Trending Sports Updates

Photo: Mustang Cup Australia GWR Australia has confirmed its driver for its first tilt at the Motorcraft Mustang Cup Australia, with production car ace Ben Kavich set to contest the final two rounds of the season at Sydney Motorsport Park and Sandown. The Garth Walden-run Sydney-based team has recruited Kavich, who will drive the No. 11 Team Thryv/Race For A Cure Mustang Dark Horse R. Kavich and GWR Australia are a familiar pairing, with Kavich, brother Michael and Supercars ace Thomas Randle claiming victory in this year’s Bathurst 6 Hour, driving the GWR-prepared BMW M2 Competition. Kavich has been a fixture of the Australian scene for close to 20 years, competing in V8 Utes and Production Cars and every Bathurst 6 Hour since its inception in 2016. The entry has support from small business marketing software provider Thryv, while the Kavichs’ own charity Race For A Cure will also be prominently featured on the Mustang. Race For A Cure is a charitable organisation fo...

Source: Sports Car 365

Photo: Porsche After 12 races and six weekends of racing from February to September, Porsche Sprint Challenge USA West by Yokohama celebrated its champions – and its fifth season of competition – on Sunday evening after the finale at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Four title-winners were recognized among the GT3 Cup Pro-Am and Masters classes, plus the same categories for the Cayman class, all of whom dedicated year-long efforts that led to success. Ely’s GT3 Cup Landslide; Hankins’ Narrow Triumph Laura Ely ran lightyears ahead of her GT3 Cup Masters competitors, winning the class championship by more than 200 points. Adding another season-long trophy to her collection – she was a Sprint Challenge USA West title-winner in 2022 – Ely won three of the final four races with Black Sheep Racing to secure the top spot. Combined with three victories earlier in the year, Ely’s season-ending total of 574 points made her the highest-scoring driver since Sprint Challenge USA West’s ince...

Photo: HRC US Current Honda Racing Corporation USA Vice President Kelvin Fu has been named as the company’s new president, replacing David Salters. Announced on Tuesday, Fu (pictured above, left), has long served in senior roles at HRC US, having initially joined the California-based motorsports arm of Honda in 2015, when it was known as Honda Performance Development, managing chassis design, aerodynamics and the performance engineering group. He was named director of programs in 2020 before being promoted to VP in 2021. Fu will begin his new position, succeeding Salters, on Sept. 16., who has taken a new job outside of motorsports in the technology startup sector. Salters  joined HPD in 2015 as chief engineer and engine technical leader before becoming technical director in 2019 and then president in 2020. During his tenure, Salters oversaw the development of the Acura ARX-06 LMDh car, launched in 2023, one year after Acura won the DPi manufacturer’s championship wit...

Photo: Kristof Vermeulen/MPS Agency Ralf Aron will make his European Le Mans Series debut in this weekend’s 4 Hours of Silverstone as several LMGT3 squads feature revised lineups amid the clashing Suzuka 1000km. The ELMS event will mark Aron’s latest outing after missing more than five months of the season having suffered two fractured vertebra in a crash during this year’s Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour in February. Aron enjoyed a triumphant comeback in the NLS7 contest around the Nordschleife in July and will now pilot the No. 62 Team Qatar by Iron Lynx Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo at Silverstone with team regular Maxime Martin racing at Suzuka. Others in action in Japan include Anders Fjordbach, with his place in the No. 54 High Class Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo being taken by GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS racer Benjamin Paque. Another new driver will also get to experience the No. 59 Racing Spirit of Leman Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo as Anthony McIntos...

Source: Sports Car 365

Photo: Charly López/DPPI Alpine driver Charles Milesi said he was “gutted” to miss out on Lone Star Le Mans glory, revealing a “big chunk of marbles” got stuck under the car and cost him when battling the victorious Ferrari. The No. 35 Alpine A424 Milesi shared with Ferdinand Habsburg and Antonio Felix da Costa was a frontrunner throughout the FIA World Endurance Championship contest at the Circuit of The Americas but ultimately had to settle for third place . Milesi had been running second behind the No. 7 Toyota TR010 Hybrid — which retired from the race in the final minutes with hydraulics woes — when the race resumed after a safety car period with 45 minutes remaining. But he lost the place to the No. 50 Ferrari 499P of Nicklas Nielsen at Turn 8 in the closing stages when contending with both the discarded tire rubber and LMGT3 traffic. A five-second penalty for an unsafe release from its pit box then meant the Alpine trio slipped behind the No. 38 Her...