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Photo: TF Sport Reigning European Le Mans Series LMGT3 champion Charlie Eastwood will seek to defend his title this year after being announced as continuing aboard a TF Sport Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R, while he will be joined by IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship racer Alec Udell. Corvette factory driver Eastwood snatched the ELMS class crown in the closing moments of last season’s Portimao finale when competing alongside Rui Andrade and Hiroshi Koizumi. But he now has two new team-mates for the European campaign with Udell – who shared a DXDT Racing Corvette with Eastwood in the GTD division of the WeatherTech Championship last year – joining the already-announced Blake McDonald. The latter was runner-up in the Pro-Am class of GT World Challenge America powered by AWS last season, also in a DXDT Corvette, before teaming up with TF Sport for the first time in the recent Asian Le Mans Series. TF Sport has also revealed a revised livery for its ELMS Corvette this year inco...

Photo: Chris Dumond/IMSA Reigning Toyota GR Cup North America champion Westin Workman will graduate to Pirelli GT4 America competition as part of RAFA Racing Team’s multi-car Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO2 effort. Confirmed on Wednesday, Workman, who is already part of the team’s IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge effort, will team up with Tyler Gonzlez in the SRO America-run series. Workman replaces Gresham Wagner in the team’s No. 68 Silver class lineup. Chris Spada and Werner Neugebauer, meanwhile, will pilot the No. 812 Toyota in Pro-Am, while Kenny Schmied and Anthony Geraci are set to scale back to a limited season program in Am, with Rafael Martinez joining Geraci for the three-hour Lone Star Enduro at Circuit of The Americas. Workman currently leads the VP Racing Challenge GSX class championship standings after taking four wins out of the four opening races. “I think it’ll be great coming together with Tyler as my teammate,” he said. “He obviously has a lot of experience in ...

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Image: Dome Motorsport Dome Motorsport will expand into a two-car operation in Pirelli GT4 America, fielding two Mercedes-AMG GT4s for the first time. The announcement comes on the heels of SRO America’s publication of the provisional entry list for GT4 America , which at the time only had one Dome Mercedes-AMG. Instead, the team will field the No. 39 car for Marc Miller and Allen Patten, with team owner/driver Eddie Killeen paired up with a to-be-announced co-driver in the No. 37 car, which will move to the Am class. Both cars will carry support from partner organization Junaid Family Foundation. “We didn’t come back to participate,” said Killeen. “Year one built the foundation. Year two is about execution. With Marc’s championship mindset and Allen’s raw pace, we expect to fight at the front every weekend.” Patten, meanwhile, moves over from Thunder Bunny Racing, which does not currently have an entry for the upcoming season. “I am thrilled to be joining the Dome Motorsport ...

Photo: Haupt Racing Team Haupt Racing Team stalwart Arjun Maini will be joined in the squad’s DTM lineup for this year by reigning ADAC GT Masters champion Finn Wiebelhaus at the wheel of its pair of Ford Mustang GT3 EVOs. Maini was 15th in the DTM standings last year as the team switched to Ford machinery from the Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo, while 19-year-old rising star Wiebelhaus also remains with HRT for his DTM graduation. Ford Racing Development Driver Wiebelhaus takes the place of Fabio Scherer in HRT’s lineup, the Swiss driver having finished 23rd of the 24 competitors in last year’s standings. Maini described last season as a “valuable learning experience” with the switch to Ford and is now seeking to add to his three career DTM podium finishes to date. Wiebelhaus added: “I’m beyond excited to be competing in the DTM with the Ford Mustang GT3 for HRT Ford Racing. “Racing in the DTM has been my dream since childhood, and seeing it become a reality means more than I can expres...

Photo: Javier Jimenez/DPPI The Qatar 1812km, which was originally scheduled to open the FIA World Endurance Championship season, has been postponed to later in the year due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. The announcement, made on Tuesday by the FIA and ACO, also confirms that the first round of the season will now be the 6 Hours of Imola on April 17-19. It comes in the wake of unrest in the Middle East, triggered last weekend by a joint U.S./Israel military operation on Iran, which has led to retaliatory strikes in the gulf states, including Qatar. A new date for the Qatar 1812km, which will occur during the second half of the season, will be finalized and communicated in “due course” according to a statement from the WEC. “The safety and wellbeing of our community will always be the FIA’s first priority, and I thank our Member Club the Qatar Motor & Motorcycle Federation, Lusail International Circuit, the ACO and our championship colleagues for the measured an...

Image: AF Corse AF Corse has confirmed the lineup for its Pro class Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo in GT World Challenge America powered by AWS, which will be driven by Frederik Schandorff and Matias Perez Companc. Schandorff, a race winner with the Ferrari in IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship competition, will undertake a busy triple program in the 296 GT3 Evo this year, returning with Inception Racing in the IMSA GTD ranks as well as taking on GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS, also in a Prancing Horse. Companc, a graduate of Ferrari Challenge North America, most recently was part of AF Corse’s LMP2 effort in the WeatherTech Championship. Initial confirmation of the No. 12 entry came earlier in the day in the release of the provisional entry list for the season, which currently features 21 cars. The Italian squad, which has an outpost in Charlotte, also confirmed the return of its 2025 Am class championship-winning No. 163 entry of Ozz Negri and Jay Schreibman. Additionall...