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About the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA)

International Motor Sports Association, LLC (IMSA) was originally founded in 1969 and owns a long and rich history in sports car racing. Today, IMSA is the sanctioning body of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, the premier sports car racing series in North America. IMSA also sanctions the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge and IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge, as well as four one-make series: Ferrari Challenge North America, Idemitsu Mazda MX-5 Cup presented by BFGoodrich Tires, Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America and Porsche Carrera Cup North America. IMSA – a company within the NASCAR family – is the exclusive strategic partner in North America with the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) which operates the 24 Hours of Le Mans as a part of the FIA World Endurance Championship. The partnership enables selected IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship competitors to earn automatic entries into the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Inter Europol’s Dillmann, Clarke Deliver Pole, Win Double at CTMP

Frenchman Scores Redemptive LMP2 Win

July 12, 2026

By John Oreovicz

IMSA Wire Service

Unofficial Results

BOWMANVILLE, Ontario – For Tom Dillmann, Jeremy Clarke and Inter Europol Competition, a win at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Sunday’s Chevrolet Grand Prix helped add a positive memory to its CTMP memory bank after a tough 2025 ending.

This race is both the only Canadian round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, and also the only one that highlights the Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) full-season competitors in a headlining role.

In 2024, Dillmann teamed with Nick Boulle to take the overall and LMP2 class win at the daunting road course located just northeast of the Greater Toronto Area in a car entered by Inter Europol with PR1/Mathiasen. It set the pair on the path to win that year’s IMSA LMP2 championship.

But last year, Dillmann was leading late in the race when a mechanical issue caused a high-speed accident that left the Frenchman with two fractured vertebrae – from which he quickly recovered.

This year’s running of the 2-hour, 40-minute IMSA sprint race that again featured LMP2 as the headline class provided the Inter Europol team with a much happier memory.

Clarke set a new LMP2 lap record, eclipsing a mark that stood for seven years, en route to the Motul Pole Award.

Then once Dillmann took over the No. 43 ORECA LMP2 07, he completed a mix of great passes and smart strategy to cross the line 9.796 seconds ahead of Alex Quinn in the No. 04 CrowdStrike Racing by APR ORECA he shared with George Kurtz.

Dillmann missed just one WeatherTech Championship race after the back-breaking trip to CTMP in 2025, the following round at Road America. Since then, he’s racked up three second-place IMSA finishes (at the ’25 TireRack.com Battle on the Bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Motul Petit Le Mans and the 2026 Rolex 24 At Daytona International Speedway), as well as the LMP2 class win at June's 24 Hours of Le Mans.

All those wins came for the multi-faceted Inter Europol organization, which has now achieved 2026 race wins in IMSA, Asian Le Mans, European Le Mans, and FIA World Endurance Championship competition.

But Sunday’s triumph was particularly special.

“Going into the weekend, it didn’t change anything for me; I always want to win,” Dillmann said. “But now after the fact, I can see it’s a cool story.

“When you win Le Mans, the season is already a success,” he added after his third career WeatherTech Championship race win. “But I really wanted a great (result) for Jeremy and for the team here in the U.S. We had a good Daytona, but since then, things didn’t go our way.

“There was quite a bit of pressure to get a good result today, and I’m really happy we managed to get a win and are back in the championship fight.”

Quinn and Kurtz took over the lead of the LMP2 standings after four of seven races, but Clarke and Dillmann moved from fourth to second, 70 points back. All four rounds of the championship have featured a different winner.

Clarke ran the first stint at CTMP, leading the opening 34 laps and able to control the race from the front. The Inter Europol car clearly had the pace, but the potential always exists in WeatherTech Championship races for a surprise result, especially if there is a late-race caution.

This year’s Chevrolet Grand Prix ran fairly clean for most of the race, with only a pair of brief safety car periods in the first hour.

The timing of the cautions didn’t work in Inter Europol’s favor, but Dillmann took over shortly thereafter and was able to pass Quinn on track cleanly for the lead. The No. 43 car was cleanly out front for the final hour, turning in a superior final pit stop to lead 93 of the 127 laps completed.

“We executed everything perfectly,” said Clarke, who now owns two IMSA race wins in 10 starts. “Qualifying on pole yesterday built a lot of confidence, and I had a great start and a great first stint to maintain my fuel target and the traffic behind.

“A couple teams went off strategy, and we wanted to make sure we kept on top of that,” he continued. “But Tom had everything under control and was able to do his thing.”

“The team is always very strong here,” Dillmann added. “Today they did a perfect job. I knew passing Alex would be a tough task, but I managed to do it, and we had the pace to bring it home.”

Quinn and Kurtz admitted they were second best on a day when Inter Europol had the legs on the field.

“Jeremy and Tom did a great job, so congrats to them,” Kurtz said. “When you look at this race, it’s high commitment and a lot of things can go wrong. To come out with second place and the points lead, we did exactly what we needed to do. The car was awesome and we couldn’t be happier coming out of here with the points lead.”

PJ Hyett and Dane Cameron finished third in the No. 99 AO Racing ORECA LMP2 07 and also lie third in the championship, 81 points behind Quinn and Kurtz.

All four classes of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship will be back in action July 30 – August 2 for the Motul SportsCar Grand Prix at Road America near Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. The six-hour race also will be the fourth of the season's five IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup races.

Vasser Sullivan Lexus Ticks the Canadian Box with CTMP GTD PRO Win

Winward Mercedes-AMG Back on Top in GTD

July 12, 2026

By Tony DiZinno

IMSA Wire Service

Unofficial Results

BOWMANVILLE, Ontario – A short fill on a pit stop proved the ultimate key to success for Vasser Sullivan Racing’s No. 14 Lexus RC F GT3, which won its second consecutive Grand Touring Daytona Pro (GTD PRO) race in IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship competition from Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.

The team made its first stop 42 minutes into the two-hour, 40-minute Chevrolet Grand Prix race, flipping from Jack Hawksworth to Ben Barnicoat, but didn’t need a full energy top off. Its pit lane time of just 46.179 seconds proved beneficial from a track position standpoint.

After finding his way to second place, Barnicoat made a move on Nikita Johnson’s RLL Team McLaren No. 59 McLaren 720S GT3 EVO for the lead. From there, the No. 14 Lexus then stayed out front for 78 of the final 118 laps en route to win by 1.993 seconds.

“It was a really impressive day from the team,” Hawksworth said. “The guys were awesome. The strategy was amazing. Good start to the race, good first pit cycle.

“Ben did an amazing pass there on the McLaren to get the lead, and then really just mega job from all these guys at Vasser Sullivan.

“That was a real well-executed race. Perfect strategy and yeah, flawless, really. Awesome. Finally starting to come together. Two in a row, so feels pretty good, and yeah, look forward to the last half of this year.”

It’s the 20th win for the venerable Lexus RC F GT3, 18 of which have come by Vasser Sullivan. It is also the ninth different IMSA track where the team has won.

Hawksworth and Barnicoat joked after the race that their luck at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park had not been good when starting at the front of the field. It was perhaps a good stroke of luck they started sixth in GTD PRO today before ascending to the lead.

They also paid tribute to their strategist, pit crew and engineer Geoff Fickling, who has worked with Hawksworth for the majority of his 15-year racing career in North America dating to his first open-wheel test at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the fall of 2011.

Strategy also helped propel AO Racing back to the podium for the first time since WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in May, with Nick Tandy and Harry King finishing second aboard the No. 77 Porsche 911 GT3 R (992).

Motul Pole Award winner Neil Verhagen started and finished the No. 1 Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 GT3 EVO he shared with Connor De Phillippi, although the car was slightly delayed mid-race following a “hip check” from an LMP2 car exiting Turn 1. Nonetheless, the all-American duo finished third for their third podium and fifth top-five finish in six races.

That unofficially puts them 108 clear of the second-placed in points No. 4 Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports Corvette Z06 GT3.R., which finished fourth in the hands of Nicky Catsburg and Tommy Milner. Just 60 points cover second through sixth.

Included in that group? The No. 14 Lexus duo, now fourth and just 150 points back of the lead.

“After some tough races, we’re just going for wins,” Hawksworth said. “If we keep doing that, the points will take care of themselves.”

GTD: Ellis’ Rapid Restart Returns Winward Mercedes-AMG to Winner’s Circle

Philip Ellis has never been shy about making a good passing move or two, and an authoritative restart in his No. 57 Mercedes-AMG GT3 Sunday at CTMP was his latest chapter.

