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Photo: Fabrizio Boldoni/DPPI Toyota Racing technical director David Floury says it was “disappointing” and is “raising some concerns” that the manufacturer was unable to progress to the Hyperpole shootout for the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps FIA World Endurance Championship round. Three weeks after Toyota was within a whisker of taking pole for the Imola season-opener and then executed a perfected strategy to win the race, the two TR010 Hybrids struggled far more at Spa and languished down in 12th and 16th places after qualifying . Floury “knew it would be a tough weekend” heading into Spa but dismissed any notion that Toyota was sandbagging in Belgium by pointing out that it went faster in qualifying this year than in 2025. “It’s generally not our best track here since some years,” said Floury. “We continue this trend. “There are different ways to look at quali and Hyperpole today. It is obviously disappointing and...

Photo: Fred Hardy/SRO Spencer Pumpelly and Matheus Leist grabbed pole position for the fourth and fifth rounds of the Pirelli GT4 America season at Sebring International Raceway. Qualifying was decided across two 15-minute sessions, with the first defining the grid for Race 1 and the second session setting the running order for Race 2. RS1 driver Pumpelly grabbed pole for Race 1 in the No. 028 Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport with a 2:10.740 lap time. Pumpelly was the only driver to dip below a 2:11 lap time in the opening qualifying session. Silver class championship leader Westin Workman was 0.528 seconds behind in the No. 68 RAFA Racing Team Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO2 that he shares with Tyler Gonzalez. Third place for Race 1 was seized by Kevin Boehm in Auto Technic Racing’s BMW M4 GT4 EVO. Boehm won both of the GT4 America rounds at Sebring last year, driving alongside Kenton Koch in a Random Vandals Racing BMW. The No. 131 Advance Motorsports McLaren Artura GT4 completed t...

Photo: Fred Hardy/SRO Matheus Leist set the pace in practice for Rounds 4 and 5 of Pirelli GT4 America at Sebring International Raceway, clocking the fastest overall time across both sessions in his No. 47 Nolasport Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport. Leist set a 2:11.075 lap time in the Porsche that he shares with Matt Travis, heading the time sheets in the second practice session. The FIA Gold-rated driver set the chart-topping time in the opening minutes of the Friday morning session. His Pro-Am entry was 0.059 seconds ahead of Luca Mars in the No. 028 RS1 Porsche, which was second quickest overall and fastest in the Silver class with a 2:11.134 lap time. The Nolasport squad most recently scored a second place overall in the Lone Star Enduro at Circuit of the Americas in April. Tyler McQuarrie was third quickest overall and second fastest in the Pro-Am class in the No. 38 BimmerWorld BMW that he drives alongside Michael Petramalo. The ACI Motorsports Porsche rounded out the ...

Photo: Fabian Lagunas/SRO ***SRO America’s annual trip to Sebring International Raceway sees all four of its core series in action this weekend, headlined by the third round of GT World Challenge America powered by AWS, the fourth and fifth rounds of Pirelli GT4 America, the fifth and sixth races of GT America powered by AWS, as well as TC America powered by Skip Barber Racing School. ***Both Toyota GR Cup North America and McLaren Trophy America are not on the weekend bill. The Toyota GR 86 Cup cars will return to action next month at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, alongside McLaren Trophy America, which is fresh off its first time supporting a Formula 1 race last weekend at the Miami International Autodrome. ***Race 2 of the Miami weekend was canceled due to heavy rain and thunderstorms but will be re-scheduled to a SRO America weekend later in the year according to a McLaren spokesperson. ***Unlike the first two GTWC America races of the season that were held on Sunday, th...

Photo: Andrea Lorenzina/DPPI Alpine set the pace in Free Practice 2 ahead of this weekend’s 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps FIA World Endurance Championship round as its pair of A424s locked out the top spots with Jules Gounon leading the way. The 2:01.816 that Gounon set aboard the No. 36 machine in the opening portion of the session was a second faster than Antonio Fuoco’s pacesetting time in FP1 , which had began with the track slightly damp. Gounon was 0.274 seconds quicker than stablemate Charles Milesi in the sister No. 36 Alpine in FP2, while Sheldon van der Linde was third fastest in the No. 20 WRT BMW M Hybrid V8 with a 2:02.179 upon his return to WEC action after missing the Imola opener due to clashing IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship commitments. Heart of Racing Team continued its strong showing from FP1, when Alex Riberas was second, with Marco Sorensen aboard the No. 009 Aston Martin Valkyrie fourth fastest with a 2:02.294. Rounding out the top five w...

Photo: Andrea Lorenzina/DPPI Antonio Felix da Costa says he is determined to stay in the FIA World Endurance Championship next year after Alpine’s Hypercar exit, having only just secured his return to the championship after a two-year absence. The Portuguese driver joined the Signatech-run Alpine squad for the this year’s campaign after an enforced break from the WEC since his previous stint at JOTA Sport from 2019-23, to focus on his Formula E commitments with Porsche. However, less than four months on from Alpine confirming his arrival , the Renault-owned marque announced its plans to withdraw from the WEC’s top class . It leaves da Costa scrambling to find an alternative berth to stay on the 2027 WEC grid alongside his Formula E drive for Jaguar, which he joined for the start of the current 2025-26 season following his departure from Porsche. “The goal won’t change, which is to maintain a double [WEC/Formula E] program,” da Costa told Sportsc...

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