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NBC Sports
03-08-2025
- Automotive
- NBC Sports
2025 IMSA Road America starting lineup: Acura takes third consecutive pole with No. 93 ARX-06
Acura will start from the pole for the third consecutive race seeking its third consecutive IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship victory with Meyer Shank Racing. Nick Yelloly turned a lap of 1 minute, 48.628 seconds around Road America, taking the top qualiyfing spot again with co-driver Renger van der Zande. BMW M Team RLL's M8 Hybrids took the next two starting spots on the 14-turn, 4.048-mile road course in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Colin Braun, who won with Meyer Shank Racing teammate Tom Blomqvist in the most recent Grand Touring Prototype race at Watkins Glen International, qualified the No. 60 Acura ARX-06 in fourth. Yelloly and van der Zande won the GTP category at Detroit, starting the Acura ARX-06's winning streak into Road America after Porsche Penske Motorsport opened the season with four conseuctive victories. Though the drivers championship remains firmly in PPM's control with three races remaining, Acura has closed to 90 points behind Porsche in the manufactuer standings. STARTING GRIDS: Click here for the Road America starting lineup l Lineup by row l Lineup by car number Nate Ryan, 'We were operating at a high level already, and maybe we weren't executing as well as we needed to be,' Yelloly said. 'Now we're executing and are starting to become super-top-notch, and that's what you have to be to win these IMSA races. 'We'll try to control the race tomorrow and try to get another win for HRC (Honda Racing Corp.) and Acura Meyer Shank.' Here are the pole-sitters in other categories for Sunday's two-hour, 40-minute race, which will start shortly after 2 p.m. ET on Peacock: LMP2: PJ Hyett, No. 99 AO Racing ORECA LMP2 07, 1:53.240 GTD Pro: Giacomo Altoè, No. 81 DragonSpeed Ferrari 296 GT3, 2:03.904 GTD: Russell Ward, No. 57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3, 2:03.475 ROAD AMERICA QUALIFYING ROUNDUP Starting lineup Starting lineup by row Starting lineup by car number Results Results by class Fastest lap by driver Fastest lap by driver after qualifying Fastest lap by driver and class after qualifying Best sector times Fastest lap sequence Time cards Weather report PRACTICE RESULTS: Session I l Session II
NBC Sports
22-06-2025
- Automotive
- NBC Sports
IMSA Watkins Glen results, points: Acura wins again as Blomqvist saves just enough juice
Stretching his hybrid battery to the aboslute limit when a rival couldn't, Tom Blomqvist took the lead on the last lap to win the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar race at Watkins Glen International. Blomqvist's No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06 crossed the finish line with less than 1% of its battery power reamining and finished 1.880 seconds ahed of the No. 40 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac. The No. 10 WTR Cadillac finished third. 'The guys gave me a target, and we were able to execute,' Blomqvist told NBC Sports' Dave Burns on Peacock. 'The car came alive there. I knew we just needed a bit space. We were able to capitalize on a couple of restarts. The guys did a great strategy and the pace was set to be able to hit those really big fuel targets ,and that's what enabled me to go to the end and the others not. IMSA WATKINS GLEN RESULTS: Click here for overall l By class 'So really proud of everyone. It was an up-and-down race for us. We had a few mistakes here at the beginning, but we made the most of it there at the end, so I'm so happy for the guys. It's been a really tough year. We haven't really had what we believe we deserve.' Earl Bamber had been in the lead on a restart with 3 minutes remaining, but his No. 31 Cadillac finished fifth after being forced to make a pit stop when its battery expired just before taking the white flag. Just before the last restart, Nick Yelloly also had pitted from second in the No. 93 MSR Acura. That had Blomqvist's co-driver, Colin Braun, nervous atop the Meyer Shank Racing pit stand. 'Tom did a great job there at the end saving the fuel,' Braun said. 'Man, the guys on the pit box were sweating bullets up there, but they made it happen there, so I'm pumped.' With the No. 93 's May 31 victory at Detroit, Meyer Shank Racing's Acuras have won two consecutive races after Porsche Penske Motorsport opened the 2025 season with four wins. 'The guys have really stepped it up,' Blomqvist said. 