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Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
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. Advertisement 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.' Advertisement 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. Advertisement 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. Advertisement 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): Friday, May 30 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 Saturday, May 31 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
The Star
25-05-2025
- The Star
Man hospitalised, two arrested after fight in Melbourne's shopping centre
A photo taken by witnesses at Northland Shopping Centre shows a person wielding a knife lunging at two other people. SYDNEY: One man was hospitalised and two others were arrested after a fight that forced a Melbourne shopping centre into lockdown on Sunday (May 25) afternoon. Police in the Australian state of Victoria said in a statement that emergency services were called to reports of a fight involving around 10 people, some of whom were armed with knives, shortly after 2:30pm at the Northland Shopping Centre, 10 kilometers northeast of central Melbourne. A photo taken by a witness at Northland shows a police officer wrestling a person to the ground. - Photo Credit: Facebook One man, who Ambulance Victoria said was aged in his 20s, was taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition with upper body injuries. Victoria Police said that two males who were arrested at the scene were being interviewed. "The centre was locked down as the incident took place and remains closed while police investigate," the police statement said. "The exact circumstances surrounding the incident are being investigated but it is believed the incident was targeted and parties are believed to be known to each other." Northland Shopping Centre on Sunday. Credit: Wayne Taylor. Footage captured by local television news crews showed a large police and ambulance presence responding to the incident. Nine Entertainment newspapers reported that members of the public took shelter inside stores and that two other people were assessed at the scene by ambulance paramedics but were not taken to hospital. - Xinhua
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Cadillac unveils Wayne Taylor Racing's Le Mans livery
Cadillac unveiled the livery in which the Wayne Taylor Racing squad will make its maiden assault on the Le Mans 24 Hours next month. WTR's solo V-Series.R LMDh entered for the double-points round of the World Endurance Championship on 14-15 June will be backed by oil company Mobil 1. Advertisement The primary sponsorship by Mobil 1 of the Cadillac WTR Hypercar class entry follows the extension earlier this year of the partnership between Cadillac's new full-season representative in the WEC, the British Jota team which has moved across from running a pair of customer Porsche 963 LMDhs. It takes the place of DEX Imaging, the sponsor of WTR's two-car assault on the IMSA SportsCar Championship this year. The car was given a shakedown in its new livery at the Putnam Park circuit near Indianapolis last Friday prior to its shipment to Europe. The #101 WTR Caddy, to be raced by team founder Wayne Taylor's sons Ricky and Jordan and Filipe Albuquerque, is one of two additional entries from the General Motors brand at Le Mans this year. Advertisement It is joining Action Express Racing, which like WTR competes full time in IMSA. Action Express raced at Le Mans alongside Chip Ganassi Racing, which represented Cadillac in the WEC in 2023-24. Manufacturers contesting the full WEC are allowed to file additional entries for Le Mans, but do not score points with the extra cars. Mobil 1 strategic global alliance manager Tony Esposito said: 'This new livery reflects what our work with Cadillac is all about – performance, passion and pushing boundaries. 'We're thrilled to see it come to life on track at Le Mans, where our legacy in motorsport continues.' Jota's cars will retain the usual livery Jota's cars will retain the usual livery Paul Foster Paul Foster Advertisement Jota's pair of #12 and #38, will continue in the livery in which they have contested the opening three rounds of this year's WEC. The Action Express car, entered under the Cadillac Whelen banner, will run in the same colours as at Le Mans last year and with the race number #311 again. WTR is going to Le Mans for the first time with an impressive pedigree in North American endurance racing. It won the Daytona 24 Hours four times in five years between 2017 and 2021 with Cadillac and, in the last of those seasons, Acura, as well claiming Sebring 12 Hours victories with both manufacturers. Advertisement Wayne Taylor has made no secret that his desire to take a team he established in 2007 to Le Mans was one of the reasons for his return to the GM fold for this season after four years with Honda brand Acura in IMSA. He contested the race 13 times as a driver between 1987 and 2002, scoring a fourth on debut in the Kremer-run Porsche 962C and an LMP1 class victory driving a Doyle-Risi Racing Ferrari 333SP in 1998. To read more articles visit our website.
