Today's post-season FIA WEC Rookie Test at the Bahrain International Circuit featured plenty of interest, multiple teams and drivers taking to the track for the first time in LMP and GTE machinery.The biggest story was of course, Fernando Alonso's run, the two-time Formula 1 world champion trying out a Toyota...

Temperatures were slightly cooler to provide near ideal conditions for in qualifying for the Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park. And Ricky Taylor made the most of them to take the pole.After winning the drag race out of the pits for the Prototype class' 15-minute qualifying...

A familiar car returned to the top of IMSA's timing and scoring system on Friday during opening practice for the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship's visit to Canadian Tire Motorsports Park as Wayne Taylor Racing's No. 10 Cadillac DPi-V.R led the field.Jordan Taylor (1m09.443s) was nearly matched by Ryan Dalziel in the...

Porsche confirmed its works team line-ups for its 2017 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2017 with CORE Autosport, fielding its new 911 RSR racecar."For the fourth season, Porsche will take on the competition with a factory entry in America's most important sportscar series, the IMSA Weathertech SportsCar Championship," the manufacturer...

Porsche's Earl Bamber and teammate Nick Tandy have undergone a bit of vehicular culture shock after winning last year's 24 Hours of Le Mans overall in a 919 Hybrid LMP1 car. The GT aces, who race full-time for the German brand in IMSA's WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, got the nod to...

The Volkswagen Group emissions scandal will not affect the automotive giant's motorsport activities, according to new boss Matthias Muller.Muller, who moved over from chief executive officer at VW subsidiary Porsche to take the top job after the resignation of predecessor Martin Winterkorn, said the scandal would not result in the...

On the heels of its surprise overall victory in the Petit Le Mans season finale, the Porsche North America works squad has confirmed it will again field two 911 RSR at all rounds of the 2016 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, starting with the Rolex 24 at Daytona on Jan. 30-31.Video: 2015...

Drivers and teams were met by mostly dry conditions to start Friday morning's final practice session ahead of this afternoon's qualifying session for Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. A light drizzle arrived for the middle portion of the 60-minute outing, but Action Express Racing's Joao Barbosa was able to...

McLaren factory driver Kevin Estre has been loaned to Porsche for the next round of the World Endurance Championship at Spa-Francorchamps in May.The Frenchman, who is a former winner of the Porsche Carrera Cups in both France and Germany, will drive the #91 factory Manthey-run 911 RSR in GTE Pro...

Porsche Supercup title winner Earl Bamber (LEFT) was announced as a factory GT driver for Porsche for next season at the German manufacturer's Night of Champion awards ceremony on Saturday evening. Bamber will share one of the two CORE Autosport-run factory 911 RSRs in the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship with...