United Autosports has completed its driver roster for the 2024 running of the Le Mans 24 Hours, with Indy NXT standout and part-time DCR IndyCar driver Nolan Siegel joining the team to race alongside former Audi and Bentley factory driver Oliver Jarvis and VP Racing SportsCar Challenge title-holder Bijoy Garg. The trio will share the team’s No. 22 ORECA 07 Gibson in the LMP2 class, which forms part of the team’s four-car Le Mans effort that includes a second ORECA in LMP2 Pro/Am and a pair of McLaren GT3 EVOs in LMGT3. Siegel joins the effort following his third-place finish in the 2023 Indy N ..read more

RACER’s Marshall Pruett speaks with NTT IndyCar Series driver Graham Rahal about his company GRP (Graham Rahal Performance) and his entries in the Radical Cup. GRP driver Nick D’Orlando discusses the Radical SR3, his career aspirations, and how the Radical Cup is a great option on the road to IMSA and IndyCar ..read more

For the first time in 2024, Radical Cup North America joined the NTT IndyCar series at the picturesque Barber Motorsports Park. After a significant amount of testing on Thursday followed by qualifying and Race 1 on Friday, two more races were completed Saturday. When the dust had finally settled, and trophies were awarded, Jon Field and Michai Stephens picked up wins in Platinum, Nicholas d’Orlando and Jordan Missig climbed to the top of the podium in Pro 1500 while the Pro 1340 victories went to PJ Hyett and Suellio Almeida. However, it may have been Raiden Nicol who impressed the most.   ..read more

It was the second event weekend in the Radical Cup North America program, and a test day kicked off the weekend on Thursday as NTT IndyCar Series teams set up their paddock. Friday morning featured great weather and an early qualifying session that was led by Jon Field (ONE Motorsports) in Platinum, Nicholas d’Orlando (Graham Rahal Performance) in Pro 1500, and PJ Hyett (RYNO with Team Stradale) in Pro 1340. With the first wheel-to-wheel action of the weekend rolling off the grid Friday afternoon, those three drivers led their respective classes to the green flag in the first trophy hunt of th ..read more

A 37-car provisional entry list for next month’s FIA WEC 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps has been revealed that features a number of driver lineup tweaks. Following Imola, the majority of the changes to the entry are a result of the clashing Formula E doubleheader in Berlin, with Jean-Eric Vergne and Stoffel Vandoorne from Peugeot, Norman Nato from Hertz Team JOTA and Kelvin van der Linde from AKKODIS ASP missing the WEC race. Peugeot has opted to race with two drivers in both its new 9X8s as a result. It’s the same at JOTA, as Callum Ilott and Will Stevens will share its No. 12 Porsche 963 in Na ..read more

With large grids at the first Radical Cup North America event of the season at the Sebring International Raceway, the trend is continuing this coming weekend at Barber Motorsports Park with 37 drivers currently registered and confirmed to race alongside the NTT IndyCar Series. If all of those drivers take the green, it will match the largest contingent of Radical Cup competitors since Road America in June of 2019, providing positive reinforcement for the growing multi-class program. “We love to see stability in the series, but the growth is happening for Radical Cup here in North America,” exp ..read more

Ahead of the FIA WEC weekend in Imola, reports emerged that a new rule mandating two cars for each Hypercar manufacturer from the 2025 season onwards was under consideration. RACER believes a vote on this is looming, leaving the current and future single-car OEMs in the FIA WEC working hard on solutions should they be required to expand their programs going forward to continue racing in the championship, and crucially the Le Mans 24 Hours. If it is approved by the World Motor Sport Council, it would have an impact on three current Hypercar factories in the WEC: Lamborghini, Isotta Fraschini, a ..read more

The 6 Hours of Imola was a truly memorable WEC race, filled with twists and turns, making it a real challenge to unpick in the immediate aftermath. So, with time to reflect, just what was the biggest story of the weekend? Was it WRT’s 1-2 in LMGT3, which scored BMW its first WEC win? Peugeot’s tough first outing with the new 9X8? The overall success of the event and its record crowd? How about Toyota’s unlikely victory? No. For this writer, it was Ferrari’s strategic error, what it says about where the program currently finds itself and why nobody should panic. The 499Ps had the pace in dry co ..read more

The GT America Powered by AWS championship closed out the Grand Prix of Long Beach presented by 5.11 weekend with an exciting Race 2 on Sunday afternoon. Notably, both 40-minute races ran under green flag conditions from start to finish It was a perfect weekend for the winners across the board in the SRO3, GT2, and GT4 classes, with Jason Daskalos, Dan Knox, and Isaac Sherman claiming back-to-back victories in their respective classes. SRO3 Jason Daskalos kicked off the race from pole position with a stellar start on board his No. 27 CRP Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3, but it was Kyle Washington in t ..read more

The No. 7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID of Mike Conway, Nyck de Vries and Kamui Kobayashi scored an impressive victory in Sunday’s 6 Hours of Imola, fighting through rain showers in the final third of the race, creating an enthralling strategic battle between Toyota, Porsche and Ferrari. After Conway climbed from sixth to third in the first stint, and De Vries steered the car to the lead with an opportunistic move on Miguel Molina, Kobayashi was tasked with taking the wheel for the run to the flag. He would cross the line just ahead of Kevin Estre in the No. 6 Porsche, who reeled him in during the final ..read more