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Photo: SUPER GT SUPER GT supremo Masaaki Bandoh has laid out his vision for a GT500 car to be given the right to participate in the 24 Hours of Le Mans as a Garage 56 entry, something he says he has been pressing the ACO to make happen for some time. During his regular press conference ahead of last month’s Fuji Golden Week round, GTA chairman Bandoh revealed that he had been in touch with the ACO as he floated the idea of the title-winning GT500 team being handed an automatic Le Mans entry. Bandoh was present at Le Mans this month and met with ACO chairman Pierre Fillon ahead of the race to discuss this and other potential collaborations with the GTA. Explaining his vision in more detail, Bandoh told Sportscar365 in an exclusive interview that he believes a SUPER GT car running at Le Mans would not only boost the Japanese series but also help grow the French endurance classic’s profile in Japan. He highlighted the example of the ACO granting NASCAR and Hendrick Motorsports the ...

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Photo: Jake Galstad/IMSA Meyer Shank Racing claimed its second consecutive IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship victory after Action Express Racing’s Earl Bamber was forced to pit on the final lap for energy in Sunday’s dramatic Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen. Tom Blomqvist drove his No. 60 Acura ARX-06 to a narrow 1.880-second win over the No. 40 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac V-Series.R of Louis Deletraz to take a dramatic win in an incident-filled race that featured ten full course cautions. Bamber, who appeared to be en route to victory, ran out of energy as the white flag flew following a late-race caution for the No. 36 DXDT Racing Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R of Charlie Eastwood, which stopped on track with suspension failure. It set up a three-minute/two-lap dash to the finish, which saw the majority of the GTP runners elect to stretch their energy and not pit. The No. 93 MSR Acura of Nick Yelloly, who was running second behind Bamber at the time, however, came in for ...

Photo: Brandon Badraoui/IMSA Matt Campbell led the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen for Porsche Penske Motorsport at the three-hour mark as the prototype field dove to pit lane under yellow after an incident and attrition-filled first half of the race. The No. 6 crew short-filled Campbell’s Porsche 963 to help him leapfrog to the top of the GTP class field from 11th position during the race’s sixth full course yellow. After recovering from an early spin, the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac V-Series.R ran second in the hands of Filipe Albuquerque with Nick Yelloly in third aboard the pole-sitting No. 93 Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06. Jordan Taylor was fourth overall in the No. 40 WTR Cadillac with Philipp Eng’s No. 24 BMW M Team RLL M Hybrid V8 completing the top-five. Romain Grosjean was on the move early, bringing his No. 63 Lamborghini SC63 up as high as fourth from 11th on the grid, utilizing the Italian prototype’s strength in wet conditions. The Swiss driver led for m...

Image: ADAC Nordrhein Kevin Estre was left “frustrated and disappointed” by the outcome of the Nürburgring 24 after a penalty for contact with a GT4 car cost Manthey EMA victory, with the Frenchman saying he “would have done the same” in a repeat scenario. Estre’s No. 911 Porsche 911 GT3 R, which he shared with Ayhancan Guven and Thomas Preining, crossed the line first at the end of the 53rd running of the Eifel endurance classic, but was dropped to second due to a 100-second time penalty. That penalty was handed out for an incident in which Estre made contact with the No. 179 Doerr Motorsport Aston Martin Vantage GT4. Estre was battling with Raffaele Marciello when he came up behind the slower GT4 runner in the section between Kallenhard and Wehrseifen. The Frenchman attempted to pass the Aston Martin, driven by Rolf Scheibner, which led to contact that ended with the No. 179 machine coming to a rest on its roof after being pitched into the guardrail. Explaining the incid...

Photo: Jake Galstad/IMSA Renger van der Zande stormed to pole position for the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen on Saturday, earning Acura Meyer Shank Racing back-to-back IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship poles. The Dutch driver laid down a 1:31.558 lap time in the No. 93 Acura ARX-06 he will share with Nick Yelloly and Kaku Ohta for tomorrow’s race, beating Action Express Racing’s Jack Aitken to the GTP class pole by 0.287 seconds. MSR’s second No. 60 entry was third-best overall in the hands of Colin Braun, who was just 0.609 seconds off his stablemate’s leading pace. The top three GTP qualifying times all outpaced Louis Deletraz’s 2024 pole effort, with Van der Zande’s time going some 0.651 seconds faster. Wayne Taylor Racing’s V-Series.Rs were fourth and fifth-fastest overall, with Ricky Taylor aboard the No. 10 and Deletraz in the No. 40, respectively. Dries Vanthoor set the session’s sixth-fastest time for BMW M Team RLL in his No. 24 M Hybrid V8, with stablemate Shel...

Photo: Gruppe C Photography The Nürburgring 24 was restarted after a red flag due to a power outage in the pits lasted for over two hours, with the No. 911 Manthey EMA Porsche 911 GT3 R moved to the lead after pit stop penalties were applied. The 53rd running of the Eifel endurance classic was stopped at 5:30 p.m. CEST (11:30 a.m. EST) when power to the pits was lost, which in turn caused the refueling pumps to stop working. After power was restored, the race was restarted just over two hours after the initial red flag, with the No. 911 Porsche now at the head of the field as part of a reshuffled order. This is despite the No. 45 Realize Kondo Racing with Rinaldi Ferrari 296 GT3 leading when the red flag was initially declared. This is because, under the N24’s supplementary regulations, the accumulated minimum pitstop times are included in the result of the red flag. This meant that the No. 45 Ferrari was dropped to fourth behind the Manthey EMA entry, the No. 33 Falken Mo...