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NBC Sports
3 days ago
- Automotive
- NBC Sports
How to watch 2025 IMSA Road America on Peacock: Streaming info, start times and daily schedules
Acura will try to maintain a two-month win streak in the Grand Touring Prototype category of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. After wins at Detroit (the No. 93 ARX-06) and Watkins Glen International (the No. 60 ARX-06), the Meyer Shank Racing Acuras will return with IMSA's premier division at Road America — where the manufacturer is winless since a 2022 repave. But Tom Blomqvist, who won at Watkins Glen with co-driver Colin Braun, is optimistic after a strong test at the 14-turn, 4.048-mile road course in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. 'I'd say it's probably my favorite track from an enjoyment level to drive,' Blomqvist said. 'I think also we're lucky that it's a great track for our car. It really brings out the strengths. 'In the past, it's always been a strong track for us, so I don't see a reason why it's not going to be again. I think we we've really made good gains as a team as well. Every race we're kind of getting better with the new organization, as there's a lot of new faces and new people. I feel like we're just getting stronger. So, yeah, I think we're hopeful that we can fight for the victory again next weekend.' After taking the 2024 season off, MSR has returned to full-time competition with heavier involvement from Honda Racing Corporation in the strategy and engineering of its No. 93 ARX-06. Acura's winning run has interrupted a strong start for Porsche Penske Motorsport, which won the first four races this season (most recently in mid-May at Laguna Seca) and still maintains a healthy lead in the championship standings. Full-time manufacturers BMW and Cadillac are seeking their first GTP wins in 2025. The GTP category has been on a six-week layoff since mid-June at Watkins Glen and returns for the only sprint race that will feature all four divisions of the SportsCar Championship. It's also the last two-hour, 40-minute race for a while at Road America, whose event will increase to six hours next year. Last year, Mathieu Jaminet and Nick Tandy combined for a win in the No. 6 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963. Jaminet remains in the No. 6 with Matt Campbell, and Tandy is paired with Felipe Nasr in the No. 7, which leads the points. Here are the start times, daily schedules and streaming info for the 2025 IMSA Motul SportsCar Grand Prix: 2025 IMSA Road America WHEN: Sunday, Aug. 3 at 2:10 p.m. ET DISTANCE: A two-hour, 40-minute race on the 14-turn, 4.048-mile road course in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. ENTRY LIST: Click here to see the 49-car field in the GTP, LMP2, GTD Pro and GTD categories for the Motul SportsCar Grand Prix at Road America. FORECAST: According to Weather Underground, it's expected to be 77 degrees with an 8% chance of rain at the green flag. QUALIFYING: Saturday, Aug. 2 at 5:35 p.m. ET (streamed on Peacock Premium) How to Watch IMSA at Road America TV/STREAMING: The Motul SportsCar Grand Prix at Road America will be streamed on Peacock Premium from flag to flag beginning at 2 p.m. ET on Sunday, Aug. 3. The NBC Sports broadcast will feature announcers Calvin Fish and Brian Till. Matt Yocum and Kevin Lee are the pit reporters. RADIO: All sessions live on SiriusXM live race coverage begins June 22 at noon (SiriusXM channel 206, Web/App 996) IMSA Road America schedule, start times Here's a rundown of the IMSA schedule this week at the 14-turn, 4.048-mile road course in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin (all times are ET): Thursday, July 31 2:05-2:50 p.m.: Lamborghini Trofeo practice 3:10-3:40 p.m.: Mustang Challenge practice 3:55-4:25 p.m.: Porsche Carrera Cup practice 4:40-5:25 p.m.: Lamborghini Trofeo practice 9 - 10 a.m.: Michelin Pilot Challenge practice 10:15-10:45 a.m.: Mustang Challenge practice 11-11:40 a.m.: Porsche Carrera Cup practice 1:40-2:40 p.m. :Michelin Pilot Challenge practice 3-4:30 p.m.: IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship practice 4:50-5:05 p.m.: Mustang Challenge qualifying 5:20-5:50 p.m.: Porsche Carrera Cup qualifying 6:05-6:20 p.m.: Lamborghini Trofeo qualifying 6:25-6:40 p.m.: Lamborghini Trofeo qualifying 6:55-7:30 p.m.: Michelin Pilot Challenge qualifying Saturday, Aug. 2 9-9:45 a.m.: Mustang Challenge Race 1 (Peacock Premium) 10:05-11:35 a.m.: IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship practice 11:55 a.m.