Category: IMSA

High Class Racing is ready for the second season in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The Danish LMP2 team has once again teamed up with Dennis Andersen as a full-season driver. The Dane has been racing their LMP2 cars since 2017, when the team first entered the European Le Mans Series. He has also been a part of the 24 Hours of Le Mans with the team. They have also done a full FIA WEC season. He will be sharing the car with Ed Jones throughout the full 2023 season.…

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Inception Racing is ready for a full season of IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship racing in 2023. The British team has had starts in the American sportscar series before, but this will be the first time, that the McLaren team will do a full season. The season starts at Daytona with the 24 hours race, with Brendan Iribe, Ollie Millroy and Frederik Schandorff once again sharing the car. They will get some help from Marvin Kirchhöfer for that single race. Millroy will help out at the other three endurance rounds – Sebring,…

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Tower Motorsport will run the Rolex 24 at Daytona 2023 with some very interesting names behind the wheel. Tower is John Farano, and he has previously had success in the European Le Mans Series, where he won the LMP3 title in 2018. He went on to race in LMP2 at the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2019. He won the LMP2 Championship in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship 2022. He has managed to sign not only one but two Team Penske drivers. Scott McLaughlin and Josef Newgarden will be sharing the ORECA…

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Pfaff Motorsports will enter the GTD Pro category in the 2023 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with an all-European line-up. The Canadian team has once again received Porsche drivers of the very best quality, just like they had in 2022, where Frenchman Mathieu Jaminet and Aussie racer Matt Campbell secured the GTD Pro title – following their GTD title won in 2021 by Belgian Laurens Vanthoor and Canadian Zacherie Robichon. The Porsche wending machine anno 2023 has chosen Frenchman Patrick Pilet and Austrian Klaus Bachler for the task, while Laurens Vanthoor will…

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Cadillac has got all their drivers sorted for the 2023 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Action Express Racing will run Pipo Derani and Alexander Sims for the full season, while Jack Aitken will help them out at the endurance rounds. That will be a brand new taste for the young Brit, who has previous sportscar racing experience. He raced the 2022 season for Racing Team Turkey in the European Le Mans Series, and has GT3 experience on his CV as well. And oh yeah – he has a single Formula 1…

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Wright Motorsports has made a new partnership with VOLT Racing for the upcoming IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. The two worked together in 2022 in Michelin Pilot Challenge, which is a step just below IWSC. VOLT Racing will step into the big scene in 2023, where Alan Brynjolfsson and Trent Hindman will share the brand new Porsche 992 spec 911 GT3 R car in the GTD category. The team haven’t announced their two extra drivers for the endurance opener at Daytona, nor the single endurance driver for Sebring, Watkins Glen and…

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IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship has chosen to change the format of qualifying for the Rolex 24 at Daytona 2023. The series will go back to a regular qualifying session for the 24 hours race, after having tried to run a qualifying race for the past two years. The 2021 and 2022 editions both had a qualifying, which decided the starting grid for the 100 minutes qualifying race. All that happened during the ROAR test, on the weekend prior to the 24 hours race itself. The result of the qualifying race,…

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Racing Team Turkey will enter the Rolex 24 at Daytona in January 2023. The Turkish team, which is run by TF Sport, will enter an LMP2 in the 24 hours classic, for the very first time. TF Sport has previously entered the 24 hours race with a GT car, and will do so again in 2023, but they haven’t done a long run with an LMP2 car on the oval circuit, with the twisty infield. It will be a mix of well-known drivers, and two who have never worn the…

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Colin Braun has become a new full-season driver at Meyer Shank Racing in the 2023 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Braun has previously raced for the team back in 2009, and once again in 2013. The 34-year-old American has been associated with CORE autosport for many years, where he was teamed up with Jon Bennett, with whom he won the LMC titles in 2014 and 2015, in addition to an LMP3 Championship in 2022. In addition to the less powerful LMC and LMP3 cars, his peak years were 2018 and 2019, where…

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TDS Racing has announced the drivers next to Steven Thomas in the upcoming IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship 2023 at the endurance rounds American Thomas moves over from PR1 Mathiasen Motorsport, which he drove for in the 2022 season. He met two drivers, who were racing car #52, and have won the Michelin Endurance Cup for the past two seasons. The names are Mikkel Jensen and Scott Huffaker. They were paired up with Ben Keating, and the Dane and the American have been almost untouchable when the car ran without issues,…

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Meyer Shank Racing will run three of the defending Rolex 24 at Daytona Champions, when the team starts 2023 at the very same track. Helio Castroneves and Simon Pagenaud plus Tom Blomqvist are all confirmed for the classic race. The MSR team won the 24 hours race back in January 2023, where Castroneves, Pagenaud and Blomqvist were joined by Oliver Jarvis as the fourth driver. The Englishman is not yet confirmed for the team, which could be related to the date clashes with the FIA World Endurance Championship schedule for…

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TDS Racing has confirmed, that they will enter at least two cars in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship 2023. The French outfit has been part of the very best LMP2 teams for the past many years, and has run several teams under other names as well, like Racing Team Nederland and G-Drive Racing. The team has confirmed that Francois Heriau will be driving one of the cars, while Steven Thomas will drive the other car. Heriau was active in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Ultimate this season – which…

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BMW M Motorsport has announced two more drivers for their upcoming GTP programme in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Sheldon van der Linde and Marco Wittmann will be the third drivers on the two brand new BMW M Hybrid V8 cars, which will run at the 24 Hours of Daytona in January, and at the 12 Hours of Sebring in March. It’s not yet announced who will race in cars #24 and #25 respectively. Full-season pairings Connor Di Phillippi and Nick Yelloly in one car, and Augusto Farfus and Philipp…

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Wayne Taylor Racing has announced their drivers for the 2023 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque will continue onboard the Konica Minolta-sponsored Acura ARX-06, which is the brand new LMDh car from Acura. They need some additional drivers for the endurance rounds. Brendon Hartley will assist at the Rolex 24 at Daytona only, with him being busy in the FIA World Endurance Championship for the remainder of the season. Hartley made his race debut with the team at Petit Le Mans last weekend, and kept the…

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