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Photo: Fabian Lagunas/SRO Riley Dickinson was quickest in a wet final practice session for GT World Challenge America competitors ahead of qualifying and tomorrow’s race at Road America. Dickinson recorded a best lap of 2:21.552 in the No. 13 Kellymoss Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo to outpace the No. 28 RS1 Porsche of Danny Dyszelski by 0.066 seconds. Mikael Grenier’s No. 34 JMF Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo was third quickest, followed by a late improvement by Benny Simonsen in the No. 163 AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo. Only 12 of the 24 entered cars turned laps in the session, with only a slight chance of rain tomorrow morning. Qualifying is set for Sunday at 9:10 a.m. CST ahead of the three-hour race, which gets underway at 2 p.m. CST. Both sessions will be streamed live on SRO’s GT World YouTube channel. Source: Sports Car 365

Image: SRO RS1’s Spencer Pumpelly and Luca Mars closed in on the Silver class championship title with their seventh consecutive Pirelli GT4 America win in a rain-soaked race that saw a 33-minute safety car period for a heavy crash and barrier repairs at Canada Corner as well as a late-race accident. Pumpelly drove the No. 028 Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport, a borrowed chassis from Nolasport following Pumpelly’s accident on Thursday, to the win over Yves Baltas in the No. 7 ACI Motorsports Porsche. The race ended under yellow for an accident by the Pro-Am championship leading No. 94 Random Vandals Racing BMW M4 GT4 EVO of Sam Craven, who made heavy contact with the wall. Pumpelly and Mars provisionally expanded their lead to 63 points, with only 100 points available in the final four races of the season. Pro-Am race honors went to Blackdog Racing’s Tony Gaples and Michael Cooper, who extended their win streak as well with a third place overall, with Austin Ju...

Photo: Fabian Lagunas/SRO Matias Perez Companc was quickest in the second of three practice sessions for GT World Challenge America powered by AWS competitors ahead of tomorrow’s three-hour race at Road America. The Argentinean in the No. 12 AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo laid down a 2:04.895 lap time early in the hour-long session, which was impacted by the arrival of light rain, to edge out Friday’s pace-setter Tom Sargent by 0.021 seconds. Sargent’s 2:04.606 lap time set in the fully dry session yesterday in his No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo, however, was still quicker. Colin Braun ended the second practice third quickest in the No. 017 Kellymoss Porsche, with the No. 69 Archangel Motorsports McLaren 720S GT3 Evo of Aaron Telitz and repaired No. 34 JMF Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo completing the overall top-five in the hands of Mikael Grenier. The No. 163 AF Corse Ferrari of Benny Simonsen led the Am class with the 16th quickest time overall. Two ...

Photo: Bob Chapman/Ford Frankie Muniz said his first professional win in motorsports “couldn’t have come at a better time” amid challenges off the track and while plotting his future in sports car racing. The Hollywood star, best known for his starring role in the 2000’s TV sitcom ‘Malcolm in the Middle’, claimed Am class victory in Friday’s Pirelli GT4 America race at Road America, teaming up with co-driver Tyler Stone in TechSport Racing’s Ford Mustang GT4. Muniz’s breakthrough win has come in his first year of sports car racing, alongside a parallel effort in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, also with Ford Racing, which the 40-year-old admitted has been a bit of a “whirlwind” year. “We never tested, never driven the car, never turned it on before the first practice session at Sonoma,” Muniz told Sportscar365. “I didn’t even know what the buttons did. It’s obviously so different fro...

Photo: Fred Hardy/SRO Michael Cooper overcame a pre-race 35 kg Balance of Performance adjustment to his Blackdog Racing McLaren Artura GT4 to claim overall victory in Friday’s opening Pirelli GT4 America race of the weekend at Road America to become the winningest driver in SRO America history. Cooper passed the then Silver class-leading No. 68 RAFA Racing Team Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO2 of Tyler Gonzalez with 24 minutes to go following the pit sequence and drove to a 5.983-second win. It marked Cooper and co-driver Tony Gaples’ third consecutive Pro-Am class victory and second overall win in the last three races. The four-time series champion entered the weekend tied for the lead with Peter Cunningham with 43 all-time wins . FIA Bronze-rated owner/driver Gaples scored only his second career pole, having started on the front row, although the McLarens, along with the Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport and Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO2s were all handed post-qualifying weight ...

Photo: Toyota Will Robusto jumped to the top of the time sheets in the second and final Toyota GR Cup North America practice session prior to qualifying for this weekend’s pair of races at Road America. The RVA Graphics Motorsports by Speed Syndicate driver reeled off a chart-topping 2:31.259 in the session to outpace second-placed Parker Delong by 0.275 seconds. Delong is making his Pirelli GT4 America debut this weekend in Advance Motorsports’ McLaren Artura GT4. Beltre Curtis rebounded from a session-ending accident on Thursday to set the third quickest time in his Copeland Motorsports Toyota GR 86 Cup car, while Ethan Goulart and Max Schweid completed the top-five. Points leader Spike Kohlbecker was sixth on the time sheets. The session saw two red flags, the first No. 78 BSI Racing Toyota of Ethan Ayars, who had an incident in the third sector of the track. The second red, which brought the session to an early end with two minutes to go, was for the the No. 85 E...

Photo: Fabian Lagunas/SRO John Gilliland led a Kellymoss 1-2 in the opening GT America powered by AWS practice session of the weekend at Road America. Gilliland, in the Moove-In Storage-sponsored Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo, reeled off a 2:06.698 lap time to edge out teammate Michael Clark in the No. 17 Porsche by 0.251 seconds. Both cars are not expected to take part in GT America race action this weekend, and are instead utilizing these sessions as practice. Tony Davis was third quickest in in the No. 04 HP-TECH Motorsport Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo, with Ginetta’s Lawrence Tomlinson posting an impressive fourth best time overall in the sole GT2 car in the field. Todd Parriott completed the top-five in the third Kellymoss entry that will not race. David Lecko and Craig Lumsden were 14th and 15th, respectively, in their Cup and GT4 entries. The 30-minute session was halted with ten minutes completed when the No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche of Kyle Washington stopped on track on the entry in...