Korean manufacturer Genesis is still holding off on making a firm decision on the timing of its planned entry into the GTP class of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with the GMR-001 LMDh prototype. Speaking to DSC today ahead of the team’s highly-anticipated debut at the Le Mans 24 Hours, programme boss Cyril Abiteboul explained […]
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When many IMSA GTD Pro contenders lost their composure late Saturday afternoon in the Detroit Sports Car Classic, Pfaff Motorsports capitalised on their mistakes to take the Lamborghini Temerario GT3’s first-ever podium finish in worldwide competition. Andrea Caldarelli and Sandy Mitchell went from the back of the ten-car GTD Pro grid to finish second in […]
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For two days on the streets of downtown Detroit, the red #31 Cadillac Whelen V-Series.R was the fastest car in IMSA GTP from the moment it rolled out of its transporter on Thursday. And after finally kicking down the door to its first win of the 2026 season, Action Express Racing, Jack Aitken, and Earl […]
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The #3 Pratt Miller Corvette celebrated a dominant victory in the shadow of GM’s old headquarters here in Detroit on Saturday evening. On home soil, the Chevrolet squad handily converted pole position into victory, leading all but three laps in the 79-lap race, completing a sweep of class wins for GM, led by the #31 […]
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After four podium finishes to open 2026, but no trips to the top step, Jack Aitken and Earl Bamber finally drove their #31 Cadillac Whelen V-Series.R to victory in Saturday’s IMSA Chevrolet Sports Car Classic in Detroit. It was a commanding victory for the Action Express Racing duo, who headlined a double GM victory at […]
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With its FIA World Endurance Championship Hypercar debut coming next year, Ford Racing has held steadfast to its target of bringing its upcoming LMDh prototype to IMSA no earlier than 2028, even as a one-off entry at that year’s Rolex 24 At Daytona. That’s according to Mark Rushbrook, the Global Director of Ford Racing, who […]
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For Ford Racing, the Detroit Grand Prix is a kind of homecoming. Just under 15 miles from the recently revamped Ford headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, the Ford Mustang GT3 EVO Coyote V8 engines rumble through the streets of Motor City in front of thousands of hometown fans. Coming into the manufacturer’s home race, factory drivers […]
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All 21 cars took part in a 20-minute pre-race practice session before today’s IMSA Chevrolet Detroit Sports Car Classic. A morning warm-up in all but name, all 20 minutes went by with no major incidents, setting the stage for today’s 100-minute race starting at 4:10 PM ET (local time), with live streaming coverage in over […]
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Jonathan Grace previews the Chevrolet Detroit Sports Car Classic as the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship gears up for its second 100-minute sprint race of the season. GTP and GTD Pro Classes were topped by American brands after qualifying in the Motor City.
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In Memoriam: Lee Driggers News reached us yesterday that Lee Driggers, an ever present in the IMSA, and prior to that ALMS community during DSC’s era had passed away earlier this month. Lee’s creation, IMSA Pit Notes, rapidly became a staple in unpicking some of the key details in any and all IMSA competition. Its […]
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GM brands will start on both class pole positions in tomorrow’s Chevrolet Sports Car Classic in Detroit, led by the GTP pole-winning #31 Cadillac Whelen V-Series.R of Jack Aitken and Earl Bamber. Aitken won the pole in the red #31 Cadillac at Sebring, but this time Bamber took the wheel for Qualifying and set a […]
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Cadillac Whelen and Corvette Racing remain the teams to beat in practice for the IMSA Chevrolet Sports Car Classic in Detroit, to the delight of the GM representatives in front of their worldwide headquarters. Early on, Sheldon van der Linde led the way in the #24 BMW M Team WRT Hybrid V8. His time of […]
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On-track action at the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix kicked off with the first IMSA free practice session of the day, with GM cars leading both classes in the first 90-minute session. In GTP, Earl Bamber led the way in the red #31 Cadillac Whelen V-Series.R, posting a best lap of 1:07.182 about 30 minutes after […]
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The newest episode of IMSA: Win the Weekend Presented by Michelin has recently been published to the official IMSA YouTube channel, where you can also watch all previous episodes of IMSA’s all-access documentary series. Front and centre in this look back at the Monterey SportsCar Championship is the incredible finish in GTP between Cadillac Whelen’s […]
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United Autosports has become the first team to declare which chassis supplier it will partner with for the next generation of LMP2, starting in 2028. The Wakefield-based team made the decision during this year’s ELMS meeting at Paul Ricard to continue its partnership with ORECA, which it has competed with in the current LMP2 era […]