After starting fourth and running fifth in the opening stint of the race, slick pit work moved the car Russell Ward started up to second. Running second behind Trent Hindman, Ellis got to the lead not long after the second and final restart that occurred with an hour and 47 minutes remaining.

Ellis compared the pass to one delivered at Road America last year.

“It's just one of those optimistic restarts,” Ellis explained. “It was a little bit of Road America last year where everybody is so tossed up and fighting each other and not really watching the mirrors and just opens the room for me to go through. That's what I did.

“I found that it worked out and that everybody paid enough attention to not, you know, bang wheels with each other. So it was just an opportunity. It was a move that worked out.”

Ellis brought the No. 57 car to the flag to win by 1.886 seconds over Aaron Telitz, who shared the No. 12 Vasser Sullivan Racing Lexus RC F GT3 with Benjamin Pedersen. Turner Motorsport’s Robby Foley and Patrick Gallagher finished third in the No. 96 BMW M4 GT3 EVO.

As championship leader and polesitter Eduardo “Dudu” Barrichello had a penalty assessed to the No. 27 Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo on his first pit stop, Roman De Angelis spent the rest of his stint recovering in a form of damage limitation. He recovered the car back to sixth at the finish.

That leaves Barrichello now 92 clear of the Telitz/Pedersen pairing with Foley and Gallagher third, 120 back. A rough run of races knocked Ellis and Ward down, but today’s win ensures they’re not out; they’re now fourth and 207 in arrears.

There are four GT races remaining in 2026, the next of which is the six-hour Motul SportsCar Endurance Grand Prix at Road America, July 30-Aug. 2.

Unofficial Results, Points & Post-Race Nuggets | WeatherTech Championship

Chevrolet Grand Prix

Canadian Tire Motorsport Park - Sunday, July 12, 2026

Unofficial Race Results

Additional results are available at results.imsa.com.

Unofficial points are available at pitnotes.org/points.

LMP2

No. 43 Inter Europol Competition

Second IMSA class win
Last win was in March 2025 at Sebring in LMP2
First IMSA class win at CTMP in second race
Previous best finish at CTMP was 10th (1 times) last in 2025 in LMP2 with car No. 43
First IMSA class win in 2026
Fourth different LMP2 winner in the past four races (dating back to Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta in 2025)
First win from pole

Tom Dillmann

37y 3m 6d from Mulhouse, France
Third IMSA class win in 17th start
Last win was at 2025 Sebring in LMP2, 7 starts between
Second win at CTMP in third start
Last win at CTMP was in 2024 in LMP2, 1 track starts between
First win in 2026 season in fourth start
Previous best finish in 2026 was second (1 times) last at Daytona in LMP2

Jeremy Clarke

40y 0m 7d from Manhattan Beach, CA
Second IMSA class win in 10th start
Last win was at 2025 Sebring in LMP2, 8 starts between
First win at CTMP in second start
Previous best finish at CTMP was 10th in 2025 in LMP2
First win in 2026 season in fourth start
Previous best finish in 2026 was second (1 times) last at Daytona in LMP2

GTD PRO

No. 14 Vasser Sullivan Racing

18th IMSA class win
Second consecutive win following win at Watkins Glen GTDPRO with car No. 14
Seventh IMSA class win in GTD PRO
First IMSA class win at CTMP
Previous best finish at CTMP was third (2 times) last in 2025 in GTD with car No. 12
Third IMSA class win in 2026 (Long Beach, Watkins Glen)
Second IMSA class win in 2026 for car No. 14 (Watkins Glen)
Fourth back-to-back win, first exclusively in GTD PRO (previous back-to-back wins were in GTD or was a GTD win and a GTD PRO win)
20th win for the Lexus RC F GT3
18 of the 20 wins have been by Vasser Sullivan
Vasser Sullivan’s seventh different season with multiple wins

Jack Hawksworth

35y 4m 14d from Bradford, England, United Kingdom
14th IMSA class win in 112th start
Second consecutive win following win at Watkins Glen
First win at CTMP in seventh start
Previous best finish at CTMP was third in 2025 in GTD
Second win in 2026 season in seventh start

Ben Barnicoat

29y 6m 22d from Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom
Ninth IMSA class win in 47th start
Second consecutive win following win at Watkins Glen
First win at CTMP in fifth start
Previous best finish at CTMP was fourth in 2023 in GTD PRO
Second win in 2026 season in sixth start

GTD

No. 57 Winward Racing

13th IMSA class win
Last win was in January 2026 at Daytona in GTD with car No. 57
First IMSA class win at CTMP
Previous best finish at CTMP was second (3 times) last in 2025 in GTD with car No. 57
Second IMSA class win in 2026
Win comes after an average finish of 11.75 over the past four races, their worst 4-race average since 2023

Russell Ward

36y 10m 20d from Seabrook, TX
13th IMSA class win in 51st start
Last win was at 2026 Daytona in GTD, 4 starts between
First win at CTMP in fifth start
Previous best finish at CTMP was second in 2025 in GTD
Second win in 2026 season in sixth start

Philip Ellis

33y 9m 3d from Germany; British nationality

13th IMSA class win in 50th start

Last win was at 2026 Daytona in GTD, 4 starts between

First win at CTMP in fifth start

Previous best finish at CTMP was second in 2025 in GTD

Second win in 2026 season in sixth start

Inter Europol Leads the Way in IMSA’s CTMP LMP2 Headliner

Vasser Sullivan Lexus Wins GTD PRO; Winward Mercedes-AMG Takes GTD

July 12, 2026

By Tony DiZinno

IMSA Wire Service

Unofficial Results

BOWMANVILLE, Ontario – Tom Dillmann and Jeremy Clarke started first and finished first in their No. 43 Inter Europol Competition ORECA LMP2 07, to capture the Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) headlining Chevrolet Grand Prix for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park for their first IMSA win of 2026. But how they got there was not as straightforward as that simple statistic.

Late-race splashes for fuel nearly upended the running order in the class, as second-to-last stops north of 50 minutes remaining forced teams to either run hard and potentially need the splash or hope for a yellow flag and eliminate the need to pit once more.

With green running for more of the second half of the two-hour, 40-minute race, it did come down to pit stops toward the end. As the LMP2 teams nailed their final execution on pit lane, it ensured the drivers’ efforts on track in traffic and racing each other were not wasted.

In fact, the No. 43 crew’s stop of 34.269 seconds on pit lane for its final splash was quicker than the rival No. 04 CrowdStrike Racing by APR entry of 35.470. That allowed Dillmann to stretch his gap over Alex Quinn, who finished second by 9.796 seconds in the No. 04 car he shared with George Kurtz. Dane Cameron and PJ Hyett completed the LMP2 podium in their No. 99 AO Racing ORECA.

Strategic execution on pit lane made a key difference in the two GT classes, as well. Slick work from the Vasser Sullivan Racing crew helped deliver Jack Hawksworth and Ben Barnicoat their second straight win (Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen) in Grand Touring Daytona Pro (GTD PRO), sharing their No. 14 Lexus RC F GT3.

The No. 77 AO Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) and No. 1 Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 GT3 EVO completed the GTD PRO podium.

Winward Racing returned to the top of the Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) ranks after a difficult stretch of races for their second win of the year (Rolex 24 At Daytona). The win came from a combination of good pit stops and Philip Ellis moving past his GTD rivals after a restart to ensure he and Russell Ward won in their No. 57 Mercedes-AMG GT3. They’re the first GTD entry to two wins in 2026.

Championship contenders Vasser Sullivan Racing with its No. 12 Lexus RC F GT3 and Turner Motorsport with its No. 96 BMW M4 GT3 EVO completed the GTD podium.

In the Chevrolet Grand Prix, the best-placed of five Corvettes entered in two GT classes was the No. 4 Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports Corvette Z06 GT3.R in fourth in GTD PRO.

Across the Canadian drivers and teams in action, none of the five Bronze-rated Canadians made the LMP2 podium. Pfaff Motorsports and 13 Autosport also encountered challenging afternoons in the two GT classes.

Brichacek Bounces Back in VP Racing Challenge Race 2 at CTMP

Ellahi Holds Off Crone in GSX as Workman Win Streak Ends

July 12, 2026

By Tony DiZinno

IMSA Wire Service

Unofficial Race 2 Results

BOWMANVILLE, Ontario – Wyatt Brichacek bounced back in a big way in the second of two 45-minute sprint races at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in the 2026 IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge season.

