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Photo: Gradient Racing Corey Lewis has been drafted back into Gradient Racing’s Ford Mustang GT3 EVO for this weekend’s Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen, subbing for the injured Joey Hand, who has been ruled out due to a karting injury. Hand, who has served as one of the team’s two dedicated IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup drivers, suffered a broken pelvis in an accident. “I’m so bummed to not be able to race at Watkins Glen,” he said. “Unfortunately, I suffered a broken pelvis in an accident while training in my kart some weeks ago. “It’s tough to miss this one for so many reasons, but mainly because I love this track and I love driving with Gradient Racing. “I look forward to fully recovering and being back in action with the team for Road America. I’ll be watching and cheering from home.” Lewis has been serving as the team’s driver for the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship sprint rounds, in addition to opening the se...

Photo: Kyle Schwab/Porsche Karel Staut (Kellymoss) continued his winning form in Porsche Sprint Challenge North America by Yokohama with a GT3 Cup sweep at Virginia International Raceway, while Ford Koch (Kellymoss) and Anna Cecchi (CHR) split Cayman Pro-Am class victories during the series’ fifth event of the season. Staut added two GT3 Cup victories to his season tally at VIR, although Sunday’s race proved to be his closest challenge of the weekend. Race 1 was interrupted almost immediately when Chris Hutter (JTR Motorsports Engineering) was involved in a heavy accident on the opening lap. The incident brought out an extended caution period before the field returned to green-flag racing. Once the race resumed, Staut quickly settled back into the lead and maintained control through the remainder of the contest. Behind him, Riley Giacomazzi (Competition Motorsports) secured second place while Matthew Siegal (JDX Racing) completed the podium in third. Danny Dyszelski (TO...

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Photo: IMSA As Ari Balogh slid off course in Turn 3 following contact from Farhan Siddiqi in the No. 87 FastMD with Remstar Duqueine D08 Nissan on the first lap of Sunday’s two-hour IMSA Airbnb Endurance Challenge race at Virginia International Raceway, he likely didn’t expect to find himself standing in victory lane two hours later. But that’s exactly where he wound up alongside his No. 30 Toney Driver Development Ligier JS P325 Toyota co-driver Garett Grist thanks to heady strategy from Toney Driver Development Owner Nathan Toney and a well-timed full-course caution period. The first-lap incident put Balogh at the rear of the field, but the first of the race’s three full-course cautions for debris just four minutes into the race enabled him to catch back up to the rest of the field. Shortly after achieving minimum drive-time, Balogh made the first of the team’s two required pit stops to turn the car over to Grist for the remainder of the race. The tur...

Photo: Fabian Lagunas/SRO Championship leaders continued to show their strength during Ferrari Challenge North America’s fourth event of the season. Laguna Seca welcomed more than 50 Ferrari 296 Challenge race cars for Saturday’s opening pair of races, and they will return on Sunday to close out the weekend. Trofeo Pirelli Johnny Kaminskey (Ferrari of Long Island) added to his tally of victories on Saturday afternoon, while starting first and finishing first in Trofeo Pirelli Race 1. The teenage driver has now clinched five wins in the last seven races of Ferrari Challenge, and further extends his championship lead. He has yet to finish off the podium this season. A pair of local entries from Ferrari of San Francisco completed the Trofeo Pirelli podium. George Grinzewitsch III and Brad Fauvre, finished second and third, respectively. In Trofeo Pirelli Am, Michael Mathes (Ferrari of Central New Jersey) scored his second win of the season by more than three seconds. It was a strai...

Photo: IMSA Valentino Catalano already had fond memories from his first visit to Virginia International Raceway when he swept all three races of an IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge triple-header last August. He added another one in Saturday’s 15-minute qualifying session by securing the pole position for Sunday’s two-hour IMSA Airbnb Endurance Challenge race at the 3.4-mile circuit on the Virginia-North Carolina border. Driving the No. 1 Gebhardt Motorsport USA, Duqueine D09 Toyota, Catalano claimed his first pole position of the season with a best lap of 1:42.626 in the car he shares with co-driver Oscar Tunjo. It should be noted that this also was the first qualifying session of the season for Catalano, the 2025 VP Racing Challenge LMP3 champion who is only competing in the Airbnb Endurance Challenge races this season. Tunjo qualified the car on pole for the first two endurance races of the season to go with three additional poles from the sprint race portion of the...

Photo: Fred Hardy/SRO SRO Motorsports Group founder and CEO Stephane Ratel has expressed desire for new brands and/or car models to enter the GT4 ranks, which has largely been stagnant in recent years. The latest-generation Ford Mustang GT4, launched in 2024, has been the newest GT4 model to join the platform. There are at least 13 GT4 models that are currently eligible, although a number of cars, such as the Alpine A110 GT4, Audi R8 LMS GT4, Lotus Emira GT4, Nissan Z NISMO GT4 and Ginetta G56 GT4 are competing in only selected markets around the world and in low numbers. While not lacking grid numbers, particularly in its flagship GT4 European Series or Pirelli GT4 America and Michelin Pilot Challenge in North America, which all routinely feature 30-plus fields, Ratel said he’s hopeful of new blood being injected into the SRO-controlled platform. “GT4, I would say, is [doing] fine, but we need novelties,” he told Sportscar365. “We need more cars to bring us...