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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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Photo: SRO/JEP Lionspeed GP drivers Thomas Preining, Ricardo Feller and Bastian Buus gave Porsche its first CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa victory since 2020 after triumphing despite starting from the pit lane. The No. 80 Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo faced the compromised start because of an engine change and yet it avoided trouble to progressively rise up the order to achieve the team’s second GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS victory after winning in the Sprint Cup at Brands Hatch last month. The success marked Porsche’s ninth win in the Belgian endurance classic, pulling it further clear of Alfa Romeo in second in the all-time list of manufacturer victories. The Lionspeed crew ultimately finished 12.288 seconds ahead of the No. 48 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo of Luca Stolz, Lucas Auer and Maro Engel to end the latter’s unbeaten streak in this year’s Intercontinental GT Challenge. The Mercedes-AMG narrowly held off the No. 51 AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT...

Photo: Porsche Felipe Nasr says that Laurin Heinrich’s commitment to a full season in GTP and to a championship pursuit is what the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship needs “to fight the best people out there.” Heinrich’s expanded role in both Porsche Penske Motorsport and JDC-Miller Motorsports means the German could claim an overall title on his own while racing with his own title competition. But Nasr says it’s a well-deserved opportunity for those racing in GTP. “If I’m racing, I want to fight the best people out there,” Nasr told Sportscar365. “I think it’s great for the competition, it’s great for us drivers, and I had the pleasure to race with him in Daytona (and Sebring), and he did a phenomenal job for us. “I like to see his evolution as a driver as well. His expectations at Daytona, you know what to do, how to drive the car, what should I do? I like his curiosity. “He came over to me many times and asked wh...