'We're just getting better and better every race, so hopefully more to come.' The No. 6 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 finished fourth to move into the championship lead by 12 points over the No. 7 963, which finished a season-worst 47th. After a promising start in which Felipe Nasr moved from 10th to the lead, things went awry when Nick Tandy went into the Turn 1 wall with just over 90 minutes remaining. The No. 7 Porsche 963 required major repairs that cost the team more than 10 laps in the pits. The Watkins Glen winners in other categories: LMP2: No. 22 United Autosports USA ORECA LMP2 07 GTD Pro: No. 48 Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 GT3 EVO GTD: No. 27 Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo IMSA WATKINS GLEN SIX HOURS RESULTS Race results Results by class Fastest laps by driver Fastest laps by driver after race (over the weekend) Fastest laps by driver and class after race Lap chart Best sector times Leader sequence Race distance and average speed Fastest lap sequence Race analysis by lap Stint analysis Track limits analysis Time cards Pit stop time cards Flag analysis Weather report NEXT RACE The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship will race with the LMP2, GTD Pro and GTD categories Sunday, July 13 at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park (2 p.m. ET, USA, Peacock). Dan Harper and Max Hesse recap their up-and-down day at Watkins Glen and how they worked pit strategy to climb to the front and win the Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen in GTD Pro. For Tom Gamble, his emotions were "all over the place" after Lexus ran out of gas on the final lap at Watkins Glen, and he shares his first-time win with teammate Casper Stevenson while Zacharie Robichon gets his eighth. Paul Di Resta, Rasmus Lindh and Daniel Goldburg discuss their LMP2 class win at Watkins Glen, vaulting the United Motorsports No. 22 to the top of the championship standings.
NBC Sports
31-05-2025
- Automotive
- NBC Sports
2025 IMSA Detroit starting lineup: Acura sweeps front row in taking first pole of season
Acura swept the front row for the Chevrolet Detroit Sports Car Classic, breaking BMW's pole streak to start the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. Nick Yelloly claimed the pole on the streets of downtown Detroit with a 1 minute, 5.762-second lap in the No. 93 Acura Meyer Shank Racing ARX-06. Tom Blomqvist qualified second in the No. 60 Acura ARX-06 for the 100-minute race on the 1.645-mile layout. 'Pole is the best place to start at any street circuit; it usually makes your life quite a bit easier,' Yelloly said. 'Super happy to get my first pole in IMSA. We've been working very hard as a team to make sure we get everything right, chipping away week after week. We go from strength to strength every weekend, and it just keeps getting better and better. STARTING GRIDS: Click here for the Detroit starting lineup l Lineup by row l Lineup by car number 'At a street circuit, you can't just bang in one lap, because you'll probably make a mistake. You kind of need to edge closer to the limit. I knew I'd done a relatively good lap already and knew I had two laps to go at the end. I put it, let's say, all on the line and rubbed the wall a few times, but it was just enough to get that pole.' Meyer Shank Racing earned its first IMSA pole position since July 2023 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park and its first front row sweep since the 2008 Rolex 24 at Daytona. BMW M Team RLL took the second row with Sheldon van der Linde in the No. 25 BMW M Hybrid V8 and Dries Vanthoor, who had captured the first four pole positions this year in the No. 24 BMW. Porsche Penske Motorsport, which has won the first four races this season with its 963s in Grand Touring Prototype, swept the third row with the No. 6 in fifth and the No. 7 in sixth. In the GTD Pro category, the Ford Multimatic Motorsports Mustang GT3s swept the front row with Seb Priaulx putting the No. 64 Ford Mustang GT3 in the top starting spot with a lap of 1 minute, 10.922 seconds. Teammate Christopher Mies qualified second, 0.329 seconds behind. DETROIT QUALIFYING ROUNDUP Starting lineup Lineup by row Lineup by car number Results Results by class Fastest lap by driver Fastest lap by driver after qualifying Fastest lap by driver and class after qualifying Best sector times Fastest lap sequence Time cards Weather report PRACTICE RESULTS: Session I l Session II Two clean laps was all Nick Yelloly needed to claim his first-career IMSA pole on the streets of Detroit, leaving everything on the table in his run that resulted in a front-row sweep for Meyer Shank Racing.
