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NBC Sports
26-05-2025
- Automotive
- NBC Sports
How to watch 2025 IMSA Detroit on Peacock: Streaming info, start times and daily schedules
The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship will return to the streets of Detroit for the second (and last) 100-minute race on a street course this season. Porsche Penske Motorsport won the Long Beach Grand Prix last month with its third consecutive victory by the No. 7 963. At Laguna Seca three weeks ago, the team's No. 6 963 made it four consecutive wins for PPM this year. Detroit will be an opportunity for Acura, BMW (which has started on the pole position in all four races this season) and Cadillac to end the Porsche Penske Motorsport streak to start the 2025 season. Last year, the Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque won at Detroit in an Acura but return with the same confidence in the No. 10 Cadillac V-Series.R for Wayne Taylor Racing. 'It's nice always to come to Detroit,' Taylor said. 'It's such an iconic event, especially when you come here with a GM product, and to be racing in Cadillac is always a little bit of pressure, but secondly, a big opportunity to win on home soil. It's a big weekend for GM and for the team. 'So, we're really excited. The track is challenging. We had a great race last year, but so many things can happen here in just 100 minutes. But we'll try to repeat the success we had last year.' Said team owner Wayne Taylor: 'We've had four races this year, which I can tell you have been absolutely terrible. And given the fact that I got the offer to come back to GM last year in October ... I was more excited about this year than I've been about any years. I'm not getting any younger, but the way it's gone so far has been out of our hands and just been extremely difficult to accept because we are not used to not being up front. However, we have to be positive and move forward, and I think we might see some changes and I think we might get our competitive edge back when we get to Detroit.' Acura Meyer Shank No. 93 ARX-06 driver Nick Yelloly, who raced in a BMW at Detroit last year, also is optimistic about ending Porsche's run in the second IMSA race on the downtown circuit. 'I tend to like street circuits,' Yelloly said. 'Last year, the first time for IMSA there and for the GTP class, it was very, very bumpy, difficult to pass. It's very, very narrow as well, so easy to make a mistake and clip a wall, particularly with the cars being relatively long for such a tight and twisty circuit.' Porsche also is on a two-race winning streak with AO Racing in the GTD Pro category. Here are the start times, daily schedules and streaming info for the 2025 IMSA Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix: 2025 IMSA Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix WHEN: Saturday, May 31 at 3:40 p.m. DISTANCE: A 100-minute race on the nine-turn, 1.654-mile street course in Detroit, Michigan. FORECAST: According to Weather Underground, it's expected to be 74 degrees with a 12% chance of rain at the green flag. ENTRY LIST: Click here to see the 22-car field in the GTP and GTD Pro categories for the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix. How to Watch IMSA at Detroit TV/STREAMING: The Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix streamed on Peacock from flag to flag beginning at 3:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, May 31. The NBC Sports broadcast will feature announcers Leigh Diffey and Calvin Fish. Brian Till and Kevin Lee are the pit reporters. RADIO: All sessions live on SiriusXM live race coverage begins May 31 at 3:30 p.m. (SiriusXM channel 206, Web/App 996) IMSA Detroit Grand Prix schedule, start times Here's a rundown of the IMSA schedule this week on the streets of downtown Detroit (all times are ET): 8-9:30 a.m.: IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship practice 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.: IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship practice 4:50-5:30 p.m.: IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship qualifying 10:35-10:55 a.m.: IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship practice 3:40 p.m.: Chevrolet Detroit Sports Car Classic 2025 SEASON RECAPS ROUND 1: Porsche Penske's Felipe Nasr closes Rolex 24 at Daytona win for second conseuctive year ROUND 2: Porsche Penske Motorsport sweeps top two spots at Twelve Hours of Sebring ROUND 3: Nasr, Tandy stay perfect with Porsche in victory at Long Beach ROUND 4: The other Porsche Penske 963 wins at Laguna Seca
New York Times
11-03-2025
- Automotive
- New York Times
Action Express Racing Team Aims to Bounce Back at Sebring
The first race of the 2025 I.M.S.A. WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, run by the International Motor Sports Association, had been going so smoothly for the Action Express Cadillac team. Its car was racing fast and jostling for the lead. But then, about halfway into the Rolex 24 at Daytona, which began on Jan. 25, everything went wrong. A suspension part on the team's Cadillac V-Series.R car failed, pitching the Danish driver Frederik Vesti into a crash. Repairs followed, but any chance for victory was gone. The team that won the I.M.S.A. teams' and drivers' titles just two years ago had been thwarted again. But now, as Action Express prepares for round two of the season at the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring this week, the team's 2025 race victory and title glory hopes are not lost. 'We ended up ninth at Daytona, but certainly not what we felt like we'd earned,' Gary Nelson, the Action Express team manager, said in an interview last month. 'We're still expecting to win this year, with all this work that we've done on our car.' Action Express heads to Sebring with a smaller driving lineup compared with the four racers that it entered at Daytona. Vesti will race with Jack Aitken and Earl Bamber. 'More than other tracks, there's a bit of freedom for the driver to try different things and find their own way at Sebring,' Aitken said in an interview. 