From pole position, Brichacek – driving the No. 95 Toney Driver Development Ligier JS P325 – led the field of Le Mans Prototype 3 (P3) cars from the green. Unlike in Saturday’s first race of the weekend, he kept his position in column alignment past the starting line and proceeded to build a more than five-second lead until a full-course caution occurred mid-race for an incident by the No. 77 car exiting Turn 1.

Once the race restarted, Brichacek was able to build a gap again to Oscar Tunjo, in his No. 1 Gebhardt Motorsport USA Inc. Duqueine D09. He won by 5.993 seconds.

The win is Brichacek’s third in an IMSA LMP3 sprint race in 2026 (swept Circuit of The Americas two-race sprint in February in Toney’s No. 30 car), and fourth overall (won the two-hour IMSA Airbnb Endurance Challenge at COTA in May in the No. 95 car).

“The TDD Ligier is amazing and it's always on point,” Brichacek said. “It's a bit unfortunate yesterday with what happened. We had the pace yesterday, but I'm glad we could show again that this is where we belong on top and it all worked out.”

Brichacek has had a busy season racing both domestically and internationally in various sports car series. While not a direct championship challenger to Tunjo as he hasn’t raced all rounds, he’s certainly made his presence felt when he has been in the IMSA paddock.

Tunjo was second, extending his championship lead. Bijoy Garg, the 2023 VP Racing Challenge LMP3 champion, finished third in the No. 30 Toney Ligier JS P325.

Travis Hill of Ottawa, Ontario won the LMP3 Bronze Cup in his No. 2 Shopify Racing Ligier JS P325 for the second consecutive day, finishing fifth overall. It capped off a special weekend on home soil where he won both LMP3 Bronze races, closed that class championship gap to 10 points behind Brian Thienes, and raced with his brother Trevor in Saturday’s IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge race in their No. 22 Shopify Racing Porsche 718 GT4 RS CS.

“We’ve got a good championship chase going with Brian, and I’m really happy we’re able to do so,” Hill said. “In Pilot, we wanted to finish off the run with the Porsche here for me to hand it off to my brother. We were in a good spot but got a puncture late. But I’m so happy with this weekend and our shortest travel; I’m ecstatic finishing it off!”

GSX: Ellahi Holds Off Crone as Workman’s Win Streak Ends

Westin Workman’s pursuit of a perfect season in Grand Sport X (GSX) came undone early with an apparent loss of drive in his No. 8 RAFA Racing Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO2, as he slowed on the front straight just three laps into the race.

With both his own seven-race win streak and Toyota’s 20-race streak in class dating to the 2024 GSX season finale at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta both over, it opened the door for a great battle between three of his season-long challengers from three other brands.

Ismaeel Ellahi, a sim racer who’s building his road racing experience, executed a race-long defense in his No. 25 CSM Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4 EVO against Courtney Crone in her No. 35 CarBahn Motorsports BMW M4 GT4 EVO.

Despite Crone’s best efforts and consistently being within one to three tenths of a second, the 2023 IMSA 3D Scholarship recipient was unable to make a passing attempt.

Ellahi held on by 0.289 of a second for his first win, with Crone second for her third podium of the season. Justin Di Benedetto of Vaughan, Ontario finished third in his No. 4 Di Benedetto Racing Porsche 718 GT4 RS CS for his fifth podium in six races this year.

Ellahi was overjoyed at the outcome. He noted his own progress working on a simulator, thanked his coach Morgan Burkhard, and hailed CSM’s rapid prep work of its new Aston Martin, which arrived only just before this race.

“I think the greatest part about this whole thing is that we got this Aston Martin in our shop two weeks ago,” Ellahi said. “That was after the crew did two weeks of overtime. Then they came back and worked on our car. We guessed on a setup here. We really had no idea what we were doing, and we just winged it every single time. I'm super happy and I'm super thankful to them for opportunities that they've given me.”

All three Canadians in this race made the podium, as beyond Hill and Di Benedetto, Montreal’s Jon Brel secured his first GSX Bronze Cup win of the season in his No. 81 Kingpin Racing Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO2.

LMP3 competitors race their next event at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin for the fourth and final IMSA Airbnb Endurance Challenge two-hour race, Aug. 14-16. The GSX field is back in action a week later, August 21-23, at VIRginia International Raceway, for its next race.

Clarke Claims Second Consecutive Motul Pole Award in Eventful Chevrolet Grand Prix Qualifying Session

Inter Europol Driver Sets IMSA LMP2 Track Record at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park

July 11, 2026

By John Oreovicz

IMSA Wire Service

Provisional Starting Grid

BOWMANVILLE, Ontario – Jeremy Clarke was already fastest when he started one last qualifying lap for the Chevrolet Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park late Saturday afternoon.

He could have backed off and hoped his 1 minute, 8.019-second tour around the 10-turn, 2.459-mile road course in the No. 43 Inter Europol Competition ORECA LMP2 07 would hold up for the overall and Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) class Motul Pole Award for Sunday’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race.

Turns out that 1:08.0 would have been fast enough for Clarke’s second consecutive LMP2 class pole. But he went even faster on his final lap, improving to 1:07.904 (130.366 miles per hour) to establish a new LMP2 track record that beat the benchmark established by Matt McMurry during the 2019 WeatherTech Championship race at CTMP.

Clarke has now qualified on pole four times in IMSA competition, including three times this year. He hopes to claim his second career victory Sunday in the 2-hour, 40-minute race (first was Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, on debut, in March 2025). Inter Europol claimed the LMP2 laurels at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park in 2024 with Clarke’s teammate Tom Dillmann and Nick Boulle.

On Saturday, the top four LMP2 drivers qualified within 0.593 seconds.

“It was really close,” Clarke said. “I thought I put down a really good lap on the first set of tires, but when I came in to get that second set, they told me I was in P(osition) 2. I was a bit surprised, but I knew the next time I went out it was full push from the start. I had to lay the lap down, and luckily, I was able to.

“The field is super tough right now,” he continued. “I’ve been very fortunate this year, but as you’ve seen, a lot of the qualifying has been very close the whole time. The competition is really intense this year, so you have to be able to focus and get that one lap in.”

Clarke briefly dropped to third place with the top three clustered within just over a tenth of a second. Then Clarke turned in his 1:08.019 lap with two minutes remaining to jump to the top spot. The sub-1:08 final effort was just icing on the cake.

“I don’t know if there was a whole lot left,” Clarke admitted with a smile. “There were a couple corners where I knew I had to go, and when I thought I could go, I went full throttle – no matter what. I had to trust the car.

Clarke took pride from taking pole position at the only track where LMP2 serves as the top or headline class for a WeatherTech Championship race.

“We were fairly spread out, but I could still see the gap to the car ahead and the car behind,” he added. “It was staying pretty even, so I knew the times were tight. Even when I saw the 1:08.0, I knew it was good, but the team said nothing other than ‘You’ve got one more push lap.’ I wasn’t sure whether I had it or not, so I pushed to make sure.”

“It’s a great start for the race tomorrow, and hopefully we can continue that momentum,” he said. “Being the ‘top dog’ is kind of cool. We’re always second fiddle a little bit to the GTP (Grand Touring Prototype) cars, and now that we’re leading the way, it would be fun to really cross that finish line first instead of after a GTP car.”

Misha Goikhberg (No. 52 Bryan Herta Autosport with PR1/Mathiasen) wound up second at 1:08.077 (130.034 mph). He’ll share his car with GTP guest star Ricky Taylor this weekend.

The No. 22 United Autosports USA and No. 04 CrowdStrike Racing by APR cars will roll off from third and fourth.

The No. 99, which originally qualified third, will be moved to the rear of the LMP2 grid as post-qualifying technical inspection revealed that the car did not meet the minimum height requirement for components located ahead of the front axle.

Green flag for the Chevrolet Grand Prix is set for Sunday at 2:10 p.m. ET, with streamed live coverage available via Peacock in the U.S. along with IMSA.TV or the official IMSA YouTube channel internationally.

