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Tasca Inherits Watkins Race 2 LB Cup Win After Bolduc Penalty

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Photo: Jamey Price/Lamborghini Christopher Tasca has been declared the LB Cup class winner in last weekend’s second Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America race at Watkins Glen, which was impacted by a red flag and race-ending full-course caution. Confirmed in the release of the provisional results on Wednesday morning , a ten-second post-race time penalty was added to the No. 99 Topp Racing Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo EVO2 of Rocky T Bolduc “for not maintaining the proper gap to the checker flag while under FCY.” Bolduc had initially won the race in class, despite having had a 0.207-second time penalty added to his car for having a short pit stop. The unofficial results confirmed there was an initially adjusted 0.871-second gap between Bolduc and the car directly in front of him, the Am class No. 57 XONINE Racing Lamborghini of Nick Goat, at the checkered flag under safety car conditions. Without the first penalty, it was a 1.078-second gap on the road. For ...

INSIGHT: How Goodyear is Building for the Future in WEC

Inside Goodyear's commitments to LMP2, LMGT3, future aspirations in ACO-rules racing... Source: Sports Car 365

Dumas: Le Mans Outing Important for RD Limited’s Growth

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Photo: Charly Lopez/DPPI Romain Dumas has described his eponymous RD Limited team’s first outing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans as “very important” but admitted uncertainty about the team’s short-term plans, as it continues to push for a European Le Mans Series berth. The two-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner made his first outing at the Circuit de la Sarthe as a driver since he last raced for Glickenhaus in 2023 as he shared RD’s No. 48 Oreca 07 Gibson with Tristian Vautier and Fred Poordad in LMP2 Pro-Am. It follows the team being selected to race in the FIA World Endurance Championship blue riband event off the back of its success in the Asian Le Mans Series, even if it missed out on earning an automatic invitation for winning that series’ LMP2 title. “For us it was very important to get this entry,” Dumas told Sportscar365. “We pushed hard for it and we are all very happy to be here, very proud. We were the only new team besides G...

Watch Full-Length Replays of Rounds 5 & 6 at Watkins Glen

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GT4 Australia Support Races Confirmed for Bathurst 12H

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Photo: SRO Next year’s Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour will include the opening rounds of Monochrome GT4 Australia for the first time, with the SRO Australia-run championship set to serve as a support series for the Intercontinental GT Challenge season opener. Confirmed in the release of the 2027 calendar at the annual SRO Motorsports Group press conference in Spa, GT4 Australia will bookend its season at Mount Panorama, with two confirmed rounds. As previously reported by Sportscar365 , a GT4 Australia undercard for the 12 Hour had been under evaluation by event promoter Supercars, as part of the its expansion to a four-day event for next year . There will be two 60-minute races, one each on Friday and Saturday of the weekend, while the season will end with an endurance race at Bathurst as part of the Shannon’s SpeedSeries package. “Every driver in the country looks forward to racing at Mount Panorama, so to have the most famous circuit in Australia feature o...

Yelloly, Deletraz to Return to LMP2 Action at Imola

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Photo: Laurent Cartalade/MPS Agency. IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship regulars Nick Yelloly and Louis Deletraz will return to European Le Mans Series action at Imola this weekend after a clash with Laguna Seca forced them to miss the previous Paul Ricard event. Yelloly will again team up with Tom Dillmann and Kuba Smiechowski at the wheel of the No. 43 Inter Europol Competition Oreca 07 Gibson in Italy fresh from the trio’s LMP2 class win in the 24 Hours of Le Mans earlier this month. Luca Ghiotto took the Briton’s place at Paul Ricard where the Inter Europol car finished seventh meaning it sits seventh in the overall championship, 24 points behind the No. 22 United Autosports entry of Ben Hanley, Griffin Peebles and Gregoire Saucy that leads the way. Deletraz will also be back on ELMS duty at Imola in the No. 99 AO by TF Pro-Am entry, taking over from substitute Jonny Edgar alongside Dane Cameron and PJ Hyett, as the crew occupies sixth in the class standings. T...

Watch Full-Length Replays of Rounds 7 & 8 at Watkins Glen

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