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Photo: Fabian Lagunas/SRO ***SRO America’s annual trip to Sebring International Raceway sees all four of its core series in action this weekend, headlined by the third round of GT World Challenge America powered by AWS, the fourth and fifth rounds of Pirelli GT4 America, the fifth and sixth races of GT America powered by AWS, as well as TC America powered by Skip Barber Racing School. ***Both Toyota GR Cup North America and McLaren Trophy America are not on the weekend bill. The Toyota GR 86 Cup cars will return to action next month at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, alongside McLaren Trophy America, which is fresh off its first time supporting a Formula 1 race last weekend at the Miami International Autodrome. ***Race 2 of the Miami weekend was canceled due to heavy rain and thunderstorms but will be re-scheduled to a SRO America weekend later in the year according to a McLaren spokesperson. ***Unlike the first two GTWC America races of the season that were held on Sunday, th...

Photo: Andrea Lorenzina/DPPI Alpine set the pace in Free Practice 2 ahead of this weekend’s 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps FIA World Endurance Championship round as its pair of A424s locked out the top spots with Jules Gounon leading the way. The 2:01.816 that Gounon set aboard the No. 36 machine in the opening portion of the session was a second faster than Antonio Fuoco’s pacesetting time in FP1 , which had began with the track slightly damp. Gounon was 0.274 seconds quicker than stablemate Charles Milesi in the sister No. 36 Alpine in FP2, while Sheldon van der Linde was third fastest in the No. 20 WRT BMW M Hybrid V8 with a 2:02.179 upon his return to WEC action after missing the Imola opener due to clashing IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship commitments. Heart of Racing Team continued its strong showing from FP1, when Alex Riberas was second, with Marco Sorensen aboard the No. 009 Aston Martin Valkyrie fourth fastest with a 2:02.294. Rounding out the top five w...

Photo: Andrea Lorenzina/DPPI Antonio Felix da Costa says he is determined to stay in the FIA World Endurance Championship next year after Alpine’s Hypercar exit, having only just secured his return to the championship after a two-year absence. The Portuguese driver joined the Signatech-run Alpine squad for the this year’s campaign after an enforced break from the WEC since his previous stint at JOTA Sport from 2019-23, to focus on his Formula E commitments with Porsche. However, less than four months on from Alpine confirming his arrival , the Renault-owned marque announced its plans to withdraw from the WEC’s top class . It leaves da Costa scrambling to find an alternative berth to stay on the 2027 WEC grid alongside his Formula E drive for Jaguar, which he joined for the start of the current 2025-26 season following his departure from Porsche. “The goal won’t change, which is to maintain a double [WEC/Formula E] program,” da Costa told Sportsc...

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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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