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Photo: Ferrari The Golden State welcomes Ferrari Challenge North America for the third and final time of the year, as drivers and teams descend on Sonoma Raceway this weekend. The 2.533-mile circuit falls on the schedule after Ferrari Challenge visited The Thermal Club in southern California for its opening two rounds, and after its last doubleheader in July at Laguna Seca just a few hours south. Sonoma has been a staple on the series’ calendar after its first visit in 2011, and this year marks the 10th trip in Ferrari Challenge’s 33 seasons of competition. Fifty-five Ferrari 296 Challenge cars are prepared to lap Sonoma, in addition to 29 in Club Challenge and nearly ten in Club Competizioni GT. As the ninth and tenth rounds – and the penultimate event on North American soil before Road America in September – results at Sonoma Raceway will be key for soon-to-be decided championship results. With five wins in eight races, 17-year-old Johnny Kaminskey (Ferrari of Long Island) has ...

Photo: Alex Quinn Instagram Alex Quinn said he’s hoping to take the “next step” with Peugeot in becoming a race driver within the French squad’s FIA World Endurance Championship Hypercar program. The 25-year-old Englishman, who was named this year as an official test and reserve driver, got his first experience of the LMH-based 9X8 prototype in last year’s Bahrain rookie test and was also part of the team’s pre-Le Mans endurance test at Portimao in the spring. Sportscar365 understands that Quinn, who won this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans in the LMP2 Pro-Am class, is in the mix to land a race seat next year amid an expected driver lineup shuffle . While denying that any decision has already been made, Quinn said he already feels at home with the team. “I enjoy driving that car,” he told Sportscar365. “It was really cool to get my first experience in it in March at a 24-hour test in Portimao. It was good to be mixing it with ...

Photo: HRT Haupt Racing Team CEO Ulrich Fritz said he’d like to expand his squad’s relationship with Ford Racing by entering additional series in the future, including potentially moving into ACO competition. HRT previously enjoyed a successful alliance with Mercedes-AMG, which included DTM and GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS titles, before entering a new partnership with Ford last year. Fritz has been encouraged by how the first 18 months has developed, particularly with the increasing competitiveness of the Ford Mustang GT3 since the new EVO version came on stream this year. HRT fields Mustangs in GTWC Europe, DTM and ADAC GT Masters, as well as contesting selected Intercontinental GT Challenge rounds. It has achieved some notable milestones in those categories already this year, including taking GTWC Europe Endurance Cup pole at Monza and scoring the Mustang’s first podiums in DTM. Fritz said he’s now keen to further strengthen the relationship ...

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Photo: GT World Challenge Australia This weekend’s fourth round of the GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS season at Hidden Valley Raceway has attracted a 13-car entry. Revealed on Tuesday, the entry list for the Darwin event features 11 cars battling it out for overall honors in Pro-Am and a pair of Trophy Class entries. It marks the smallest field of the season so far, with both Volante Rosso Motorsport — as previously announced — and Wall Racing not making the trip north. It also means that McLaren, Aston Martin and Lamborghini, are not represented on the grid, leaving four marques: Audi, Mercedes-AMG, Ferrari and Porsche. However, the grid is bolstered by the return of the No. 666 Team BRM Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II of JP Drake and Garnet Patterson, which appeared earlier in the year at The Bend but skipped the most recent round at Queensland Raceway. Tigani Motorsport’s No. 71 Porsche 911 GT3 R, shared by Nathan Halstead and Luke Youlden, is now ...

Photo: Drew Gibson/BMW BMW M Motorsport director Andreas Roos said it’s their aim to “stay in the fight” for the FIA World Endurance Championship Hypercar titles, after taking wins in two of the first four races. The German brand, which picked up its third consecutive podium finish with its Team WRT-entered BMW M Hybrid V8s, has closed to within five points of Toyota for the lead of the manufacturers’ world championship despite the Japanese manufacturer’s double-points victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. This was aided by a zero-point score by the pair of Toyota TR010 Hybrids in Brazil, and building consistency from the two BMWs, which have combined to claim four podium finishes so far this season. It has resulted in a remarkable turnaround by BMW, which scored a total of 87 manufacturer points for the entire 2025 season, compared to already having 127 points on the board at the season’s halfway mark. “We’re super happy with how thin...

Photo: Fabrizio Boldoni/DPPI Silverstone CEO Stuart Pringle has outlined an ambition for the British track to become the “next biggest” race on the FIA World Endurance Championship calendar behind the 24 Hours of Le Mans after securing a deal to return to the calendar next year. The home of the Formula 1 British Grand Prix, and a former staple of the WEC schedule prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, was confirmed as part of the 2027 calendar when it was revealed at Le Mans last month with an April date. It marks the start of a new four-year deal with promoter Le Mans Endurance Management that will see Silverstone host WEC events at least through to 2030. Pringle told selected media including Sportscar365 that he’s already “looking beyond this four-year deal” as it seeks to tap into its primarily Formula 1-derived fanbase to build up interest in the revived 6 Hours of Silverstone. “This is a genuine partnership with WEC,” he said. “We...