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One driver set to compete at the Detroit Grand Prix has a chance to complete a full set of victories at every current track the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship races: Nick Tandy. The Briton, who’s shifted class this year from GTP to GTD Pro and now competes in the fan-favourite #77 AO Racing Porsche 911 […]
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It’s been more than a month since the seismic announcement that Acura and Honda Racing Corporation USA (HRC US) would put the factory Acura ARX-06 programme on hiatus at the conclusion of the 2026 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Meyer Shank Racing has run both factory Acuras in GTP since 2025, and even before then, has […]
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The motor racing community has been devastated by the news that two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch has died Thursday from a sudden, undisclosed illness at just 41 years old. Busch was competing in his 22nd season in NASCAR’s top flight, where he won the 2015 and 2019 Cup Series championships, and collected 63 […]
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The 2026 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season continues next week at the Chevrolet Sports Car Classic, taking place as part of the Detroit Grand Prix weekend on Saturday, 30 May. It’s the second of two 100-minute street races, featuring 11 entries in GTP, and 10 entries in GTD Pro for a total of 21 cars. […]
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Beyond the talk last weekend of the prospect of F1 star Max Verstappen joining Ford’s Hypercar programme in the future, DSC spoke with Mark Rushbrook, the global director of Ford Racing, about the potential for additional crossovers between the Blue Oval’s NASCAR and endurance programmes in the coming years. The natural fit for this would […]
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It’s the tenth anniversary of the first ever Marshall Pruett Podcast with Mario Andretti the first interviewee in a now near 1700 episode catalogue. Sadly Mario wasn’t available to join Graham Goodwin and Stephen Kilbey in a holiday chalet in Malmedy to discuss the FIA WEC this weekend but we pressed on anyway with a […]
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Vasser Sullivan Racing will enter its two Lexus RC F GT3s in the upcoming Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix, including the #15 car headlined by reigning Australian Supercars Champion Chaz Mostert. Mostert will share the #15 Lexus with Aaron Telitz, who won GTD at the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach in April and currently sits […]
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Porsche has announced that factory driver Laurin Heinrich will become a full-time driver for Team Porsche Penske Motorsport in IMSA GTP next year. The 24-year-old, who is currently juggling roles with Penske at the Endurance Cup rounds and the Sprint races with JDC-Miller in IMSA, will contest all rounds of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship aboard […]
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Jonathan Grace looks back at the StubHub Monterey SportsCar Championship weekend at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. A maiden JDC Miller GTP victory, throwback liveries, community events, a tribute to Alex Zanardi, and more.
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Sunday’s IMSA race at Laguna Seca was a tale of two very different races for Wayne Taylor Racing. In GTP, it was another tough, bruising outing for the team’s pair of Cadillac V-Series.Rs, which team owner Wayne Taylor described as “unacceptable” post-race, with the #10 retiring and the #40 finishing 10th. GTD, though, was a […]
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Three years ago at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, JDC-Miller MotorSports debuted its then-new Porsche 963, the first customer car to race in IMSA’s new-age GTP category. How fitting that on the anniversary of JDC-Miller’s arrival into the new age of premier class prototype racing, the only remaining privateer in premier-class prototype racing would take an […]
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A weekend at Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca that saw three steps on the Mustang racing ladder in action was topped on Sunday by a famous first global win for the new-for-2026 Evo version of the Ford Mustang GT3. The #65 Ford Racing Mustang GT3 took victory in the always hotly contested GTD PRO class of […]
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In the biggest upset of the current IMSA GTP era, Porsche privateer JDC-Miller MotorSports scored a dramatic, last-lap victory in the Monterey SportsCar Championship as Porsche factory ace Laurin Heinrich and co-driver Tijmen van der Helm went from the back of the grid to the front of the field, and scored the team’s first win […]
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Louis Delètraz and Wayne Taylor Racing each picked up their first IMSA pole positions since 2014: Delètraz won the pole at Watkins Glen that year, and Filipe Albuquerque qualified ‘P1’ in Road America the following round. It was the first pole since WTR switched from Acura to Cadillac in 2025. The team’s struggles to return […]
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