Beginning as the sun burned orange behind the front-straight grandstands and running mostly in the dark, the Free Practice session for the Indianapolis 8 Hour, the final round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge, featured Mercedes AMG at the top of the time sheet. However, Jules Gounon and the No. 80...

A championship decided by four points out of more than 3100 – a 0.12 percent margin, if you like – can be analyzed to death. A couple of better positions in qualifying here, a single worse finishing position in a race there. A little luck on one day, a missed...

There's pressure, and then there's pressure. This weekend, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship championship leaders are facing a different, slightly lighter, kind of squeeze than in the past.For the first time in half a decade, the championship in the top class of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship isn't a matter...

Need some racing action to get you to Sebring? Fortunately IMSA's content creators have been hard at work for you, and RACER has rounded up a few here.Let's start with the sights and sound of the Rolex 24 from IMSA, a video that will take you from the full-field-photo to...

Thursday's opening practice session for Motul Petit Le Mans began on damp, drying track soaked by overnight rains. Mild temperatures of 60 degrees and overcast skies kept speeds from reaching their ultimate potential, and for much of the session, LMP2 cars led the lap times as the GTP car struggled...

As Fanatec GT World Challenge America and its sibling SRO America series Pirelli GT4 America have shifted focus over the years, following their European brethren into mini endurance races with multiple drivers, there has been some lament that the old World Challenge Series was lost. The single-driver, no-pit sprint format...

November 11, 2017. Interlagos. At 14:01.56 local time, Lewis Hamilton loses control of his Mercedes and slides sideways into the wall at high speed. His car is heavily damaged, and he's out of qualifying without even completing a lap.Hamilton is already due to start from the back of the grid,...

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...

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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...