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Photo: Laurent Cartalade/MPS Agency. IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship racers Renger van der Zande and Harry King joining the LMP2 ranks are among the drivers confirmed as tackling this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans as the full 62-car entry list has been published. Acura WeatherTech Championship driver van der Zande has made sporadic LMP2 appearances at La Sarthe in recent times, including finishing seventh with United Autosports last year, but will now join the DKR Engineering outfit to drive the No. 3 Oreca 07 Gibson alongside John Farano and Sebastian Alvarez. King, meanwhile, who currently sits third in the WeatherTech Championship’s GTD Pro class standings, will make his Le Mans debut on June 13-14 with Proton Competition alongside brothers Jonas and Lenny Ried. His sole previous prototype campaign was in the 2024-25 Asian Le Mans Series when he drove an Oreca for Pure Rxcing. While the Hypercar lineup had already been set, other drivers confirmed in the LMP2 r...

Photo: Julien Delfosse/DPPI Genesis Magma Racing team principal Cyril Abiteboul has said the postponement of the Qatar FIA World Endurance Championship opener brought both positives and negatives for the manufacturer’s debut season. The WEC was due to kick off with an 1812km, ten-hour race in Qatar at the end of March, but this was postponed until October amid the escalating conflict in the Middle East. This gave Genesis an extra three weeks before the new season opener at Imola, which Abiteboul said was very helpful from a manufacturing point of view as parts for the GMR-001 Hypercar were still being constructed. “It was going to be very tight, very marginal to be fully ready for Qatar in particular in terms of supply chain because we pushed very late the development, we pushed very late the homologation,” he told Sportscar365. “For that respect, governance was very helpful to make it very late. “But, on the flip side, it puts massive constraint on...

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Image: WRT The No. 69 WRT BMW M4 GT3 EVO will sport the colors of ‘Genuine BMW Parts’ liveries from the past, but with a modern twist, in this weekend’s second round of the FIA World Endurance Championship season at Spa-Francorchamps. Revealed on Tuesday, the LMGT3 entry of Anthony McIntosh, Parker Thompson and Dan Harper, who won last time out in the program’s debut, the design offers a look beneath the skin of the M4 GT3 EVO, as well as featuring a flash of BMW M colors. It is the second of eight special liveries to be featured on the No. 69 entry this year, with FIA Bronze-rated driver McIntosh having elected to showcase a different BMW heritage or throwback livery on the car at each WEC round this season. The team won at Imola with a Tic Tac-inspired livery that was raced on BMW E30 M3 in the 1991 DTM season. McIntosh, Thompson and Harper hold a seven-point lead over TF Sport’s Nicky Catsburg, Jonny Edgar and Blake McDonald heading into Saturday...

Photo: Chris duMond/IMSA For IMSA Airbnb Endurance Challenge LMP3 competitors, both the Circuit of The Americas racetrack in Austin and the race length will be bigger than the last time they were there at the end of February. As part of the full IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge season, LMP3 ran alongside GSX competitors at COTA during the series’ most recent sprint weekend featuring two 45-minute races. That took place at the COTA National Course, a 2.4-mile, 20-turn circuit with a cut-through near the end of the Esses and going onto the back straight. In the Airbnb Endurance Challenge event this weekend, they get the full COTA experience: all 3.4 miles of the Grand Prix track and the two-hour race length for the single Saturday race. That makes what was gained at the end of February useful for the majority of the circuit, with still a fair bit to learn for the rest of the track. A total of ten cars are entered for the race, with the new-for-2026 BMW M2 Challenge class not pres...

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Tire strategy played a central role in Sunday’s StubHub Monterey SportsCar Championship at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, as Laurin Heinrich’s late-race charge to victory for the No. 5 JDC-Miller Motorsports Porsche 963 was built on a calculated call that paid off on the final lap. JDC-Miller opted to take four Michelin tires on their second-to-last stop, then pitted for energy only in their final stop, banking on the same set of tires to pay off in the closing stages. They did. Heinrich made a last-lap pass on Earl Bamber’s No. 31 Action Express Racing Cadillac V-Series.R and held on for a 0.758-second win. “I think our strength was on tires, which we could really make use of in the last four or five laps,” said Heinrich. “You have to set up the car quite well because this is a high-load track and the asphalt is quite rough, so it’s quite hard on the tires. “And the team asked me if I want to change tires or not and this was the ...