Verhagen, Barrichello Grab IMSA GT Class Poles at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park

PMR Driver Doubles Up while Barrichello Adds Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin’s Third Pole of the Day

July 11, 2026

By Tony DiZinno

IMSA Wire Service

Starting Grid

BOWMANVILLE, Ontario – What looked to be one of the closest Grand Touring Daytona Pro (GTD PRO) qualifying battles in recent IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship memory got turned on its head in the final two minutes of the 15-minute qualifying session at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park for Sunday’s Chevrolet Grand Prix.

Less than four tenths of a second initially covered nine of the 10 GTD PRO cars, and then Neil Verhagen uncorked a flyer in the waning moments to double up poles at the 2.459-mile, 10-turn circuit.

The young American won his first WeatherTech Championship pole here last year in the No. 1 Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 GT3 EVO and doubled his pole total with a lap that, when initially set, was 0.447 of a second quicker than second place at 1 minute, 14.382 seconds (119.012 mph).

“Both poles have now come from Mosport (CTMP’s former name) which is kind of funny now,” Verhagen said. “I guess this is kind of my track. The commitment level here is so high. On my first run I'd actually gone off in Turn 3, and it was sketchy. I was bouncing all over the dirt on the outside, just pushing a little bit too much, but was able to get it reined in.

“The Paul Miller Racing boys delivered me an amazing race car today, and I just can't thank those guys enough. I tried a second time. I tried to see if I could improve it again, but there was no chance. That was everything we had.”

Ultimately the pole margin was less as several other cars got close, but not close enough, to topple the No. 1 BMW. Max Esterson made it a U.S. 1-2 in GTD PRO qualifying as the RLL Team McLaren No. 59 McLaren 720S GT3 EVO equaled its season-best start of second on the grid (also achieved at the Rolex 24 At Daytona), just 0.185 of a second in arrears.

The No. 1 car entered the weekend first in GTD PRO points, 60 ahead of the Nos. 3 and 4 Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports Corvette Z06 GT3.R.

Coincidentally, the Nos. 3 and 4 Corvettes will start third and fourth for Sunday’s Chevrolet Grand Prix after qualifying in matching positions to their car numbers. The No. 3 Corvette in the hands of Alexander Sims was just 0.002 of a second behind the McLaren.

In its first GTD PRO qualifying attempt, Car Blanche slotted its No. 68 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo into fifth with Scott Andrews at the wheel.

GTD: Heart of Racing Team Completes a Saturday Pole Triple

With three different drivers, in three different specifications of Aston Martin Vantage cars, in three different series, on two different continents, Heart of Racing Team was first on the qualifying timesheets.

Eduardo “Dudu” Barrichello completed Heart of Racing Team’s pole-winning triple play on Saturday in Grand Touring Daytona (GTD). It’s his second Motul Pole Award of the season (Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring) and the No. 27 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo’s third (Zacharie Robichon, Rolex 24 At Daytona) this season. Additionally, the No. 27 car started first at Watkins Glen based on championship points as the GTD qualifying session did not meet the guaranteed minimum green flag time.

Barrichello, the GTD championship leader, set his best lap of 1 minute, 15.130 seconds (117.827 mph) on his third of five total laps. Even more impressive was that he did it so quickly, as a five-minute hold at the start of the session was assessed for the team not performing a pre-qualifying torque sensor offset test.

“It was a bit scary, to be honest, that the tire wouldn't get ready,” Barrichello laughed. “As soon as I hit the pit limiter button, I just pushed as fast as I could and I don't know, it seemed to be pretty good. And the car was very good. The track is very enjoyable as well, a high commitment track which I really like.”

Barrichello followed Hannah Greenemeier, who won the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge Grand Sport (GS) pole to start Saturday’s activity, and Kobe Pauwels, who won the FIA World Endurance Championship LMGT3 class pole at Sao Paulo, Brazil.

It’s a multi-continent weekend for the Heart of Racing Team outfit, where coincidentally, Pauwels is filling in for Brazilian driver Barrichello in the similar Aston Martin Vantage LMGT3 Evo at the FIA WEC Sao Paulo race. Greenemeier won her pole in the team’s GT4-specification Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4 Evo.

Meanwhile at CTMP, Roman De Angelis – who’s Barrichello’s roommate – is filling in for Tom Gamble in the No. 27 car as Gamble is racing an Aston Martin THOR Team Valkyrie in Sao Paulo.

“I'm happy to do it in Canada,” Barrichello added. “It is my first time at the track and it's Roman's home track as well, so super proud to do it. We’ve been talking about it the whole year because we knew we're gonna share the car and we're roommates. So, you know, we just are enjoying ourselves out there and he's helped me a lot. So, happy days. I haven't won a race, so I can't wait to win one. I'll be trying my best tomorrow, and I'm pretty sure Roman will as well, so we'll see.”

Mason Filippi followed his win in Saturday’s aforementioned Michelin Pilot Challenge race in a Bryan Herta Autosport Hyundai Elantra N TCR with an immediate runner-up spot on the grid in his No. 36 DXDT Racing Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R. He’ll start and Robert Wickens, back for his first WeatherTech Championship since winning the pole and finishing sixth with Filippi at Long Beach, should finish.

“Our Corvette was really hooked up in that first sector,” Filippi said. “It's my first time ever qualifying in GT3, and it was a lot of fun... probably the most fun I've had in a racecar ever. DXDT Racing gave me a great car, and I really appreciate them giving me such a good Corvette today. We're looking forward to the race tomorrow.”

The first Lexus, Mercedes-AMG, Lamborghini and BMW apiece made it six different brands from the top six positions heading into Sunday’s race in GTD.

Sunday’s Chevrolet Grand Prix goes green at 2:10 p.m. ET, with flag-to-flag streaming live on Peacock in the U.S. and the IMSA Official YouTube channel starting at 2 p.m. ET.

Porto, Choksey and RAFA Toyota Take Michelin Pilot Challenge CTMP GS Win

Morris, Filippi Take TCR Honors for Hyundai

July 11, 2026

By John Oreovicz

IMSA Wire Service

Provisional Results

BOWMANVILLE, Ontario – IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge races often provide chaotic yet fun twists and turns, which puts a premium on pit stop strategy and timing.

RAFA Racing played it to perfection Saturday at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park ad Kiko Porto and Varun Choksey scored the overall and Grand Sport (GS) class victory in the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park 120.

They drove the No. 12 Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO2 to a 9.811-second margin of victory over Austin Krainz and Stevan McAleer in the No. 27 AutoTechnic Racing BMW M4 GT4 EVO, with Nate Cicero and Robert Noaker claiming third place another four seconds back in the No. 13 McCumbee McAleer Racing Ford Mustang GT4.

The key to RAFA’s victory was the decision to make another pit stop when the third full course caution of the two-hour race occurred just two green flag laps after they had pitted during the second. As other competitors made their second stops, Porto assumed the lead with around 40 minutes remaining and built a big enough cushion to make a third and final stop for fuel with 17 minutes to go.

Porto emerged with a four-second advantage and stretched it out to the checkered flag as McAleer and Cicero backed off in the closing laps to ensure their two-stop strategy would carry them to the finish.

It was a day of firsts, as Porto, Choksey, and RAFA Racing scored their initial triumphs in Michelin Pilot Challenge GS class competition. Toyota earned its second GS class win, both coming at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (Parker Thompson and Billy Johnson in 2023). Toyota is the fifth of seven participating manufacturers to claim a GS class victory in 2026.

“This is definitely a relief,” Porto remarked. “I wasn’t expecting this win. But we got it. We knew we’d been close the whole season, just haven’t been able to capitalize.

“The car and team did amazing, and it was tough,” he continued. “At one point the team told me to save fuel and I did my absolute best, but it’s such a high-speed circuit. But I built the gap enough. Next is Road America in two weeks; we can keep getting points for this championship.”

Choksey admitted that watching the second half of the race from pit lane was a nerve-wracking affair, but he had confidence in Porto.

“I almost expect the brilliance from Kiko at this point; it’s full credit to him,” he said. “I didn’t know how our strategy call would play out. The first few laps I wasn’t sure, then I wondered if we were in the lead, and then we were in the great position.”

Cicero and Noaker have unofficially taken over the championship lead in the GS class by 30 points over Moisey Uretsky and Michael Cooper, who finished sixth Saturday in the No. 44 Ibiza Farm Motorsport McLaren Artura GT4. Krainz and McAleer are another 10 points back.

