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Photo: BSI Racing BSI Racing will field six Toyota GR 86 Cup cars in Toyota GR Cup North America competition this year, following the team’s championship winning season with Westin Workman. While Workman has graduated to IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge competition, the Florida-based team will continue with a mix of returning and new drivers to the organization in the competitive single-make series. It includes Ethan Goulart, who will return for his second year under the BSI banner and will pilot the No. 72 Endava-liveried GR Cup car. Goulart was recently announced into Toyota Racing’s driver development program. Massimo Sunseri will also return behind the wheel of a BSI-entered car, along with Ethan Ayars. Newcomers to the Shea Holbrook-owned team are Amilio DiLauro, Alcyr Araujo and Ryan Power. “With the momentum from our 2025 driver and team championships, we’re raising the bar again in 2026,” said Holbrook. “This lineup reflects exactly what BSI is built on. “Developing ...

Photo: Julien Delfosse/DPPI Alpine has announced that it will shutter its Hypercar program at the end of this season, following weeks of speculation that the French brand would exit the FIA World Endurance Championship. Confirmed on Thursday, it will mark the end of Alpine’s involvement in WEC competition, which dates back to 2013 in the LMP2 ranks in partnership with Signatech prior to graduating to the Hypercar ranks in 2021 with a grandfathered ORECA-chassied LMP1 car. Alpine created its own LMDh car, the A424, based around an ORECA spine, which launched in 2024, with its highlight to date coming with a maiden win last year’s 6 Hours of Fuji with Charles Milesi, Ferdinand Habsburg and Paul-Loup Chatin. Its withdrawal comes amid a change of leadership in parent company Renault, which saw Francois Provost take over a CEO from Luca de Meo last summer, and follows decreased sales, particularly with its initial EV-only strategy, which has since been reversed. The decision to exit...

Photo: Julien Delfosse/DPPI Four-time IndyCar champion and current FIA World Endurance Championship driver Sebastien Bourdais will compete as a guest driver in the Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup presented by Michelin doubleheader at the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Racing with McCumbee McAleer Racing, Bourdais will participate in his home race as part of a fundraiser for the Karts4Kids charity. The St. Pete event weekend on Feb. 27-March 1 will mark the second event of the MX-5 Cup season, which opened last month at Daytona International Speedway with a record-setting field. In his IndyCar career, Bourdais was quite successful at St. Pete, winning the race twice, but he hasn’t turned a wheel at the 1.8-mile temporary street circuit since 2021. “I’m super excited to once again race on the streets of St. Petersburg,” said Bourdais. “It’s a real thrill to join the Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup at such a meaningful place. St. Petersburg is my home, and I’ve been fortunate to have success in open-wh...

Photo: Racingpixels/Creventic Lusail International Circuit will host the opening round of the 2026-27 Michelin 24H Series Middle East Trophy, in a change of venue from last season’s campaign. Confirmed by organizer Creventic on Wednesday, the Michelin 8H Qatar will take place on Dec. 11-12, kicking off a three-round championship that will include return trips to Abu Dhabi and Dubai for six and 24-hour races, respectively. Qatar replaces Sepang International Circuit, which hosted the 12H Malaysia one week earlier on the schedule last year, and means all three rounds of the series are within the Gulf region. The final order of the 2026-27 calendar has yet to be confirmed. The 6H Abu Dhabi preceded the 24H Dubai this year, although Sportscar365 understands that the order is likely to be reversed, pending agreements with both Yas Maria Circuit and Dubai Autodrome. “We are very proud to announce this new race in Qatar,” said Creventic’s team relations manager Helen Roukens. “Over t...

Photo: Haupt Racing Team The Haupt Racing Team has entered into a new partnership with the Bundeswehr, the German Armed Forces, and will run a Ford Mustang GT3 in this year’s Nurburgring 24 in a special camouflage livery. The alliance is focused upon recruiting new people to the Bundeswehr and there will be a ‘careers truck’ at the N24 between 14-17 May aimed at giving more information to those interested in potentially joining the armed forces. As well as the camouflage color scheme, the Mustang will also carry the military message ‘MIT UNS DEN DIENST WAGEN’ (DARE TO SERVE WITH US). No drivers for the Mustang have been confirmed but the team finished fourth in last year’s event with Dennis Fetzer, Jusuf and Salman Owega and David Schumacher at the wheel of one of its three Mustang entries. The Bundeswehr livery is also set to appear during other Nurburgring Endurance Series events. “The collaboration with the Bundeswehr is a great honor for HRT,” said team CEO Ulrich Fritz. “...

Photo: MPS Agency Volante Rosso Motorsport has confirmed that Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer will join its McLaren 720 GT3 Evo entry in this weekend’s Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour. Simmenauer will team up with Australian rising stars – Supercars rookie Rylan Gray and Carrera Cup Australia standouts Bayley Hall and Marcos Flack – in the Australian squad’s new McLaren. It will mark Simmenauer’s debut at Mount Panorama, in his first-ever visit to Australia and his maiden drive of a McLaren GT3 race car. Simmenauer joined the McLaren GT3 Junior Driver program last month, with the Bathurst race being his first for the British brand. The Frenchman currently competes in LMP2 in the European Le Mans Series and has tasted success in GT racing, winning the 2020 GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup Silver Cup. The four driver Volante Rosso McLaren entry will be one of the youngest lineups in the 12 Hour field. Gray and Flack (19), Hall (21) and Simmenauer (25) combine for an age of 84, and have...

Image: Chicago Performance Chicago Performance and Tuning Co. will step up to GT World Challenge America powered by AWS competition, confirming a full season Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 entry. The team, which most recently served as the operations partner for Marco Polo Motorsports in Pirelli GT4 America, will feature Mads Siljehaug for the full season, alongside MPM driver Nicolai Elghanayan for the races at Sonoma Raceway, Road America and Indianapolis 8 Hour presented by AWS. “Driver options” are being explored to run alongside Siljehaug in the remaining races according to team manager Christopher Lester, who also confirmed they’ll have a Lamborghini factory driver as its third pilot for the season-ending round. While Marco Polo initially stood down from racing this year, it will remain involved with Chicago Performance’s new venture. “Racing in 2026 looked like it wasn’t in the cards for us with our family and business commitments, but when CPT came to us with the Lamborgh...