IMSA Completes 36 Hours of Florida at Sebring, Sets 2027 schedules
For a second consecutive year, the only true question for this half-day competition was which Porsche 963 from Team Penske would be first to those checkered glass?
Racing featuring two-seated sports cars with enclosed wheels. Often run by marques like Porsche, Ferrari, Jaguar, Aston Martin, Lotus, Maserati, Lancia, Mercedes-Benz and BMW, but can also include American brands General Motors/Chevrolet, Pontiac and Ford. 12 Hours of Sebring, 24 Hours of LeMans and 24 Hours of Daytona are famous sports car races. The Rolex Series, the SCCA World Challenge, and the Trans Am series are also sports car road race series.
For a second consecutive year, the only true question for this half-day competition was which Porsche 963 from Team Penske would be first to those checkered glass?
This year’s 64th annual Rolex 24 at Daytona begins the racing season in earnest.
The 2025 Performance Racing Industry Show hosted the year’s end of changes in the race industry, but they kept coming even after the show ended. Check out the round up of upheaval, schedule changes and upcoming anniversaries!!
From the time that Mario Andretti entered the Indianapolis 500 in 1964, there’s been an Andretti in the field for nearly every year the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race has run. That will change in 2026, as Marco Andretti, son of Michael and grandson of Mario hangs up his gloves.
Les Unger paved the way for Toyota in its motorsports activities; it was he who led the Japanese vehicle manufacturer to motorsports in the United States and got them to sponsor racing in Long Beach, CA.
More wrinkles in the IndyCar universe make the future of the series less clear.
The 50th anniversary of the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, a 90-lap scurry around the 11 corners that make up the track for this longest-lived street course in the United States has seen victory go, for a second time, to Andretti Global’s Kyle Kirkwood.
The 50th Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach is set for April 11-13, and on race day the nearly 200,000 in attendance will gather beneath sunny skies – it’s never rained on race day – to watch the Indy cars compete on this street circuit, now run on Shoreline Drive.
IMSA, the International Motor Sports Association ended its 36 Hours of Florida on Saturday, March 15, 2025.
Recently, our motorsports world lost two of those tough guys: Lee Kunzman and Bob Sharp.