It was announced today that Action Express Racing (AXR) and Chip Ganassi Racing, currently running Cadillac DPi-V.Rs, will both campaign the next-gen Cadillacs in the IMSA SportsCar Championship in 2023. The Denver-based team has a successful history with General Motors, winning three straight IMSA championships as well as a Daytona 24 Hours and Sebring 12
Month: August 2021
From the outset it looked like a walk in the park for Toyota, but it was not as serene as it seemed as the #7 crew of Mike Conway, Jose Maria Lopez and Kamui Kobayashi finally claimed the coveted victory they have been searching for. Perhaps not a classic, but Le Mans never fails to
The General Motors-owned brand will partner with Chip Ganassi Racing and Action Express Racing, two of its current factory squads in the top DPi class of IMSA, for the new era of sportscar racing on either side of the Atlantic. Cadillac said it will integrate a new GM-developed engine in its yet-to-be-named LMDh car, which
Both Scott Dixon and Alex Palou were sent into the wall during a Lap 65 restart in Saturday’s final oval race of the IndyCar season at Gateway’s WorldWide Technology Raceway. Their Chip Ganassi Racing-Hondas were tagged by Rinus VeeKay’s Ed Carpenter-Chevrolet, and the subsequent crash eliminated Palou and VeeKay on the spot. Dixon limped his
Although he finished only 14th, partly due to the unfortunate timing of a yellow flag and a strategy switch, Grosjean kept the #51 Dale Coyne Racing car off the SAFER barriers at the 1.25-mile World Wide Technology Raceway. This was despite a couple of moments where he drifted into the marbles and lost speed as
In the world of sport, what you wear is just as important as how you wear it – and a race suit is no different. It must protect the driver from danger, feel comfortable to wear, and provide the right mobility behind the wheel of a hugely fast racing car. In having developed racewear for
For all of Argentina’s remarkable history in Formula 1, it has now been 20 years since the country was last represented on the grid courtesy of unremarkable ex-Minardi and Prost driver Gaston Mazzacane. But had the ambitious USF1 team got off the ground in 2010, the baton would have been taken up by Toyota’s newly-minted
The pair came together during Saturday’s race at when Pagenaud was clipped by the eventual race winner on the lap 16 restart. Pagenaud lost a chunk of his front wing and was left to recover from the back of the field to finish eighth, while Newgarden held off Pato O’Ward to take his second win
Hendrick Motorsport Chevrolet racer Byron led the way on a restart with eight of 200 laps remaining and Blaney was the first car to pick the inside lane on the restart. When the race went green, Kyle Busch’s Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota gave Blaney a huge push that helped to shoot him past Byron and
The 2019 champion, who was denied victory in 2015 following contact at the last corner with Mattias Ekstrom, led semi-final one from lights to flag to secure the front row for the all-important final. As on day one, the Swede didn’t have things all his own way in qualifying on Sunday, with Dutchman Kevin Abbring and
Frijns, who shared the winning #31 WRT ORECA-07 Gibson with Ferdinand Habsburg and Charles Milesi on the Belgian team’s first Le Mans outing, came out of the night with a 45-second lead over the #41 sister car of Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye and Louis Deletraz. But on Sunday the #41 car steadily closed the gap
Uruguayan Urrutia was handed a free run to the first corner after fastest qualifier Rob Huff was forced to start from the pitlane after the British driver clipped a tyre stack in the first race and incurred severe damage to his left-front suspension. His Zengo Motorsport team ran out of time to repair the Cupra
The #7 Toyota Gazoo Racing entry had a 68sec lead despite a wayward moment for Lopez at Mulsanne Corner, when Kaz Nakajima pitted the #8 car pitted at the end of the 17th hour. However, when Lopez handed over to Conway, the pitcrew struggled with a sticking wheelnut and gave up 40sec of its advantage
Pouncing on misfortune for long-time leader Colton Herta, who suffered a mechanical issue while leading with relative comfort, Newgarden assumed the lead of the race. The Tennessee native had previously taken the lead during the pit phase amid the third caution period, produced by Ed Carpenter’s shunt, after leapfrogging Penske team-mate Will Power and Herta
Hot on the heels of his first victory in 2021 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course last time out, 2014 IndyCar champion Power denied Andretti Autosport driver Herta by less than 0.1mph to nail the 63rd open wheel pole position of his career. The third driver to go out, Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet’s Felix Rosenqvist,
