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Image: China GT Ollie Millroy has miraculously escaped life-threatening injuries following a massive accident in Saturday’s opening China GT race of the weekend in Shanghai that saw Loek Hartog pull Millroy out of his engulfed Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo. Millroy’s FIST Team AAI Ferrari was hit by an out-of-control Harmony Racing Ferrari of David Chen, after Chen and the TBC by 610 Racing BMW M4 GT3 EVO of Neil Verhagen had contact in the grass. The Taiwanese-entered Ferrari burst into flames upon impact, with former Porsche Motorsport North America Selected Driver Hartog, in a Phantom Global Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo, having stopped on track, climbed from his car and pulled Millroy from the blaze. Hartog then was seen using a fire extinguisher to help put out the fire. The race was abandoned after the accident. In a social media post , Millroy credited Hartog for ‘still being alive tonight’ with the 36-year-old Briton revealing that he sustained five broken rib...

Photo: Charly López/DPPI The Heart of Racing Aston Martin Valkyrie squad continued to set the pace in final practice for Sunday’s Lone Star Le Mans FIA World Endurance Championship contest. Harry Tincknell clocked a 1:52.174 aboard the No. 007 Aston to post the fastest lap of the weekend so far, but he was just four thousandths of a second quicker than Mathieu Jaminet aboard the No. 19 Genesis GMR-001. Third fastest was the best of the JOTA Cadillac V-Series.Rs with Jack Aitken posting a 1:52.435 aboard the No. 38 machine, while the pick of the Ferrari 499Ps was fourth fastest thanks to Antonio Giovinazzi’s 1:52.639 in the No. 51 car. Fifth fastest was the second Aston of Marco Sorensen while the top-six was rounded out by the sister Cadillac of Norman Nato. Seventh place went to the No. 83 AF Corse Ferrari, which survived a brush with the No. 34 TF Sport Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R of Peter Dempsey at Turn 1, while the No. 50 Ferrari also suffered a hit from LMGT3 ma...

Photo: Wes Duenkel/Ford Devin Anderson has claimed pole for the opening Mustang Challenge North America race of the weekend at Circuit of The Americas, beating championship leader Cole Loftsgard to top qualifying honors. Anderson, in the No. 22 TechSport Racing Ford Mustang Dark Horse R, reeled of a chart-topping 2:18.020 to outpace the No. 42 Round 3 Racing entry of Loftsgard by 0.472 seconds. Loftsgard entered the weekend with a 170-point lead, which has now been reduced to 160 thanks to the ten points awarded for Anderson’s pole. Ethan Low put the No. 25 Flying Lion Motorsports entry third on the grid, with Tate Pritt and Sandy Satullo completing the top-five in their Automatic Racing and Wheelhouse Motorsports entries. Will Lucas, who paced Friday’s second practice, will start sixth after having two of his laps invalidated due to track limits. Dark Horse Legends pole honors went to Dan McKeever in the No. 77 Wheelhouse entry, who was more than eight-tenths quicker...

Photo: RacingPixels/Creventic AF Motorsport was stripped of pole position for the Michelin 992 Endurance Cup after driver Dylan Pereira was penalized for a track limits infraction, handing pole position to Mühlner Motorsport. Pereira had blasted to pole in the top five shootout on Friday afternoon, securing a 1.757 gap to the rest of the field. However, the Portuguese-Luxembourgish driver was handed a post-session penalty which will see the No. 17 AF Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 Cup – the only Pro-Am class entry in the nine-car field – start the race in fifth position. As a result, pole position was handed to regular entrants Mühlner after Conrad Tox Leveau set the second-fastest time with a 2:21.627 lap. The Belgian team will lead the field to green on Saturday morning, with Tox Leveau sharing driving duties in the No. 21 Porsche with Joshua Bednarski and Roland Saca. LMR Motorsport have been promoted up to second on the grid after the stewards decision, ahead of Chazel ...

Photo: Fabrizio Boldoni/DPPI Ferrari set the pace in the first Free Practice for this weekend’s Lone Star Le Mans event as the FIA World Endurance Championship returned from its summer break with Antonio Giovinazzi heading a Prancing Horse 1-2. Giovinazzi clocked a 1:53.824 aboard the No. 51 Ferrari 499P in the opening third of the 90-minute session to set a benchmark that was three-tenths adrift of the quickest time from FP1 at this event last year. Temperatures were significantly cooler in Austin than they had been on Thursday, with cloudy conditions meaning a high of only 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius) was reached. The sister factory Ferrari was second quickest, with Antonio Fuoco posting a 1:54.029 in the No. 50 machine to finish up two-tenths shy of his teammate. Ferrari’s closest challenger ended up being the No. 36 Alpine A424 of Victor Martins, who was one of the few drivers to improve in the final 30 minutes of the session to finish on a 1:54.223. ...

Photo: Wes Duenkel/Ford Cole Loftsgard led the way in opening practice for this weekend’s Mustang Challenge North America season finale at Circuit of The Americas. The Round 3 Racing driver, who enters the final two rounds with a 170-point lead over Devin Anderson, reeled off a best time of 2:20:510 in Friday morning’s 30-minute session. Loftgard’s chart-topping time, which came in a last-lap improvement, was 0.486 seconds faster than the No. 34 Wheelhouse Motorsports Ford Mustang Dark Horse R of Will Lucas, who ended up second quickest. Anderson, in the No. 22 TechSport Racing entry, was third quickest, while Tate Pritt and Ethan Low completed the top-five in their Automatic Raxcing and Flying Lion Motorsports entries, respectively. Sandy Satullo, meanwhile, was sixth quickest. Wheelhouse team owner Dan McKeever topped the Dark Horse Legends time charts in his series debut. McKeever posted the seventh quickest time overall and was nearly one-second quicker tha...

Photo: Julien Delfosse/DPPI Hypercar teams will face reduced stint lengths in this weekend’s 6 Hours of Circuit of The Americas, which Toyota Racing driver Brendon Hartley believes will change the strategy “quite a bit.” Sportscar365 understands that all Hypercars will have less maximum stint energy compared to previous FIA World Endurance Championship races this season, enough so that will require a seventh stop in the race. Toyota Racing technical director David Floury told Sportscar365 that the reduction is in the range of 10-15 percent, equally for all cars. According to Hartley, it will result in all competitors having 3-4 laps less per stint compared to last year’s race. “Everyone has a lot less energy than previous races, which means the stints will be quite a bit shorter, just from regulation,” Hartley told Sportscar365. “It’s significant because it means rather than a pretty clear six-stint race, it then all of a sudden becomes a...