'The track is brutal, but it's a cool place.' Action Express knows how to win at Sebring, . The team has won three times in the day-night race since 2015 and had another victory there in the race shortened by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. 'The bigger difference at Sebring than Daytona is how much the track changes with temperature,' Nelson said. 'And over the years, we've kind of learned that one. Each time we've won, we were the strongest at the finish when the track cooled down.' Although it claimed those two I.M.S.A. titles in 2023, Action Express has not won in the championship since the Sebring race, also in 2023. The team has since faced stiffer competition, but might have won at Sebring in 2024 without a crash with a slower GT car that led to a huge accident. Nelson puts Action Express' 2023 success down to the team's taking 'a simplistic approach to the new technology' for cars that had been introduced to the new I.M.S.A. Grand Touring Prototype top class that year. Those cars are powered by hybrid engines that use electrical systems, including for braking. 'Most of the teams were struggling with braking in 2023 — regenerating electricity when slowing down to charge the battery,' Nelson said. 'Our group took a more simple approach and said, 'We may not regen as well as other teams, but we'll also not have brake issues that the other teams are having.' It's easy to go to the ice cream store and order one of everything, but it's probably not good for you.' The team held on to win the 2023 title by 21 points, from a total of 2733. In 2024, it finished fourth and scored no wins after a string of crashes. 'The other teams had also made a step forward,' Aitken said. 'We did as well, but we made too many mistakes. You just have to hold your hands up and say that.' While the team's 2025 campaign started with a setback, Nelson and his crew are taking inspiration from the team's past, when in the 2021 I.M.S.A. season the Action Express car led early in the first race at Daytona before dropping out of contention with exhaust and gearbox issues. But the team recovered to win that year's drivers' and teams' titles with a late resurgence. 'It came down to the last lap of the last race,' Nelson said. 'We only led the championship from the very last few laps of the season. We don't quit, we don't give up. We just keep pushing and pushing.'
Al Bawaba
04-03-2025
- Automotive
- Al Bawaba
Cadillac secures 4 entries in 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race
Cadillac will return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June with four Cadillac V-Series.R racecars supported by experienced and championship-winning teams and drivers. Event organizer Automobile Club de l'Quest extended the invitations to Cadillac Racing, which had three Hypercar entries in the endurance race the past two years. This year's event, to be held on June 14 and 15, will mark 75 years since the first Cadillac entry at Circuit de la Sarthe. 'We're thrilled to have Cadillac Racing return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans with four cars competing for the overall win in the Hypercar class,' said John Roth, vice president, global Cadillac. 'After scoring our first podium finish at this iconic endurance race in 2023 and securing a top 10 finish last year, we look to build on that success and showcase the Cadillac V-Series.R's technology, performance, and innovation with our 2025 entries.' Cadillac Racing's roster features drivers who have earned overall and class victories in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, plus FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship titles among other motorsports accolades. The Nos. 12 and 38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA received automatic invitations based on full-season participation in the WEC. JOTA Sport is in its first year of WEC Hypercar competition as a works team. Jenson Button, Earl Bamber, Sebastien Bourdais, Alex Lynn, Norman Nato and Will Stevens will be the No. 101 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R, a full-season IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship entrant in the Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) class, will compete at Le Mans for the first time. Ricky Taylor is listed as the primary driver with the remainder of the lineup to be announced No. 311 Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R is a full-season IMSA GTP entry campaigned by Action Express Racing that will return to Le Mans for the third consecutive year. Jack Aitken is listed as the primary driver with the rest of the lineup to be announced later. In its first season of WEC Hypercar competition in 2023, Cadillac Racing entries finished third and fourth. In 2024, Cadillac Hypercars qualified second and third and registered a best finish of seventh. The Nos. 12 and 38 Hertz Team JOTA entries placed eighth and ninth, respectively, with another manufacturer. Before entering Hypercar competition as a privateer in 2023, JOTA Sport earned podiums at Le Mans 10 times in LMP2, including second- and third-place finishes in 2017. The Cadillac V-Series.R features a purpose-built Cadillac 5.5L DOHC V-8 engine developed by GM's Performance and Racing Propulsion team based in Pontiac, Michigan. The racecar, co-developed by Cadillac Design, Cadillac Racing, and chassis constructor Dallara, was informed by the Project GTP Hypercar that was unveiled in June 2022. It incorporates distinctive Cadillac design elements, such as vertical lighting and floating blades. Cadillac's early history at Le Mans The first Cadillacs that raced at Le Mans were entered by Briggs Cunningham and Miles and Sam Collier in 1950. Both Series 61 coupes were powered by the Cadillac 5.4-liter OHV V-8 engine. The Collier brothers drove the No. 3 'Petit Pataud' to a 10th-place finish. Cunningham shared the wheel of the No. 2 'Le Monstre' with Phil Walters and finished 11th. That same year, Sydney Allard and Tom Cole Jr. finished third overall in the Cadillac-powered Allard J2. Cadillac returned to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2000, 2001, and 2002 with its 4.0-liter turbocharged V8-powered Northstar LMP. © 2000 - 2025 Al Bawaba ( Signal PressWire is the world's largest independent Middle East PR distribution service.