For most of the session, Newgarden led with a 177.562mph lap but as two-lap qualifying simulations got underway, McLaughlin edged ahead with a 177.669mph effort. Then Newgarden delivered a 178.600 mph lap, just 25.1959sec around the 1.25-mile WWT Raceway, before going still faster with a 178.774mph. With the 90-minute session being the only practice before
The final step in the convergence of regulations for the top prototype classes across IMSA and the World Endurance Championship was announced in July. This will allow LMH machinery to compete in IMSA against the new breed of LMP2-based LMDh prototypes from 2023, but Glickenhaus would be excluded by a series rule in North America
Japan is set to host the championship’s final round from 11-14 November although the rising number of COVID-19 cases has resulted in confirmation this week that October’s Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix will be cancelled for a second consecutive year. MotoGP has already scrubbed its Japanese GP from its calendar earlier this year before this
Yamaha announced on Friday that it had parted ways with Vinales with immediate effect for the remainder of the 2021 MotoGP season following his suspension by the team last week. Vinales was found to be trying to deliberately damage his YZR-M1’s engine during the final laps of the Styrian Grand Prix, and was subsequently withdrawn
The French manufacturer, part of the Renault group, has revealed that it is actively evaluating developing a Le Mans Hypercar or an LMDh prototype for the 2023 or 2024 season. Alonso, who resumed his F1 career with the marque this year after twice winning the Le Mans 24 Hours with Toyota, would be an obvious
Nicolas Lapierre got within three tenths of Kazuki Nakajima’s time-topping Toyota during the fourth period of free practice that followed the Hyperpole qualifying session. Nakajima set the pace from the beginning of Thursday evening’s night session in the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID, ending up on a 3m27.994s. Lapierre posted an improvement with 40 minutes to
The Belgian, who is part of Audi’s factory GT3 roster, explained that he got the maximum out of his Porsche 911 RSR-19 on the way to beating Ferrari driver Daniel Serra to the top spot in Thursday evening’s Hyperpole session by nearly two tenths of a second. “Normally I would always say I could go
Hy-Vee, a grocery chain with sponsorship links to Rahal Letterman Lanigan, has announced a new multi-year agreement that returns the banked, rough and challenging D-shaped oval to the calendar. Iowa Speedway, which has held 15 IndyCar races since it opened in 2006, will host the Hy-VeeDeals.com 250 on Saturday, 23 July, while the Hy-Vee Salute
The Le Mans 24 Hours is widely considered, and rightly so, to be a bucket list event that racers all over the world aspire to enter. But for every driver that gets to thrash around its 8.46 miles of hallowed tarmac in the dead of night, there are many more who miss the boat. For
The invitational races on the 3.8-mile street Guia Circuit have traditionally attracted healthy entries from aspiring Formula 1 drivers seeking to win the prestigious Macau Grand Prix, and from GT manufacturers fielding works-supported GT3 cars. The final round of the WTCR championship is also traditionally held in Macau. However, with all international arrivals required to
The climbing number of COVID-19 cases in both Oregon and California, and the states’ anticipated reaction to that, caused many in the IndyCar paddock to wonder if the races at Portland International Raceway (12 September), Laguna Seca (19 September) and the streets of Long Beach (26 September) might again come under threat. All three venues
The Dane, a veteran of 119 grands prix, will make his Le Mans 24 Hours debut this weekend when he races in LMP2 alongside his dad, Jan, in an ORECA-Gibson 07 from Danish entrant High Class Racing. The 28-year-old has also already committed to a World Endurance Championship campaign next year with Peugeot. With the
The two-hour FP2 session was run in darkness throughout, with all drivers required to complete at least five laps at night ahead of Saturday’s race. Jose Maria Lopez set the early pace in the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID he shares with Mike Conway and Kamui Kobayashi with a time of 3m29.810s, while Kazuki Nakajima worked
Kobayashi set the session’s benchmark time of 3m26.279s aboard his Toyota GR010 HYBRID in the first half of Wednesday night’s one-hour qualifying, going over a second quicker than team-mate Brendon Hartley in the sister #8 car that currently leads the World Endurance Championship points standings. In the second half of the session, Alpine driver Matthieu
In response to the increased quantity of cases, NASCAR reintroduced a policy to require all team personnel and media wear a face mask in enclosed areas of the track at all times, regardless of vaccination status. This week, NASCAR has announced several additional changes – effective with this weekend’s races at World Wide Technology Raceway
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