A more careful, cautious approach was called for today by VICI Racing at the Belle Isle street circuit in Detroit; rapidly changing weather conditions, coupled to a car that has just been rapidly rebuilt since last Sunday’s accident at Mosport and which was slightly down on power, meant that the team had to be satisfied with Marc Basseng’s best qualifying lap of 1:28.075, which will place the car onto the fifth row of the grid for tomorrow’s Detroit Sports Car Challenge[…]
Guy Smith (England) put the Dyson Racing Porsche RS Spyder on the inside of the second row after qualifying third overall - and third in the LMP2 class - for tomorrow’s Detroit Sports Car Challenge Presented by Bosch[…]
Adrian Fernandez qualified the #15 Lowe’s Acura ARX fourth overall this afternoon for Saturday’s Detroit Sports Car Challenge presented by Bosch at Belle Isle Raceway. This is the fourth time this season that Fernandez and Luis Diaz have started on the first two rows of the grid, and today’s result marks their seventh top-five class qualifying effort in the eight races held to date[…]
Corsa Motorsports announced today that it has entered into a strategic alliance with the Zytek Group based in the United Kingdom. The partnership will result in the production of the first Le Mans Prototype car fitted with a hybrid power system. Corsa will compete as a works team in the LMP1 class of the American Le Mans Series[…]
Acura Motorsports will enter the LMP1 class in the 2009 American Le Mans Series, company officials announced today. Acura’s entry into the most powerful and technically advanced division in ALMS will feature two Acura ARX-02a prototype sports cars developed by Honda Performance Development (HPD)[…]
A true American racing legend passed away today. Phil Hill, a former Formula 1 world champion and three times Le Mans 24 Hours winner, died in a hospital in Salinas, California. Hill had Parkinson’s Disease and was taken to hospital after making a visit to the Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races.[…]
Patrón Highcroft Racing heads to Belle Isle for Round 9 of the American Le Mans Series and the Detroit Sportscar Challenge presented by Bosch this weekend, August 29 & 30. The team is aiming to clinch its third consecutive win of the season at the challenging street circuit. Another awesome race at Mosport last weekend secured the team’s fourth win of the year with drivers Scott Sharp and David Brabham now within 10 points of the LMP2 championship lead.
Three of the most respected performance automotive manufacturers (Porsche, Acura, and Ferrari) bring their season-long sports car battle to the automotive capital of the world to battle for supremacy in two sports car categories this weekend at the 2008 Detroit Sports Car Challenge presented by Bosch. With three rounds to go in the racing series with the world’s fastest sports cars, Porsche is well on course to winning titles with the 503hp RS Spyder featuring direct fuel injection (DFI) technology in the LMP2 class as well as the Porsche 911 GT3 RSR in the GT2 class.
The Flying Lizard squad is back in the U.S. this week for the ninth round of the American Le Mans Series season, the Detroit Sports Car Challenge, to be held August 30 in a joint race weekend with IndyCar. The 2.096-mile, 14-turn temporary street course is located on Belle Isle, a beautiful 982-acre island in the Detroit River. 2008 is the second consecutive year that the American Le Mans Series has competed in Detroit.
VICI Racing and development partner Kumho Tires arrived on Belle Isle in Detroit this week ready to bounce back from last weekend when the most competitive weekend of the inaugural American Le Mans Series (ALMS) year for the team ended abruptly less than a third of the way through the race after the #18 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR crashed out following a suspension component failure which was beyond the team’s control.