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Photo: Charly Lopez/DPPI Romain Dumas has described his eponymous RD Limited team’s first outing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans as “very important” but admitted uncertainty about the team’s short-term plans, as it continues to push for a European Le Mans Series berth. The two-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner made his first outing at the Circuit de la Sarthe as a driver since he last raced for Glickenhaus in 2023 as he shared RD’s No. 48 Oreca 07 Gibson with Tristian Vautier and Fred Poordad in LMP2 Pro-Am. It follows the team being selected to race in the FIA World Endurance Championship blue riband event off the back of its success in the Asian Le Mans Series, even if it missed out on earning an automatic invitation for winning that series’ LMP2 title. “For us it was very important to get this entry,” Dumas told Sportscar365. “We pushed hard for it and we are all very happy to be here, very proud. We were the only new team besides G...

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Photo: SRO Next year’s Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour will include the opening rounds of Monochrome GT4 Australia for the first time, with the SRO Australia-run championship set to serve as a support series for the Intercontinental GT Challenge season opener. Confirmed in the release of the 2027 calendar at the annual SRO Motorsports Group press conference in Spa, GT4 Australia will bookend its season at Mount Panorama, with two confirmed rounds. As previously reported by Sportscar365 , a GT4 Australia undercard for the 12 Hour had been under evaluation by event promoter Supercars, as part of the its expansion to a four-day event for next year . There will be two 60-minute races, one each on Friday and Saturday of the weekend, while the season will end with an endurance race at Bathurst as part of the Shannon’s SpeedSeries package. “Every driver in the country looks forward to racing at Mount Panorama, so to have the most famous circuit in Australia feature o...

Photo: Laurent Cartalade/MPS Agency. IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship regulars Nick Yelloly and Louis Deletraz will return to European Le Mans Series action at Imola this weekend after a clash with Laguna Seca forced them to miss the previous Paul Ricard event. Yelloly will again team up with Tom Dillmann and Kuba Smiechowski at the wheel of the No. 43 Inter Europol Competition Oreca 07 Gibson in Italy fresh from the trio’s LMP2 class win in the 24 Hours of Le Mans earlier this month. Luca Ghiotto took the Briton’s place at Paul Ricard where the Inter Europol car finished seventh meaning it sits seventh in the overall championship, 24 points behind the No. 22 United Autosports entry of Ben Hanley, Griffin Peebles and Gregoire Saucy that leads the way. Deletraz will also be back on ELMS duty at Imola in the No. 99 AO by TF Pro-Am entry, taking over from substitute Jonny Edgar alongside Dane Cameron and PJ Hyett, as the crew occupies sixth in the class standings. T...

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Image: IMSA The No. 23 Heart of Racing Aston Martin Valkyrie and No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06 are out of the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen after a bizarre crash while under the race’s second safety car. Both GTP class entries pitted for a second time to top up energy under the yellow, which was initially called for debris at the 33-minute mark. Braun and De Angelis were released from the pit lane and were nearly at full speed through the Esses before Braun appeared to check up on the No. 44 Magnus Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo of John Potter, who was running at normal safety car speeds. It forced De Angelis, who was directly behind Braun, to brake hard and went into a spin, collecting the No. 60 Acura in the process. The No. 81 DragonSpeed Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R of Henrik Hedman was also involved and stopped on the side of the track, while the No. 28 RS1 Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo of Eric Lux was also seen near the incident but continued. Extensive t...

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