Incoming points leaders Dillon Machavern and Luca Mars (No. 95 Turner Motorsport BMW M4 GT4 EVO) had a rough day in Canada, pitting for mechanical repairs after the first lap and ultimately finishing 11 laps down in 23rd place to drop them to fourth, 140 points from the top spot.

TCR: Another Hyundai/BHA Masterclass

Bryson Morris and Mason Filippi extended their championship lead in the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge’s Touring Car (TCR) class with a tactical victory in the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park 120 at the track of the same name.

One lengthy and one brief full-course caution opened the possibility for TCR competitors to complete the two-hour race with a single pit stop, but the last 64 minutes were run under green flag conditions, creating drama whether a late splash-and-go would be required.

Morris was running third 41 minutes into the race when he pulled the No. 33 Bryan Herta Autosport with Curb Agajanian Hyundai Elantra N TCR in for what would turn out to be its only pit stop. In fact, almost the entire TCR field pitted simultaneously, but fast pit work by the BHA team and a perfectly executed driver change allowed Filippi to exit the pits with a lead he would not relinquish.

But Karl Wittmer didn’t make it easy. He and the No. 93 MMG Honda Civic FL5 TCR he shared with fellow Canadian LP Montour were rarely far from Filippi’s rear bumper, before finally dropping 2.194 seconds back at the checkered flag. Local driver Dean Baker of Bowmanville and ex-Indy car star Bruno Junqueira, a late addition to the lineup this weekend, took third place in the No. 56 Baker Racing Audi RS3 LMS TCR.

The tense battle gave Morris butterflies as he watched from the pit lane.

“Very nervous watching,” he admitted. “We tried to run our own race, but track position is so important. The No. 93 (Wittmer) was coming fast after they got by Harry (Gottsacker, who finished fourth in the No. 18 Bryan Herta Autosport with Curb Agajanian Hyundai Elantra N TCR he shared with Lance Bergstein) and we watched closely. But Mason did a great job hitting the number.”

Filippi, who shared the No. 98 car with 2025 Michelin Pilot Challenge TCR champion Gottsacker in all but one race before moving to the No. 33 this year, revealed he and the team worked on their fuel-saving techniques during practice in case those skills would come handy in the race.

BHA is the dominant team in the TCR class, with 32 wins and six championships since 2019. Filippi has been part of 11 of those wins.

“I didn’t know if we could do it; it was long,” Filippi said. “We did some practice in FP2, so we hit those numbers. Once we knew we could get it, we tried to save the track position.”

Filippi and Morris have opened up a gap nearing 200 points on Denis Dupont and Preston Brown, who finished eighth at CTMP in the No. 76 Bryan Herta Autosport with Curb Agajanian Hyundai Elantra N TCR. Unofficially, third through sixth in the standings – which includes the Nos. 18, 98, 5 and 93 cars – are separated by just 20 points.

The next round of the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge is the Road America 120, part of the Motul SportsCar Endurance Grand Prix weekend, July 30 – Aug. 2 at Road America in scenic Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.

Tunjo Takes the Top Spot in VP Racing Challenge CTMP Opener

Workman Captures Seventh Straight GSX Win

July 11, 2026

By Tony DiZinno

IMSA Wire Service

Unofficial Race 1 Results

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – There’s an old saying, “it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.”

But Saturday morning in Canada, the start of the first of two 45-minute sprint races for the IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park ultimately determined the finish for the overall and Le Mans Prototype 3 (P3) win.

Wyatt Brichacek started from pole and led flag-to-flag but was assessed a 10-second time penalty for a false start, changing columns before crossing the start/finish line. Any full-course caution could dent or fully eliminate any margin Brichacek would build and move him down the finishing order.

The decisive moment for Brichacek came with 10 minutes remaining when the No. 87 P3 car went off course in Turn 3. The resulting cleanup brought the race under the full-course caution to the checkered flag and eliminated Brichacek’s well-built lead north of 13 seconds to offset the time penalty. The penalty ultimately dropped Brichacek to third.

Brichacek’s disappointment benefited Oscar Tunjo, the Colombian who won his fifth sprint and sixth total race of the P3 season, aboard the No. 1 Gebhardt Motorsport USA Inc. Duqueine D09.

“It was a difficult start and I was really focused; I think Wyatt had a good start,” Tunjo said. “I’m happy to get another victory in the sprint cup, for sure.

“You always want to win it on the track, racing. I think today we were not the quickest. (Brichacek’s team) did a good job, they were fast. I struggled a bit also in traffic. But I’m happy to get the points, happy to get the win, and we keep wishing for the rest of the races.”

The bright side for Tunjo was that he overcame his own disappointment at CTMP last year, when he lost a tire and wheel mid-race when on a charge from last to the lead.

“The main thing for us was to score good points and do a good job,” Tunjo noted. “It was a big thing last year when I lost the tire after starting last, but happy to get the win here at such a great place, a great track. Hopefully tomorrow we can do a good job and keep pushing ‘til the end of the season.”

Tunjo’s Gebhardt teammate, Danny Soufi in the No. 11 PINAXIS-ZONE 4 Racing Duqueine D09 was second ahead of Brichacek in third at the checkered flag in his No. 95 Toney Driver Development Ligier JS P325.

On home turf, Travis Hill – one of two “THs” along with brother Trevor that make up TWOth Autosport – won the LMP3 Bronze Cup in his No. 2 Shopify Racing Ligier JS P325 in fourth overall.

GSX: Seven-Up for Workman

Westin Workman drives the No. 8 RAFA Racing Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO2. If he wins Sunday, he’ll match his car number for consecutive victories to open the 2026 Grand Sport X (GSX) season.

Another trouble-free drive from pole netted Workman his seventh win in as many races. He’s a past winner at CTMP, in the Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup presented by Michelin two years ago, so now adds a VP Racing Challenge win to his track resume.

"The race went really well in my opinion,” he said. “The balance pretty much stayed the same in the car through the whole race, and I was really happy with the car. RAFA Racing always does a great job of giving me a good car for the short runs and the long runs, and I’m super happy with the effort from everyone today.

“It was a good race. It wasn’t easier or harder than any of the others. I give 100 percent every time I’m out there on the track and today was like any other race. It went well.

“The GT4 car is very different. I actually got my second MX-5 Cup win here, so I really enjoy this track. But the GT4 car definitely changes this track. Turn 1 and Turn 2 are over 100 miles per hour, so it’s fast.”

Michelin Pilot Challenge regular Caio Chaves, in his VP Racing Challenge debut, finished second in the No. 98 PANAM Motorsport Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO2 with Ismaeel Ellahi, in his No. 25 CSM Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4 EVO, third. Ellahi’s CSM team had run a Porsche 718 GT4 RS CS earlier this season but switched to the Aston Martin for CTMP.

Dan Ammann was the top Bronze Cup finisher in his No. 91 VRC Motorsports Group, LLC Porsche 718 GT4 RS CS for his first Bronze win this season.

The second VP Racing Challenge race is Sunday at 11:10 a.m. ET and local time, streaming on Peacock and the IMSA Official YouTube channel.

Greenemeier Makes it Back-to-Back Poles for Heart of Racing in Michelin Pilot Challenge

Montour Sets TCR Record Lap ahead of Canadian Tire Motorsport Park 120

July 11, 2026

By Tony DiZinno

IMSA Wire Service

Unofficial Qualifying Results

BOWMANVILLE, Ontario – Two Hannah Gs. Two races. Two countries. And two consecutive Motul Pole Awards.

Hannah Greenemeier secured her first IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge pole in both Grand Sport (GS) and overall on Saturday morning aboard the No. 26 Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4 EVO in what became a one-lap dash for the pole following a red flag in the middle of the 15-minute session.

With only one flyer to run, Greenemeier set a best lap of 1 minute, 22.461 seconds (107.352 mph). She’ll share the car with Hannah Grisham, who won the pole for the series’ most recent round at Watkins Glen International. The pairing finished a season-best sixth at Watkins Glen.

Today’s Canadian Tire Motorsport Park 120, Round 6 of the 2026 Michelin Pilot Challenge season, airs live, flag-to-flag, beginning at 1:20 p.m. ET on Peacock in the U.S. and globally on IMSA YouTube, ad-free courtesy of Michelin.

With brisk, cool, sunny conditions to start the day, lap records appeared poised to fall in both GS and Touring Car (TCR). But an incident in GS qualifying limited runners to mostly one flying lap.