-12:35 p.m.: Porsche Carrera Cup Race 1 (Peacock Premium) 12:55-1:45 p.m.: Lamborghini Trofeo Race 1 (Peacock Premium) 3:05-5:05 p.m.: Michelin Pilot Challenge Road America 120 (Peacock Premium) 5:40-7:10 p.m.: IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship qualifying (Peacock Premium) Sunday, Aug. 3 9:20-10:05 a.m.: Mustang Challenge Race 2 (Peacock Premium) 10:25-11:15 a.m.: Lamborghini Trofeo Race 2 (Peacock Premium) 11:35 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: Porsche Carrera Cup Race 2 (Peacock Premium) 2:10 p.m.: IMSA Motul SportsCar Grand Prix at Road America (Peacock Premium) 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 ROUND 5: Acura outduels Cadillac for first victory of season ROUND 6: Meyer Shank Racing Acura stretches battery to Wakins Glen win
NBC Sports
7 days ago
- Automotive
- NBC Sports
San Diego fills one spot on 2026 NASCAR Cup schedule but questions remain
NASCAR's announcement Wednesday that it will race on a military base in 2026 filled one spot on next year's Cup schedule. But many questions remain. Ben Kennedy, NASCAR executive vice president, chief venue & racing innovation officer, said Wednesday that the 2026 Cup schedule should be out in 'the next few weeks or so.' Dustin Long, Here is what has been announced or revealed about the 2026 NASCAR Cup schedule: Feb. 1 — Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium Feb. 15 — Daytona 500 May 24 — Coca-Cola 600 June 21 — San Diego/Naval Base Coronado Nov. 8 — Homestead-Miami Speedway (championship race) NASCAR recently announced that it will 'pause' the Chicago Street Race and not hold it next year. NASCAR hopes to run that event again in 2027 but its absence next year leaves the July 4 weekend spot open on the NASCAR calendar. 'We've looked at a handful of options for the July 4 weekend,' Kennedy said in response to a question from NBC Sports. ' … Not sure exactly where it's going to land yet, but it is an important part of our schedule.' The summer Daytona race had been the traditional home for the event on or near July 4 until that race was moved to the regular season finale in 2020. Since then, the July 4 weekend race for Cup has been at Indianapolis (2020), Road America (2021-22) and the Chicago Street Race (2023-25). Another key element with the schedule is how many street and road course races there will be. There are six this year: Circuit of the Americas, Mexico City, Chicago Street Race, Sonoma, Watkins Glen and the Charlotte Roval. Since 2021, there have been at least five road course events on the Cup schedule. In 2021, there were seven such races. The Cup Series had two road course events (Watkins Glen and Sonoma) before the Charlotte Roval was added to the schedule in 2018. Brad Keselowski has been vocal in the sport having too many road course races, stating on social media earlier this month: 'We went from 2 to 6 Road course races, Possibly 7 next year. 'NASCAR was successfully built as a primarily oval racing series. IMSA was built as the primary road course series in North America. IMSA will always do road racing better than NASCAR and that's ok. 'Yes, TOO Many Road courses in NASCAR.' He's not alone in that feeling. 'I would love to do a couple a year,' Erik Jones said this month on the optimal number of road course races in a season. 'I was totally happy running (Sonoma) and Watkins Glen. I don't know. I'm probably not the right guy to ask. I grew up as an oval racer. I didn't race a road course until 10 years ago for the first time. 'My opinion is –- this car is not, just hasn't put on as good of a show on road courses that the old car did, to be frank. I think it is fun to go to different places, but I could see us doing (Sonoma), Watkins Glen and one street course. I think you would be hard pressed to find many that wouldn't agree with that. 'We know where this car puts on good races -– the mile-and-a-half stuff is great –- there is plenty of those tracks that we can go back to that are sitting there and primed to race, so I would love to go back to some of those.' Kennedy said NASCAR is 'keeping a pulse' on the topic. 