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The 2025 Long Beach Grand Prix is in the books and wouldn't you guess it - the No. 7 Porsche Penske Motorsport again took the overall victory for the third-straight race to open the season. Not only that, but the No. 6 finished right behind the sister car to hand the PPM team their second-straight 1-2 finish after Sebring. We'll get to the 3 Up 3 Down recap just below, which if you've been following along to the blog we said we'd ditch for 2025 in favor of different '...of the Day' recap. But, this is my blog and I can do what I want with it, and with just two classes running in the LBGP the 3U3D recap is much easier to put together. Let's get into it - GTP 3 Up -  1. Porsche Penske Motorsport It's not BOP, it's not cheating (although you can't totally discount that from the Penske organization) and it isn't now ruining racing in IMSA. If you're hating on Porsche totally kicking ass on the track then the problem is solely you. They don...

The future of endurance racing is in good hands, and we finally have the premier brands in the world to thank for it. After years of speculation and heightened by intense rumors from the last handful of months, McLaren finally announced that they're ready to join the Hypercar Party - with their debut coming for 2027. The announcement came early Thursday morning, headlined by the simple yet very effective declaration of "We're Back." View this post on Instagram A post shared by McLaren (@mclaren) The signs have been prevalent for months, with multiple racing outlets dropping hints that both McLaren and Mercedes-AMG have never been closer to announcing a legitimate program, and that formal reveals were to be expected sooner rather than later. We're still waiting on Mercedes, and let me tell you it will 100% happen, but now that McLaren is in the fold for the future, it adds another premier brand to the future prototype grid.  Ferrari. Porsche. B...

It what was far and away the biggest news of the day anywhere on the planet on Thursday, IMSA revealed a wildly revamped Balance of Power shuffling that will lead into next week's Long Beach Grand Prix. Quite literally every manufacturer in both the GTP and GTD classes received some short of adjustment to weight, power or energy output, with the biggest alterations coming to Porsche and Cadillac in the prototype class and Corvette, Ferrari and Lexus in the GT ranks. Both Porsche and Cadillac received a weight reduction of 9 kgs - which is roughly 20 pounds of reduced weight via ballast. Additionally the Aston Martin Valkyire, which many felt was balanced out way too harshly in their debut at Sebring, will see a huge 10 kgs weight reduction for the race. For the Corvette Z06 GT3.R, they'll see a MASSIVE weight reduction - 31 kg!!! - which will surely correct the race pace issues that the Pratt Miller Motorsports suffered from at Sebring. Right behind them are the Ferrari's ...

The 12 Hours of Sebring is in the books, and to what shouldn't be a surprise to anyone it was Porsche Penske Motorsport coming out on top with the overall victory. We'll get into how things went down across the grueling 12 hours of racing from morning into night, with the clear headliner being the pair of Penske 963s again occupying the podium with a 1/2 finish after their P1/P3 conquering of the Rolex 24 in January. There's plenty to cover now that we're two races down for the season and heading into a months-long break before the first sprint race of the season at Long Beach goes down on April 12. Let's dive into it all - from Penske's aforementioned dominance to Wayne Taylor Racing's downright miserable day to Winward Racing going back-to-back at Sebring to Rex's brace-faced triumph in GTD Pro. Here we go -  GTP Car(s) of the Day - No. 7 and No. 6 Porsche Penske Motorsports  What else can you say about the 963 and Penske Motorsport's ability to co...

For the second year in a row IMSA has pulled the curtain back on their future endeavors ahead of the 12 Hours of Sebring set for this weekend - news that is highlighted by something 99.9% of fans have been hoping to hear for years now.  The 2026 calendar was unveiled by IMSA on Thursday, and although we won't see an expansion of total races for the season, there is the significant upgrade of the IMSA SportsCar Weekend event at Road America, which has been elevated from a 2:40 sprint race to a six hour enduro. The move will see the Battle on the Bricks at Indy move back to a sprint race. A ton of credit is deserved for John Doonan and the rest of the IMSA brain trust for delivering in so many areas for fans these last three years. They're on a serious stretch of giving the fans what we're asking for in terms of securing cars/drivers/teams on the grid, staging great experiences at the track and increasing the exposure of the sport via social media, YouTube and accessibility (...

You figured that when a racecar catches fire twice within a week and three times total in the span of just a few months, something had to be up, right? We'll remember that the No. 77 Proton Competition Ford lit up in flames twice in the opening week of the 2025 WEC season just two weeks ago - first in the Prologue towards the end of the opening practice session and then again in the race itself in the 1812km of Qatar after 148 laps completed and Bernardo Sousa behind the wheel. As the inside of the car began to fill up with smoke, it marked the third time that a Ford has caught fire and burned out on the side of the track in the last couple of months; the sister car No. 88 burst into flames in last season's finale at Bahrain, and the question coming out of the opening round of the 2025 season was - what in the hell is going on with the Mustangs catching on fire while racing in the desert? Or, was there something else going on? Or was it all just a load of bad luck? Well as it t...

Hot off the heels of an awesome Rolex 24 and just days away from the 12 Hours of Sebring, it's quite easy to make the statement that IMSAs popularity and reach has never been greater.  We're seeing an explosion of the sport in the three key areas when it comes to raising the bar with existing fans and increasing exposure to bring in new ones - TV/streaming viewership numbers, social media interactions and in-person attendance. Regardless of how we all feel in the NBC vs. Peacock debate, we're seeing levels of engagement and interest that the sport frankly hasn't seen ever before, and we wonder if that could that lead to an expanded calendar in either 2026 or 2027. Last year before the 12 Hours of Sebring IMSA President John Doonan pulled the curtain back on the 2025 season by dropping the full slate of races (11 total and five endurance rounds) well before the other two major racing series in the World Endurance Championship and the various levels of GT World Challenge ...

The initial entry list for the 2025 GT World Challenge America season was released on Wednesday and there was a notable absentee from the group. Samantha Tan and ST Racing were not listed on the entry list preview, and on the Double Stint Podcast from SportsCar365.com's John Dagys released on Tuesday, Dagys commented quickly that he's not expecting to see ST Racing on the World Challenge America grid this season.  There has yet to be an any official comment from Tan or her team. Tan and STR have elevated their operation in 2025 to enter into the revamped VP SportsCar Challenge in the new GTDX class in a solo effort. With STR's strong performance through the first two races of the season it's easy to see the scenario where Tan is ready to focus on going all-in for the VP SportsCar Challenge season after accomplishing just about everything she could in the SRO ranks with multiple race wins and various championships. Tan currently ranks first for GTDX Bronze drivers and P4...

The opening round of the 2025 WEC season is wrapped up from the weekend, giving us plenty to look over now that we're a few days removed from the action in the desert of Qatar.  Overall the race was a bit sloppy for a lot of teams on the grid that made a litany of mistakes on track and on the pit lane, which resulted in a number of penalties being handed out and a handful of spin outs in traffic. The last 40 or so minutes made up for a lot of the race with the finishing battles between all three Hypercar Ferrari's and the dual between the TF Sport Corvette and the United McLaren. Overall, wrapping everything together, it was a great way to kick off the 2025 season, and it gives us the chance to now dive into the race recap.  Reminder - we're doing our race recaps a bit differently this year than last by choosing to bypass the '3 Up, 3 Down' format to bring you what we can confidently say is the most unique and engaging race recaps you could ever hope to find on the ...