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Photo: Brandon Badraoui/IMSA IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge will shift entirely to an endurance format next year, with most races set to be contested during USAC weekends in 2027. Confirmed on Saturday, the series, which was split between two 45-minute sprint races and an endurance component known as the Airbnb Endurance Challenge this year, will combine into a single format of races ranging from 90 minutes to three hours in length. The move comes after lower-than-expected car counts in both segments, with the new-look series set to formally drop GT3-spec machinery, which raced for a single season in 2025 as the GTDX class but did not feature any entries this year. Additionally, second-generation LMP3 machinery will no longer be allowed, with only the new-for-2025 Toyota-powered machinery eligible in the top class. The two specs of prototypes ran together this year as part of a grandfathering period. LMP3 will again be joined by the GSX class for SRO GT4-homologated machinery,...

Photo: Jake Galstad/IMSA The start of the first of two 45-minute sprint races for the IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park ultimately determined the finish for the overall and LMP3 winner. Wyatt Brichacek started from pole and led flag-to-flag but was assessed a ten-second time penalty for a false start, changing columns before crossing the start/finish line. Any full-course caution could dent or fully eliminate any margin Brichacek would build and move him down the finishing order. The decisive moment for Brichacek came with ten minutes remaining when the No. 87 FastMD with Remstar Duqueine D08 Nissan of Farhan Siddiqi went off course in Turn 3. The resulting cleanup brought the race under the full-course caution to the checkered flag and eliminated Brichacek’s well-built lead north of 13 seconds to offset the time penalty. The penalty ultimately dropped Brichacek to third. Brichacek’s disappointment benefited Oscar Tunjo, the Colombian who won his...

Photo: Brandon Badraoui/IMSA Ricky Taylor was quickest in opening practice for this weekend’s Chevrolet Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, in a session that ended ten minutes early due to an accident by a GTD car. The Cadillac factory driver, subbing for the Brazil-bound Harry Tincknell, reeled off a chart-topping 1:08.080 lap time in the No. 52 Bryan Herta Autosport with PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca 07 Gibson. Taylor’s time was 0.098 seconds quicker than second-placed Sebastian Alvarez in the No. 8 Tower Motorsport Oreca, with 1:08.287 by Alex Quinn good enough for third quickest overall in the LMP2 headline race this weekend. Ben Hanley and Tom Dillmann completed the top-five for United Autosports and Inter Europol Competition, respectively. Philip Ellis was quickest of the GT cars in his No. 57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo, which was faster than the entire GTD Pro field. The No. 3 Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports Chevrolet Corvette Z0...

Photo: DPPI/WEC Aston Martin driver Harry Tincknell set the pace in the opening practice session for the 6 Hours of Sao Paulo FIA World Endurance Championship round. The Briton clocked a 1:25.457 aboard the No. 009 Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin Valkyrie to finish up just 0.024 seconds faster than the No. 50 Ferrari 499P of Antonio Fuoco. It had looked like Robert Kubica would set the pace in the AF Corse satellite Ferrari but his 1:25.184 was subsequently deleted for exceeding track limits and his next best lap put him in fourth position, behind the No. 51 factory car of Antonio Giovinazzi, who managed a 1:25.563. Behind the trio of Ferraris in fifth was the pick of the Alpine A424s, the No. 36 entry of Jules Gounon that registered a 1:25.700, while the top-six was completed by the lead BMW M Hybrid V8, the No. 20 car that managed a 1:25.998 in the hands of Sheldon van der Linde. Seventh quickest was Genesis Magma Racing with Mathieu Jaminet posting a 1:26.002 aboard the No. ...

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Photo: Andrea Lorenzina/DPPI ***Four weeks after the 24 Hours of Le Mans, FIA World Endurance Championship teams and drivers trekked across to the other side of the world for the fourth round of the season at Interlagos. It is the final event before the series’ summer break and the first of the campaign to be held outside Europe following the postponement of the planned Qatar opener. ***However, three drivers have not made that trip to South America with Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA opting to field a two-driver lineup in Brazil without Louis Deletraz . Instead, Deletraz, who was the third driver in the No. 12 Cadillac V-Series.R at Le Mans, is representing the team and manufacturer at this weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, taking one of the team’s Hypercar class entries up the hill. Fellow GM factory driver Ricky Taylor held the honor of doing so last year but is on IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship duty at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in a LMP2 car. ***This weekend marks th...

Photo: CTMP ***The field for this weekend’s Chevrolet Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park is down to 32 cars after the No. 37 Intersport Oreca 07 Gibson has been a no-show. While there’s been no official statement on the team’s withdrawal, the Jon Field-owned squad sustained multiple incidents in last month’s Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen and was an early retirement. Additionally, the pre-event entry list did not include Field’s full season co-driver Oliver Jarvis. ***It means there will be nine Pro-Am-enforced prototypes in the third running of the LMP2 headline race for the class, along with ten GTD Pro cars and 13 GTD entries. Click Here for the official entry list. ***The clashing FIA World Endurance Championship round in Sao Paulo has resulted in minimal changes to the entry list, largely due to the lack of GTP class machinery at Mosport. Aston Martin factory driver Harry Tincknell has been replaced by Ricky Taylor in the No. 52 Bry...