Earl Bamber, recently crowned European Le Mans Series LMP2 champion Alex Lynn and Richard Westbrook share their thoughts ahead the 8 Hours of Bahrain with the #2 Cadillac V-Series.R

Earl Bamber, ahead of the next WEC round in Fuji, explains the benefit of GT3 races to compete at the highest level and come back to the 24 Hours of Nürburgring victory.

Earl Bamber, between a GT3 race in Okayama and the next WEC round in Fuji, shares his greatest success and thoughts about Cadillac Racing’s results and outlook in WEC.

The ranking of the test day is not significant for the 24 Hours of Le Mans as teams are working on the setup of their cars. Ferrari did lead both sessions and Porsche has its three factory cars in the top 6.

Cadillac is paying homage to its first venture to Le Mans with the same car numbers 2 (the usual WEC entry) and 3 (IMSA #01 Chip Ganassi Racing) as 1950, along with #311 (IMSA #31 Whelen Engineering).

After a strong debut at the 24 hours of Daytona where the three Cadillacs ended third, fourth and fifth, Cadillac Racing is leading the IMSA manufacturers’ championship. Alexander Sims and Pipo Derani are second in the drivers’ championship just one point behind the Porsche #6 team. In WEC, the #2 Cadillac is fourth just two points behind Porsche.

The #3 Cadillac V-Series.R (#01 in IMSA), co-driven by Sebastien Bourdais, Renger van der Vande and Jack Aitken, will make its FIA World Endurance Championship debut in the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.

The Cadillac V-Series.R topped the time chart in one session with a best lap of 1 minute, 48.429 seconds and was near the top in the others with no down time in its initial outing in WEC spec.

GM sports car racing program manager Laura Wontrop Klauser takes us though the Daytona takeaways and Cadillac Racing readiness for WEC starting next month in Sebring.

Action Express team manager Gary Nelson and Chip Ganassi Racing director of operations Mike O'Gara participated in a Zoom media conference hosted by IMSA with the other team leaders to preview the season.

Chip Ganassi Racing and Action Express Racing drivers comments after two days tests at Daytona.

The race in GTD PRO was very intense with the top 3 ending within 5 sec. Matthieu Jaminet won the class with Pfaff Motorsport Porsche #9 co-driven by Matt Campbell and Felipe Nasr.

The race was very tight from start to finish as the top 4 finished within 5.615 sec., after having exchanged the lead in the closing hours and seeing all seven DPi cars on the lead during the first half of the race.

Many changes of leaders during the first half of the race with the 7 DPi’s within 5.5 sec. Currently #5 JDC Miller Motorsport Cadillac holds the lead thanks to less pits than competitors. In GTE PRO, 6 cars are within 6.6 sec.

Four time Indy car Champion Sebastien Bourdais dominated the session and was the only one to cover the lap in less than 1:35 with his #01 V-Performance Academy Cadillac.

Poor weather conditions for the Thursday sessions with a mostly wet track.

The second practice saw some dryer laps enabling the 2 WEC 2021 World Drivers Champions to perform the fastest laps with K. Kobayashi (#48 Ally Cadillac) in P1 and M. Conway (#31 Whelen Engineering Racing) in P2. 

Ricky Taylor, Filipe Albuquerque, Alexander Rossi and Will Stevens will start the 60th running of the 24 hours of Daytona from pole as Taylor and Albuquerque won the Rolex qualifying 100 minutes race this Sunday.

#31 Whelen Engineering/Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R dominated the 67th edition of the 12 Hours of Sebring being in the lead for 249 of 348 laps but was seriously challenged by #10 Konica Minolta/Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac ending second, with the closest racing finish in Sebring’s history: 1.030 seconds.

At Sebring 12 Hours 2019, the battle in IMSA GTLM was tight, with 6 cars finishing in the same lap representing 4 different manufacturers: Porsche was the first GTLM car to hit the checkered flag, followed by Ford, Corvette and BMW.

LMGTE @ 24 Hours of Le Mans 2013.

The 90th anniversary running of the Le Mans 24 Hours LMGTE categories, featured entries from Ferrari, Aston Martin, Porsche and Corvette as well as Dodge Viper from ALMS. It was a tough race for the drivers with changing conditions, with a mix of dry and wet track along with cool temperatures and wind. Several incidents such as the tragic death of Allan Simonsen triggered several safety cars, some for 45’.