Ask Jan Magnussen about his responsibilities in his role at MDK Motorsports and be prepared for a lengthy answer, almost as long as the team’s entry list across the spectrum of sports car series where MDK competes.What began a decade ago as an endeavor to become a gentleman racer in...

Now that the checkered flag has waved on the 71st Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, you might think Sebring International Raceway will fade from the international motorsports spotlight and return to its workaday role until next spring.If so, you’re only half right. Although the sounds echoing across Kristensen Corner,...

Good things come to those who wait. At least John Church and his colleagues at JDC-Miller MotorSports hope so.For while the likes of the factory teams for Acura, BMW, Cadillac and Porsche -- the manufacturers competing in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s new top prototype class, Grand Touring Prototype (GTP)...

Vasser Sullivan Racing enjoyed a quietly strong 2022 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship campaign. Make that campaigns, as the team ran one Lexus RC F GT3 apiece in the GT Daytona (GTD) and the new GTD PRO classes, scoring a pair of wins and taking runner-up in the inaugural GTD PRO...

Imagine for a moment you’re a red, white and blue American racer, one who took advantage of opportunities across the pond to carve out a successful career in Europe. Now imagine that you’ve landed a ride for your rookie go in the Rolex 24 At Daytona.That gives you some inkling...

Back in the days of his own race driving career, Bryan Herta’s followers were stricken with “Herta-mania.” While he has long since transitioned from driver to team owner, Herta-mania is alive and well thanks to the exploits of his son and IndyCar star, Colton, but also through the powerful Bryan...

Perhaps the most endangered species in motorsports in recent years has been the bodywork painter of race cars. For as the cars’ cost and weight have come down, vinyl body wraps -- essentially car-sized decals covering the entire bodywork -- have increasingly become in vogue throughout the IMSA paddocks.And why...

Monday of this week found Robert Wickens excitedly anticipating his first opportunity to drive a race car in nearly three seasons: 988 days, to be exact.But on Tuesday the Canadian was all business, just as he has been since becoming a professional race driver more than a decade ago; since...

Like most anyone reading RACER.com, I approached Ford v Ferrari with trepidation. The trailers I’d seen promised Hollywood’s usual testosterone-fueled crash-fest portrait of motorsports. Nor was I encouraged when I stumbled into a VIP showing of the movie’s “short” at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum last May in time to...

Ed Carpenter Racing was left rueing unfulfilled promise after an Indy 500 that began with its three Chevrolets starting second, third and fourth on the grid ended with Ed Carpenter, Ed Jones and Spencer Pigot classified sixth, 13th and 14th respectively.“I spent most of the day saving fuel,” said team...