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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: 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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Roxy Rawrs to Victory at Laguna Seca: AO Racing’s Prehistoric Pink Porsche Claims First Win on Mother’s Day

May 13, 2025

Prehistoric Pink Porsche Claims First Win on Mother’s Day

MONTEREY, Cali. (May 12, 2025) – AO Racing’s beloved pink dinosaur, Roxy, made a triumphant return to the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship by clinching her first-ever GTD PRO class victory at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. The win comes exactly one year after her green sibling, Rexy, secured AO Racing’s inaugural IMSA triumph at the same track exactly one year ago, adding another chapter to the ongoing sibling rivalry.

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“Repeat-Repeat” Race Win for Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Customer Racing Team Winward Racing at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca

May 12, 2025

MONTEREY, California – Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Customer Racing team Winward Racing – the reigning IMSA GT Daytona (GTD) class champions – turned in a “perfect” performance for a “repeat-repeat” GTD class race win Sunday in IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship competition at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca (WRLS). The win from fourth on the grid was a GTD class-leading second victory of the season for the Winward No. 57 drivers and second consecutive at WRLS after winning on the 3.238-mile road course for the first time last year. Winward’s first 2025 victory in the 12 Hours of Sebring in March was also a repeat performance after winning the classic endurance at Sebring International Raceway for the second-straight time in March.

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Flying Lizard Motorsports Celebrates Triple Podium Weekend at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca

May 12, 2025

MONTEREY, Calif. (May 12, 2025) – It was a victorious weekend in California for Flying Lizard Motorsports, as the iconic team secured three podium finishes across two action-packed rounds of Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Highlighted by a win in Race One for the No. 14 Sparklefarts Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2, the team continued its momentum in Race Two with a double podium, finishing second and third.

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Rafa Matos Scores CUBE 3 Architecture TA2 Series Pole with New Qualifying Record at Laguna Seca

May 3, 2025

Brody Goble Earns Pole for Western Championship, Barry Boes Quickest in Pro/Am Challenge

SALINAS, Calif. (May 2, 2025) – Practice and qualifying have concluded for the Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli’s CUBE 3 Architecture TA2 Series National and Western Championships at the Mission Foods Laguna Seca SpeedTour at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Three-time champion Rafa Matos in the No. 57 Concord American Flagpole/SHR Chevrolet Camaro earned his first pole award of 2025, setting a new qualifying record with a best lap time of 1:26.330, beating out 2020 champion Mike Skeen (No. 2 Guthrie’s Garage Chevrolet Camaro) by a mere 32-thousandths of a second.

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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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Trans Am Series Race Preview: WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca

May 1, 2025

WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca
Mission Foods Laguna Seca SpeedTour
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Track Facts:
Opened: 1957
Length: 2.238 Miles
Layout: 11-Turn Road Course
Entry List: View

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TeamSLR Rides Momentum to Laguna Seca

May 1, 2025

14-Year-Old Tristan McKee Coming Off First TA2 Podium
Barry Boes Off Landmark Double-Win at Sonoma
Mike Skeen Looks To Return to Victory Lane Alongside Fellow M1 Racecars Competitors Jared Odrick, Brody Goble and Tim Carroll

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (April 30, 2025) – Fresh off Cube 3 Architecture TA2 Series rookie Tristan McKee’s runner-up finish overall and Barry Boes’ landmark victories in both the national Pro-Am Challenge class and Western Championship race-within-a race last weekend at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway, the TeamSLR and M1 Racecars contingent of drivers heads to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on a roll for Saturday’s 40-lap, 75-minute Mission Foods Laguna Seca SpeedTour.

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Sibling Rivalry Takes Over AO: Roxy Sidelines Rexy for Shot at Victory

April 24, 2025

ST. CHARLES, Ill., (April 24, 2025) – Roxy is stomping her way back to the grid, whether Rexy likes it or not! AO Racing is giving Rexy, its beloved green T-Rex Porsche 911 GT3 Rawr a breather for the next IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship round, as his not-so-shy sister, Roxy, muscles her way back into series competition. With a bold pink livery and a chip on her shoulder, Roxy is ready to prove that racing greatness runs in the family, even if it means sidelining her brother to do it.

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