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Image: BHA/PR1 Mathiasen BHA with PR1/Mathiasen has unveiled the livery of its Oreca 07 Gibson for the remainder of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship LMP2 season. The team’s No. 52 entry adorned Ben Keating’s Wynn’s colors for last weekend’s Rolex 24 at Daytona, in a one-off design as the FIA Bronze-rated driver was making a one-off start with the Bryan Herta and Bobby Oergel-led team. Instead, the car will change into a blue and green design for its primary sponsor In Pwr. Misha Goikhberg is set for a full season campaign alongside Harry Tincknell, who will be in the car for all races except the LMP2 headline round at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park due to his FIA World Endurance Championship commitments in Heart of Racing’s Aston Martin Valkyrie. Parker Thompson, who is confirmed as the third driver for the Michelin Endurance Cup races, will also be unable to contest the CTMP round because of his WEC commitments. The trio, plus Keating, are coming off a sixth place c...

Photo: Mike Levitt/IMSA Sebastien Bourdais has departed Tower Motorsports, effective immediately, in order to focus on his FIA World Endurance Championship commitments with Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA. Bourdais was due to again contest six of the seven IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship races in the team’s No. 8 Oreca 07 Gibson with FIA Bronze-rated driver John Farano. “Tower Motorsports confirms that Sebastien Bourdais has made the decision to step away from the team in order to focus more fully on his factory Cadillac WEC program,” a statement from the team read. “We respect and support Sebastien’s commitment to his responsibilities with Cadillac and appreciate the professionalism, experience, and speed he brought to our organization. “We thank Sebastien for his contributions and wish him continued success for the remainder of the WEC season and beyond.” Bourdais, Farano, Sebastian Alvarez and Kyffin Simpson teamed for an eighth place finish in class at last weekend’s seas...

Photo: Eastalent Racing Eastalent Racing has announced that ex-Audi Sport factory drivers Christopher Haase and Markus Winkelhock will spearhead the Austrian squad’s entry into GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS. The 2024 International GT Open championship-winning squad will move to SRO competition this year, fielding an Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II in both the Endurance and Sprint Cups. Hasse and Simon Reicher, who won the GT Open title, will contest the entire ten-event GTWC Europe season, with Winkelhock joining them for the five enduros, including the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa in June. It marks a reunion of the Hasse and Winkelhock driving partnership, with the duo having notably won the 2017 Spa event in a Sainteloc Audi. Despite the Audi being out of production, a number of teams, most notably in Europe, Asia and Australia, continue to campaign the V10-powered GT3 contender. Source: Sports Car 365

Photo: Precision Racing LA Ryan Eversley and Precision Racing LA will return to full-time Pirelli GT4 America competition this year, with the team confirming a Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO2 entry for Eversley and Toyota GR Cup North America graduate Karl Forman. Additionally, motorsports veteran Nathan Bonneau has been named team manager for the program, which will kick off next month at Sonoma Raceway. Eversley last contested the SRO America-run series in 2024, paired up with a variety of different co-drivers in the team’s Toyota. The former TC America TCR class champion has served as Forman’s coach in Toyota’s singe-make series which runs on SRO America weekends. “I’m thrilled to be joining Karl in GT4 after coaching him in the GR Cup series last year,” said Eversley. “Toyota has been a great partner to us at Precision Racing LA, and I think with Karl’s raw speed and the addition of Nathan Bonneau to our program, we should be championship contenders. “Nathan and I have won a SRO ...

Photo: Bathurst 12 Hour Factory Lamborghini ace Marco Mapelli will add his experience and pace to Wall Racing’s attack on this year’s Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour. The 38-year-old Italian will join car owner Adrian Deitz, Grant Denyer and Tony D’Alberto aboard the team’s spectacular Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 for the Intercontinental GT Challenge season opener on Feb. 13-15. Mapelli has been a factory-supported Lamborghini driver for more than a decade with success across Europe and the United States in the brand’s GT3 machinery, including GTD Pro class podium finishes in last year’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with Pfaff Motorsports. His addition to the Wall Racing squad comes as the team begins their quest for a third consecutive class victory in Australia’s international enduro this year. The team claimed the Sliver class victory in both 2024 and 2025 and will compete for the Bronze class title this year. It will represent Mapelli’s fourth Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 ...

Photo: BRM Team BRM has been a last-minute addition to the Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour entry list, with the team’s GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS race-winning Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II set to line up on the grid. Mark Rosser and Alex Peroni will be joined by GTWC Australia regular Steve Brooks and Bathurst 1000 podium finisher James Golding, in a car that has been entered in the Pro-Am class. It will mark the team’s second Bathurst 12 Hour start, having made its race debut in the re-scheduled 2022 edition that featured Pro-Am lineups racing for the overall win. The entry list for next month’s Intercontinental GT Challenge season opener now stands at 35 cars, with the BRM entry effectively replacing one of Melbourne Performance Centre’s Audis, which has been recently withdrawn. Craft-Bamboo Racing’s Pro-Am class Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo also dropped off the list earlier this month. A full entry list with driver lineups will be released next week. Source: Sports Car 365 ...

Photo: Josh Lambeth Riley Motorsports will return to full-time GT World Challenge America powered by AWS competition this year, fielding a BMW M4 GT3 EVO for Slade Stewart and Andy Lee. Announced on Thursday, the Pro-Am class effort moves over from Stewart’s previous operator, Flying Lizard Motorsports, having been in Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America competition the last four years with his now-signature ‘Sparklefarts’ design. The same livery, designed by Stewart’s children, has been transplanted on to the No. 14 BMW for Stewart’s GT3 debut. Sportscar365 understands that Stewart has purchased two BMWs from Elias Sabo, who curtailed his motorsports involvement mid-year in 2025 due to business reasons, having also been another Flying Lizard client. “As I continue to grow in motorsports as in life, it is important to me to always seek out the best there is, no matter the circumstances,” said Stewart. “Riley Motorsports has a deep and rich history in motorsports spanning over...