DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – With year-end celebrations by German manufacturers Porsche and BMW occurring in successive weeks, nearly all the 11-car Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) field is set for the 2026 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
Here’s a recap of the announcements from the last two weeks, since November 21:
DAYTONA BEACH, Florida (December 4, 2025) – Following a successful live broadcast last month of the Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Classic Daytona 24 Hour Presented by Mission Foods, Greenlight Television and HSR have announced the production of a full-length highlights program, bringing audiences all the best thrills, spills and classic racing machinery from the 11th running of the historic racing event.
Across over six hours of live coverage, the HSR Classic Daytona 24 Hour amassed well over 100,000 viewers across its online platforms, as well as over 29,000 minutes viewed on the RACER Fast Channel.
ST. CHARLES, Ill., (December 2, 2025) – A motorsport icon has been reimagined in LEGO® Technic™ form, capturing the engineering, personality, and unmistakable likeness of AO Racing’s Rexy, the Porsche 911 GT3 R. Launching January 1, 2026, the LEGO Technic Porsche 911 GT3 R REXY AO Racing Car (Item 42224) brings the team’s fan-favorite, championship-winning, T. rex-themed race car to life in a 1,313-piece build packed with authentic engineering and dino-sized personality.
AE Victory Racing (AEVR) returns to the World Racing League Championship Final this weekend carrying both momentum and meaning. Coming into what is promised to be an extremely competitive final round, AEVR sits just shy of third place in the standings, a position they held after Watkins Glen but lost when they were unable to attend the Sebring round. The team is eager to prove themselves on the track and at the same time have a few milestones to celebrate and look forward to.
DAYTONA BEACH, Florida (November 25, 2025) – Officials of WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca and Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) announced today that HSR will continue as the official sanctioning body of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion and the Monterey Pre-Reunion through at least 2028.
SEBRING, Florida (November 25, 2025) – The Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Sebring Pistons & Props, presented by Alan Jay Automotive Network, makes a high-speed return on the track and in the air next week when Sebring International Raceway‘s illustrious sports car racing history and aviation heritage once again are celebrated at HSR’s season-ending event, December 4 – 7.
Monterey, CA (Nov. 25, 2025) – Get ready, race fans, WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca is excited to announce that tickets for the marquee events in the highly anticipated 2026 racing season are on sale online at WeatherTechRaceway.com and at the Raceway ticket office.
50-Mile Trans Am TA Sprint Race Championship to Utilize TA2 Cars
CHARLOTTE (November 25, 2025) – The Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli is excited to announce a new sprint-race competition debuting in 2026, the TA Sprint Championship. Designed to provide racers with the opportunity to compete under the Trans Am Series banner in shorter races and with reduced entry fees, the TA Sprint Championship will consist of TA2-based cars that can currently compete in the Trans Am Series, as well as older TA2 cars running in the SCCA Club Racing GT2 class, and other club racing platforms.
TDS ORECA Leads in LMP2 IMSA Daytona Test
By Tony DiZinno
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The two prototype classes of IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship competition took to the Daytona International Speedway on Friday, as updated Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) cars and a bevy of Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) cars enjoyed a sunny day of running at the IMSA-sanctioned November test.
MILLVILLE, NJ (November 12, 2025) – Max Stallone took the lessons learned at the 2024 PT Autosport Aspiring Driver Shootout to capture the top prize in last week’s Mazda MX-5 Shootout after leading every single session in which he ran and heading the speed charts on both days.
