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Photo: Julien Delfosse/DPPI Ford Racing Hypercar program manager Dan Sayers says he is ‘not losing sleep’ over fellow 2027 FIA World Endurance Championship entrant McLaren beginning track testing at least three months earlier than the American manufacturer. McLaren’s new MCL-HY Hypercar completed its first miles at a circuit at the start of this month , while Sayers said that Ford’s current target is to hit the track for the first time with its as-yet-unnamed LMDh machine at the beginning of August. Despite the three-month difference between the dates, Sayers insisted Ford is “focused on our program” rather than worrying about what rivals are doing, adding there are benefits to spending more time developing the car before commencing testing. When asked by Sportscar365 if he was concerned by McLaren gaining a head start, Sayers replied: “In honesty, no — it’s interesting but not very. “I always think, from my design background, ...

Photo: IMSA IMSA has issued a corrected version of its Balance of Performance table one day after confirming the original figures for next weekend’s Chevrolet Detroit Sports Car Classic. Released in a technical bulletin on Friday afternoon , figures, primarily in the GTP class, have been adjusted. The BMW sees weight and power corrections, with the M Hybrid V8 getting 1 kg of additional weight after initially receiving a 12 kg reduction for Detroit. Additionally, the power levels have been adjusted to the LMDh-based prototype, with a 0.4 percent decrease in Stage 1 and 1.7 percent increase at Stage 2 compared to Thursday’s published figures. The Cadillac V-Series.R gets corrected power levels as well, with a 0.4 percent increase in Stage 1 and a 0.6 percent decrease in Stage 2 when referenced to the original Detroit BoP numbers. The Acura ARX-06, meanwhile, gets a 0.2 percent increase in Stage 1 power levels. Both specs of Porsche 963s also have corrected Stage 1 pow...

Photo: SRO The GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS series has made a late change to its schedule with its Chinese round next month moving from the Shanghai International Circuit to instead be held at Ningbo. The swap was formally confirmed by the series on Friday, just two weeks before the June 3-5 event was due to take place, although teams had been given advance warning of the change in venue. In a statement, series organizer SRO explained: “Local administrative complications linked to China’s nationwide College Entrance Exam recently cast doubt over the scheduled Shanghai event, which was due to take place on the same dates. “SRO Motorsports Group has therefore taken the proactive decision to move the event to Ningbo, a circuit it last visited in 2018.” That 2018 event was the season finale of that year’s campaign and the circuit played host to FFF Racing’s Dennis Lind and Martin Kodric winning the title at the wheel of a Lamborghini Huracan GT3. The ...

Image: Inter Europol Competition Inter Europol Competition’s No. 43 Oreca 07 Gibson LMP2 entry will sport an art car livery in next month’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, with the two-time and defending class-winning squad revealing the color scheme created by Polish designers Aleksandra and Gustaw Lange. Billed as a “comprehensive concept” that includes the “entire visual identity and communication” of the project, the art car’s livery stems from the team’s traditional yellow and green color scheme, derived from the landscape of rapeseed fields. The designers built a “narrative” rooted in Polish Impressionism and, more broadly, in the history of Polish art. Their work references artists such as Leon Wyczółkowski, Edward Dwurnik, and Waldemar Świerzy, as well as the aesthetics of the Polish School of Poster Art. “Our goal was to create something that works on an immediate visual level, but also carries deeper layers of meaning...

Photo: Gruppe C Photography Kelvin van der Linde says the DTM “throws curve balls every weekend” and is therefore “not particularly worried” about his tricky start to the season at the Red Bull Ring opener last month. The South African returned to the series for the first time since 2024 this year, with the current campaign also marking his first in the category at the wheel of a Schubert Motorsport-run BMW M4 GT3 EVO. Van der Linde enjoyed an all-conquering 2025 season during which he won the GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS and Intercontinental GT Challenge titles as he spent a year away from the DTM. However, the start to his latest DTM bid, having finished runner-up in the 2024 standings at the wheel of Audi machinery, was not ideal at the Red Bull Ring. He retired from the first race but then qualified on pole for the second contest, only to slip back to sixth in the latter stages. Nevertheless, van der Linde remained confident of turning his f...

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Photo: Brett Farmer/IMSA A total of 21 cars are set for next weekend’s Chevrolet Detroit Sports Car Classic, in the second and final IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship street race of the season. Next Saturday’s 100-minute sprint race on the downtown Detroit course will feature 11 GTP and ten GTD Pro entries. There are no changes in the GTP class, which sees the same driver lineups from last time out at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, which was the site of JDC-Miller Motorsports’ breakthrough first victory with its Porsche 963. Laurin Heinrich leads the standings as a result, 21 points ahead of Action Express Racing driver Jack Aitken. Porsche Penske Motorsport’s Felipe Nasr and Julien Andlauer sit third on 1323 points each, 73 points behind Heinrich, who is due to miss next month’s Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen due to a clash with the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa. The GTD Pro class sees the addition of a second Vasser Sullivan entry , ...