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MEYER SHANK RACING TO START FIFTH IN THE TWELVE HOURS OF SEBRING
Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) will start fifth for Saturday’s 71st running of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, with a late red flag preventing MSR driver Tom Blomqvist from an attempt at a second-consecutive IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship pole position. MSR experienced an up and down first day of practice on Thursday with the team … Continue reading
WEATHERTECH RACING TO START THIRD IN GTD PRO AT SEBRING
WeatherTech Racing will start the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring from third in GTD Pro for tomorrow’s 10:10 a.m. ET start at Sebring International Speedway. Drivers Jules Gounon (France), Daniel Juncadella (Spain), and Maro Engel (Germany) have been working on the replacement No. 79 WeatherTech Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 with Mercedes-Benz … Continue reading
POLE POSITION FOR FERRARI AT THE 1000 MILES OF SEBRING
Ferrari celebrated its return to the top endurance class after half a century by scoring a historic pole position with the 499P number 50 driven by Antonio Fuoco at the 1000 Miles of Sebring, the opening event of the FIA WEC 2023. The Ferrari – AF Corse team’s qualifying also concluded with an excellent fourth … Continue reading
PORSCHE PENSKE MOTORSPORT QUALIFIES SIX AND SEVENTH FOR THE 1000 MILES OF SEBRING
Porsche Penske Motorsport tackles the season opener of the FIA World Endurance Championship WEC from positions six and seven. At the Sebring International Raceway in the US state of Florida, Kévin Estre turned a qualifying lap in 1:47.193 minutes at the wheel of his No. 6 Porsche 963. Hot on his heels, his teammate Michael … Continue reading
FRONT ROW START FOR TOYOTA GAZOO RACING AT SEBRING
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing will start the 1000 Miles of Sebring from the front row of the grid after a thrilling qualifying session for the 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) season opener. The World Champions took on nine other Hypercars in a tense battle for pole position at the home of endurance racing in the … Continue reading
GRUPPEM DOMINATES KYALAMI 9 HOUR QUALIFYING
Maro Engel, Mikael Grenier and Raffaele Marciello dominated Kyalami 9 Hour qualifying to claim GruppeM Racing and Mercedes-AMG’s second pole position in as many Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli events. But while it was Engel who starred at Bathurst three weeks ago, this performance owed just as much to the speed of his co-drivers … Continue reading
ENGEL MAKES HISTORY EN ROUTE TO BATHURST 12 HOUR POLE RECORD
GruppeM Racing and Mercedes-AMG’s Maro Engel clinched his second Allan Simonsen Pole Position Trophy by setting the fastest lap ever recorded at the LIQUI MOLY Bathurst 12 Hour during this afternoon’s Pirelli Top-10 Shootout. The German – whose entry is also nominated to score Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli points – served notice of … Continue reading
BMW M HYBRID V8 PROTOTYPES TO START FROM FOURTH ROW AT DAYTONA
The ‘Roar before the 24’, the traditional three-day test event one week before the Rolex 24 at Daytona (USA) ended on Sunday with the qualifying sessions determining the starting grid for the 24-hour race. The two BMW M Hybrid V8 prototypes finished the GTP class session in seventh and eighth places and will start the … Continue reading
PORSCHE 963 TACKLES THE 24 HOURS OF DAYTONA FROM THE FRONT ROW
The two Porsche 963 fielded by the Porsche Penske Motorsport factory squad have wrapped up their first qualifying session in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with varying degrees of success. Felipe Nasr from Brazil planted Porsche Penske Motorsport’s No. 7 car on P2 – a mere 0.083 seconds off pole position. His brand colleague Nick … Continue reading
PAUL MILLER RACING TO START P11 FOR THE 2023 ROLEX 24 AT DAYTONA
After a productive week of testing and qualifying at Daytona International Speedway, the Paul Miller Racing team is set to roll off 11th for the 61st Rolex 24 at Daytona. The No. 1 Quartz Engine Oil-backed BMW M4 GT3 will be piloted by full-season drivers Bryan Sellers and Madison Snow, as well as endurance driver … Continue reading
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