Greenemeier is the fifth Motul Pole Award winner from six GS races this year. But because of the limited green flag time, it fell short of the previous mark set by Jack Hawksworth, 1:22.084 in July 2024.

“I guess I was a little bummed because I kind of let off the lap before the red flag, and thought that might have been my only chance,” Greenemeier explained. “But after the red, I just kind of went out there and tried to find a lot of space and see if it was kind of just go as fast as you can. We were able to do that.

“So, yeah, just super excited for the team. I couldn’t do it without them. I'm sure that my mom and dad are at home right now. My mom's probably crying. They might not hear this, but yeah, thank you to them for all their support.”

The No. 46 TeamTGM Ford Mustang GT4 of Paul Holton qualified second in the car he shares with Matt Plumb, who seeks to become the series’ all-time win leader with 25 wins.

GS championship leaders Dillon Machavern and Luca Mars will roll off from 11th in the No. 95 Turner Motorsport BMW M4 GT4 EVO.

TCR: Montour to Lead Honda 1-2 to Green

In TCR, LP Montour won his second straight pole, and the third straight and fourth in the last five races for a Honda Civic FL5 TCR.

“It was pretty intense, but this a well-deserved pole position,” Montour said. “The field has been very tight this weekend. We’ll shift into race mode and make sure we have a good car to complete the race now.”

Montour, who along with Karl Wittmer won here last year in the No. 93 MMG Honda, set a blistering lap of 1 minute, 22.663 seconds (107.089 mph) on his sixth lap for a new TCR lap record and second-fastest on the day overall. It was almost three tenths quicker than Bryson Morris’ previous mark of 1:22.918, set last year in TCR.

It was a Honda 1-2 with Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course polesitter Rocco Pasquarella just 0.072 of a second behind in his No. 5 KMW Motorsports with TMR Engineering Honda. Pasquarella and Tim Lewis Jr. broke through for an elusive first win of the year last race out at Watkins Glen.

Morris, who qualified third, and Mason Filippi lead the TCR championship in their No. 33 Bryan Herta Autosport with Curb Agajanian Hyundai Elantra N TCR.

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Moonlighting Ricky Taylor Leads Chevrolet Grand Prix Practice

Garcia, Ellis Top IMSA’s Two GT Classes at CTMP

July 10, 2026

By John Oreovicz

IMSA Wire Service

Practice 1 Results

BOWMANVILLE, Ontario – More than three years have passed since Ricky Taylor last drove a Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) class car in any series, but the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship star showed Friday that he hasn’t forgotten how to pedal one.

Taylor, making a guest appearance for Bryan Herta Autosport with PR1/Mathiasen in the No. 52 ORECA LMP2 07 co-driven by Misha Goikhberg, paced the opening practice session for the Chevrolet Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. He lapped the famously fast 2.459-mile road course northeast of the Greater Toronto Area in 1 minute, 8.080 seconds (130.029 miles per hour), besting the 1:08.178 (129.842 mph) effort posted by Sebastian Alvarez in the No. 8 ORECA LMP2 07 prepared by Tower Motorsports.

“Like anything, it takes a little while for that muscle memory to come back and I’ve never driven an LMP2 car here,” Taylor said. “We just tested here, so it’s fresh for us and surely people are going to be improving, so I’m not overly confident, but I think if we have a smooth race without issues, I think we have a chance.

“The team isn’t getting ahead of ourselves, but I’ve been so impressed by Misha – he’s been flying,” he added. “The pressure is on me to hold up my end of the bargain.”

Taylor has raced in the top prototype class of the WeatherTech Championship since the unification of American sports car racing in 2014 (and for several years prior to that in GRAND-AM). But he has made seven LMP2 class starts in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in that timespan, where LMP2 cars operate under different aerodynamic restrictions and using a different brand of tire than the Michelins that are standard in IMSA.

The WeatherTech Championship’s LMP2 lineup is slightly different than usual this weekend due to a schedule conflict with the FIA World Endurance Championship round at Interlagos, Brazil. With Goikhberg’s full-season teammate Harry Tincknell and third driver Parker Thompson both racing in Brazil, Taylor is available to race at CTMP because the Chevrolet Grand Prix is headlined by LMP2, accompanied by IMSA’s production-based Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) and GTD PRO classes.

The Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) class, where Taylor typically shares the No. 10 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac V-Series.R with Filipe Albuquerque, returns to action July 30-August 2 at the Motul SportsCar Endurance Grand Prix.

Both Taylor and Alvarez lapped CTMP faster on Friday than the lap record established by Matt McMurry in 2019, when IMSA created greater separation between LMP2 and the WeatherTech Championship’s top prototype class.

“The car feels so nice, like the Daytona Prototype international (DPi) cars we raced here up through 2022,” Taylor said. “It’s even better in some places – this track really lets these cars perform at their best, with all the high-speed corners. It’s really cool.”

Philip Ellis set the pace for the GT classes with an early lap timed at 1:15.860 (116.693 mph) in the No. 57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 in the GTD class. That was 0.323 second quicker than Albert Costa’s 1:16.183 (116.198 mph) effort in the No. 34 Conquest Racing Ferrari 296 GT3 EVO.

No fewer than five GTD PRO entries posted lap times in between the GTD class leaders, led by Antonio Garcia in the No. 3 Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports Corvette Z06 GT3.R at 1:15.877 (116.667 mph). Ben Barnicoat, coming off a class win in the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen in the No. 14 Vasser Sullivan Racing Lexus RC F GT3, was next up at 1:15.906 (116.622 mph).

Friday’s 90-minute practice session was twice interrupted by minor incidents that caused red flags. Both occurred at Turn 5 and involved GTD class runners; Lorenzo Patrese slid the No. 34 Conquest Ferrari into the tire wall just prior to the halfway point, while Callum Ilott caused the session to end about 10 minutes early when he plowed the No. 120 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) into the banded tires much harder, causing more significant damage. Both entries will lose their fastest qualifying lap.

“I would say that was probably just getting too much confidence too quickly,” Patrese said. “A small mistake with a bit of a bigger outcome. With the compression you have on the bumps there, it can go wrong quite easily, but luckily the damage was small, and I was able to get a few more laps in the session to get some confidence back.”

WeatherTech Championship competitors will have 90 more minutes of practice Saturday morning prior to qualifying by class in the afternoon. The Chevrolet Grand Prix feature event takes place from 2:10-4:50 p.m. Sunday, July 12, with streaming available on Peacock domestically and via the official IMSA YouTube channel and IMSA.TV outside the United States.

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Expect The Unexpected in Six-Hour Road America Tilt

Drivers Seek a Cleaner Race While Still Maintaining IMSA’s Legendary Intensity

July 29, 2026

By John Oreovicz

IMSA Wire Service

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Road America is familiar (and popular) territory to IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship competitors, and six hours is a common race length in endurance sports car racing. But six hours at Road America is a combination that hasn’t been seen in the modern era.

That all changes this weekend as the Motul SportsCar Endurance Grand Prix more than doubles from the two-hour, 40-minute format used since 2015 (was two hours, 45 minutes in 2014) to six hours, making it the fourth of five rounds in the 2026 IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup. The expanded race length was greeted with enthusiasm by fans and participants, and the change will no doubt add a magnitude of unpredictability to what unfolds on the 14-corner, 4.048-mile road course over the span of six hours.

Last year’s sprint race at Road America featured enough door-banging action to rival a NASCAR short track, and IMSA officials responded accordingly with penalty assessment for incident responsibility in subsequent races.

When the law gets laid down, self-policing among the drivers has a way of calming down the aggression level. But there’s a healthy level of debate whether the six-hour format will also contribute to a cleaner Road America race than a year ago – an argument that rages even within the same team.

“I think if Watkins Glen is anything to go by, no. That was a pretty disastrous race, with a lot of guys crashing,” said Jack Hawksworth, who has teamed with Ben Barnicoat to win the last two Grand Touring Daytona Pro (GTD PRO) races at the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen and Chevrolet Grand Prix in the No. 14 Vasser Sullivan Racing Lexus RC F GT3.

The Watkins Glen race featured nine full-course cautions, while Canadian Tire Motorsport Park eased off with just two.

“I was really surprised the amount of stuff that went down in Watkins Glen, but I do think Road America was just a one-off last year,” countered Barnicoat. “For a two-hour, 40-minute race, that was a lot of chaos. I just think sometimes it happens where people are just in the wrong place at the wrong time and it just kind of compounded. People just try a bit too hard to make something happen when it’s not really happening on some days. So, I do think it’ll be calmer than last year.”

