Bask In The Glory Of The Finest Endurance Racing Weekend In America There is one weekend in the United States where you can see the cars from Le Mans up close and in person, and we’re there. Between the World Endurance Championship and a boatload of IMSA’s sportscar series, there are so many rad cars here that it Read more ... ’s easy to just lose yourself in the madness.

IMSA Drops Its Sketchiest Open-Cockpit Cars The pro-am Prototype Challenge class will spin off track for good in 2018, per IMSA. A series of changes announced today will leave the WeatherTech Sportscar Championship with only three classes and IMSA with only one open-cockpit car still racing in Read more ... all seven of their series.

Corvette Racing Claims 100th Win For The Glory Of The American V8 Is there any happier sight than a grown man high-fiving the Michelin mascot? Corvette Racing made history with not only their 100th win as a team over the weekend, but their 60th 1-2 finish, largely by staying out of trouble during the contact-heavy Read more ... WeatherTech Sportscar Championship race at Lime Ro...

How (And Why) American Sportscar Racing Teams Are Intentionally Slowing Down Sandbagging has come up a lot in sportscar racing lately. Every team got busted for sandbagging before the 24 Hours of Daytona, and at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Ford GT and Ferrari 488 didn’t show their true pace before qualifying. How do teams Read more ... trick officials into thinking cars are slower than t...

Lego Is The Best Way To Show How Your Racing Team Will Win In 2016 Magnus Racing, the perennial pranksters of the IMSA paddock, are back in the WeatherTech Sportscar Championship with an all-new car. So they’ve made another clever video for the start of the season—this time in Lego, and with appearances from var Read more ... ious drivers as well as last year’s Ballast Possum (RI…

Report: Alfa Romeo Could Field The Best Sounding Prototype In American Sportscar Racing Alfa Romeo wants to expand its brand in the United States, so what better way than through sportscar racing? According to Racer, multiple sources claim that Alfa has met with IMSA officials about joining in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s Read more ... revised P2 class after the 2017 rules go into effect.

Holy Crap, The Last Lap Of The United SportsCar Race Was Chaos On Chaos Today’s United SportsCar race at Road America was insanity from start to finish, but one lap stood heads, tails and balls above the rest: the last one. Jörg Bergmeister and Pierre Kaffer were side-by-side battling for second place, and the PC lead Read more ... er disappeared from TV while the guy who was second took the win.

IMSA Vows To Bring More Eyeballs To Vintage Racing Vintage racing has long been the province of lovable misfits who are into old cars, but now at least the Classic 24 at Daytona has a bit more weight behind it. IMSA—the same sanctioning body that hosts United SportsCar and a zillion support seriesâ Read more ... €”just teamed up to present the Classic 24 at Daytona.

Bye, Bye, Diesel: Mazda's United SportsCar Prototype Is Getting Gassy We loved the Mazda6 Diesel race car that started off in Grand Am’s class for alternative fuels. It’s a diesel! So weird and quirky! Yeah! We even loved hearing that the diesel engine would live on in a United SportsCar P2 prototype. Unfortunately Read more ... , that P2 has just been slow, so it’s time for a gas-p…

Bentley Is Downright Giddy About Racing A Daytona Prototype Anyone who just heard the interview with the Bentley pits on the Nürburgring 24 Hours broadcast heard a strange emotion out of the very British team: giddiness. Not only do they expect Daytona Prototypes to stick around in Tudor United SportsCar, th Read more ... ey’re really excited about running one.