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Photo: Racingpixels/Creventic ***Track-limits played a major part in the inaugural Michelin 24H Dubai top 10 shootout on Friday with Oliver Goethe in the No. 88 Dragon Racing Ferrari 296 GT3 one of three drivers to lose their sole lap for pushing the boundaries too far. ***The FIA Formula 2 competitor called the decision “marginal” but was still pleased with his pace as he would have started third without the sanction. “The goal was to qualify in the top 10,” Goethe told Sportscar365. “In the end, we’re starting ninth – I think still a good position to start for a 24-hour race. But it’s a shame – I would’ve been third without that little mistake.” ***Goethe pinpointed the Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo crews as being favourites for the race victory after a Silver Arrow headed the combined qualifying averages and the top 10 shootout. “The Mercedes look really quick, so it was difficult to get close to them,” he said. “I really gave it everything.” ***But a Mercedes-AMG driver who failed to ...

Photo: Nathan Kelly/Pfaff Motorsports Sandy Mitchell said that his step up to a full-time GTD Pro seat in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship “feels like a bit of a nod” from Lamborghini after making his way up through the brand’s junior program. The Scottish racer will team up with Andrea Caldarelli at Pfaff Motorsports for the full season, with Mirko Bortolotti and James Hinchcliffe completing the lineup for the No. 9 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 at the Rolex 24 at Daytona. He is also set to be part of the lineup for the worldwide debut of the new Temerario GT3, which is slated to launch at the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring with the Canadian squad. Mitchell has been a Lamborghini factory driver since 2021, having come up through the brand’s Super Trofeo ladder system. After a season of Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America, Mitchell pivoted back to primarily competing in Europe, including in GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS and British GT. He has made spor...

Photo: IMSA/Brandon Badraoui Porsche locked out the top three positions in the opening test session of the Roar Before the Rolex 24 weekend at Daytona International Speedway on Friday morning. Felipe Nasr posted the quickest time of the one hour, 15 minute session of 1’36.327 aboard the No. 7 Penske Porsche 963, beating the 2025-spec JDC-Miller MotorSports example driven by Nico Pino by just four thousandths of a second. Third-quickest was the second of the Porsche Penske Motorsport entries, the No. 6 car in which Laurens Vanthoor set a best time 0.108 seconds off the pace. Best of the rest behind the three Porsches was the No. 40 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac V-Series.R of Louis Deletraz, almost six tenths off the pace, followed by the sister No. 10 WTR Cadillac of Filipe Albuquerque in fifth place. The two WRT-run BMW M Hybrid V8s were next up in sixth and seventh places, with Marco Wittmann putting the No. 24 car in sixth ahead of the No. 25. Acura Meyer Shank Racing didn’t ...

Photo: Racingpixels/Creventic The Sainteloc Junior Team Audi squad topped night practice ahead of the Michelin 24H Dubai thanks to a late improvement from Pierre Kaffer. The German moved the No. 18 Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II to the top of the leaderboard with around 10 minutes of the 90-minute session remaining courtesy of a 1:58.019 that put him three tenths ahead of the opposition. It was the first time the 24H Series field had experienced the Dubai circuit in the dark and lap times were considerably slower than qualifying earlier on Friday. Long-time table-topper Jules Gounon was relegated by Kaffer to second in the No. 4 GetSpeed Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo on a 1:58:323. Gounon was fractionally faster than two other Mercedes-AMG entries, the No. 13 Motopark car of Mikael Grenier and the No. 28 TFT machine of Marvin Klein – the car that will start Saturday’s race from pole . Fifth went to Dorian Boccolacci in the No. 61 EBM Porsche 911 GT3 R on a 1:58.846 set after the car had earlier...

Photo: Julien Delfosse/DPPI Logan Sargeant will make his FIA World Endurance Championship debut this year, having been confirmed as part of Proton Competition’s LMGT3 driver lineup. The ex-Formula 1 driver along with f ellow newly announced Ford Racing Hypercar driver Seb Priaulx , will spearhead the German squad’s two Ford Mustang GT3 EVOs in the WEC this year. They replace Dennis Olsen and Ben Barker, who have been reassigned to full-time driving duties in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in Ford Multimatic Motorsports’ factory GTD Pro effort. The 25-year-old Floridian, who turned his first laps in the Mustang GT3 in last November’s WEC Bahrain rookie test, previously told Sportscar365 that he was targeting multiple programs in different cars. In addition to the WEC drive, Sargeant will also be taking part in next weekend’s Rolex 24 at Daytona in Era Motorsport’s Oreca 07 Gibson LMP2 entry that’s currently a one-off drive. Sargeant will be joined in the No. 88 P...

Photo: John Dagys ***IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship teams unloaded Thursday at Daytona International Speedway for the beginning of a 11-day stretch in Florida that kicks off with this weekend’s Roar Before the Rolex 24. Drivers, meanwhile, stayed busy going through the annual media day activities in the Daytona 500 Club, which included getting photo headshots as well as conducting interviews with assembled media, including Sportscar365. ***Several drivers are absent from the Roar test due to the Michelin 24H Dubai, which takes place this weekend. It includes Jules Gounon, Maro Engel, Luca Stolz, Sven Mueller and Matteo Cairoli, while Winward Racing Michelin Pilot Challenge racer Daan Arrow is also racing in the Middle East. ***Despite initially being on the entry list for Dubai, DragonSpeed driver Giacomo Altoe is actually on-site in Daytona this weekend, which will see the Italian driver share the team’s new Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R with Henrik Hedman and Casper Ste...

Photo: Racingpixels/Creventic ***A host of additions have been made to the entry list for this weekend’s 21st Michelin 24H Dubai, and one of those extra drivers was among the stars during unofficial Thursday testing as Oliver Goethe set the second-fastest time in the morning session. ***FIA Formula 2 competitor Goethe has been drafted into the Dragon Racing lineup for its No. 88 Ferrari 296 GT3 as he makes a return to sports cars having tackled this event two years ago with Dragon in an entry that also included his brother Benjamin (now driving an Optimum McLaren 720S GT3 Evo) and father Roald. ***The fastest time of Thursday was set by Jules Gounon during the morning session, posting a 1:57.106 early in the day’s running at the wheel of the No. 4 Grove Racing by Getspeed Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo. RESULTS: Morning test / Afternoon test ***Another driver to recently join the entry list is NLS competitor Harley Haughton, who is making his GT3 race debut with Enrico Fulgenzi Racing at ...