IMSA Insider #612: New Drivers, Cars and Entries to Watch For Rest of 2025, Early 2026
Road Racing
GRIDLIFE Circuit Legends Weekend Brings Racing, Drifting and Car Culture Back to Lime Rock Park for Fourth Year
LAKEVILLE, Conn. (12 August 2025) — From roaring engines and shredding tires to off-key campground karaoke, Lime Rock Park will come alive to the sounds of a different kind of event than the legendary circuit is used to hosting during GRIDLIFE Circuit Legends Festival, August 15–17. The three-day festival blends competitive racing, car culture, lifestyle and entertainment into one of the most immersive motorsport experiences in the Northeast.
Star-Studded IROC field Ready To Steal The Show At Monterey Historics
Marshall Pruett of Racer reports that (s)omething extraordinary is on the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion schedule this week at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca… IROC.
Separate from the event-wide celebration of Formula 1’s 75th anniversary and many of the familiar classes that appear every August, a field of 26 cars hailing from all eras of the International Race of Champions – the former IROC series – will bring a new wrinkle to North America’s version of the Goodwood Road Racing Festival.
Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Celebrates Fifth Anniversary as Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion Sanctioning Body at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca
MONTEREY, California (August 12, 2025) – Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) celebrates its fifth anniversary this week at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca as the official sanctioning body of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, the premier historic and vintage motorsports event in North America that takes place August 13 – 16.
The HSR team returned to Monterey last week to assist in the successful running of the Monterey Pre-Reunion and Corkscrew Hillclimb. The HSR group of primarily experienced historic and vintage motorsports professionals continues straight through this Saturday’s final day of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion.
Bethel Native and Drift Driver Grant Anderson is Sliding Sideways into Lime Rock Park for GRIDLIFE Circuit Legends August 15-17
After drifting on roads from Canada to Japan, Bethel-local heads back to Lime Rock Park for a weekend that blends motorsport, lifestyle and car culture.
LAKEVILLE, CONN. (8 August 2025)- Lime Rock Park has spent more than six decades as the most iconic road course in New England. It’s hosted legends like Paul Newman, Sam Posey, Mario Andretti, Dan Gurney, even legendary newscaster Walter Cronkite, and has echoed with the sounds of nearly every type of racing engine built in the last century.
While honoring its tradition, Lime Rock is also writing a new chapter.
Koenigsegg Reclaims 0–400–0 KM/H World Record With Jesko Absolut
Örebro, Sweden – August 7, 2025 Koenigsegg has once again claimed the coveted 0–400–0 km/h world record for homologated road cars at Örebro airfield on August 7, 2025.
Factory test driver Markus Lundh piloted the Jesko Absolut to an astonishing new time of 25.21 seconds, surpassing both the company’s own previous benchmark from June 2024 and everyone else.
Flying Lizard Motorsports Battles Through Adversity at Road America
ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (August 5, 2025) – Flying Lizard Motorsports showed grit and determination at Road America this weekend, navigating through setbacks to collect valuable championship points in Rounds 7 and 8 of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America series. The No. 14 and No. 41 Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 entries each fought through tough conditions during the doubleheader event at the fan-favorite Wisconsin circuit.
IMSA Insider – BMW Doubles Down at Road America
IMSA: Forte’s Good Karma; “Spike” Stays Hot; BMW’s Double Win
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – If the 2026 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s new six-hour endurance race at Road America delivers half the action, entertainment and plot twists of yesterday’s two-hour, 40-minute sprint race, a bevy of spectators and television viewers will have gotten their money’s worth.
The phrase “argy bargy” was on display with more car-to-car contact than you’ll see in a month of Saturday nights at your local short track. But there were some popular podium finishers, championship shakeups aplenty and some emotional victors in the Motul SportsCar Grand Prix.
Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Customer Racing Team Winward Racing Extends IMSA GTD Points Lead at Road America
ELKHART LAKE, Wisconsin – A convincing pole-winning performance by Russell Ward in the No. 57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 on Saturday was the major factor in the Winward Racing team and drivers building their 2025 IMSA GT Daytona (GTD) championship leads despite a rough and tumble and largely frustrating race at Road America on Sunday. The top qualifying effort, which garnered 35 valuable championship points, was the fourth career and first pole of the season for Ward. The pole-winning effort returned the No. 57 team’s championship leads to more than 100 points with just three races remaining on the 2025 schedule.
IMSA Insider: See What’s Brewing at Packed Road America IMSA Weekend
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s annual midsummer tour of North America’s iconic road courses continues with a trip to Road America for the Motul SportsCar Grand Prix. Opened in 1955 and celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2025, the 14-turn, 4.048-mile circuit’s basic layout has had minimal design changes albeit several surface changes.
Set an hour north of Milwaukee in Elkhart Lake, Wis., the track has rightly earned the nickname “America’s National Park of Speed.” It’s an apt moniker, one that pays homage to the bucolic nature of the facility’s park-like 640 acres along with the breathtaking character of a track where some of the world’s fastest race cars may top 175 mph three times each lap.