The inaugural class for the IMSA Hall of Fame has been selected and includes four drivers, three IMSA founders and four iconic race cars from throughout the sanctioning body’s 54-year history.The inductees will be honored as part of October’s WeatherTech Night of Champions held following the Motul Petit Le Mans...

The inaugural class for the IMSA Hall of Fame, the creation of which was announced in January, has been selected and includes four drivers, three IMSA founders and four iconic race cars from throughout the sanctioning body’s 54-year history.The four drivers selected for induction into the inaugural IMSA Hall of...

It’s VM’s May/June issue and that means we always celebrate the Indianapolis 500 with several related feature stories.Almost Immortal! That’s the title of our 7-page Salon feature. The 1981 Wildcat-Cosworth Indy car we focus on is the chassis Mario Andretti piloted to win the 1981 Indy 500…for 138 days. But...

It’s a Gift! Yes, Rusty Wallace’s 2005 Penske NASCAR Dodge Charger was the “gold watch” retirement present given to him by “The Captain,” Roger Penske, at the conclusion of his last race at Homestead in 2005.On the cover and featured on 7 pages in our Salon section, the car is...

Gary Grossenbacher, one of the pivotal team members who led Holbert Racing to multiple IMSA GTP titles in the 1980s, died Monday at the age of 65 after a battle with cancer. The Ohio-born race engineer represented something new for Al Holbert, whose skills as a driver, engineer, and designer,...

As we build up to this year’s Rolex 24 at Daytona, RACER.com is pleased to bring you a series of excerpts from IMSA 1969-1989 by Mitch Bishop and Mark Raffauf. The soon-to-be-released inside history of IMSA’s first two decades is currently available for pre-order from Octane Press, and as a...

Al Holbert, the great IMSA champion, Le Mans winner, and heart of Porsche's North American motorsports program, died 30 years ago on Sept. 30, 1988, in a plane crash leaving the Columbus street race. Holbert, one of my two biggest racing heroes, is remembered in conversations with his son Todd,...

«» Each summer, IMSA heads to Western New York for a race weekend at one of the oldest and most famous racetracks in the world: Watkins Glen International.In recent years, the Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen has been the first IMSA race to follow the famed 24 Hours of...

Take a #ThrowbackThursday look back at some of the top contenders at the 1976 12 Hours of Sebring.How times have changed in 40 years. In those days, there was no prototype category so the IMSA Camel GT Series was just that – run exclusively for GTO (2.5-liter and larger-displacement engines)...

To sound trite, I could start this story by saying that the 12 Hours of Sebring of 1976 seems as if it was held only yesterday. But it’s not that way. It was 40 years ago, and my memories of the race I won with Al Holbert stream back to...