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Photo: Mike Levitt/IMSA Marco Wittmann led the Motul SportsCar Endurance Grand Prix at Road America following a hectic opening hour involving a numerous LMP2 cars. Wittmann, in the No. 25 Team RLL BMW M Hybrid V8, was the only of the GTP cars to stay out during the race’s second full-course caution after a heavy crash by the No. 37 Intersport Racing Oreca 07 Gibson of Jon Field. The German driver was ahead of the No. 7 Penske Porsche 963 of Felipe Nasr, which beat the field out of a frantic pit lane by an energy-only stop. The No. 24 Spider-Man-liveried BMW of Sheldon van der Linde slotted into third at the one-hour mark, ahead of the No. 40 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac V-Series.R of Louis Deletraz, in fourth. Nick Yelloly led the field from pole in the No. 93 Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06 ahead of teammate Tom Blomqvist and Deletraz, in what was a largely uneventful run in the top class. There, however, were incidents before the drop of the green flag, with Orey Fidani h...

Photo: Jake Galstad/IMSA YRB Racing drivers Trenton Estep and Allen Patten claimed the team’s first victory in the Road America 120 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge race. The No. 66 Car Blanche Aston Martin Vantage GT4 Evo crossed the line behind the safety car, just ahead of Matt Plumb and Paul Holton’s No. 46 Team TGM Ford Mustang GT4. Guilherme Salas and Caio Chaves took their first podium finish of the season with a third place in the No. 54 Panam Motorsport Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO2. The No. 23 Koch-Copeland Motorsports Toyota finished fourth, ahead of the No. 60 KohR Motorsports Mustang. Pit stop strategy was key to the No. 66 crew’s victory, as it was able to cycle up the race order by pitting at the ideal times. The two-hour race was interrupted by four full-course caution periods. The second caution was key to shuffling up the running order as the majority of cars in both GS and TCR decided to stop for fuel when the pit window opened, but some of the front...

Photo: John Dagys Vasser Sullivan Racing have been forced to switch to a backup car for the remainder of the Motul SportsCar Endurance Grand Prix weekend at Road America after its No. 14 Lexus RC F GT3 crashed in practice. The team confirmed that it was preparing its backup car to compete in qualifying later today. The GTD Pro-entered Lexus sustained heavy damage to both the front and rear of the car after Jack Hawksworth crashed at Turn 6 in wet conditions during Practice 2. Hawksworth’s crash brought out the second of four red flags in the chaotic one-hour 45-minute session. This incident led to the team being penalized by race control for causing the stoppage. If the team is able to compete in qualifying this afternoon, it will lose its fastest lap in the session. This is a hefty blow to the team as Hawksworth and teammate Ben Barnicoat currently sit fifth in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship standings, with the third, fourth and fifth placed teams separated by...

Photo: Mike Levitt/IMSA Jordan Taylor set the pace in a rainy final practice for the Motul SportsCar Endurance Grand Prix at Road America. The Wayne Taylor Racing driver laid down a 2:07.647 lap time in his No. 40 Cadillac V-Series.R, 0.165 seconds clear of Sheldon van der Linde in the No. 24 Team WRT BMW M Hybrid V8. Nick Yelloly was third fastest overall ahead of teammate Tom Blomqvist in the pair of the Acura ARX-06s. Felipe Nasr rounded out the top-five in the faster of the Penske Porsche 963s. Roman De Angelis placed sixth in the No. 23 Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin Valkyrie. Seventh fastest was Porsche Penske’s Laurens Vanthoor, with Marco Wittmann setting the slowest GTP lap in eighth with the No. 25 BMW. Many of the fastest times were set in the final moments of the session as track conditions began to improve. Seven cars elected not to participate in the one-hour 45-minute session, which was wet throughout. The session saw a flurry of incidents as wet condit...

Photo: Brandon Badraoui/IMSA The future of Paul Miller Racing is up in the air, amid multiple reports of the team potentially ceasing operations at the end of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. The longtime GT entrant, a two-time IMSA GTD class championship squad, currently leads the GTD Pro championship standings entering this weekend’s Motul SportsCar Endurance Grand Prix at Road America with BMW factory stars Connor De Phillippi and Neil Verhagen. Multiple paddock sources have indicated to Sportscar365 that its staff was informed on Thursday that it would not continue, at least in its current guise, in 2027. Speaking with Sportscar365, team principal Mitchell Simmons, however, stressed that a final decision on its direction has not yet been taken. “We’re not sure yet,” he said. “We don’t have any contracts yet. Obviously we’re going to keep our options open. “Where we exactly land for next year, I’m not sur...

Photo: Jamey Price/Lamborghini Will Bamber and Nick Persing have claimed pole positions for this weekend’s pair of Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America races at Road America. Bamber, in the No. 33 XONINE Racing Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo EVO2, reeled off a chart-topping 2:05.784 in Friday’s Q1 to edge out the No. 1 Wayne Taylor Racing entry of Hampus Ericsson by 0.112 seconds. Danny Formal qualified third overall in the Pro-Am class points-leading No. 10 WTR entry, while Dennis Lind was fourth in the No. 29 TR3 Racing entry and Giano Taurino completing the top-five. XONINE scored a double pole for Race 1, courtesy of Anthony Bullock’s top qualifying run in the Am class, while TB Autosports’ Philippe Touchette scored pole in LB Cup. Q2 saw Persing, in the No. 1 WTR Lamborghini, record a best lap of 2:067.728 in the second 15-minute session, which was nearly four-tenths quicker than Taurino. The Pro-Am pole for Race 2 went to Marc Miller in the No. 4...

Photo: Jessica Johnk/Porsche Tyler Maxson seized pole position for the opening race of Porsche Carrera Cup North America round at Road America in his No. 77  Topp Racing Porsche 911 Cup. The points leader set a 2:07.587 lap time, which was 0.296 seconds faster than teammate Cole Kleck best effort in the No. 78 Porsche. Kellymoss driver Aaron Jeansonne claimed third place on the Race 1 grid. Callum Hedge had set the pace early on, but was pipped to the pole time by Maxson late in the session. Maxson’s chart-topping lap was followed by a red flag for an off-track moment for Patrick Mulcahy, which severely limited the time Hedge had to respond to Maxson’s pole challenge. Hedge was unable to improve on his early lap time and eventually finished the session in fourth place. The top-five was completed by the No. 40 ACI Racing entry of Janne Stiak. Scott Blind snatched pole in the Masters class in the No. 45 Ruckus Racing Porsche. Pro-Am pole went to Josh Conley in the No...