Sportscar Racing News
MID-OHIO
THE McLAREN 570S GT4 LEADS CHAMPIONSHIPS IN THE USA AND EUROPE AS 720S GT3 MAKES NORTH AMERICAN DEBUT
McLaren Customer Racing GT4 teams extended the lead in two of the world’s most competitive GT4 championships over the weekend. Motorsports In Action now holds the GS-class championship lead in the Michelin PILOT Challenge after a P7 finish at Mid-Ohio, while Equipe Verschuur further strengthened its position at the top of the GT4 European Series … Continue reading
AIM VASSER SULLIVAN CLAIMS FIRST VICTORY
The AIM VASSER SULLIVAN (AVS) No. 14 Lexus RC F GT3 was victorious in the GTD class of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Sunday with co-drivers Jack Hawksworth and Richard Heistand. The win marks the third for Lexus in IMSA GTD competition, first for AIM VASSER SULLIVAN and … Continue reading
PAUL MILLER RACING LAMBORGHINI SCORE FIRST 2019 PODIUM AT MID-OHIO
The Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini squad has scored its first IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship podium of the year with Bryan Sellers and Ryan Hardwick scoring third place today at the Mid-Ohio Sportscar Course. The result mirrors its third-place finish from 2018 at the same venue and comes after the team suffered setbacks at both Daytona … Continue reading
PORSCHE EXTENDS IMSA SERIES LEAD WITH WIN AND PODIUM PLACE
The Porsche GT Team has claimed its third straight win at round four of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The works drivers Earl Bamber (New Zealand) and Laurens Vanthoor (Belgium) went up against strong opposition in the GTLM class at Lexington and celebrated their second victory after Long Beach (USA). Last year, the pair in … Continue reading
WHELEN ENGINEERING FIGHTS TO FOURTH AT MID-OHIO
Whelen Engineering Racing finished fourth in a hard-fought race in Sunday’s Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio. Denied in a late-race bid to take a podium finish, Felipe Nasr and Pipo Derani came away with a fourth-place finish for the No. 31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac DPi-V.R. Unofficially, the Whelen Engineering team expanded its lead in … Continue reading
MUSTANG SAMPLING RACING EIGHTH AT MID-OHIO
In a weekend highlighted by changing weather and track conditions, Mustang Sampling Racing emerged from nearly three hours of racing with an eighth-place finish in the Acura Sports Car Classic at Mid-Ohio. Coming off a victory at Long Beach in the most recent IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship event, Filipe Albuquerque and Joao Barbosa fought in … Continue reading
BMW TEAM RLL FINISHES FOURTH AND SIXTH AT MID-OHIO
BMW Team RLL registered fourth and sixth place finishes in today’s Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio, the fourth round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Tom Blomqvist and Connor DePhillippi finished fourth in the No. 25 BMW M8 GTE, 4.374 seconds behind the winning No. 912 Porsche 911 RSR and two positions ahead of … Continue reading
CADILLAC FINISHES FOURTH AT MID-OHIO
The Whelen Engineering Cadillac DPi-V.R came home fourth in today’s running of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Acura Sports Car Challenge at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Cadillac Mid-Ohio finishing order: 4. No. 31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac DPi-V.R 6. No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R 7. No. 84 JDC/Miller Motorsport Cadillac DPi-V.R 8. No. 5 … Continue reading
MEYER SHANK RACING MOVES TO IMSA CHAMPIONSHIP LEAD AFTER SECOND PLACE FINISH AT MID-OHIO
Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) drivers Mario Farnbacher and Trent Hindman moved into the provisional IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTD class points lead in the No. 86 AutoNation / MSR Acura NSX GT3 with a strong run to second in the two hour and 40-minute Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio on Sunday. In what seemed … Continue reading
WEATHERTECH RACING FERRARI FINISHES SEVENTH AT MID-OHIO
WeatherTech Racing drivers Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill.) and Toni Vilander (Kankaanpää, Finland) raced to a seventh-place finish in today’s running of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio. MacNeil had the wheel of the No. 63 WeatherTech Racing Ferrari for the two-hour-and-40-minute race. A tough qualifying session and feverish pace to … Continue reading
