United SportsCar Racing
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Races all over the world are being postponed or canceled. Here's a list of everything we know so far.
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Porsche is done racing in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship after 2020Porsche will exit the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship's GTLM class after 2020, but has hinted it may return to the series.
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LMDh could see Porsche return to top-level endurance racing
Porsche will evaluate an entry in the proposed common class to serve as the top category in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and World Endurance Championship.
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Aston Martin Valkyrie Le Mans Hypercar program on hold
Aston Martin has put its Le Mans Hypercar program on hold as it assesses the recent announcement of a new LMDh class eligible for both the World Endurance Championship and WeatherTech Sportscar Championship.
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Wayne Taylor Racing's No. 10 Cadillac DPi driven to victory in 2020 Rolex 24 at Daytona
The past weekend saw the 58th running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona, a race that serves as the opening round of the 2020 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, and the defending team Wayne Taylor Racing running the No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R in the premier DPi class was successful yet again...
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ACO and IMSA create new top racing class to race worldwide
The Le Mans Hypercar class will get competition from the Le Mans Daytona hybrid class to form the pinnacle of endurance racing worldwide.
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It's a new year, and a new era for Corvette fans. The C8 generation has gone the mid-engine route, which means its racing variant, the C8.R, is mid-engined, too. The race car made its debut last October, but the car shown at the time wore a silver livery with splashes of yellow. That's not the color setup everyone recognizes. Now the C8.R adorned in the more traditional yellow livery has made an appearance. The number 3 car, set to be driven by Jordan Taylor and Antonio Garcia, was shown on Twitter by Taylor. The yellow-based livery is similar to the design of that found on the C7.R race car...
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2020 Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo ready to challenge the Corvette C8.R
Over 18,000 hours were spent developing the new front fascia alone.
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The era of front-engine Corvettes in motorsport is over
Chevrolet has a new Corvette C8.R race car coming to dominate racetracks around the world in 2020, and that means it's the end of the road for the current C7.R, which enjoyed its final round of competition during this past weekend's Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. It also means the end of the road...
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Watch the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8.R lap Road Atlanta
The Corvette C8.R race car has been testing in secret at night but last week Chevy rolled the car out in front of the Petit Le Mans crowd.
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Ford is done racing the GT
Ford has ended its four-year racing program for the GT supercar but there's still hope private teams will continue to field the car.
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Chevy Corvette C8.R has a flat-crank 5.5-liter V-8 we'll see in a road car
The engine in the C8.R is limited to 500 horsepower but more will almost certainly be extracted for future production versions.
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The Corvette C8.R race car has been testing in secret at night at major racetracks but now Chevy has revealed the car in full.
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2019 Porsche 911 RSR ready to race
Porsche has just launched a new generation of its 911, the 992 series, but as far as the motorsport department is concerned, the outgoing 991 series still has plenty of life left in it. As a result, Porsche's latest 911 RSR race car, which was unveiled on Saturday at the 2019 Goodwood Festival of...
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McLaren to race in North America in new WeatherTech Sprint Cup series
McLaren is a regular at the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix but the British firm is expanding into into sports car racing in these parts. The latest move, announced on Friday, is a multi-year agreement between McLaren and IMSA for the new WeatherTech Sprint Cup designed for the GT Daytona (GTD)...
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Acura WeatherTech SportsCar Championship racers to sport heritage livery in 2019
As IMSA celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, Acura plans to race its Acura Team Penske ARX-05 prototype race cars with a heritage-inspired livery. The Japanese luxury brand showed the new livery off on Thursday, revealing a design that traces its roots back to the1991-1993 Comptech Racing...
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Alex Zanardi tests BMW M8 GTE in preparation for 2019 24 Hours of Daytona
Alex Zanardi, a current BMW factory driver, has completed his first test of the BMW M8 GTE racer. The handicapped driver spent three days at Miramas in southern France in preparation for the 2019 24 Hours of Daytona race scheduled for next January. Zanardi not only spent the three days to learn and...
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2019 Acura NSX GT3 made faster with new bodywork
Acura's sinister NSX GT3 race car has come in for some updates and is now even faster and better handling than before. The NSX GT3, as the name suggests, is designed for GT3-spec competition. It made its debut in the 2017 motorsport season and in a short time has proven to be a formidable weapon on...
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Ferrari and its 488 GTE World Endurance Championship race car have had a pretty successful go, but a win at Le Mans has alluded Ferrari and the AF Corse racing team. For 2018, Ferrari hopes to change that with an updated 488 GTE Evoluzione, or Evo, which debuted last Friday at a shakedown test on the Fiorano, Italy, test track. Two cars, the numbers 51 and 71, appeared at Fiorano. The sports car maker did not comment on what mechanical or design changes earn the 488 GTE the "Evo" name, but the car does come ready to race in a lovely new shade of metallic red with an updated livery. The...
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No. 5 Cadillac DPi-V.R drives to overall victory in 2018 24 Hours of Daytona
The 2018 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship kicked off this past weekend with a cracker of a 24 Hours of Daytona. It was a record-setting race that saw Cadillac and Ford continue their strong performances from last year. It was the No. 5 Konica Minolta Mustang Sampling Cadillac DPi-V.R driven by...
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BMW M8 race car revealed
BMW previewed the racing version of its yet-to-be-revealed 8-Series coupe during last September’s 2017 Frankfurt auto show, and now after a torturous development program the completed car has been revealed. The version shown is the M8 GTE, BMW’s entry for the World Endurance...
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Cadillac celebrates 2017 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship title with special V-Series models
Cadillac is celebrating its win in the 2017 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s premier Prototype class with some special versions of its sporty V-Series models. Called the Championship Editions, the cars are based on the 2018 ATS-V, ATS-V Coupe and CTS-V, and offer a number of sporty...
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Fernando Alonso to race in 2018 24 Hours of Daytona
McLaren’s Fernando Alonso will take time out from his pre-season schedule for the 2018 Formula 1 World Championship to race in the 2018 24 Hours of Daytona. Alonso will join Lando Norris and Phil Hanson at United Autosports to pilot the team’s LMP2-spec car, a Ligier JS P217. The...
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BMW M8 GTE racecar debuts in Frankfurt, ready to battle at Le Mans
While BMW holds off on unveiling the production version of its new 8-Series a while longer, the Bavarian automaker is whetting our palettes with the debut of the BMW M8 GTE racecar at this week's 2017 Frankfurt motor show. It's not the "8" we'll see on the street, but the M8 GTE program has run...
Sean Szymkowski
