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Photo: Jessica Johnk/Porsche Tyler Maxson extended his championship lead in Porsche Carrera Cup North America wth his sixth win of the season on Saturday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Topp Racing driver claimed a flag-to-flag victory in the caution-free 40-minute contest, finishing 1.301 seconds ahead of the No. 40 ACI Motorsports Porsche 911 Cup of Janne Stiak. Stiak took second at the start of the race from the No. 24 Kellymoss Porsche of Aaron Jeansonne, who slipped to third and was unable to recover, despite making a late-race charge on the young German. Jared Thomas made a late-race pass on Callum Hedge only to spin in Turn 13 on the second-to-last lap, which dropped the JTR Motorsports Engineering driver to eighth at the time. Callum Hedge was handed incident responsibility for making contact with Thomas, and received a drive-through penalty as a result. The late-race chaos promoted Paul Bocuse to fourth, with Lockie Bloxsom, in his series debut, netting a top-five. ...

Photo: Jake Galstad/IMSA Tom Blomqvist led an Acura Meyer Shank Racing 1-2 in final practice prior to qualifying for Sunday’s TireRack Battle on the Bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Blomqvist, in the No. 60 Acura ARX-06, recorded a best lap of 1:15.398 in the 90-minute session, outpacing teammate Nick Yelloly’s No. 93 machine by 0.279 seconds. The late session improvement by the No. 60 Acura bumped the No. 7 Penske Porsche 963 of Julien Andlauer to third. GTP points leader Jack Aitken and Cadillac teammate Louis Deletraz completed the top-five in their No. 31 Action Express Racing and No. 40 Wayne Taylor Racing entries, respectively. LMP2 was again led by the No. 43 Inter Europol Competition Oreca 07 Gibson of Tom Dillmann, while Danny Formal ran the quickest time out of the entire GT field in his GTD class No. 45 WTR Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2. Formal’s 1:23.240 lap time was 0.282 seconds quicker than the No. 34 Conquest Racing Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo of Lo...

Photo: RacingPixels/Creventic Hofor Racing’s No. 11 Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo held the lead of the Michelin 24H Barcelona after the opening six hours of racing. Michael Kroll kept his Mercedes-AMG out front as the field emerged from a Code 60 caution period for a stranded Juta Racing Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO II. The Swiss crew held a healthy lead to Dominic Ang in the No. 65 Viper Niza Racing Mercedes-AMG. Hofor driver Alexander Prinz made a daring overtake on Viper Niza’s Douglas Khoo on the front straight to edge out a lead just before the fifth caution of the race came out. Both of the leading crews pitted for fuel but emerged from pit lane in the same position. Hofor, which won the race last year, consistently took advantage of its GT3-Am status by capitalizing on its fuel allowance advantage when pitting under caution. Am-ranked cars are allowed to take on 40 percent of fuel when they pit under a Code 60 caution period, whereas Pro and Pro-Am teams can only take on 15 perce...

Photo: Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit Creventic have announced that the Michelin 24H Dubai, which had originally been scheduled to take place at the Dubai Autodrome, has been moved to Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit in South Africa. This news comes as a result of continuing conflict in the Middle East which has left Creventic unable to host its Michelin 24H Series Middle East Trophy over the winter months. The Dutch organization cited inflated shipping costs and uncertainly around transport planning as a core reason for the decision. It had previously confirmed that Kyalami was being assessed as a contingency if the Iran war continued. The new event will take place at Kyalami on the same weekend as previously announced (Jan. 8-10) and will be the first international 24-hour race to be held in South Africa. It will mark the first international sports car endurance race of any kind to be held at the famed 2.814 mile circuit since the last running of the Kyalami 9 Hour under SRO Motorsports ...

Photo: RacingPixels/Creventic GetSpeed Team PCX Racing narrowly grabbed pole position for the Michelin 24H Barcelona after a post-session decision stripped Ajith RedAnt Racing of the pole. The crew of the No. 93 Ajith RedAnt Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo initially produced a combined lap time of 1:40.683 with a gap of just 0.001 seconds to the No. 28 Team PCX Mercedes-AMG in second. However, race control decided to reinstate Team PCX driver Benjamin Paque’s fastest lap from Qualifying 2, which was just enough to improve the No. 28 crew’s average time and claim pole. It had appeared as though Team PCX would sail to pole across the trio of hotly-contested GT3 qualifying sessions after Paque produced the only sub-1:40 lap time in Qualifying 2. The Belgian intially fell foul of a track limits penalty and was forced to forfeit his rapid lap, meaning it was down to Team PCX’s Maxime Martin and his fellow Mercedes-AMG factory driver Grenier to decide the polesitter in a nail-bitingly c...

Photo: Julien Delfosse/DPPI The FIA and ACO have both clarified that its partnership agreement for the FIA World Endurance Championship is already confirmed through the end of the 2027 season, with both organizations working together to ‘ensure the long-term success’ of the championship. It comes following a report published on Thursday by German publication Auto Motor und Sport which stated that a contract was not in place for next year, suggesting the FIA could even soon post a public tender for the promotion of the WEC. This information, according to both organizations, is not accurate. “The FIA World Endurance Championship has enjoyed sustained growth since the introduction of the Hypercar and LMGT3 regulations, competing this season across seven countries,” a statement from the FIA, supplied to Sportscar365, read. “This achievement is the result of extensive collaboration between drivers, teams, manufacturers, the FIA, the ACO, the promoter LMEM...

Photo: Andrea Lorenzina/DPPI The FIA and ACO could go their separate ways in its current partnership with the FIA World Endurance Championship, according to a report from a leading German automotive and motorsport publication, which would have massive repercussions in sports car racing worldwide. According to a detailed report by Auto Motor und Sport , the WEC has been operating without a contract that was due to be renewed in June between the two organizations. It states that two contracts governing the cooperation between the FIA and ACO have expired, the first of which designates ACO subsidiary Le Mans Endurance Management (LMEM) as the organizer of the WEC, while the second confirms that the 24 Hours of Le Mans is part of the WEC season, with the agreements stipulating financial contributions to the FIA for world championship titles and various other obligations. In June at Le Mans, FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem downplayed rumored disputes between himself and ACO Presiden...