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Photo: Brandon Badraoui/IMSA Morgan Burkhard set the pace of the first practice session for the Fox Factory 120 at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.  The No. 2 CSM Aston Martin Vantage GT4 Evo set a time of 1:25.427 seconds in the opening quarter of the session. His lap finished 0.234 seconds ahead of Michael Cooper in the No. 44 Ibiza Farm Motorsport McLaren Artura GT4. Varun Choskey rounded out the top three in the GS class in the No. 12 RAFA Racing Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO2 with a time 0.262 second off of the top. The championship-leading No. 27 AutoTechnic Racing BMW M4 GT4 EVO finished eighth after the 60-minute session. In the TCR category, Tyler Gonzalez set the pace as the only driver in the class to break the 1:26 barrier in the session. The No. 99 CUPRA Leon VZ TCR bested the sister No. 21 entry driven by William Tally by 0.646 seconds. Mason Filippi set the third fastest TCR time in his No. 33 Bryan Herta Autosport entry. His Hyundai Elantra N TCR can lock up the champion...

Photo: Rick Dole/IMSA Marcus Ericsson has been officially confirmed in joining Random Vandals Racing for next weekend’s Desder Indianapolis 8 Hour, teaming up his younger brother Hampus, as well as Derek DeBoer in the team’s BMW M4 GT3 EVO. The 2022 Indianapolis 500 winner was widely linked to the third seat in the Pro-Am class BMW entry for the GT World Challenge America powered by AWS and Intercontinental GT Challenge season finale, having made multiple visits to SRO America event this year to watch his brother race. It is the second IndyCar driver to be confirmed for the race following news earlier today that five-time series champion Alex Palou will return in a Lone Star Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo . The 36-year-old Swede has previous GT3 experience as recently as this year’s Rolex 24 at Daytona when he drove Wayne Taylor Racing’s Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 in the Rolex 24 at Daytona. “I’m incredibly excited to join Derek and my younger brothe...

Photo: Julien Delfosse/DPPI Next month’s 6 Hours of Barcelona is set for an unusual-looking Saturday schedule in order to better accommodate drivers hoping to contest both the penultimate FIA World Endurance Championship race of the season and the clashing Portimao GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS season finale. According to a draft weekend timetable seen by Sportscar365, the WEC’s LMGT3 and Hypercar classes will have their own standalone Free Practice 3 sessions on Saturday in what’s believed to be a first in series history. Instead of taking place back-to-back, the two categories’ respective qualifying sessions will also be held several hours apart, in order to give LMGT3 drivers also wishing to participate at Portimao more time to travel to the Portuguese venue. The three-hour Portimao race is due to begin at 5 p.m. local time which gives the LMGT3 runners approximately five-and-a-half hours once qualifying finishes at 12:20 p.m. to make the trip ...

Photo: ACO The FIA and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest have revealed a new ten-year deal that will see the two bodies work together to co-run the FIA World Endurance Championship. Revealed on Wednesday, what was described as a “landmark” agreement will run from the end of 2027, when the current deal lapses, through to the end of 2037. It guarantees the future of the WEC, and the place of the 24 Hours of Le Mans within it, after doubts emerged earlier this month about the state of the relationship between the world motorsport governing body and the ACO, which promotes the series through its Le Mans Endurance Management (LMEM) subsidiary. According to a statement released by both the FIA and ACO, as part of the new deal, “all regulatory processes will be overseen by FIA Working Groups, the FIA Endurance Commission, and will require the final approval of the FIA World Motor Sport Council”, while “the homologation process has also been streamlined, w...

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Photo: AO Racing AO Racing will prepare for Halloween early, with ‘Skeleton Rexy’ returning for this weekend’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season-ending Motul Petit Le Mans, while ‘Rockie’ making its series debut. Unveiled on Tuesday, the team’s Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo of Nick Tandy, Harry King and Alessio Picariello will be sporting ‘Skeleton Rexy’ for the second consecutive year. The No. 77 Porsche will feature Rexy’s mouth and skeleton bones on the doors light up at night. It’s LMP2 Oreca 07 Gibson for PJ Hyett, Dane Cameron and Jonny Edgar, meanwhile, swaps from ‘Spike’ to ‘Rockie’ for the ten-hour season finale at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. It will mark the Mobil 1-branded Rockie’s debut in the WeatherTech Championship after the character debuted at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans in the LMP2 Pro-Am class. Photo: AO Racing Photo: AO Racing Source: Sports Car 365

Photo: Gruppe C Photography/SRO BMW squad Team KRC has set its sights on a full Intercontinental GT Challenge campaign next year, while confirming plans to return to the FIA GT World Cup in Macau. The Taiwanese team contested two rounds on this year’s IGTC schedule: Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour, where it finished fifth on debut, and the Suzuka 1000km, where its Bronze Cup entry retired but its Pro-Am M4 GT3 EVO took third in class. Its expansion to a two-car Suzuka effort comes at a time that BMW is scaling back on its IGTC efforts, with no Pro class cars entered for the Japanese event. Now team director Mars Kang has outlined ambitions to take on a full IGTC schedule next year that would allow its regular FIA Bronze-rated driver, ‘Tony’ Ruan Cunfan, to fight for Independent Cup honors. It comes as the team prepares to field an M4 GT3 EVO on the streets of Macau in November for Augusto Farfus, who was part of the squad’s Pro-Am Suzuka 1000km effort an...