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Photo: KohR Motorsports KohR Motorsports has confirmed its first full season driver lineup in IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge, naming Evan Slater and Ray Mason to the No. 60 Ford Mustang GT4. Slater, 19, graduates from Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli competition and will make his IMSA debut alongside former Rehagen Racing driver Mason. Mason makes his return to Pilot Challenge competition after previously contesting the series in various Compass Racing-run machinery. The Florida-based team, led by Dean Martin, has yet to confirm the lineup of its sister Mustang GT4. Ford Racing Junior Team drivers Sam Paley and Robert Noaker, who swept this year’s Mustang Challenge season, both took part in races towards the end of the recent season. The 2026 season kicks off next month with a four-hour enduro at Daytona International Speedway, as part of the Rolex 24 at Daytona weekend. Source: Sports Car 365

Photo: CSM Czabok-Simpson Motorsport has announced the addition of Ismaeel Ellahi to its lineup for the team’s entry in the IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge GSX Class. Ellahi, an accomplished sim racer, will pilot one of the team’s Porsche Cayman 718 GT4 RS Clubsport entries, a car he drove in both GT4 European Series powered by Rafa Racing Club and Porsche Sprint Challenge Germany this year. “I’m incredibly excited to join Czabok-Simpson Motorsport for the 2026 season,” he said. “CSM has built a strong reputation with Porsche platforms, and the IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge GSX class is an excellent environment to continue developing as a driver. “I’m looking forward to working closely with the team and pushing for strong results in 2026.” Team co-owner and managing partner Matthias Czabok added: “Ismaeel represents exactly what we look for in a driver. He brings commitment, professionalism, and a clear desire to grow within the Porsche Motorsport ladder. “The GSX prog...

Photo: MPS Agency AO by TF will return to the European Le Mans Series next year with the unchanged driver lineup of Dane Cameron, Louis Deletraz and PJ Hyett, as the team seeks its third class title in a row. Confirmed on Tuesday, the same trio will pilot the No. 99 Oreca 07 Gibson in the six-round ELMS season, which kicks off in April with the 4 Hours of Barcelona. The TF Sport-run operation delivered four class victories and nine podium finishes across the 2024 and 2025 seasons, the former season which saw the team claim the overall LMP2 title with Deletraz teaming up with Robert Kubica and Jonny Edgar. “We’ve had two very successful years with our partnership with TF in the ELMS and we are excited to continue together in 2026,” said team principal Gunnar Jeannette. “The competition in the LMP2 Pro-Am class is very strong across the field and we are looking forward to PJ, Louis, and Dane racing for a repeat championship win.” Cameron added: “I am very excited to be back with ...

Photo: VPX Motorsport VPX Motorsport will make the move from Pirelli GT4 America to IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge competition next year, fielding its No. 7 Porsche Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport for Danny Dyszelski and Matheus Leist. The Charlotte-based team will make its Pilot Challenge debut after a full season effort in SRO’s GT4 America, where the team ran with the Silver class pairing of Dyszelski and Alex Ellis. Dyszelski, 17, has earned 11 podium finishes across Porsche Sprint Challenge and GT4 America competition with the team. “I’m super excited to make my debut in IMSA Pilot Challenge, can’t think of a better team to do this with than VPX Motorsport,” said Dyszelski. “I’m very grateful to have a co-driver as talented as Matheus and cannot wait to see how this season goes.” Leist, who undertook a dual-series campaign in GT4 America and Porsche Carrera Cup North America in Nolasport-entered Porsches, is also confirmed for a full-season effort with VPX. The Brazilian ex-N...

Photo: AO Racing Dane Cameron has reflected on what was a “really incredible” year for AO Racing in LMP2 competition, which saw he and co-driver PJ Hyett win multiple titles as well as the 24 Hours of Le Mans in class. Cameron, who joined the Gunnar Jeannette-led squad on the back of a two-year run with Porsche Penske Motorsport, highlighted by the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTP title, helped anchor two season-long championships for AO and Hyett. The duo picked up the WeatherTech Championship LMP2 title following October’s season-ending Motul Petit Le Mans, and one week later, were joined by Louis Deletraz to seal up the LMP2 Pro-Am championship in the European Le Mans Series in an AO by TF-run Oreca 07 Gibson. “You go into these projects thinking that both can win but you don’t necessarily expect to get both; that seems a bit unrealistic or a bit greedy,” Cameron told Sportscar365. “It wasn’t easy across both projects but to win a monumental [race] like Le Mans an...

Photo: Honda Honda factory driver Kaku Ohta looks set to drive for ARTA upon his SUPER GT return next year, and is expected to be one of three new faces on the marque’s GT500 roster. As previously reported by Sportscar365 , Ohta is poised to return to Japan’s top sports car racing competition after a year away, alongside a slimmed-down two-race IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship program for Acura Meyer Shank Racing. Ohta also tested Honda’s new HRC Prelude-GT, which replaces the Civic Type R-GT next year, at Fuji Speedway last month alongside Tadasuke Makino and Naoki Yamamoto. However, while it was previously believed that there were plans to pair Makino and Ohta together, Honda appears to have had a change of heart regarding its lineups. Makino and Yamamoto, the 2020 champions, are now looking set to remain a pair at Team Kunimitsu, with Ohta instead now set to join the two-car ARTA stable. It comes at the expense of Nobuharu Matsushita, who is understood to be out of a ...

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