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By Christopher DeHarde, Staff Writer LONG BEACH, California– Juncos Racing is only participating in their third race in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship but the team is learning with leaps and bounds ahead of Saturday’s BUBBA Burger Sports Car Grand Prix of Long Beach. The Ricardo Juncos-led squad may have been 11th out of 11 cars in the Daytona Prototype International (DPi) class but the No. 50 Cadillac DPi was only 1.005 seconds off of the pace set by Felipe Nasr in the No. 31 Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi. KyleRead More

By IMSA Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Ask any race car driver for their favorite memories – as we did this week heading into the BUBBA burger Sports Car Grand Prix at Long Beach – and they’ll pretty much always land on races they’ve won or at least walked away from the podium with a trophy. That was certainly our experience this week in the feedback we received from drivers entered in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Daytona Prototype international (DPi) class for Saturday’s 100-minute battle on the 1.968-mile,Read More

By IMSA Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Daytona Prototype international (DPi) and GT Le Mans (GTLM) machines return to action this Saturday, April 13 for the annual battle on the streets of Long Beach. It’s the 100-minute BUBBA burger Sports Car Grand Prix at Long Beach. Coming on the heels of the two longest races of the season – January’s Rolex 24 At Daytona and the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Advance Auto Parts – this is one of the shortestRead More

By IMSA Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – If you’re at the BUBBA burger Sports Car Grand Prix of Long Beach, or if you’re watching on TV, you can’t miss that BUBBA burger logo. It’s EVERYWHERE. It’s stepped-and-repeated on the signage above the 1.968-mile street circuit’s signature “hairpin” turn leading onto the front straightaway, and plenty of other locations around the circuit. It’s on the large BUBBA burger boxes that are placed on the roofs of race-winning cars in victory lane. And if you happen to be anywhere in theRead More

By IMSA Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – One hundred wins. It’s a big milestone, and one that Corvette Racing has been chasing in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship since the 2018 BUBBA burger Sports Car Grand Prix at Long Beach. That was the storied team’s most recent victory, coming courtesy of the No. 4 Corvette C7.R team and co-drivers Tommy Milner and Oliver Gavin. And there may be no better place for the team to get that elusive 100th win than Long Beach, where Gavin and Milner have wonRead More

By IMSA Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – It’s time – once again – for the battle at The Beach. And when we say battle, the BUBBA burger Sports Car Grand Prix at Long Beach on Saturday, April 13 will be an all-out, 100-minute war featuring the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Daytona Prototype international (DPi) and GT Le Mans (GTLM) machines on the iconic, 1.968-mile temporary street circuit in Southern California. Heading into its 45th rendition in 2019, the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach is the granddaddy of allRead More

By IMSA Wire Service Experience is paying off in the race for the 2019 IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup, as previous champions are among the leaders in all four classes with two of four races already in the books. The stature of the Michelin Endurance Cup is such that teams – especially those that have won it before – build their race strategies around maximizing their points at each scoring interval. At the Rolex 24 At Daytona points were distributed after six, 12 and 18 hours as well as at theRead More

By Christopher DeHarde, Staff Writer SEBRING, Fla– CORE Autosport had a mountain to climb at the 67th Annual Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring. Starting last in the Daytona Prototype International (DPi) class, the team are the only representative for Nissan in the class but were able to fight to finish fifth on Saturday’s once around the clock classic with Colin Braun, Romain Dumas and John Bennett behind the wheel of the No. 54 entry. Teetering on the edge of the lead lap for most of the race, the South CarolinaRead More

By Christopher DeHarde, Staff Writer SEBRING, Fla.– Desperate situations result in desperate moves that will either pay off big or make people angry and the latter came true after the 67th Annual Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. A late caution for the No. 96 Turner Motorsport BMW M6 GT3 bunched up the field with under 20 minutes to go. The restart came with under eight minutes remaining and two different GT class battles resulted in tears for both GT Le Mans (GTLM) and GTRead More

By Christopher DeHarde, Staff Writer SEBRING, Fla.– Cars are rolling off of pit lane so let’s start the live updates for the second round of the 2019 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The race will start on time and more than likely will go under a yellow start behind the safety car. The rain came down heavy this morning but has tapered off. The No. 6 Acura Team Penske ARX-05 DPi is on pole position, the No. 911 Porsche leads GT Le Mans (GTLM) while the No. 86 Meyer-Shank Racing Acura NSXRead More