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Photo: Brian Cleary/BCPix Staff Sgt. Nathan Munnings, of Jacksonville, N.C., will officially retire from the U.S. Marine Corps after 13 years of service during the second-annual CrowdStrike Veterans Race of Remembrance powered by AWS on Sunday at Virginia International Raceway. Munnings was looking for a way to transition back into civilian life when he found Operation Motorsport, a non-profit that offers motorsports programming for veterans with a disability rating in the U.S. and Canada. He applied for their Motorsport Immersion program and spent the season working side-by-side with the crew while embedded with Random Vandals Racing in the GT World Challenge America Series. “Operation Motorsport has given me a renewed sense of purpose and a team to belong to as I transition out of the Marine Corps,” Munnings said. “Being welcomed into Random Vandals Racing has given me camaraderie, mentorship, and the opportunity to keep learning and contributing.” The sec...

Photo: Andrea Lorenzina/DPPI Porsche’s Ayhancan Guven admits that he found the transition to the FIA World Endurance Championship’s LMGT3 class “harder than I expected” as he got used to coaching less experienced teammates for the first time with the Manthey squad. The Turkish driver, who arrived in the WEC as defending DTM champion, is sharing a car this year with James Cottingham and Timur Boguslavskiy, with the No. 91 crew sitting eighth in the teams’ championship ahead of this weekend’s Monza finale. While Guven brought a wealth of experience of Porsche GT3 machinery to the lineup, his main campaigns until this year have mostly been in either in single-driver series like the DTM or have involved sharing a car as part of all-Pro lineups. Reflecting on the transition, Guven said it took time to get used to sharing information with Cottingham and Boguslavskiy, who he feels have gradually improved in the 911 GT3 R Evo transitioning from McLaren a...

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Photo: SRO America Staci Langham Perry has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer of SRO America, as part of a strengthening of the company’s leadership. Langham Perry, a highly respected figure in the North American motorsport paddock, has been part of the organization for more than 15 years, most recently serving as the general manager. During her tenure, Langham Perry has helped drive growth in entries while placing an emphasis on competitor satisfaction, operational efficiency and overall race weekend experience. She will continue to report to SRO America President and CEO Greg Gill. “Staci has been an essential part of SRO America’s growth and evolution, and her promotion to Chief Operating Officer is a natural progression of the leadership she has demonstrated throughout her career,” said Gill. “Her extensive knowledge of our championships, strong relationships throughout the paddock, and unwavering commitment to our competitors and partners ...

Photo: Asian Le Mans Series An entry list for next week’s opening double-header of the Asian Le Mans Series at Paul Ricard has been published, featuring a total of 46 cars across three classes. The 2026-27 campaign, moved to Europe due to ongoing geopolitical uncertainty in the Middle East, begins on Nov. 14-15 with a pair of four-hour races at the Le Castellet venue before fixtures at Jerez and Portimao early in the new year. As confirmed by the full-season entry list, the new Hypercar division sees two entries only, both AF Corse-operated Ferrari 499Ps, bolstered by a field of 16 LMP2 cars, while the GT contingent has been reduced by one car to 28 entries. That’s a result of the Dragon Racing Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo, which had Axcil Jefferies as its sole confirmed driver, dropping off the entry. The entry list revealed on Monday confirms most of the missing driver lineups in LMP2 and GT, with the lineups for the two Ferrari Hypercars, one of which is entered under the Ce...

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Photo: Porsche Motorsport Asia Pacific Lu Wei was crowned GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS champion after winning Sunday’s season finale together with Porsche factory driver Laurin Heinrich. Chinese racer Lu avenged losing last year’s title on countback to Bo Yuan and Leo Ye Hongli as he and Heinrich took the No. 11 Origine Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo to a lights-to-flag victory in the final 60-minute contest of the campaign. That followed up a third-place finish in Saturday’s opener, putting Lu in a strong position to close out the title ahead of Absolute Racing Porsche duo Alessandro Ghiretti and Huang Ruohan, who ended up finishing second in the title-decider. Victory in the first race of the weekend went to the Harmony Racing Ferrari 296 GT3 of Liu Kaishun and Chen Weian, which allowed Liu to finish the year third overall. The Silver Cup pair triumphed after Liu passed the polesitting Absolute Corse Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 of Akash Nandy, back ...