The motorsport community lost a true pioneer today. Don Panoz, IMSA Vice President, racing impresario and innovator of speed, has died at 83, according to multiple news reports.
For the third Prototype class battle in a row the race has been won by a non-factory LMP2 entry with a properly pro-am driver combo at the wheel. For the second time in a row, that winner has been the CORE Autosport pairing of Colin Braun and Jon Bennett. This comes just days after IMSA announced that they would…
The Powers That Be of the IMSA series announced on Friday afternoon that they’re going to be making some big changes to the way they’re going to be formatting the series for 2019. They used some fancy words and a big press release to announce it, but the skinny of it is: faster cars, more classes, and some changes to…
So the 24 Hours of Le Mans wasn’t exactly a thriller this year. It happens. Let Fernando Alonso have his moment, he deserves nice things too. But! The case could be made that the best sports car racing in the world is happening in America right now, and this weekend’s IMSA Six Hours of The Glen was further proof of…
Unlike the boring and processional Le Mans 24 from two weeks ago, IMSA’s 6 Hours of The Glen race was a fight for the lead in all three classes for the full run time of the race. In what turned out to be an incredibly hot New York day with track temperatures reaching well into the triple digits, this was a taxing day…
Racing the 24 Hours of Le Mans is such a monolithic effort that just getting to the starting grid is a challenge. That was especially true for Core Autosport this year, which had to pretty much start over at the last minute after one of its cars got wrecked in qualifying.
It was the black and green ESM Nissan of Pipo Derani that swept to the pole in qualifying yesterday, but it was the Cadillacs back on top after a short street-course back and forth battle with Acura. This race, again, showed that IMSA is the greatest series for sports cars in the world right now, and if you didn’t…
In stark juxtaposition to the incredibly meh 6 Hours of Spa on Saturday, this afternoon’s IMSA race provided infinitely more on-track action in less than half the time. The race held battles in all three categories, ultimately ending with a maiden victory for Acura in the prototype category, Porsche’s second win of…
I’m in moving this week, which means I must physically wrestle all the junk that I have no idea why I kept. I don’t need more stuff. I need to rid myself of stuff. But I will make an exception if you buy me this championship-winning Cadillac DPi-V.R for my birthday. I don’t have one of those, and it’s for sale!
Fox Sports has been the bane of endurance fans’ existence for its bizarre channel changes and banishing races to deep-cable channel Fox Sports 2. Now that’s changing. The World Endurance Championship moved from Fox to Velocity this year, and now IMSA announced they’re moving to NBC Sports in 2019. Now you might be…
Proving that it’s not just fast in Florida, the Cadillac DPi-V.R of Mustang Sampling Racing dominated the Streets of Long Beach course, and took the overall win in front of the Tequila Patron ESM Nissan and Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac.
Long Beach, California has played host to a massive racing weekend, now known as the Toyota Long Beach Grand Prix. For 44 years, they’ve had a mix of F1, Indy, IMSA, World Challenge, and Stadium Super Trucks battling on the city street course.
I really hate discussing Balance of Performance in motorsport, but it’s a fact of life these days, and it’s an integral part of the endurance racing subject. BOP is effectively the means by which the series officials try to level the field on lap time; adding ballast, adjusting pit stop refueling times, and fitting…
The No. 22 Tequila Patrón ESM team felt untouchable in the last moments of today’s 12 Hours of Sebring with known madman and 2016 Sebring winner Pipo Derani driving their car to a win. Yet it was last year’s winners Wayne Taylor Racing who stole the show at the end. Team owner Wayne Taylor was so excited that they…
Even though it’s all tightly regulated under the GTE race car spec, Porsche really doesn’t like to show off the rear end of its mid-engine 911 RSR race car. Fortunately, all it took to get a good look today was driver Gianmaria Bruni running the No. 912 Porsche wide off one of Sebring’s curbs, ripping the rear…
Here in America, we’re annoyingly used to advertisements breaking up the racing action on television, but this caution-causing ad smack that happened in the 12 Hours of Sebring is a next-level nuisance. IMSA loves to put physical trackside ads out for its races, which the drivers sometimes like to collect like…
Welcome to Sebring! The field didn’t make it through the first corner before the front runners ran into each other. Then just 20 minutes in, there was a rollover, making this race about a wild as you would expect from the land of the Florida Man.
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The fastest ever year of the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship’s fastest Prototype class continues, this time, with a new Prototype class lap record at the 12 Hours of Sebring. Tristan Vautier will start Sebring out in front after claiming pole position with a 1:47.432 lap time in the No. 90 Spirit of Daytona…
One of America’s most infamous endurance races is this Saturday: the 12 Hours of Sebring. It’s half as long as the Rolex 24 but just as crazy; run on a former airstrip-turned-race track that’s so bumpy that teams use it for shakedown tests (and we do mean “shake”). Here’s our guide to what’s important and how to…
