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Photo: Seven x Seven Racing Porsche GT300 squad Seven x Seven Racing has elected to promote Taichi Watarai to a race seat for the remainder of the current SUPER GT season. Up-and-coming Japanese star Watarai, 22, will step up from his third driver role to partner Sven Mueller aboard the team’s No. 666 Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo for the remaining five races of 2026, beginning with this weekend’s Suzuka 300km. It comes at the expense of two-time GT300 champion Kiyoto Fujinami, who stands down from driving duties after a season-and-a-half with the team. Watarai will make his SUPER GT debut at Suzuka, but is already well known to Seven x Seven via his activities in one-make Porsche and GT3 competition. The Saitama Prefecture native was part of the recently established team’s title-winning effort in the ST-X (FIA GT3) class of Super Taikyu last year alongside Fujinami and team owner ‘Bankcy’ (real name Hiroyuki Ogawa). In addition, he was a race winner in SRO J...

Photo: Macau Grand Prix Organizing Committee Mercedes-AMG has announced it will return to the FIA GT World Cup on the streets of Macau after a year’s absence with a three-car effort involving Craft-Bamboo Racing and first-time event participant Tigani Motorsport. The Stuttgart brand confirmed on Wednesday that it will have three of its Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evos on the grid for the end-of-season street event on Nov. 19-22, marking its return to Macau after it elected to sit out the 2025 running over concerns around the cost of installing FIA-mandated torque sensors. Four-time Macau GT winner Maro Engel will drive one of Craft-Bamboo’s two cars as he bids to follow up his victory on his previous Macau visit in 2024, flanked by Silver-rated Adderly Fong, who makes the switch to Mercedes-AMG from Audi. Lucas Auer, meanwhile, will compete in the sole entry fielded by Australian team Tigani, which is expanding to race at Macau for the first time following its extensive GT World C...

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Photo: Brandon Badraoui/IMSA The IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge GS championship leaders look to rebound from abnormal Road America results for the Virginia Is For Racing Lovers Grand Prix at Virginia International Raceway. Robert Noaker will share the No. 13 McCumbee McAleer Racing Ford Mustang GT4 with new co-driver Finn Wiebelhaus starting at VIR . The No. 13 car has finished in the top 11 in each of the first seven races and built its championship lead from 30 points to 100 entering VIR. Ford scored a pair of podiums at VIR last year in the hands of KohR Motorsports, finishing second and third behind eventual season champions Luca Mars and Jan Heylen in the RS1 Porsche 718 GT4 RS CS. Each of the top five in the championship all finished seventh or worse in the Road America 120. That brought a sixth possible GS title contender into play, in the form of series newcomers YRB Racing and Road America winners Trenton Estep and Allen Patten in their No. 66 Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4 ...

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Photo: Gruppe C Photography/HRT Finn Wiebelhaus will replace will replace Nate Cicero in McCumbee McAleer Racing’s Ford Mustang GT4 for the remainder of the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge season, beginning with this weekend’s round at Virginia International Raceway. The 20-year-old German, who currently leads the rookie-of-the-year honors in DTM, gave Ford its first-ever pole in the highly competitive German GT3-based sprint series earlier this year, while also claiming consecutive podium finishes in the Mustang GT3 EVO. Wiebelhaus will team up with fellow Ford Racing driver development team member and reigning Mustang Challenge North America champion Robert Noaker in the GS points-leading No. 13 Mustang GT4. “I am excited to join McCumbee McAleer Racing and make my IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge debut,” said Wibelhaus. “Transitioning to the American circuits is a thrilling new challenge, and to do it with a championship-leading team in the Ford Mustang...

Photo: Porsche Road America produced a wave of dominant performances across Sprint Challenge North America, with Danny Dyszelski, Mark Boden, Anna Cecchi and William Peluchiwski each sweeping their classes as championship battles continued to take shape ahead of the season finale. Road America and its 4.048 miles of twists and turns played host to the penultimate Porsche Sprint Challenge North America by Yokohama event of the year, alongside sister series Sprint Challenge USA West and the third of four rounds for Endurance Challenge North America. Dyszelski, Boden Both Sweep GT3 Cup Competition After joining the Porsche Sprint Challenge North America GT3 Cup field two events ago, Danny Dyszelski (Topp Racing) quickly emerged as a challenger to Pro-Am championship leader Karel Staut (Kellymoss). At Road America, Dyszelski finally turned that pace into results, sweeping both races after finishing second to Staut three times across the previous four contests. Staut still finished on...