For the 2024 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, a trio of privately-run Porsche 963s prepare to take on their factory brethren and the rest of the Hypercar field, and it’s not for the first time. From the pages of the June/July issue of Vintage Motorsport, Gary Watkins...

The list of drivers who looked exceptional in junior formulas and then wavered when they reached the top is a long one.Some get there and swiftly plateau, because they’re used to relying purely on driving talent and lack the industriousness for self-improvement. Others stay too long in backmarker or mid-grid...

The FIA World Endurance Championship’s brand-new Hypercar class, which replaces LMP1 at its top prototype category, could be facing a worrisome debut at Sebring with a grid of no more than two to three Hypercars.The unfortunate scenario comes on the heels of news from New York’s Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus, which...

The partnership between Joest Racing and Mazda Motorsports is expected to reach its official conclusion in the days ahead.As RACER wrote last year, Mazda is believed to have notified the German team of its intent to discontinue the relationship as Mazda Team Joest in September, which triggered a six-month winding...

Sports car fans have been guided toward the looming split between Mazda and Team Joest for more than a year.Parse the quotes from former Mazda motorsports director John Doonan over that time span – especially towards the end of the 2019 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season -- and the proverbial...

Amid questions surrounding its vendor for the RT24-P IMSA DPi program, Mazda has confirmed its intent to continue working with Germany’s Joest Racing to start the 2020 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.“Mazda is very excited for the season to get started in January at the Daytona Rolex 24 with Team Joest as...

The principals of Mazda Team Joest have shown that their methods work. Can they benefit the club racer?One of Joest Racing's basic tenets is that success is not a question of luck. This credo comes from real world experience, as Team Joest – now running the Mazda RT-24P in the...

Having sat down to write a column applauding some of the racing champions of 2017 (this being RACER's Champions Issue, according to my editorial calendar), I quickly realized that my whole focus was on 2018 and the fact that we have some seriously exciting things happening in North American motorsports...

The Sebring Hall of Fame has announced its 2018 inductees. A.J. Foyt, Rinaldo "Dindo" Capello, Paul Newman, Joest Racing and the civic organization Sebring Firemen, Inc. will join Sebring's prestigious Hall of Fame in 2018.The induction dinner will take place Friday, March 16, the night before the 66th Mobil 1...

Former Schmidt Peterson Motorsports race engineer Allen McDonald has signed with Ed Carpenter Racing. The Briton, who looked after ECR's Spencer Pigot in the No. 21 Chevy during the recent Manufacturers test at Road America, brings considerable experience, which includes a Verizon IndyCar Series championship and Indy 500 win with...