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Photo: PMNA With help from Porsche Motorsport North America, a rare factory Porsche 962 race car has returned to doing what it was built for nearly four decades ago: running at speed on track. Seeing a historically significant car in a museum is special, but nothing compares to watching a piece of the past perform the duties it was built for – going fast on a race track. That sentiment is what led longtime racer and collector Charles Nearburg to embark on a restoration project last November with Porsche Motorsport North America. The mission? Bringing one of the most prized pieces of his “Howlin’ Collection” back to sporting form: Porsche 962 chassis 962C-005. A rare piece of Porsche history. Nearburg’s racing journey began in SCCA club competition in the Southwest, finishing second in the National Championship race, and moved to a professional racing effort in open wheel racing in the late 80s and early 90s, including driving Walter Payton’s Reynard Cosworth in the 1997 CART...

Photo: Brandon Badraoui/IMSA A capacity 54-car entry is set for next weekend’s Motul Petit Le Mans, which will close out the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and Michelin Endurance Cup seasons. Released on Wednesday, the entry list is comprised of 11 GTP and LMP2 entries, 14 GTD Pro cars and 18 GTD machines. The two prototype classes feature no major surprises, with third drivers coming back into the GTP class, for most teams, since the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. Matt Campbell is set to make his final outing for Porsche Penske Motorsport in the No. 6 Porsche 963 alongside Kevin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor, who returns to the team after giving up his seat for GTP title hopeful Laurin Heinrich. Heinrich will be back in the team’s No. 7 Porsche, which he won the Rolex 24 at Daytona and Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring with, alongside Felipe Nasr and Julien Andlauer. Kaylen Frederick returns to JDC-Miller Motorsports’ privateer Porsche with Nico Mueller a...

Photo: McLaren McLaren Motorsport held a special two-day training camp in Madrid last week for a total of 38 drivers belonging to the manufacturer’s various driver development schemes. Those attending the camp at the MSi Bio Performance facility were members of the McLaren Elite Talent Pathway, McLaren Trophy Academy and GT3 Junior initiatives and represented 15 different nationalities. The drivers participated in various physical activities during the two days with a focus upon strength, endurance, coordination and reaction time. Each of those in attendance was also able to spend time individually with the coaches to identify specific areas in which they could improve. McLaren explained that bringing drivers from the three schemes together “underlined the close relationship between the programs” and showed McLaren’s “focus on creating a clear and connected development pathway.” McLaren Automotive head of motorsport Giorgio Sanna added: “T...

Photo: GT World Challenge Australia Three leading GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS teams face being without their leading Pro drivers for the final round of the season in Adelaide, amid a recent rules clarification that is set to allow top-line factory drivers to replace them. The driver lineups at Melbourne Performance Centre, Team BRM and Tigani Motorsport are all set to be impacted for the final two races of the season on Nov. 28-29 due to the fact the Adelaide event shares the bill with Australia’s Supercars series. As such, Broc Feeney, Ryan Wood and Jayden Ojeda are all set to focus on their Supercars commitments and sit out the GTWC Australia title decider. SRO Australia had initially stipulated that any stand-in should be of similar caliber to the driver they replace, introduced since the series’ previous visit to Adelaide in 2023, when the likes of Christopher Mies and Matt Campbell made one-off appearances. But Sportscar365 has learned these rules h...

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Photo: Julien Delfosse/DPPI Alpine has confirmed it will go into this weekend’s Fuji round of the FIA World Endurance Championship at Fuji Speedway with two-driver lineups for each of its A424 Hypercars, benching Antonio Felix da Costa and Frederic Makowiecki. The French manufacturer announced the move via a press release on Tuesday evening, stating that Charles Milesi and Ferdinand Habsburg will race the No. 35 car as a duo in Japan while Jules Gounon and Victor Martins share the sister No. 36 entry. Although no mention of Alpine’s driver plans for the remaining rounds of the year at Barcelona and Monza was mentioned, Sportscar365 understands that neither da Costa nor Makowiecki will return for the two season-closing European races. It comes as the Renault-owned brand prepares to withdraw from the WEC at the end of the year, with Chinese auto giant Geely having been strongly linked to a takeover of the Signatech operation that runs the outfit in recent months. However...

Photo: Mustang Cup Australia The battle for the inaugural Motorcraft Mustang Cup Australia series title will go down to the wire at Sandown Raceway in November after a tense penultimate round at Sydney Motorsport Park last weekend. Young Triple Eight protege Oli Wickham and series leader Josh Anderson claimed the two race wins, but there were plenty of stories up and down the field as the pressure mounts toward crowning the inaugural champions at Sandown in November. Title protagonists Anderson and Joe Fawcett were rarely far from each other on the track, and the pair will enter the final round separated by just 44 points. While some Sydney focus was on the title chase, Wickham was setting the pace — the 17-year-old secured the Ford Insure Pole Award for both races, earning a bonus $2000 incentive from Driving Solutions for achieving the feat. Wickham capitalized on his front row slot in Saturday’s Johnson Cup race, claiming a lights-to-flag victory, resisting the cons...