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Photo: Jake Galstad/IMSA Sheldon van der Linde gave Team WRT a breakthrough first IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship victory following a late-race pass on Earl Bamber in Sunday’s TireRack Battle on the Bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Van der Linde capitalized on traffic to get around the No. 31 Cadillac V-Series.R of Bamber with less than six minutes to go in the two-hour an 40-minute contest, after briefly passing the Kiwi on at least two occasions in a hard-fought battle. The South African then cruised to a 2.926-second win in the No. 24 BMW M Hybrid V8 that he shared with Dries Vanthoor. It marked the first WeatherTech Championship win for the Belgian squad, in its first season of operating BMW’s factory GTP operation. BMW, meanwhile, hadn’t visited victory lane in the top class since Road America last year, a race that was also won by Vanthoor. Bamber’s runner-up finish was enough for co-driver Jack Aitken to extend his points lead over Laur...

Photo: Jamey Price/Lamborghini Giano Taurno returned to victory lane in Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America for the first time in two years, in Sunday’s race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, in a contest that saw the Pro class points leader Elias De La Torre retire early in the running. Taurino took his No. 88 Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo EVO2 to a 2.939-second win over the No. 2 RAFA Racing Team entry of Tyler Gonzalez and Kiko Porto, claiming the final series win on U.S. soil for the V10-powered single-make car ahead of the Temerario Super Trofeo’s debut in 2027. While Taurino claimed a flag-to-flag win in the caution-free 50-minute contest, it came in a race to forget for TR3 driver De La Torre, who was due to start on the front row but slowed on the pace lap, before later pitting and retiring from the race. De La Torre provisionally had a 26-point lead entering the race and could have even locked up the Pro title. However, the gap has now been reduced to 16 p...

Photo: Julien Delfosse/DPPI Marco Sorensen is set for a full season IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship campaign next year with Car Blanche, with the YRB Racing-owned operation confirming its driver lineup in the GTD Pro class. Sorensen will team up with fellow factory driver Valentin Haase-Clot in the Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo, which was previously confirmed for a full season effort . IMSA formally announced the entry on behalf of the team on Sunday, claiming it as the ‘first official entry’ for the 2027 season. The ex-Van der Steur Racing outfit was purchased by a silent entity, under a Delaware-based LLC company, in June and made its debut in the new colors and branding at the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen. It scored two podiums in GTD competition while also making several GTD Pro starts and is coming off a fourth place class result in last month’s Michelin GT Challenge at Virginia International Raceway with Haase-Clot and Sorensen, in the Dane...

Photo: Jessica Johnk/Porsche Tyler Maxson extended his championship lead in Porsche Carrera Cup North America wth his sixth win of the season on Saturday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Topp Racing driver claimed a flag-to-flag victory in the caution-free 40-minute contest, finishing 1.301 seconds ahead of the No. 40 ACI Motorsports Porsche 911 Cup of Janne Stiak. Stiak took second at the start of the race from the No. 24 Kellymoss Porsche of Aaron Jeansonne, who slipped to third and was unable to recover, despite making a late-race charge on the young German. Jared Thomas made a late-race pass on Callum Hedge only to spin in Turn 13 on the second-to-last lap, which dropped the JTR Motorsports Engineering driver to eighth at the time. Callum Hedge was handed incident responsibility for making contact with Thomas, and received a drive-through penalty as a result. The late-race chaos promoted Paul Bocuse to fourth, with Lockie Bloxsom, in his series debut, netting a top-five. ...

Photo: Jake Galstad/IMSA Tom Blomqvist led an Acura Meyer Shank Racing 1-2 in final practice prior to qualifying for Sunday’s TireRack Battle on the Bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Blomqvist, in the No. 60 Acura ARX-06, recorded a best lap of 1:15.398 in the 90-minute session, outpacing teammate Nick Yelloly’s No. 93 machine by 0.279 seconds. The late session improvement by the No. 60 Acura bumped the No. 7 Penske Porsche 963 of Julien Andlauer to third. GTP points leader Jack Aitken and Cadillac teammate Louis Deletraz completed the top-five in their No. 31 Action Express Racing and No. 40 Wayne Taylor Racing entries, respectively. LMP2 was again led by the No. 43 Inter Europol Competition Oreca 07 Gibson of Tom Dillmann, while Danny Formal ran the quickest time out of the entire GT field in his GTD class No. 45 WTR Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2. Formal’s 1:23.240 lap time was 0.282 seconds quicker than the No. 34 Conquest Racing Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo of Lo...

Photo: RacingPixels/Creventic Hofor Racing’s No. 11 Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo held the lead of the Michelin 24H Barcelona after the opening six hours of racing. Michael Kroll kept his Mercedes-AMG out front as the field emerged from a Code 60 caution period for a stranded Juta Racing Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO II. The Swiss crew held a healthy lead to Dominic Ang in the No. 65 Viper Niza Racing Mercedes-AMG. Hofor driver Alexander Prinz made a daring overtake on Viper Niza’s Douglas Khoo on the front straight to edge out a lead just before the fifth caution of the race came out. Both of the leading crews pitted for fuel but emerged from pit lane in the same position. Hofor, which won the race last year, consistently took advantage of its GT3-Am status by capitalizing on its fuel allowance advantage when pitting under caution. Am-ranked cars are allowed to take on 40 percent of fuel when they pit under a Code 60 caution period, whereas Pro and Pro-Am teams can only take on 15 perce...

Photo: Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit Creventic have announced that the Michelin 24H Dubai, which had originally been scheduled to take place at the Dubai Autodrome, has been moved to Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit in South Africa. This news comes as a result of continuing conflict in the Middle East which has left Creventic unable to host its Michelin 24H Series Middle East Trophy over the winter months. The Dutch organization cited inflated shipping costs and uncertainly around transport planning as a core reason for the decision. It had previously confirmed that Kyalami was being assessed as a contingency if the Iran war continued. The new event will take place at Kyalami on the same weekend as previously announced (Jan. 8-10) and will be the first international 24-hour race to be held in South Africa. It will mark the first international sports car endurance race of any kind to be held at the famed 2.814 mile circuit since the last running of the Kyalami 9 Hour under SRO Motorsports ...