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Lamborghini, BMW in race to secure Marciello for 2024 LMDh programmes

Long-time Mercedes driver Marciello had been set to join Lamborghini and drive for the Iron Lynx team, which next year will debut the new SC63 LMDh in both the World Endurance Championship and the IMSA SportsCar Championship.

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IMSA CTMP: Blomqvist/Braun win for MSR Acura after huge Cadillac crash

The sixth round of America’s premier sportscar series boasted a 34-car entry for a 2h40m race around the 2.45-mile track that was formerly known as Mosport.

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IMSA CTMP: Blomqvist takes pole in Acura 1-2 ahead of Cadillacs

Blomqvist lapped the challenging Canadian road course in 1m05.653s, just 0.081s ahead of the Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport ARX-06 of Ricky Taylor.

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IMSA CTMP: Blomqvist takes pole in Acura 1-2, ahead of Cadillacs

Blomqvist lapped the challenging Canadian road course in 1m05.653s, just 0.08s ahead of the Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport ARX-06 of Ricky Taylor.

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IMSA CTMP: Braun’s Acura beats AXR Cadillac in first practice

Braun’s Acura topped the 90-minute session for the 34-car entry with a quickest time of 1m07.341s, over three quarters of a second clear of all rivals at the fabled sportscar track near Toronto.

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Spa 24 Hours: BMW takes first win since 2018

They completed a third victory for the German team after its 2016 and ’20 wins with BMW and Porsche respectively in the double-points round of the GT World Challenge Europe by 11.1s over the second-placed Auto Sport Promotion Mercedes shared by Raffaele Marciello, Jules Gounon and Timur Boguslavskiy.

Autosport

IMSA Watkins Glen: Porsche snatches last-gasp win from BMW

Jaminet passed Connor De Phillippi’s Rahal Letterman Lanigan-run BMW with just six minutes of the six-hour race remaining. The race went full-course yellow just moments later, as a BMW GTD car somersaulted on the approach to the final corner.

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IMSA Laguna Seca: Ganassi Cadillac holds off Tandy Porsche for victory

Cadillac became the first manufacturer to win twice in IMSA's new GTP era, as the Ganassi squad followed up Action Express's victory after late carnage at Sebring by just 3.8s over the second of the Porsche Penske Motorsports 963s that started on the front row in the hands of Mathieu…

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IMSA Laguna Seca: Ganassi Cadillac holds off Porsche for victory

At the drop of the green, the two Porsche Penske Motorsports 963 of Matt Campbell and Mathieu Jaminet locked up at Turn 2. Both Campbell and Jaminet ran wide, allowing the fast-starting Colin Braun (Meyer Shank Racing Acura) to get into the lead, followed by Pipo Derani (Action Express Racing…

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Sebring 12H Hr 9: WTR Acura leads, heartache for Ganassi Cadillac

The race’s fifth full-course caution was caused by the #24 BMW M Hybrid V8 of Augusto Farfus grinding to a halt, then proceeding slowly toward the pits – a destination it never made. Almost simultaneously, Kyffin Simpson had a sizeable off in his Tower Motorsport LMP2 car.

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Sebring 12H Hr3: Dixon leads in Ganassi Cadillac, BMW looking strong

After a furious battle between Cadillac and Acura in the opening hour, Ganassi jumped Sebastien Bourdais ahead of Pipo Derani out of the pits following the first round of stops, despite giving it four fresh Michelins – partly thanks to a very strong in-lap from Bourdais – but then the…

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IMSA Sebring: Derani pips Bourdais as Cadillac locks out front row

Three-time Sebring winner Derani secured the first pole of IMSA's GTP era for its hybrid Cadillac V-Series.R by just 0.087s over the similar Chip Ganassi Racing machine driven by 2021 victor Bourdais in a 20-minute session that was cut short by Campbell's off.

Autosport

Sebring 12H: Cadillac locks out front row, Porsche crashes

A 20-minute session for eight class entrants on a 3.74-mile racecourse meant the teams could space themselves well on track. Wayne Taylor Racing Andretti Autosport’s Ricky Taylor delivered a 1m46.100 to go half a second clear of fellow Acura ARX-06 runner, Tom Blomqvist in the Meyer Shank Racing entry. They…

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Sebring 12H: Albuquerque tops first practice in WTR-Andretti Acura

Electrical issues delayed the WTR-Andretti car from strutting its stuff on track, so that Albuquerque had just 14 laps to get the job done, but his eighth lap was a 1min48.303sec around the legendary 3.74-mile track. That was enough for him to shade Renger van der Zande’s top time in…

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BMW's Spengler has "a lot to learn" in SUPER GT switch

DTM champion Bruno Spengler says he has 'a lot to learn' as he takes on a partial SUPER GT season with BMW Team Studie this year.

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2023 Bathurst 12 Hour: Rossi, Farfus, And Martin Bring Home Sixth Place

2023 marked Valentino Rossi's first Bathurst 12 Hour experience, though it wasn't his first endurance race. How did he and his teammates fare during the event?

Motorsport

Bathurst 12 Hour: GruppeM in front with three hours to go

The GruppeM Mercedes currently leads a see-sawing battle with SunEnergy1 Racing heading into the final three hours of the Bathurst 12 Hour.

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Bathurst 12 Hour: SunEnergy1 Mercedes leads at halfway

Jules Gounon leads the Bathurst 12 Hour in the #75 SunEnergy1 Racing Mercedes at the halfway point of the race.

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Bathurst 12Hr: Van Gisbergen’s Mercedes leads after first quarter

Shane van Gisbergen’s Supercheap Mercedes AMG GT3 is locked in battle with Matt Campbell’s Manthey Porsche 911 GT3 R after three hours of a fascinating Intercontinental GT Challenge race at the legendary Bathurst track.

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Rossi reacts to "mythical" Mount Panorama

Valentino Rossi says it was 'an emotion' to face the famous Bathurst circuit in real life for the first time today.

Autosport

BMW boss Rahal says finishing Daytona was "almost like a win"

BMW team boss Bobby Rahal has described getting the two new M Hybrid V8 LMDh prototypes to the finish on debut in last weekend’s Daytona 24 Hours as “almost like a win”.

Autosport

Daytona 24: MSR Acura opens GTP era with win, Proton snatches LMP2 by 0.016s

Meyer Shank Racing scored its second consecutive victory in the Daytona 24 Hours in the first race for the IMSA SportsCar Championship's new GTP regulations, leading an Acura 1-2 finish.

Autosport

Daytona 24, Hour 3: Cadillac leads Acura and Porsche

The #01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac leads the Acuras of Meyer Shank Racing and Wayne Taylor Racing after three hours of action in the 61st Daytona 24 Hours.

Motorsport

Rolex 24, Hour 3: Ganassi Cadillac leads Acura, Porsche at Daytona

The #01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-LMDh leads the Acuras of Meyer Shank Racing and Wayne Taylor Racing after three hours of action in the 61st running of the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona.

Autosport

Farfus says BMW could have reliability edge over LMDh rivals

Augusto Farfus has dismissed concerns about BMW's apparent lack of pace in the build-up to the Daytona 24 Hours, and feels it could have an edge when it comes reliability.

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