18 throughout the 7 race weekends. The season starts with the 24 hours race at Daytona International Speedway, and they have once again decided to call up Christian Rasmussen. The Dane made his debut for the team at the 2022 final at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta this…

PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports will once again have Ben Keating behind the wheel at the four IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Michelin Endurance Cup rounds. The Texan racer is double defending MEC Championship in the LMP2 category, in addition to the overall LMP2 Championship in the 2021 season, and has chosen to combine these four IMSA rounds with his FIA WEC programme for Corvette Racing in GTE Am. He will however be teamed up with two brand-new teammates throughout the 2023 MEC season. Scott Huffaker and Mikkel Jensen have moved on to…