IMSA Insider (Issue 602): Porsche and Aston Martin Specials and Mid-Ohio Weekend Wrap

Selldorff Ascends to Maiden Michelin Pilot Challenge Win at Mid-Ohio
Turner BMW Wins O’Reilly Auto Parts 4 Hours of Mid-Ohio; Herta Hyundai Wins Fourth Straight in TCR

LEXINGTON, Ohio – Turner Motorsport has made a habit of developing drivers through its own internal ladder system and may have found its newest star Sunday at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

Francis Selldorff adds his name to the list of those rising American drivers in the Turner stable such as Robby Foley and Patrick Gallagher. Selldorff, co-driving the No. 95 Turner Motorsport BMW M4 GT4 EVO with Dillon Machavern, rose to the challenge of fending off an overflowing pool of more experienced IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge veterans to capture his first Grand Sport (GS) class win in Sunday’s O’Reilly Auto Parts 4 Hours of Mid-Ohio.

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IMSA Insider (Issue 601): Michelin Pilot Challenge Headliner in IMSA Visit to Mid-Ohio

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – For nearly a decade, two IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge races run an additional two hours beyond the standard-length of two hours, but pack a similar punch of parity and picture-perfect finishes. Daytona International Speedway has hosted the most, with its BMW M Endurance Challenge race running to four hours every year since 2017, while Watkins Glen International, Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, Road America, Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course have alternated the second.

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IMSA Insider: Streaks Snapped in Detroit Sports Car Classic

June 3, 2025

Here’s issue #600 of the IMSA Insider…

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IMSA Insider: Detroit GP and IMSA Award-Winning Digital Content

May 29, 2025

By David Phillips

Practice, Performance and Preparation Paramount for GTP, GTD PRO Competitors in Detroit

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship schedule is nothing if not diverse. The second weekend in May found competitors tackling California’s flowing and bucolic WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca road course. Now the final weekend in the merry month of May finds competitors in Michigan taking to the confined, urban streets of the Chevrolet Detroit Sports Car Classic.

If NASCAR and IndyCar have their oval “bull rings” in Martinsville Speedway and Iowa Speedway, respectively, then IMSA’s version of a street course bull ring is the 1.654-mile, nine-turn Motown circuit where paint is often traded during overtakes and the omni-present concrete walls await the slightest mistake from the field of 22 cars, split 11 apiece between Grand Touring Prototypes (GTP) and Grand Touring Daytona Pro (GTD PRO).

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IMSA Insider: Downloading Detroit’s Dynamic Field

May 23, 2025

A Detailed Dive Through IMSA’s Strong 2025 Start

IMSA President John Doonan Reflects on First Quarter, Previews What’s to Come

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Heading into one of the busiest weekends in motorsports from Monaco to Indianapolis to Charlotte, it’s in Daytona Beach on an off weekend before a busy summer stretch of action that IMSA has time to take in viewing of those three racing venues and reflect on the momentum it’s gathered on its own so far in 2025.

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IMSA Insider: IMSA Trio Doubles Up On WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca Wins

May 13, 2025

BMW’s Time Is Coming, the Rare Triple Repeat and a Notable Runner-up Finish

By Mark Robinson

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – After opening the 2025 season with the two longest races of the season followed by one of the short 100-minute sprints, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship settled into its first “standard-length” race this weekend.

Sunday’s TireRack.com Monterey SportsCar Championship was anything but standard for a number of reasons, though. Let’s delve into a few of those as takeaways from another stellar show at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.

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IMSA Insider: WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca Entry List Revealed and More

May 2, 2025

By Tony DiZinno

Lots of Streaks on the Line Ahead of Second Straight WeatherTech Championship California Race

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The TireRack.com Monterey SportsCar Championship at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca serves as the first two-hour, 40-minute standard length sprint race of the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season.

A total of 36 cars are set to compete across Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) and the two GT classes, Grand Touring Daytona Pro (GTD PRO) and Grand Touring Daytona (GTD). The GTP car count stays at 11 for a second straight race, alongside 10 GTD PRO and 15 GTD cars. The race is Round 4 of the year for GTP and GTD, while GTD PRO is back for Round 3 for the first time since the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring in March.

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IMSA Riding New Wave of Emerging GTP Talents

April 24, 2025

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Every “era” of sports car racing has its iconic performers. In IMSA’s more than 50-year history, that’s broken down by top-class periods of who’s starred in prototypes.

With the reborn Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) class now three years into the formula, there’s a pattern of stars starting to emerge. There are long-time prototype drivers who raced in the previous Daytona Prototype international (DPi) and Daytona Prototype and/or Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) iterations before GTP competing alongside those whose main top-class experience is focused on GTP.

Read more of Tony DiZinno’s article and other IMSA news after the jump…

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IMSA Insider: First Look at New Genesis GTP; Another Look at Long Beach Broadcast

April 17, 2025

NEW YORK – Genesis Magma Racing (GMR) today unveiled its full-scale GMR-001 GTP and team identity, including livery and race suits, marking a bold step in the brand’s global motorsport ambitions. The global reveal of the GMR-001 Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) ahead of the New York International Auto Show lays the groundwork for the team’s 2026 WEC debut.

Building on Genesis’ signature “Athletic Elegance” design philosophy, the GMR-001 GTP and its striking livery embody the brands’ commitment to blending Korean heritage with motorsport innovation, setting a new standard for creativity on the global racing stage.

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IMSA Insider – Penske, AO Deliver Porsche’s Double-Double in Long Beach

April 15, 2025

LONG BEACH, Calif. – After opening the season with the 36 Hours of Florida (aka the Rolex 24 At Daytona and the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring), the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship changed things up with the 100 minutes of Southern California (aka the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach).

Not only was the sprint race a fraction of the length of either of the first two events, the competition was pared down from four classes – Grand Touring Prototype (GTP), Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2), Grand Touring Daytona Pro (GTD PRO) and Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) – to two classes: GTP and GTD.

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