'We get a lot of feedback, certainly from our partners, from our fans, from the industry, teams and drivers on it,' he said in response to a question from NBC Sports. 'I would say it's bit of a mixed bag. You have some fans that absolutely love the road course racing and would like to see more of it, and then you have others that, conversely, would like to see less of it. 'For us, it's really just finding a good blend. We feel like we're at a good number or around a good number right where you can still have the diversity of being able to go to a number of road courses, some historic ones that we go to, a street course or two, and then still keeping a majority of our events — and especially the ones during the playoffs — as to what fans would typically expect of traditional NASCAR racing and that's oval racing. We're proud of the product we put on from that perspective. 'So that said, we're constantly thinking about it. We're evaluating it, something we're considering for the '26 schedule.'
Hamilton Spectator
19-07-2025
- Automotive
- Hamilton Spectator
There are seven, yes, seven, of these cars for Canada. Want one? It'll cost ya!
When I saw the 2025 Audi RS 6 Avant GT at the Toronto Auto Show back in February, I thought it was pretty jaw-dropping. Gigantic wheels, wild graphics package, and what's with all the white? Having driven it, I can confirm it is, indeed, jaw-dropping. It drives like it looks — an absolute land rocket. And a very rare one at that. This car is blindingly fast, loaded with exclusive touches and prohibitively expensive. Oh, and there are seven for Canada. Audi Canada tells me the one I drove is still unclaimed. For now. I'll get right to it: my time in unit 385 (out of 660 built worldwide) was memorable. The sonorous sounds from its twin-turbo V8 fill the cabin when I squeeze the throttle, and this white wagon launches, pressing me into the driver's seatback. As you might imagine, everything in this car is turned up to 11. Red stitching everywhere. Embroidered seats and headrests. In red, of course. Numbered console plate. Quilted leather seats. Red seatbelts. Same goes for the exterior. Gigantic 22-inch Ibis white wheels. Huge shiny black grille. Carbon fibre hood and fenders. A red, black and grey graphics package that pays homage to the Audi 90 quattro race car that dominated IMSA sports car racing. In 1989. A bit obscure, I think to myself. But then I look up the IMSA GTO results from 1989 and see the Audi 90 won seven of thirteen races entered, including five of the last seven. Impressive. Audi began RS 6 Avant GT development in 2020 around the same time the current gen. RS 6 Avant was going on sale in Canada. The GT serves as a capper for the fourth generation RS 6, which goes out of production this year. And Audi decided it should go out with a bang — a big one. The RS 6 Avant GT is powered by a 4.0-litre, twin-turbo, V8 engine that produces 621 horsepower and 627 pounds-feet of torque, or motive force. Paired with an eight-speed automatic transmission and Audi's quattro all-wheel drive system, this wagon is made for quick exits. The official 0-100 km/h time is 3.3 seconds, with a top speed of 305 km/h. Mechanical bits unique to the RS 6 Avant GT include red ceramic brakes, all-wheel steering, sport-tuned suspension and steering, and Continental high-performance tires. Some cars I drive are more head-turning than others, and the white Audi wagon had more admirers than most. Lots of thumbs up, discreet photo snapping and staring. Despite being white, the RS 6 Avant GT really stands out. Especially in the Toronto suburb I live in, where Audis generally aren't all that common. A few interested parties — yes, they were guys in their 20s — drove by while I was taking photos, parked their cars and walked over for a closer look. Another gaggle pedalled over on bikes and asked me a bunch of questions. Which I dutifully answered to the best of my ability. I think owning a rare car isn't just about the car, but also the way people react to it. Sure, you're not spending $250K for that reason alone, but I suspect it's a perk for many owners. If you want to be noticed, driving a car like the RS 6 Avant GT will certainly