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Photo: IMSA Valentino Catalano already had fond memories from his first visit to Virginia International Raceway when he swept all three races of an IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge triple-header last August. He added another one in Saturday’s 15-minute qualifying session by securing the pole position for Sunday’s two-hour IMSA Airbnb Endurance Challenge race at the 3.4-mile circuit on the Virginia-North Carolina border. Driving the No. 1 Gebhardt Motorsport USA, Duqueine D09 Toyota, Catalano claimed his first pole position of the season with a best lap of 1:42.626 in the car he shares with co-driver Oscar Tunjo. It should be noted that this also was the first qualifying session of the season for Catalano, the 2025 VP Racing Challenge LMP3 champion who is only competing in the Airbnb Endurance Challenge races this season. Tunjo qualified the car on pole for the first two endurance races of the season to go with three additional poles from the sprint race portion of the...

Photo: Fred Hardy/SRO SRO Motorsports Group founder and CEO Stephane Ratel has expressed desire for new brands and/or car models to enter the GT4 ranks, which has largely been stagnant in recent years. The latest-generation Ford Mustang GT4, launched in 2024, has been the newest GT4 model to join the platform. There are at least 13 GT4 models that are currently eligible, although a number of cars, such as the Alpine A110 GT4, Audi R8 LMS GT4, Lotus Emira GT4, Nissan Z NISMO GT4 and Ginetta G56 GT4 are competing in only selected markets around the world and in low numbers. While not lacking grid numbers, particularly in its flagship GT4 European Series or Pirelli GT4 America and Michelin Pilot Challenge in North America, which all routinely feature 30-plus fields, Ratel said he’s hopeful of new blood being injected into the SRO-controlled platform. “GT4, I would say, is [doing] fine, but we need novelties,” he told Sportscar365. “We need more cars to bring us...

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Photo: BMW The BMW M2 Cup launches this weekend at the Lausitzring, as part of a new support series for DTM aimed at up-and-coming drivers seeking to advance their careers through the sports car racing ranks. A total of 11 cars are on the entry list for the pair of races, with cars entered by established teams such as Hofor Racing by Bonk Motorsport, FK Performance Motorsport and ME Motorsport. Drivers 15 and older are eligible to race. Participants in the M2 Cup will receive “extensive support” including ADAC’s “Road to DTM” package, which assists the Cup winner in moving up to ADAC GT4 Germany, as well as broad support from BMW M Motorsport. The support includes driver coaching with factory drivers, media training, test drives in the BMW M4 GT4 EVO for the top three finishers in the championship, as well as the participation in the selection process for the BMW M Racing Academy. In total, the BMW M2 Cup prize pool totals €170,000. “We are very...

Photo: Photo: Colin McCarty Craig Stanton, my spotter, always says, “Gratitude is worth half a second.” If I’m honest, I used to dismiss that as a slightly woo-woo way of saying, “you’re lucky to be here.” I finally understood what it actually means this weekend at Road Atlanta. I wrote down a list of every single person who had called, texted, or stopped by to offer encouragement. The list had 53 names on it. And I understood. Not 53 people I might let down. Fifty-three individual people who took time out of their day to say, “you’ve got this.” Expectations are the Enemy of Joy This was the most mentally challenging weekend of my career, and the people around me picked me up, dusted me off, and reminded me that I just have to do my best. A week ago “doing my best” meant something closer to a sterile calculation: the perfect lap in a perfect vacuum with no variables, where anything less was an excuse. Now I get it. These people aren’t waiting for me to prove them right. They ca...

Photo: Porsche Both the 2025 and 2026-spec of the Porsche 963 have been given the largest weight breaks, in class-wide GTP Balance of Performance adjustments for next weekend’s Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen. Released by IMSA on Wednesday , all six specifications of GTP class entries, including the Aston Martin Valkyrie, will be lighter for the third leg of the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup. JDC-Miller Motorsports’ Porsche, which runs to last year’s aero specifications, has received a 25 kg weight break, bringing it down to 1052 kg, the lightest the car has been since the team’s breakthrough win at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. By the same token, the factory Porsche Penske Motorsport entries are now back down to 1055 kg, marking a 27 kg weight break since Detroit, marking the cars’ lightest weight since the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, where it finished 1-2 overall. Both the Cadillac V-Series.R and Acura ARX-06 have been handed 6 kg weight ...

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