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Photo: Dan Bathie/McLaren Jeff Cook and James Li have claimed pole positions for this weekend’s pair of McLaren Trophy America races at the Miami International Autodrome, in support of the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix. Cook, in the Am class-entered No. 5 GMG Racing McLaren Artura Trophy EVO, reeled off a best lap of 1:57.328 in Q1 on Saturday afternoon to edge out the No. 74 RWE Motorsport entry of Sam Neser by 0.119 seconds. Patrick Liddy qualified third in the No. 8 Forte Racing McLaren, also in the Pro class, with Cooper Broll and Tony Davis, driving solo, completing the overall top-five for Forte Racing and OMS, respectively. The No. 52 Aero-B entry took Pro-Am pole with the seventh quickest time overall in the hands of Joe Osborne. Q2 saw James Li take his RWE McLaren to the top spot, thanks to a 1:57.496 lap time, which narrowly edged out GMG’s Michael O’Brien by 0.048 seconds. Race 1 gets underway at 6 p.m. EST with live coverage on SRO’s GT World and...

Photo: Wes Duenkel/Ford Cole Loftsgard continued his winning ways in Mustang Challenge North America competition, with the Round 3 Racing taking victory in an incident-filled opening race of the weekend at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Loftsgard took his No. 42 Ford Mustang Dark Horse R to a 1.029-second win over the No. 22 TechSport Racing entry of Davin Anderson, who started on pole for Saturday’s 45-minute race. While Anderson led from the green, second-place starter Loftsgard passed Anderson on the outside of Turn 5 for the lead following the first resumption of racing on Lap 5. The first yellow came out immediately at the start for an accident by Loftgard’s teammate, Joe Koenig, who crashed out over the hill in his Dark Horse Legends entry. A second yellow was called for debris on Lap 7, while Wheelhouse Motorsports driver Michael Tosi escaped injury following a sizable accident in Turn 9 after contact from the No. 29 Paley Motorsport with AAG Racing entry of R...

Photo: Fred Hardy/Lamborghini Dennis Lind and Marc Miller have scored overall poles for this weekend’s pair of Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America races at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, with both qualifying sessions red-flagged for incidents. Former Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe champion Lind, in his series debut, stormed to a best lap of 1:22.437 in his No. 29 TR3 Racing Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo EVO2 to edge out XONINE Racing’s Will Bamber by 0.127 seconds. Defending Pro class champion Hampus Ericsson was third in the No. 1 Wayne Taylor Racing entry. The 15-minute Q1 session was cut short by five minutes to go when Ian Porter in the Pro-Am class No. 81 RAFA Racing Team Lamborghini went off in Turn 2. Pro-Am class pole honors for Race 1 went to Joel Miller in the No. 36 Kaizen Autosport entry, while Sean McAuliffe and Ray Shahi took pole positions in the Am and LB Cup categories, respectively. Q2 also came to an early end when Shahi went off course in ...

Photo: Mike Levitt/IMSA Honda Racing Corporation USA President David Salters has ruled out seeing the Acura ARX-06, in customer hands, in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship next year, citing the high costs involved to operate LMDh cars which he calls has turned into an “arm’s race.” The luxury automaker announced last month the ‘pausing’ of its factory GTP program at the end of the year, and will instead allocate more resources into the NTT IndyCar Series through sponsorship of the Acura brand. Speaking to assembled reporters at this weekend’s StubHub Monterey SportsCar Championship at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Salters shed further light into the Honda-owned brand’s decision. “There’s exciting news that we’re going to take Acura to IndyCar, specifically to the Indy 500, so that’s history making; we’ve never done that before,” he said. “Like all things, we evaluate where we are regu...

Photo: Jamey Price/Lamborghini Will Bamber was quickest in opening Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America practice at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. The Kiwi, in his first weekend with XONINE Racing, reeled of a best lap of 1:23.127 in his No. 33 entry, which was 0.337 seconds quicker than Danny Formal in the Pro-Am class-leading No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo EVO2. Dennis Lind, TR3 Racing’s new driver, was third quickest in the session, with the No. 27 SP Motorsports and No. 46 Precision Performance Motorsports entries completing the overall top-five. The No. 488 PPM Lamborghini of David Staab was quickest in Am, while Forty7 Motorsports driver Christopher Koebbe topped LB Cup. The 45-minute session ran without any red flags. Practice 2 is next up and scheduled for 2:15 p.m. PST. RESULTS: Practice 1 Source: Sports Car 365

Photo: Van der Steur Racing Trenton Estep led an Aston Martin 1-2 in the first IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge practice for Saturday’s WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca 120. The Van der Steur Racing driver reeled off a 1:28.992 in his No. 66 Aston Martin Vantage GT4 Evo to edge out Thomas Merrill in the No. 14 Circle H Racing entry by 0.143 seconds. Jaxon Bell was third in the Koch-Copeland Motorsports Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO2. In TCR, the No. 93 MMG Honda Civic Type R TCR of LP Montour that was quickest, thanks to a 1:30.151 lap time that put the Canadian squad an impressive 12th overall. The 60-minute session had one red flag for an incident involving the No. 30 LAP Motorsports Ford Mustang GT4 and the Circle H Aston Martin in Turn 11. It led to debris from the Aston on track, which ultimately brought out the brief stoppage. As a result, the Merrill and David Hampton-driven Aston will lose its quickest time in qualifying due to being deemed for bringing out a red. Practice ...

Photo: Wes Duenkel/Ford Cole Loftsgard led the way in opening practice for this weekend’s Mustang Challenge North America round at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. The Round 3 Racing driver, who swept the opening weekend at Sebring International Raceway, reeled off a chart-topping 1:33.172 in his No. 42 Mustang Dark Horse R. It was 0.349 seconds faster than Sandy Satullo in the No. 7 Wheelhouse entry, who was second quickest, with teammate Will Lucas slotting in third. Michael Tosi, also of Wheelhouse and Automatic Racing’s Tate Pritt completed the top-five. Quickest in Dark Horse Legends was the No. 63 Mustang of Joseph Dederichs. The 30-minute session saw a single red flag following an incident between the No. 9 Paley Motorsports with AAG Racing entry of Chris Clarke and Jim Farley’s No. 17 Trackhouse entry. Farley, the CEO of Ford Motor Company, drove his car behind the wall at the orange overlap at pit exit, while Clarke’s car remained on track after ...