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Photo: Porsche After running separate opening round events at Sebring International Raceway and Spring Mountain for Porsche Sprint Challenge North America by Yokohama and Porsche Sprint Challenge USA West – both series are set to feature on the same weekend for the first time this year at Sonoma Raceway this weekend. Between the two series, a total of 63 Porsche race cars are entered – both the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup and the Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS CS versions. It won’t be just the individual championship battles on the line; the weekend also will feature the second round of the Porsche Endurance Challenge North America. All the race action from both championships will be streamed live on the Porsche Motorsport North America YouTube channel. PORSCHE SPRINT CHALLENGE NORTH AMERICA BY YOKOHAMA The opening round of Porsche Sprint Challenge North America by Yokohama was held at Sebring International Raceway last month with teenage newcomer Cole Kleck making an immediate impact by sw...

Photo: Porsche Thomas Preining and Aycancan Guven led a 1-2 for Manthey EMA during official pre-season testing for DTM at Oschersleben. Just a single day of official collective testing was available for DTM teams this year, featuring a total of eight hours of running across two sessions. Preining and Guven both set their quickest times of the day during the opening session, with the former reeling off a 1:21.887 to lead by 0.324 seconds. Jordan Pepper, who also went quickest in the morning session, was third with a 1:22.388 aboard the No. 63 GRT Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2. Luca Engstler and Winward Racing’s Jules Gounon, fourth and fifth respectively, both set their times in the afternoon. Lucas Auer was sixth at the wheel of the No. 22 Team Landgraf Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo, 0.028 seconds faster than defending champion Mirko Bortolotti. The Italian, who switched teams over the winter to join ABT Sportsline, steered the No. 1 Lamborghini to a best lap of ...

Photo: Mike Levitt/IMSA A total of 27 cars are set for next weekend’s Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, including confirmation of a second Vasser Sullivan Racing Lexus RC F GT3. Confirmed on the release of the entry list by IMSA on Wednesday, the GTP and GTD-only class race will again feature a second Lexus, for drivers Aaron Telitz and Frankie Montecalvo. Ben Barnicoat, who continues his recovery from a mountain biking accident that ruled him out of last month’s Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, and Thompson claimed GTD class honors at Long Beach last year in the No. 89 car. It joins the previously announced No. 177 AO Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R for Laurens Vanthoor and Jonny Edgar, an entry that’s also typically in the GTD Pro ranks, but with different drivers. Eleven GTP entries are set to do battle in the first sprint race of the year, including the street course debut for Heart of Racing Team’s Aston Martin Valkyrie, while Proton Competition’s Porsche 963 is absent, as expect...

Photo: Honda A number of SUPER GT drivers have voiced skepticism regarding the Japanese championship’s plans to host a pair of sprint races at Fuji Speedway in August. Ahead of last week’s final pre-season test at Fuji, Sportscar365 revealed that plans to mix up the format for the fourth round of the championship are proceeding, with organizers having settled on a 35-lap Saturday race featuring both GT500s and GT300s and a pair of 50-minute races, split by class, on Sunday. Teams will have to nominate a single driver to take part in each day of action, with no pit stops and driver changes taking place in any of the races. Asked for his reaction to the plan, Impul Nissan driver Bertrand Baguette said he applauded SUPER GT for wanting to try something different but expressed the view that the spectacle could suffer without pit stops and no traffic to negotiate on Sunday. “In my opinion, it goes a bit against the spirit of SUPER GT, which for me is pit stops, traffic and two drive...

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Photo: Team RLL Former NTT IndyCar Series President Jay Frye has joined Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing as its team president, it has been announced. Frye, who was let go of his duties from the open-wheel series in February, will report directly to team ownership, as part of a shakeup that has seen Steve Eriksen depart from his role as chief operating officer. Eriksen had served as Team RLL’s COO since January 2023, having been brought on in the wake of then-team president Piers Phillips’ departure. “First, I would like to thank Steve Eriksen for all of the work he did for us, particularly at a critical moment in time for the company and we certainly wish him the best in his next endeavor,” said team co-owner Bobby Rahal. “I’m very pleased to have Jay Frye join the team as president of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. “I’ve known him since his arrival on the IndyCar scene in 2013 and have spent a lot of time with him and think highly of his character and his passion for the spor...

  Photo: MPS Agency United Autosports driver Marino Sato set the pace during the second and final day of the European Le Mans Series Prologue at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Sato steered the No. 21 Oreca 07 Gibson to a best lap of 1:29.319, also leading the LMP2 Pro-Am ranks in the process. Filipe Albuquerque was second aboard the No. 24 Nielsen Racing Oreca, 0.458 seconds off the Japanese driver’s time. Sato and Albuquerque both set their times during the four-hour morning session, although neither driver managed to get below the 1:28.808 that Inter Europol Competition driver Luca Ghiotto set to top the opening day of running on Monday. A similar scenario unfolded across all of the other classes, with no times set on Tuesday eclipsing those set the previous day. Charles Milesi set the third-fastest overall Tuesday time aboard the No. 48 VDS Panis Racing Oreca with a 1:29.882, with which he went quickest during the final, three-hour session during the afternoon. Mathys...