Aaron Telitz stands second in the GTD class standings in Vasser Sullivan’s No. 12 Lexus with Benjamin Pedersen. He’s also a Wisconsin native who has a wealth of experience at Road America over the last 15 years.

“Funny enough, in IMSA, these six-hour races just inevitably end up being sprint races,” Telitz remarked. “Track position matters almost the entire way through the race. But I’m gonna say this year at Road America, I think there will be significantly less yellow than we actually saw in the sprint race - just because people will want to try to get to the end more than in the sprint race format.

“I mean, some of the restarts on in the sprint race the last couple of years have been absolutely wild. But I think we’ll see some more green flag running this time and hopefully that’ll make for some really exciting racing.”

Nicky Catsburg was behind the wheel when the No. 4 Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports Corvette Z06 GT3.R was involved in contact in two of the most recent three races (Detroit and Watkins Glen). The Dutchman was assessed drive-through penalties for incident responsibility in both cases.

“I feel like [IMSA] made a good decision there last year after the race to kind of tone everyone down,” Catsburg observed. “But the way IMSA races, the way the championship works with the yellows and the restarts, you just get in many situations where it’s easy to have contact. I just feel like that kind of belongs in IMSA.

“Of course, we as drivers need to try and not constantly hit each other off,” added Catsburg, who ranks second in the GTD PRO standings with co-driver Tommy Milner. “But that’s part of it, you know. I like to go racing hard, and then you win some, you lose some.”

Kenton Koch, who shares the No. 023 Triarsi Competizione Ferrari 296 GT3 EVO with Onofrio Triarsi and Robert Megennis, is another who believes the longer race format will make a difference in the mindset of competitors. Koch and Triarsi won last year in GTD.

“Your strategy on long green flag runs can sometimes change, and when you throw a yellow in there, some people take it, some people don’t,” he explained. “When you just lengthen the race, it kind of changes the strategy and how people execute the race. You’ll get to the end and one guy that's been leading for four hours ends up at the tail end because he’s just on a different cycle. Things just are gonna have a little bit more ebb-and-flow, depending on what stage of the race you’re in, just because it’s a longer format.”

Jack Aitken is also coming off two consecutive race wins (at the Chevrolet Detroit Sports Car Classic and the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen) overall and in Grand Touring Prototype (GTP). With assistance from co-drivers Earl Bamber and Frederik Vesti, Aitken leads the GTP standings, and he insists he’s not going to change anything in his approach as he attempts to build on a streak of eight consecutive podium finishes.

Nor does he expect the fundamental character of the Road America race to change despite the extended length.

“We’re kind of expecting it to be a very yellow-heavy race, just going on previous years and the way that the endurance races often go,” Aitken commented. “The two-hour, 40-minute races are long enough that you get multiple stops, so it doesn’t affect as much as you might think.

“There’s no reason to change the way that we’ve been racing. because it’s been working well,” he added. “We’re certainly not doing the ‘Win it or bin it’ strategy at the moment, and obviously it wouldn’t make sense to switch over. I think we’re just looking to be as quick as we can and then make sensible decisions in the race. That gets you 99 percent of the way there, and it always will.”

Flag-to-flag livestream coverage of the Motul SportsCar Endurance Grand Prix starts at 11:30 a.m. ET on Sunday, August 2, available via Peacock in the U.S. and IMSA.TV and the official IMSA IMSA YouTube channel internationally.

MSA’s Global Audience Reaches New Heights Across Broadcast and Digital Platforms

Expansive International Options Continue to Enhance, Amplify IMSA Content

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (July 28, 2026) – Fans around the world are consuming IMSA content at record levels, as the sanctioning body continues to expand its reach through a combination of international television distribution, live streaming and digital-first storytelling.

Through a longstanding partnership with Greenlight International and the continued momentum of IMSA’s official YouTube channel, the organization is connecting with audiences in more countries, on more platforms and in more ways than ever before.

The growth reflects a significant shift in how motorsport fans engage with content. While traditional linear television remains an important component of IMSA’s international strategy, digital platforms have become an increasingly vital gateway for new fans to discover sports car racing.

Greenlight International continues to play a major role in that effort. Since partnering with IMSA in 2017, the agency has expanded the championship’s footprint worldwide, helping deliver IMSA content to more than 450 million households across 148 countries outside the United States. Live race coverage now reaches more than 120 international territories, complemented by magazine-style programming that showcases the personalities, manufacturers and stories that define the IMSA paddock.

Programs including Motorsport Mundial and Planet Speed continue to feature IMSA content throughout the year, helping drive awareness of the championship beyond race weekends and introducing new audiences to the sport.

“IMSA continues to resonate with broadcasters and viewers across the globe,” said Jon Quayle of Greenlight International. “The combination of elite manufacturer participation, world-class drivers and compelling competition creates a product that consistently performs well for our distribution partners. We have seen continued demand from both established and emerging markets, reflecting the growing international appeal of the championship.”

At the same time, IMSA's digital audience has accelerated at a remarkable pace. The official IMSA YouTube channel now exceeds 1.86 million subscribers, making it the most-subscribed motorsports property in North America and one of the largest motorsport channels in the world.

The channel has evolved far beyond a race-streaming platform. The bedrock of the channel is live international streaming of IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship events and global live streaming – including U.S. coverage – of IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge, IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge and IMSA-sanctioned single-make races. In addition, it serves as a destination for documentary-style features – such as the popular "Win The Weekend presented by Michelin" docuseries, race replays, onboard camera feeds, archival content, short-form highlights and behind-the-scenes storytelling.

Long-form race broadcasts continue to generate substantial viewing hours from audiences around the world, while shorter digital formats are attracting new fans seeking highlights, driver features and easily consumable race content.

The success of IMSA’s YouTube strategy underscores the growing appetite for always-available motorsports content. Viewers are increasingly engaging with races and original programming on their own schedules, creating year-round opportunities for fans to connect with the championship.

“Accessibility remains one of the foundations of our content strategy,” said IMSA President John Doonan. “Whether fans are watching through one of our global broadcast partners or engaging with us digitally, our goal is to make IMSA content available wherever they choose to consume it.

“The growth we've experienced on YouTube has been extraordinary. Reaching 1.86 million subscribers and becoming the most-subscribed motorsports property in North America is a significant milestone, but more importantly it reflects the passion of our fans around the world and the strength of our competition. Combined with the continued support of partners like Greenlight International, we're introducing IMSA to and engaging with new audiences every day.”

As fan viewing habits continue to evolve, IMSA's combination of worldwide television distribution, free international streaming and original digital content positions the organization to reach more motorsports enthusiasts than ever before, ensuring that the excitement of sports car racing remains accessible to a truly global audience.

Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America Heads to Road America

LB Cup Is Closest Championship Battle Among the Four Classes

July 28, 2026

By Tony DiZinno

IMSA Wire Service

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America teams head to Road America for Rounds 7 and 8 of the 2026 season, where the class battles for championships may intensify. LB Cup is the closest of the four battles with Pro and Am also relatively tight, while ProAm has a clear leader.

Pro

A weekend sweep at Watkins Glen International moved Elias De La Torre (No. 29 TR3 Racing, Lamborghini Miami, Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo Evo2) to the head of the championship table over his former teammate, Will Bamber (No. 33 XONINE Racing, Lamborghini Chicago, Huracán). De La Torre has Dennis Lind back alongside him this weekend; a win for the young driver would mean he’d have captured a checkered flag alongside three different co-drivers in what could be a championship season.

Bamber and Darius Trinka will look to reclaim the top spot, after winning their first race together at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in May and scoring two important podium finishes in Watkins Glen.

Wayne Taylor Racing seeks a bounce back weekend after a tough Watkins Glen, and Road America may be the perfect venue for them to do so. Hampus Ericsson and Danny Formal swept the weekend here last year and Ericsson, along with Nick Persing, need a big weekend to stay in the title battle now down 29 points in their No. 1 WTR, Lamborghini Palm Beach, Huracán.

RAFA Racing Team impressed at Watkins Glen with a pair of podiums for Tyler Gonzalez and Kiko Porto in their No. 2 Lamborghini Austin Huracán, with the duo set to continue for a second consecutive race weekend.

