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Photo: BMW M Motorsport BMW has revealed a three-car attack for next month’s FIA GT World Cup on the streets of Macau, including a comeback for Kelvin van der Linde. The Bavarian manufacturer has expanded its fleet from the two M4 GT3 EVOs it ran at the Guia Circuit last year, with Team WRT adding a second car and GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS squad Team KRC returning to the event after a year away. Two-time winner Raffaele Marciello joins WRT alongside van der Linde, who is set to make his first Macau appearance as a BMW driver, having last raced for Audi in 2019. Van der Linde’s brother Sheldon drove for the Belgian squad at Macau last year, while Marciello finished runner-up for ROWE Racing, which is not present this time. Meanwhile, 2018 winner Farfus returns to Macau along with KRC after the Taiwanese team’s decision to skip the 2025 race, as previously reported by Sportscar365 . “We are very pleased to be able to compete with three BMW M4 GT3 EVOs ...

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Photo: Toyota Rookie Racing has begun shaking down a newly-built GR GT3 at Fuji Speedway, as the Akio Toyoda-owned team looks set to become the first team to race the car. The bare carbon-liveried car was spotted turning laps at the Toyota-owned track on Tuesday with development driver Hiroaki Ishiura at the wheel, in what appears to be part of preparations to give the car its long-awaited race debut. It’s understood the car is a freshly built-up monocoque that was delivered to Rookie’s factory, based adjacent to Fuji, in recent weeks. While Toyota has always officially been tight-lipped about when and where its new GT3 challenger would race for the first time ahead of a full launch in 2027, an early debut in SUPER GT’s GT300 class with Rookie has always been a strong possibility. This week’s shakedown strongly suggests that plans are advancing for the car to race in next month’s season-closing double-header at Mobility Resort Motegi. Confirmation of those plans ...

Photo: Laurent Cartalade/MPS Agency Indy NXT frontrunner Tymek Kucharczyk was fastest of the LMP2 newcomers in the European Le Mans Series’ post-season rookie test at Portimao, while Doriane Pin set the quickest time overall. Pin clocked a 1:32.840 aboard the No. 30 Duqueine Team Oreca 07 Gibson in which she has been competing this year to top the afternoon leaderboard, while Inter Europol Competition regular Nick Yelloly headed the morning times with a 1:33.088. But single-seater convert Kucharczyk was fastest of the true rookies as he posted a 1:33.522 in the afternoon aboard the No. 29 Forestier Racing by Panis machine that finished second in this year’s ELMS standings. Kucharczyk, who was third in the Indy NXT standings, was just eight thousandths of a second faster than the lap FIA World Endurance Championship Lexus RC F GT3 pilot Hadrien David posted in the same car during the morning. Third quickest among the LMP2 newcomers was Enea Frey in the No. 7 Vector Sport...

Photo: Fred Hardy/SRO Westin Workman and Tyler Gonzlaez claimed a sweep of the weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway but it still wasn’t enough to overcome the RS1 duo of Spencer Pumpelly and Luca Mars, who won the Pirelli GT4 America Silver class title while in the pits. Workman took his No. 68 RAFA Racing Team Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO2 to a 4.389-second win over the No. 7 ACI Motorsports Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport of Yves Baltas in Sunday’s 60-minute season finale. Workman and Gonzalez, who trailed the RS1 pairing by 18 points were in a must-win scenario to take the championship, and initially appeared possible when Mars sustained left-front wheel damage in an opening lap incident triggered by the sister RAFA Toyota of Werner Neugebauer, who was served with a drive-through penalty for incident responsibility. However, two other Silver class cars, the No. 130 Advance Motorsports McLaren Artura GT4 of Parker DeLong and Bruno Colombo’s No. 98 Random Vandal...

Photo: Fabian Lagunas/SRO Frederik Schandorff led the way ahead of Maxime Martin at the halfway mark of the Desder Indianapolis 8 Hour, as the Intercontinental GT Challenge and GT World Challenge America powered by AWS season finale set into a long green flag run. Schandorff, in the No. 12 AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo, was 12.135-seconds ahead of the No. 34 JMF Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo of Martin, who, if the race ended now, would be crowned IGTC champion. The two cars swapped positions during the most recent pit stop sequence in the fourth hour, which saw Martin’s co-driver Michai Stephens hold off Nicklas Nielsen. The No. 29 Turner Motorsport BMW M4 GT3 EVO of Robby Foley ran third with four hours completed. Laurin Heinrich held command in the Pro-Am ranks, aboard the No. 31 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo, ahead of Aaron Telitz and Robert Renauer in their Archangel Motorsports McLaren 720S GT3 Evo and Herberth Motorsport Porsche, respectively. Another P...

Photo: MPS Agency United Autosports drivers Griffin Peebles, Gregoire Saucy and Ben Hanley dominated the 4 Hours of Portimao European Le Mans Series season finale to secure the title. The No. 22 Oreca 07 Gibson led from pole and was never seriously threatened en route to taking a first ELMS championship for United Autosports since 2020. Hanley ultimately crossed the line 12.089 seconds ahead of the No. 18 IDEC Sport Oreca of Jamie Chadwick, Valerio Rinicella and Laurents Hoerr. The only car that could prevent the United Autosports crew from taking the title was the No. 29 Forestier Racing by Panis machine that reigning champions Oliver Gray and Esteban Masson shared with Louis Rousset. But this trio could only finish fourth, although have also secured an automatic invitation to the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the team. Peebles enjoyed a brilliant opening stint, building a lead of 4.7 seconds in the first three laps but his advantage was then eradicated not long after when the virtual...