NBC Sports
07-04-2025
- Automotive
- NBC Sports
How to watch the 2025 IMSA Long Beach on USA, Peacock: Streaming info, start times and daily schedules
Off to 'a dream start' in the two longest races of the IMSA season, the No. 7 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 will try to flex its muscles in one of the shortest races of the year. The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach will be a 100-minute sprint through the streets of downtown on Saturday, April 12 (5 p.m. ET, USA Network, Peacock). After closing the team's consecutive victories in the Rolex 24 at Daytona and the Twelve Hours of Sebring, Penske ace Felipe Nasr said his confidence is at an all-time high on the heels of winning the Grand Touring Prototype championship last year. 'I'm living one of the best moments of my career right now in terms of the experience and people I'm working with,' Nasr said. 'So fortunate to be in this position with engineering, Porsche and Penske, putting our names in history together. To me, it's just a moment to be involved with such quality. I have the best team, so I'm able to deliver my best as well.' It'll be a much shorter path to a Long Beach victory for Nasr and co-driver Nick Tandy. Each will drive the No. 7 963 in a race with only one pit stop on the very narrow and tricky street course. 'It's a different dynamic of racing,' Nasr said. It's all about getting most of the track and the best usage of track time. For sure we'll have strong competition heading to Long Beach as well.' Renger van der Zande and Sebastien Bourdais won last year at Long Beach in the No. 01 Cadillac for Chip Ganassi Racing, which is on hiatus from IMSA this season. Bourdais won't be racing Saturday, but van der Zande will team with Nick Yelloly in the No. 93 Acura ARX-06 of Meyer Shank Racing as one of 11 GTP entries seeking the overall win. While Porsche has won the first two GTP races, BMW has captured the pole in both races, and track position figures to be important in a street race. 'I just love this style of racing bringing the GTP cars to Long Beach and extracting the maximum of the car in a track like that,' Nasr said. 'It's a real challenge. Trying to find the details, set up the car, maximize the tires, think about the strategy. It's such a short and compressed weekend that you have to take decisions quicker than the previous two weekends. You'd have more time to analyze and try more. 'Where now at Long Beach it's narrower in terms of the decisions, and you don't have time to think. There's no room for mistakes, and you put yourself where to maximize in every session. It's a tough place to pass. Tough for traffic. It's a one stop race, so you're trying to make sure you've done the best you could for your teammate when you fight for victory. I know there's a lot of competition. Acura, Cadillac and BMW are strong too. It'll be strong competition for sure.' There are 16 entries in the GTD category, including the defending race winner No. 89 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3. Robert Wickens, who has returned to racing from life-threatening injuries in a 2018 IndyCar crash at Pocono Raceway, will be making his GTD debut and sharing the No. 36 DXDT Racing Corvette Z06 GT3 with Tommy Milner, a four-time Long Beach winner. Wickens will be using a new electronic hand-controlled braking system designed by Bosch. It's his first IMSA race since the 2017 Rolex 24 at Daytona. Here are the start times, daily schedules and streaming info for the 2025 IMSA Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach: 2025 IMSA Grand Prix of Long Beach WHEN: Saturday, April 12 at 5 p.m. DISTANCE: A 100-minute race on the 11-turn, 1.968-mile street course in Long Beach, Califiornia. FORECAST: According to Weather Underground, it's expected to be 67 degrees with no chance of rain at the green flag. ENTRY LIST: Click here to see the 27-car field in the GTP and GTD classes for the 2025 IMSA Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach. Race Broadcast TV/streaming: The IMSA Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach will be televised on the USA Network and streamed on Peacock from flag to flag beginning at 5 p.m. ET on Saturday, April 12. The NBC Sports broadcast will feature announcers Brian Till and Calvin Fish. Dave Burns and Kevin Lee are the pit reporters. RADIO: All sessions live on SiriusXM live race coverage begins April 12 at 5 p.m. (SiriusXM channel 206, Web/App 996) IMSA Grand Prix of Long Beach schedule, start times Here's a rundown of the IMSA schedule this week on the streets of Long Beach (all times are ET): Noon-1 p.m.: IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship practice 4-5:30 p.m.: IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship practice 8:10-9 p.m.: IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship qualifying (Peacock) 5 p.m.: IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Grand Prix of Long Beach (USA Network, Peacock)
