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Photo: SUPER GT Toyota teams swept the first of two official SUPER GT pre-season tests at Okayama International Circuit as TOM’S driver Sho Tsuboi went fastest across two days of running. Reigning champion Tsuboi set what proved to be the benchmark time in the opening session of the test on Friday morning, a 1:17.446, at the wheel of the No. 36 Toyota GR Supra as both classes shared a track for the first time this year. That was enough to beat Toshiki Oyu’s Cerumo Toyota by 0.277 seconds, while Bertrand Baguette was third in the No. 12 Nissan Z NISMO, 0.318 seconds off the pace.  The No. 36 Toyota shared by Tsuboi and Kenta Yamashita set the pace in three of the four sessions, with Saturday afternoon’s final session, which was impacted by light rain, being topped by Nirei Fukuzumi in the Rookie Racing GR Supra. All three top times came in the opening two-hour session amid cool, overcast conditions. However, times in official testing were considerably slower than those seen ...

Photo: RAFA Racing Team Maite Caceres will continue her progression in sports car racing, returning to RAFA Racing Team for her second season with the program but making her debut in Toyota GR Cup North America. The 23-year-old Uruguayan driver moves over from Mazda MX-5 competition. “I’m really excited to start this new season,” she said. “It’s my second year in sports cars after coming from formula cars, and it’s an exciting challenge for me. “I gained some experience in the MX-5 last year. It’s a different car, more similar to a GT-style car, so now I’m looking forward to continuing to learn and work with the team.” Caceres returns to a RAFA Racing Team lineup rich in experience within Toyota one-make competition. Teammates Westin Workman and Tyler Gonzalez are both past GR Cup champions, with Gonzalez securing the title in 2023 and Workman claiming the championship last year. Workman and Gonzalez will head up the team’s Pirelli GT4 Championship assault this year. “I’m real...

Photo: racingpixels/Creventic Creventic has revealed a 31-car entry list for the Michelin 12H Mugello, with six different manufacturers set to fight for overall GT3 victory. Reigning series champions Proton Competition, previously entered under the Proton Huber Competition banner, is set to enter the race with a Porsche 911 GT3 R. Herberth Motorsport will field a further two Porsche entries. The German squad recently took a second place overall in the Michelin 24H Series Middle East trophy, with a championship victory in the GT3 Pro-Am category The Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo will be represented across five different teams. GetSpeed are set to enter a pair of Mercedes-AMGs, with further entries coming from Hofor Racing, Viper Niza Racing, and retuning Italian team MP Racing. Ajith RedAnt Racing – the team which competes with Indian film star Ajith Kumar – will also campaign a Mercedes-AMG. Recent Middle East trophy GT3-Am champions Continental Racing by Simpson Motorsport will enter ...

Photo: Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin factory drivers Nicki Thiim, Mattia Drudi and Christian Krognes will again unite at the wheel of a Walkenhorst Motorsport-entered Vantage GT3 for this year’s Nürburgring 24. The works trio partnered with David Pittard last year but their Walkenhorst Aston failed to finish the enduro and will now launch another attempt at taking a first N24 win for the British manufacturer. They are part of a slimmed down two-car GT3 entry from Walkenhorst, which fielded three crews in the top class of the 2025 contest. The team’s second SP9 Pro-Am entry will be crewed by Walkenhorst’s new GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS recruit Mateo Villagomez, 2023 N24 winner Felipe Fernandez Laser (when he won at the wheel of a Frikadelli Ferrari 296 GT3) and Dennis Fetzer, who moves to an Aston having previously raced Ford, Mercedes-AMG, Porsche and Audi machinery in his native Germany. Walkenhorst has also revealed that it will tackle the majority of the Nurb...

Photo: SUPER GT SUPER GT organizer GTA has revealed that the GT500 class will use domestically-produced E10 fuel this season as part of a new agreement with ENEOS, confirming a move away from the previous carbon-neutral fuel supplied by Haltermann Carless. As previously reported by Sportscar365 , the series has opted for a move away from Haltermann’s ETS Racing Fuels brand, which had supplied the GT500 class since 2023 and GT300 since 2024, in favor of a tie-up with Japanese oil giant ENEOS. That’s despite the agreement with German firm Haltermann having originally been due to expire following the conclusion of the 2026 season. Explaining the move during the opening day of official pre-season testing at Okayama International Circuit on Friday, GTA chairman Masaaki Bandoh underlined the organizer’s long-held desire to switch to a domestic fuel rather than importing it from aboard. The new fuel, which is already in use for this week’s first official pre-season test at Okayama Inte...

Photo: TF Sport Reigning European Le Mans Series LMGT3 champion Charlie Eastwood will seek to defend his title this year after being announced as continuing aboard a TF Sport Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R, while he will be joined by IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship racer Alec Udell. Corvette factory driver Eastwood snatched the ELMS class crown in the closing moments of last season’s Portimao finale when competing alongside Rui Andrade and Hiroshi Koizumi. But he now has two new team-mates for the European campaign with Udell – who shared a DXDT Racing Corvette with Eastwood in the GTD division of the WeatherTech Championship last year – joining the already-announced Blake McDonald. The latter was runner-up in the Pro-Am class of GT World Challenge America powered by AWS last season, also in a DXDT Corvette, before teaming up with TF Sport for the first time in the recent Asian Le Mans Series. TF Sport has also revealed a revised livery for its ELMS Corvette this year inco...

Photo: Chris Dumond/IMSA Reigning Toyota GR Cup North America champion Westin Workman will graduate to Pirelli GT4 America competition as part of RAFA Racing Team’s multi-car Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO2 effort. Confirmed on Wednesday, Workman, who is already part of the team’s IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge effort, will team up with Tyler Gonzlez in the SRO America-run series. Workman replaces Gresham Wagner in the team’s No. 68 Silver class lineup. Chris Spada and Werner Neugebauer, meanwhile, will pilot the No. 812 Toyota in Pro-Am, while Kenny Schmied and Anthony Geraci are set to scale back to a limited season program in Am, with Rafael Martinez joining Geraci for the three-hour Lone Star Enduro at Circuit of The Americas. Workman currently leads the VP Racing Challenge GSX class championship standings after taking four wins out of the four opening races. “I think it’ll be great coming together with Tyler as my teammate,” he said. “He obviously has a lot of experience in ...