do it. And that made driving unit 385 so much fun. Sure, the car's prowling, lunging nature — it's very hard to drive it slowly — is fun, but doing regular stuff is also fun. Like going to the supermarket. Or visiting a lakeside park. If this car could give autographs, it would have used a lot of Sharpies. Plus, it's still a wagon and has wagon practicality. Lots of room for people and cargo. All-wheel drive for Canadian winters. And it fits in most garages. Negatives are few, but cost is a big one. The GT has a price tag that is almost $100K greater than the regular 2025 RS 6 Avant Performance model. It's priced like a Lamborghini, and that will eliminate most buyers. But it's actually rarer than most Lamborghinis, so maybe that makes up for it. It's in the eye of the beholder, I suppose. Lower order nitpicks include a digital screen that houses climate controls. (Buttons work much better for this stuff.) And the twin-turbo V8 is thirsty. Not supercar terrible, but not great either. So, it's not perfect. But when you're cruising around in a powerful, retro-cool, extremely limited edition car with a Bang & Olufsen stereo booming, you won't care about any of the drawbacks. You'll be too busy waving to adoring onlookers. And giving them the thumbs up. Wow! Type: High-performance premium wagon, front-engine, all-wheel drive Motor: 4.0-litre, twin-turbocharged V8; 621 horsepower; 627 pounds-feet of torque (motive force) Transmission: Eight-speed automatic Fuel (Premium 91+): 17.0 litres/100 km in the city; 11.0l/100 km on the highway; 14.3l/100 km combined Cargo: 548 litres, or 19.4 cubic feet; 1,658l, or 58.6 cu. ft. in total Price: $249,785 as tested, plus $2,850 freight
Yahoo
17-07-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Highlights: IMSA Chevrolet Grand Prix at CTMP
Relive all of the action from the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship's Chevrolet Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.
Belfast Telegraph
12-07-2025
- Automotive
- Belfast Telegraph
Dan Harper looks to build momentum after breakthrough victory as Championship chase moves to Canada
Taking place from 7.00pm UK time at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park outside Toronto, the near three-hour race is another new track for Harper and his Paul Miller Racing team-mate Max Hesse. The pair arrive in buoyant mood having finally ended their run of disappointing results in the North American competition at June's Six Hours of the Glen where they were victorious in the GTD Pro class. They had to do it the hard way, however, with a pitstop infringement attracting a hefty 60-second stop and go penalty appearing to end their dream of a podium once again. Incredibly, they fought their way through a capacity field to seal a superb win and reignite their title hopes in the process, moving to within 122 points of current leaders Alexander Sims and Antonio Garcia — winners of the support category around the 1.645-mile venue 12 months ago – and just 70 shy of second-placed Klaus Bachler and Laurin Heinrich. 'It is a great feeling to have got our first IMSA win under our belts last time out, and now we need to keep the ball rolling and carry that momentum forward. We need another big result this weekend to continue clawing back the points for our Championship challenge,' said Harper, who will leave Canada straight afterwards and travel to Italy for next weekend's GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup meeting at Misano in north east Italy. 'I am looking forward to getting back to IMSA duty at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park — it is a new circuit to me and we have not had the chance to test there, so we know it is going to be a big challenge going into the event, but still, it's one that I'm really excited for. 'I have watched some footage of the circuit and it looks like a fast one, similar to Watkins Glen, so that should be fun. The priority for me is getting some laps under my belt, get up to speed around the track, and push forward from there with Max and Paul Miller Racing,' the 24-year-old added. A total of 35 cars makes up the grid for Sunday's race, 10 of which are from GTD Pro, with who lines up where being determined by qualifying which starts at 8.55pm UK time on Saturday.
