NASCAR driver Harrison Burton held off hard-charging sports car veteran Spencer Pumpelly by a slight 0.688s to earn the overall victory in Friday’s BMW M Endurance Challenge, the season-opening IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge race on the 3.56-mile Daytona International Speedway road course.Pumpelly, who co-drove with Jeroen Bleekemolen and Tom Collingwood,...

This week's installment of the Inside The Sports Car Paddock interview show opens with CORE autosport race engineer Jeff Braun on the life and practices of a fly-in engineer and how it compares to being a full-time employee of a racing team.Braun's followed by IMSA VIR GTD race winner Jeroen...

Ben Keating’s crash at Turn 8 during the morning practice session was big enough to require a second Mercedes-AMG GT3 chassis to be prepared for the Texan and teammate Jeroen Bleekemolen to continue racing this weekend in Road America.With a spare chassis on hand, and a big task ahead, the...

Ben Keating isn't piling extra pressure on his team to repeat as GT Daytona class winners in Saturday's Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring.Keating and Jeroen Bleekemolen return in the No. 33 Team Riley Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3 that won last year's event. Luca Stolz completes the line-up, replacing 2017 winner...

GRT Grasser Racing gave Lamborghini its first victory in the Rolex 24 in a closely-contested GTD class race at Daytona.Mirko Bortolotti was behind the wheel of the No.11 Huracan GT3 for the final stint and held off the close attentions of Jeroen Bleekemolen in the No.33 Team Riley Motorsports Mercedes-AMG...

IMSA GTD racer and 2017 Bob Akin Award winner Ben Keating will contest the 2018 Le Mans 24 Hours in a Ferrari 488 GTE run by Risi Competizione in the GTE Am class.Keating earned an automatic invitation to the race by winning the 2017 Bob Akin Award for outstanding performance...

«» AUSTIN, TX - Hay algo sobre Circuito de las Américas que se adapta a Ben Keating. El nativo de Texas extendió su récord de serie en la pista de Austin, Texas, el sábado, con su cuarta victoria en cinco apariciones en el Advance Auto Parts Sportscar Showdown. Keating, que...

At the end of the hour-long pre-qualifying session for the California 8 Hours GT race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, four different manufacturers were represented in the top 4, with nine cars within the same second. Quickest of the session was the No. 29 Audi Sport Team Land R8.The pre-qualifying...

Black Swan Racing will reteam with Porsche for the upcoming Intercontinental GT Challenge at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, as well as February's Bathurst 12 Hour. This will be in addition to a full 2018 schedule that will see the team with Mercedes-AMG in a to-be-announced program.Joining the team for both...

As exciting a product as GT3 racing is – especially in the Pirelli World Challenge Sprint and SprintX formats – the cars themselves have become complicated. And while GT3 was envisioned as customer – not factory – racing, those who buy and race the cars have learned that doing so...