SPORTSCARS (Page 23)

Marciello, who will leave the marque after this weekend ahead of an anticipated move to BMW, left it until the very end of the 30-minute session to set the fastest time, a 2m14.542s, in his Team Landgraf Mercedes-AMG GT3.That was more than a second underneath the existing lap record, setContinue Reading

The second 963 for the British Jota team’s expanded two-car assault on the 2024 WEC will be the last car completed before production is temporarily halted, the German manufacturer has revealed.Porsche has changed its original plan to make available a further two cars to customers for each series in theContinue Reading

Westbrook, 48, who partnered Earl Bamber and Alex Lynn in Chip Ganassi Racing’s sole Cadillac entry in this year’s WEC – and scored a podium finish in the Le Mans 24 Hours – will pilot JDC’s Porsche 963 in the second season of GTP competition in America’s premier sportscar series.TheContinue Reading

Button will partner Jordan Taylor, Louis Deletraz and Colton Herta aboard the team’s #40 Acura ARX-06 GTP, as the four-time Daytona 24 Hours winning squad expands to two cars for the 2024 IMSA SportsCar Championship season.It will be the 2009 Formula 1 champion’s second IMSA outing after making his debut inContinue Reading

The Italian squad will contest the five long-distance races on the IMSA SportsCar Championship calendar that comprise the Endurance Cup.  Two of Lamborghini’s Hypercar drivers, Mirko Bortolotti and Andrea Caldarelli, will be part of Iron Lynx’s assault on the GTD Pro class at Daytona together with Franck Perera and JordanContinue Reading

Jarvis will share a McLaren 720S GT3 in all IMSA rounds with factory driver Marvin Kirchhofer, with former IndyCar racer James Hinchcliffe joining the duo for selected enduros. Alexander Rossi will complete the quartet for the Daytona 24 Hours.It will mark Jarvis’s first foray into GT machinery since he racedContinue Reading

The 32-year-old Spaniard is one of four new drivers to have been added to the American marque’s works pool for the first season of competition for the all-new Corvette Z06 GT3.R, along with Earl Bamber, Charlie Eastwood and Nico Varrone.Juncadella makes the move to Corvette after three seasons as aContinue Reading

Marciello will bring the curtain down on a six-season stint as a factory driver with Mercedes in this weekend’s fifth edition of the FIA GT World Cup in Macau, having first joined the German manufacturer’s works roster in 2018.The Italian will pay tribute to Mercedes by sporting a special black-and-silverContinue Reading

Shwartzman got to sample Ferrari’s Le Mans 24 Hours-winning LMH car at the official WEC rookie test in Bahrain last Sunday, just over a month after scoring his first victory in the GT World Challenge Europe series in Barcelona.Completing 30 laps at the wheel of the #51 Ferrari 499P, the 24-year-oldContinue Reading