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Photo: Michelin IMSA returns to Virginia International Raceway this weekend for the tenth anniversary of the Michelin GT Challenge, an event built around ideas that continue to shape the weekend a decade later. Sarah Robinson, Michelin’s Motorsports marketing manager when the title sponsorship began, remembers the decision as being about more than putting Michelin’s name on the event. “We were there because it was the right thing to do from a technology standpoint,” said Robinson. “It was the right thing to do from a fan and experience standpoint.” Back in 2015, GTLM was the only open-tire category remaining in IMSA following the merger of the American Le Mans Series and Grand-Am, giving Michelin an opportunity to compete and develop against other tire manufacturers. “There weren’t really any opportunities for GT Le Mans to be the star of the show,” said Robinson. “So with the GT Challenge at such a special track like VIR, it was tha...

Photo: Gruppe C Photography Ferrari driver Matteo Cairoli and BMW’s Marco Wittmann shared the wins on an eventful DTM weekend at the Nürburgring, during which championship contenders Maro Engel and Lucas Auer tangled on the opening lap of the second contest. Cairoli dominated the opener from pole in his Emil Frey Racing Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo, eventually crossing the line almost ten seconds ahead of Manthey Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo racer Thomas Preining, who had also started on the front row. Ben Doerr had climbed up to third at the start in his Doerr Motorsport McLaren 720S GT3 Evo but a slightly slow pit stop dropped him behind Wittmann’s Schubert Motorsport BMW M4 GT3 EVO. Points leader Engel did emerge from his stop in third at the wheel of his Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo but fell behind Wittmann, Doerr and Auer as he got up to speed on his cold tires and therefore had to settle for sixth at the flag. A whole host of contenders were in strife, including title prot...

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Photo: IMSA Toney Driver Development captured both the race win and the IMSA Airbnb Endurance Challenge championship following Sunday’s two-hour finale at Road America. This year marked Nathan Toney’s team’s first full-season effort in IMSA competition, with flawless execution across both its two cars to carry a championship. The team recently committed to another multi-car effort in the IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge for 2027, which will run seven endurance races. The 2026 LMP3 season has been split with both sprint rounds and the new Airbnb Endurance Challenge component. Wyatt Brichacek shared the winning No. 95 Toney Ligier JS P325 Toyota with Lincoln Day. It was Brichacek’s second Airbnb Endurance Challenge win of the year, in addition to three VP Racing SportsCar Challenge sprint race wins. It was Day’s first win of the season, as Brichacek’s win in the two-hour COTA race came with Titus Sherlock. Teammates Ari Balogh and Garett Grist in the No. 30 Toney Ligier JS ...

Photo: IMSA Oscar Tunjo secured his third and the team’s fourth pole in as many rounds ahead of Sunday’s IMSA Airbnb Endurance Challenge season finale at Road America. Tunjo qualified his No. 1 Gebhardt Motorsport entry fastest at Sebring International Raceway and Circuit of The Americas, while teammate Valentino Catalano grabbed the pole at Virginia International Raceway as the team updated its previous generation Duqueine D08 Nissan to a new D09 Toyota prior to VIR. Today at Road America, once Tunjo set the pace on his second flying lap and improved it for three straight laps, he established an unbeatable gap. The Colombian lapped the 4.048-mile permanent road course in Elkhart Lake at a best time of 1P58.819 seconds to lead the field by 1.630 seconds. Despite the gap, Tunjo was somewhat surprised with the pace as the Gebhardt team had not tested prior to the race weekend. Lincoln Day qualified the No. 95 Toney Driver Development Ligier JS P325 Toyota second, in the car he...

Image: Cadillac Cadillac has taken the wraps off its V-ONE prototype, billed as a concept study that “unites the Cadillac V-Series performance legacy with a one-of-one, single-seat expression” marking the first of its kind for the brand. Based on the Dallara-chassied V-Series.R LMDh car that competes in both the FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, the V-ONE Concept was unveiled Friday at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering in Carmel, Calif., as part of Monterey Car Week. “The Cadillac V-ONE Concept is the ultimate manifestation of a customer performance concept and is a clear sign of our ambition for the Cadillac V-Series brand in the future,” said Dominic Najafi, Executive Design Director, Global Cadillac. The concept car, co-developed by Cadillac Design, Cadillac Racing and Dallara, is designed to deliver factory-level prototype performance and technology. The V8 hybrid powertrain shares foundations with the V-Series.R, but ca...

Photo: JEP/SRO Porsche’s win in the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa and points lead in the Intercontinental GT Challenge doesn’t change its strategy for the final two rounds of the globe-trotting GT3 series according to Porsche Motorsport boss Thomas Laudenbach. The German manufacturer scored its first triumph in the Belgian endurance classic since 2020, when Thomas Preining, Bastian Buus and Ricardo Feller — all three of its DTM drivers — teamed for victory in Lionspeed GP’s Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo. It marked the ninth outright victory for Porsche in the 24 Hours of Spa, but more importantly vaulted the brand to the top of the IGTC manufacturers’ standings ahead of next month’s Suzuka 1000km. Reflecting on its achievements in Spa, Laudenbach said they felt like there were a number of Porsche customer teams that were in contention, including the Schumacher CLRT and Boutsen VDS examples, which also finished in the top-ten. “The nice thing...