ProAm

Formal and Graham Doyle, in their No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing, Lamborghini Palm Beach, Huracán have enjoyed a dream season to date with six wins from six starts and a 36-point lead heading into Road America. They’ve claimed 92 of a possible 96 points so far in 2026 and with six races remaining, may put themselves in position to wrap up the title early.

Best of the rest so far have been Lindsay Brewer and Keawn Tandon, who have four podiums from six races in their No. 77 Forty7 Motorsports, Lamborghini Houston, Huracán. They’re at the head of a four-car battle for second, covered by just 16 points. Brewer won here last year in Am with Jem Hepworth as part of an all-female lineup.

With six podiums from six starts, David Staab is writing the book on consistency in Am. The driver of the No. 48 Precision Performance Motorsports, Lamborghini Palm Beach, Huracán only has one win but has consistently featured on the box as his nearest rivals have changed from race-to-race.

Dean Neuls, in his No. 70 TR3 Racing, Lamborghini Miami, Huracán, was the first driver to two wins in the class and sits second, just 10 points in arrears. Two-time LB Cup champion Nick Groat won his Am debut in his No. 57 XONINE Racing, Lamborghini Chicago, Huracán at Sebring but hasn’t been back to the top since. Groat did win twice here last year in LB Cup. He’s part of a close battle for third, also featuring teammate Anthony Bullock – a two-time winner in his own No. 12 XONINE entry – and Johan Schwartz, who shares the No. 89 89X Motorsports, Lamborghini Sarasota Huracán with Mike Fitzpatrick.

LB Cup

The closest championship battle resides in the hotly contested LB Cup division. A post-race penalty in Race 2 at Watkins Glen flipped the race results and the standings; Philippe Touchette (No. 11 TB Autosports, Lamborghini Montreal, Huracán) now leads Rocky T. Bolduc (No. 99 Topp Racing, Lamborghini Greenwich, Huracán) by just one point.

Five different drivers have already won races in LB Cup this year, as beyond Touchette and Bolduc, Ray Shahi (No. 65 Taurino Racing) and Forty7 Motorsports teammates Christopher Koebbe (No. 66) and Christopher Tasca (No. 95) all have a win apiece. It’s made for an intense and deep LB Cup field.

Lamborghini Super Trofeo practices on Thursday with qualifying Friday morning and the two 50-minute races Friday at 4:45 p.m. ET (3:45 p.m. CT and local time) and Saturday at 6 p.m. ET (5 p.m. CT). Races stream via Peacock, IMSA’s YouTube channel and Lamborghini’s YouTube channel.

2025 Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America Road America Race 1 Winners:

Pro: Danny Formal/Hampus Ericsson, No. 1 Wayne Taylor Racing
ProAm: Trent Hindman/Jackson Lee, No. 69 Wayne Taylor Racing
Am: David Staab, No. 48 Precision Performance Motorsports
LB Cup: Nick Groat, No. 57 ONE Motorsports

2025 Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America Road America Race 2 Winners:

Pro: Danny Formal/Hampus Ericsson, No. 1 Wayne Taylor Racing

ProAm: Conrad Geis/Jason Hart, No. 67 TR3 Racing

Am: Jem Hepworth/Lindsay Brewer, No. 2 RAFA Racing

LB Cup: Nick Groat, No. 57 ONE Motorsports

Entry List Notebook - IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge Road America 120

Six Different Manufacturers Have Won Last Six GS Races in Elkhart Lake

July 27, 2026

By Tony DiZinno

IMSA Wire Service

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Road America has emerged as a bit of a wild card round for IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge competitors the last several years. A total of 42 cars are entered for the Road America 120, split 28 Grand Sport (GS) and 14 Touring Car (TCR), for Round 7 of the season.

Six different manufacturers have won overall and in GS since 2020: McLaren, BMW, Mercedes-AMG, Chevrolet, Porsche and Ford. Of those six, all but Chevrolet are still active.

Aston Martin or Toyota could continue the parity streak if either manufacturer wins their first Road America race, and both are coming off highs at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. Aston Martin won its second straight pole, with Heart of Racing Team’s Hannah Greenemeier following Hannah Grisham as the fastest GS qualifier two weeks earlier at Watkins Glen. Then Toyota won the race in Canada with RAFA Racing’s Kiko Porto and Varun Choksey parlaying their pace into a first victory.

The Canadian Tire Motorsport Park round shifted the GS title battle to where only 40 points covers the top three. McCumbee McAleer Racing’s Nate Cicero and Robert Noaker now lead by 30 points over Ibiza Farm Motorsport’s Michael Cooper and Moisey Uretsky, with Auto Technic Racing’s Stevan McAleer and Austin Krainz just 10 points further back in third. Tough recent weekends have dropped Turner Motorsport’s Dillon Machavern and Luca Mars and Winward Racing’s Bryce Ward slightly down the order, but still with enough time to claw back the deficit as they’re both within 190 points.

TCR saw a new Road America winner last year with Hyundai back on top at the track for the first time since 2020; Bryson Morris and Mark Wilkins delivered the Elantra N TCR’s first win at the venerable 4.048-mile circuit.

Morris and Mason Filippi have been the model of consistency in TCR this year, with two wins including last time out at CTMP and five podiums achieved in six races. That sees them 200 points clear of teammates Denis Dupont and Preston Brown. Although that 200-point gap is strong, a tough result for the No. 33 car could bring any of the next five cars into title contention, as they’re only covered by 80 points.

Among the handful of changes throughout the grid, Celso Neto is listed alongside Eddie Gou in the No. 55 Gou Racing with Stallion Audi RS3 LMS TCR. Both Medusa Motorsports and RVA Graphics by Speed Syndicate Motorsports return after at least one-race absences, while LAP Motorsports has entered the No. 6 rather than No. 30 Ford Mustang GT4.

Michelin Pilot Challenge teams have one practice Thursday, a second Friday morning before qualifying Friday afternoon, and race Saturday at 12:50 p.m. CT and local time (1:50 p.m. ET). Live race coverage streams flag-to-flag on Peacock and ad-free, courtesy of Michelin, on the IMSA Official YouTube channel.

Fast Facts

Road America 120

Road America – Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin

July 30-August 1, 2026

Race Day/Time: Saturday, August 1, 1:50 p.m. ET (12:50 p.m. CT and local time)

Live Streaming Coverage: LIVE – Flag-to-flag beginning at 1:45 p.m. ET, Peacock in the U.S., globally on IMSA YouTube ad-free courtesy of Michelin

Circuit Type: 4.048-mile, 14-turn road course

Classes Competing: Grand Sport (GS), Touring Car (TCR)

Race Length: Two hours

Michelin Pilot Challenge Track Records

GS: Jesse Lazare, McLaren Artura GT4, 2:13.840 / 108.881 mph, August 2024 (Qualifying)
TCR: LP Montour, Honda Civic FL5 TCR, 2:16.207 / 106.989 mph, August 2025 (Qualifying)

2025 Road America 120 Winners

GS: Nate Cicero/Jenson Altzman, No. 13 McCumbee McAleer Racing Ford Mustang GT4
TCR: Mark Wilkins/Bryson Morris, No. 33 Bryan Herta Autosport with Curb Agajanian Hyundai Elantra N TCR

Storylines

GS with Three Within 40 Points: Just 40 points cover the top three championship contenders in GS, while 190 points cover the top five.
Hyundai vs. Honda in TCR: Hyundai won its first TCR race at CTMP since Monterey after Honda went back-to-back at Mid-Ohio and Watkins Glen. The TCR manufacturer battle sees Hyundai only 50 points clear of Honda.

Who’s Hot?

No. 13 McCumbee McAleer Racing Ford: With six top-10s in six races, Nate Cicero and Robert Noaker now lead the GS points and return to the site where Cicero and Jenson Altzman won last year.
No. 33 Bryan Herta Autosport Hyundai: Mason Filippi and Bryson Morris have secured five podiums in six races, including two wins, and Morris returns to where he won last year with Mark Wilkins.

Who’s Good Here?

Stevan McAleer: A two-time Road America winner, McAleer also finished third here last year in his No. 27 Auto Technic Racing BMW M4 GT4 EVO he shares with Austin Krainz.
Tim Lewis: Lewis reeled off four straight TCR wins in KMW’s Alfa Romeo from 2021 to 2024 and got his first Honda win with the team at Watkins Glen.

Previous Road America IMPC Winners in 2026 Field (15)