Yahoo
07-02-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Honda warming to idea of Acura FIA WEC Hypercar entry and customer programs
Could we see the Acura ARX-06 competing in the hands of private teams and/or in the FIA World Endurance Championship's Hypercar class in the future? Honda's new-look two-car IMSA GTP effort in lockstep with Meyer Shank Racing made its debut at last month's Rolex 24 At Daytona. The likelihood of an ARX-06 entering the WEC seemed slim when RACER asked HRC US President David Salters about it a year ago, but now it appears that its position on Hypercars is starting to shift. 'First, you've got to balance LMH and LMDh, which seems to be happening,' Salters told RACER 12 months ago when asked if it was viable for Honda to enter the FIA WEC. 'You have to make sure you can compete, then it has to make business and budgetary sense to Honda. Sometimes they line up, sometimes they don't. If in the future they could, we could be interested. 'There is already a rude reality of priorities in the company, and you'd imagine that at the moment, F1 is pretty high priority. We already do global motorsport at the highest level, and we sort of dominate!' A year later, though, it appears Honda is taking a closer look at the WEC's top class, which currently features 18 cars and is poised to swell to more than 20 in the next two years when Genesis, Ford and – as RACER expects – McLaren join in. Salters confirmed that an active evaluation is ongoing. 'Are we interested? Yes, we have an amazing car. The series is growing. Le Mans is Le Mans. Of course, we're interested,' Salters said. 'We've just got to figure out, does it make sense to Honda? And then the economics of it, all that sort of stuff. 'So we are interested, and we are working on it in the background, shall we say. But like all these things, it has to make sense looking forward. 'WEC is doing an amazing job. The series is in very rude health. Super rude health. We have a car that I think will be good. As we've always said, we keep evaluating it, and we are seriously evaluating it, and we see how it makes sense, and does it fit. 'Aside from that, I think IMSA is doing a really, really good job. This is growing here. And when I look over the ocean, ACO/ WEC is doing a really, really good job. The proof is in the pudding. It's growing!' As for the appetite from HRC US to offer customer ARX-06s, there's interest in this area, too. If there's one element of the current convergence era that's failed to take off, it's in the customer ranks, in part due to cost and the availability of cars. So far, Porsche is the only brand that has offered true customer cars to private teams with its 963 platform. But to this point just three teams have found a way to make the sums work, and with JOTA headed to Cadillac to run its WEC factory team this year, just JDC-Miller and Proton remain in 2025. Interestingly, though, there appears to be movement from some of the manufacturers involved in Hypercar and GTP to find a way to make customer programs work in the future. Lamborghini, for instance, is planning a customer-focused future for its SC63 project, and Salters has now confirmed to RACER that HRC US is now interested in supplying cars, should a credible party come forward. 'I think the cars are very complex, so it could have been a lot at the start for someone to get hold of a customer's car and just use it,' he explained. 'I think we're all getting smarter on how we could do that. That may be something that was prohibitive and now is OK, but then there have to be discussions about how we get the cost more under control. 'I'd quite like to have a couple of customers, and we support them, but it needs to be customer stuff. They also need to find the business case that works, because it has to be sustainable in that sense too. I have a budget. My peers have budgets. We can't just give out cash or cars. 'There's active discussion on how to make it cheaper. We need to carry on with the active discussion. It needs to become sustainable, but I'm not opposed to customers. I'd love some, but it's got to be done the right way. 'We are open to customers. We've had some interesting conversations. We're very happy to have more, but it needs to be done on an economically sustainable business basis. But also we want our customers to be able to win. 'It's an Acura. I don't care which Acura wins — the No. 60, the No. 93, or a customer. It's Acura and having more out there in endurance racing is a good thing.' Story originally appeared on Racer
