Daytona 24 Hours

The first major motorsport event of the year is on this weekend in Daytona, Florida. We are, of course, talking about the Rolex 24 at Daytona, the opening round of the 2016 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, which this year sees several new race cars competing including Ford Motor...

The 2015 motorsport season may be coming to a close but things are already heating up for next year. One of the most exciting prospects is the competitive debut of Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] new GT race car. The car has been confirmed for both the United SportsCar Championship and the...

Lamborghini’s Huracán GT3 was unleashed at the start of this year, and its first port of call was the Blancpain Endurance Series. Next year, however, the raucous racer will enjoy an expanded motorsport program that will include an entry in the United SportsCar Championship. MUST SEE...

Ford's new race car based on the upcoming GT supercar is currently testing on multiple continents ahead of a competition debut in 2016. We now know when that debut will happen as the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] has posted up the car’s complete schedule for the 2016 motorsport season. As...

The Rolex 24 at Daytona is now over for the year, and while the prototypes may be the nominal headliners, it’s the GTD field—the real cars—that capture our attention. Prior to the race, Audi ran hot laps around the race circuit in two very real cars: the bone-stock, street legal...

The race is over, the stands empty, the fans looking forward to Sebring. The winners are celebrating, the rest of the field is commiserating, rallying, looking forward to Sebring. This is the time to look back at the Rolex 24, to enjoy what it was—and what it wasn’t—before moving...

At the Daytona 24 Hours race this January, we sat down with Ferrari North America's CEO Marco Mattiacci to talk racing, touching on both the current Tudor United SportsCar Championship series, and Ferrari's history in endurance racing. How those things intertwine--or don't--and how Ferrari...

When night falls on the Daytona International Speedway, it’s not just the partying that comes up to the next level. Racing is intense in the dark. Roaring around the track just as they did in the day time—if not faster—the racers and their cars take on a sometimes otherworldly...

UPDATE: IMSA has reversed its penalty on the #555 Level 5 Motorsports Ferrari 458 Italia assessed during the last lap when driver Alessandro Pier Guidi and #45 Flying Lizard Motorsports Audi R8 LMS driver Markus Winkelhock had an incident in the infield section of the course. Despite awarding the...

Just over three hours into the Rolex 24 at Daytona, a crash just after the International Horseshoe brought brought a red flag stop to the race, and put the well-being of drivers Memo Gidley (Gainsco #99) and Matteo Malucelli (Risi Competizione #62) on everyone’s mind. The accident occurred as...

Daytona is, by most standards, a rather quiet little beach town, superficially a third of a century or more past its prime. But for many Americans, and more than a few Europeans, it’s also a holy place—a point of pilgrimage for the Church of Speed. One such European is Romolo Liebchen...

The challenges of running a race car flat-out for 24 hours are monumental. But the Rolex 24 at Daytona doesn’t start at the green flag on Saturday afternoon. In fact, the race started at least a few months ago, then heated up earlier this month with the Roar Before the 24, three days of...

Aston Martin will be on the starting grid for the world famous Rolex 24 at Daytona this weekend, for the first time since 1985. The historic British automaker’s motorsport division Aston Martin Racing together with The Racers Group will be fielding three Vantage-based race cars in the...

Audi will be pacing and racing the 2014 Rolex 24 at Daytona.

The racing version of the seventh-generation Chevrolet Corvette has made its debut at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show, appearing alongside the new 2015 Corvette Z06 with which it shares a remarkable resemblance. This shouldn't come as much of a surprise as the two cars were co-developed and represent...

Ford hopes its popular EcoBoost engine will be just as successful on the track as it is in the showroom.

The secret to endurance racing is the same as the secret to all other forms of motorsport: to finish first, first you must finish. In the Grand Am series, nowhere is that task more difficult than at the Daytona International Speedway for the Rolex 24. It’s the first race of the season, which...

Scott Pruett of Chip Ganassi Racing is in prime position for a record-tying fifth overall victory at the Rolex 24 At Daytona, having set the fastest time after yesterday’s qualifying session. He piloted his No. 01 BMW/Riley Daytona prototype around the 3.56-mile race track in just 1:40.553...

Audi’s R8 Grand-Am debuted at the 2012 Rolex 24 at Daytona, and its inaugural race was less than stellar. The APR Motorsports car finished 31st in class (44th overall, some 280 laps down), followed by the Oryx Racing R8, which finished 32nd in class (45th overall, 295 laps down). Any new race...

Ferrari knows that some of its clients take driving very seriously, to the point where they’d rather drive their 458 Italias or F430s on the racetrack than on the street. For these discriminating owners, Ferrari has created spec racing series for both the 458 and F430, rolled up under the...