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Photo: Laurent Cartalade/MPS Agency ***Friday’s one-and-only Free Practice session for this weekend’s European Le Mans Series season-opening 4 Hours of Barcelona saw drama from the start when Alex Quinn was forced to pull his No. 27 Nielsen Racing Oreca 07 Gibson off-course after encountering an oil leak, resulting in a lengthy red flag period and an extended session. The car, however, is expected to be back in action on Satuday. ***The afternoon’s Bronze Driver Collective Test, meanwhile, also saw a red, but in the closing minutes when the No. 63 Iron Lynx Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo of Ameerh Naran stopped just past pit-out with a suspected mechanical issue. ***ELMS cars and drivers assembled for a group photo on Thursday evening (pictured above), with the front row led by the respective defending class champions in LMP2 (Panis Racing), LMP2 Pro-Am (AO by TF), LMP3 (CLX Motorsport) and LMGT3 (TF Sport). ***A total of ten drivers competing this weekend will be heading directly to Imola...

Photo: Javier Jimenez/DPPI Cadillac FIA World Endurance Championship driver Alex Lynn will miss the first two rounds of this season after undergoing an operation on his neck. The 32-year-old has had the planned procedure amid what has been described as an “ongoing neck injury” that he has been battling with since 2024. The Briton has contested every WEC race in a Cadillac since the V-Series.R was first introduced in 2023, including taking victory at Interlagos last year, but will miss the Imola opener later this month as well as the Spa event in May. The Cadillac Hertz Team Jota squad has said that its No. 12 machine will be driven by just Will Stevens and Norman Nato in Lynn’s absence at the opening round, meaning both Cadillacs will be raced by only two drivers at Imola as No. 38 pilot Jack Aitken is away on IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship duty at Long Beach. Regarding Lynn’s neck injury, a team statement read: “The decision has now been taken to address the i...

Photo: Drew Gibson McLaren Motorsport has confirmed the return of multiple UK domestic championship-winning driver Adam Smalley as a GT3 Junior driver for this year. Smalley will be joined by new additions Alessio Deledda, Baptiste Moulin, Lorens Lecertua, Riccardo Cazzaniga, Alejandro Geppert and McKenzy Cresswell. They will be joined by four more drivers who complete the new Talent Pathway initiative with Elite Motorsport. Smalleu was a race winner in GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS last year, sharing the Garage 59 Gold Cup entry with fellow GT3 Junior driver Louis Prette and factory driver Dean MacDonald, where they claimed victory in the season finale at Barcelona. This follows his British GT Silver Cup championship success in 2024. Belgian racer Lecertua is the first of our six new members. The 19-year-old has already been a Silver Cup class winner in GTWC Europe and will be looking to emulate that success as he moves to McLaren customer team CSA this year. He wi...

Listen to Sportscar365’s latest ‘Double Stint Segment’ on this week’s episode of Midweek Motorsport, where John Hindhaugh and John Dagys catch up on the latest news in sports car racing, covering a wide-range of news and previews for the weekends ahead. The Double Stint Segment begins at the 23-minute mark. Source: Sports Car 365

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Photo: SRO Aston Martin Formula 1 driver Lance Stroll says he could tackle further GT3 races this year as he prepares to make his surprise GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS debut at Paul Ricard this weekend. The Canadian was an unexpected late addition to the entry list for the season opener with Aston squad Comtoyou Racing fielding a fourth Vantage GT3 Evo for Stroll, ex-F1 driver Roberto Merhi and Aston Academy racer Mari Boya. Stroll was able to take advantage of a gap in the F1 schedule brought about by the cancellation of the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian races amid the conflict in the Middle East to make his GT3 bow. He had the chance to sample the Vantage during GTWC Europe’s Prologue at Paul Ricard on Wednesday with the No. 18 machine ending up 26th in the afternoon session. When asked if this was just a one-off outing or he could make more sports car appearances, Stroll said: “If I feel good physically and mentally, yes — I’d like to do more races during th...

Photo: F. Peirce Williams/IMSA Ligier Automotive North America has announced the creation of a new driver incentive program in IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge. Building on Ligier Automotive’s global footprint, spanning LMP3 dominance, upcoming LMP2 and GT platforms, and a comprehensive ladder for endurance racing, the initiative is designed to reward teams and drivers competing within the Ligier system in North America. At the conclusion of the VP Racing Challenge season, the top FIA Bronze-rated driver competing in a Ligier LMP3 car, either the Ligier JS P320 Nissan or the Ligier JS P325 Toyota, across the remaining nine races (including three endurance races and six sprint races) will be awarded a race seat in a Ligier JS P2 at the Legends of Le Mans event during the 24 Hours of Le Mans event in June 2027. Legends of Le Mans Series, launched last year, celebrates the golden era of modern endurance racing by bringing together LMP1, LMP2, and GTE machinery from the 2000s to th...