The biggest news to break there is a driver change in the factory Porsche 963 program. Dane Cameron and Matt Campbell will be switching places for the 2024 season. That means that Cameron will be sharing the No. 7 Porsche 963 in the IMSA
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with Felipe Nasr full-time. Campbell will move to the FIA World Endurance Championship.
- Tower Motorsports announced Thursday that John Farano will return to the No. 8 ORECA 07-Gibson LMP2 entry in 2024 after having been out since May due to an injury suffered at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. He'll be joined after Daytona full-time by Charlie Eastwood. Michael Dinan will be the third driver in the Michelin Endurance Cup races, while Scott McLaughlin and Ferdinand
Habsburg will join up for Daytona.
- The Asian Le Mans Series started their 2023-24 season with a doubleheader weekend at Sepang Circuit in Malaysia this past weekend. Race No. 1 Saturday ended 10 minutes early due to a complete deluge. When the track became impassable, 99 Racing's ORECA 07-Gibson of Ahmad Al Harthy, Louis Deletraz and Nikita Mazepin were declared the
overall winners. AF Corse's Francois Perrodo, Alessio Rovera and Matthieu Vaxiviere were second, then DKR Engineering's Tom Dillmann, Laurents Hoerr and Alexander Mattschull. The Proton Competition/AO Racing joint entry for Paul-Loup Chatin, PJ Hyett and Harry Tincknell were fourth, while Proton Competition's Julien Andlauer, Rene Binder and Giorgio Roda were fifth.
In
LMP3, COOL Racing's Alexander Bukhantsov, former Indy NXT regular Danial Frost and James Winslow took the victory over CD Sport's Nick Adcock, Fabien Lavergne and Michael Jensen. Bretton Racing's Julien Gerbi, Dan Skocdopole and Mihnea Stefan were third.
Sainteloc Racing's No. 42 with Christopher Haase, Gilles Magnus and Alban Varutti won the GT class in their Audi R8 LMS
GT3 Evo II. Attempto Racing's No. 66 for Alex Aka, Andrey Mukovoz and Dylan Pereira were second, while Sainteloc's No. 43 for Paul Evrard and Dennis Marschall were third, sweeping the podium for Audi. Al Manar Racing by Get Speed's Al Faisal Al Zubair, Martin Konrad and Fabian Schiller were fourth in their Mercedes, while Leipert Motorsport's Brendon Leitch, Marco Mapelli and Gabriel Rindone were fifth.
- Race No. 2 Sunday saw CrowdStrike Racing by APR's Colin Braun, Malthe Jakobsen recover from a series of spins on Saturday and take advantage of pitting before the final safety car period to take victory. Their margin of victory was 8.927 seconds over Al Harthy, Deletraz and Mazepin. Andlauer, Binder and Roda were third, then Perrodo, Rovera and Vaxiviere were fourth, while Chatin, Hyett and Tincknell were fifth.
In LMP3, CD Sport claimed the class victory in 11th overall after High Class Racing's No. 20 broke in the third hour. Their margin of victory was a lap over Bretton Racing. COOL Racing's No. 17 was third.
In GT, Pure Rxcing's Klaus Bachler, Alexander Malykhin and Joel
Sturm took the class victory in their Porsche 911 GT3 R. The margin of victory was .947 seconds over Sainteloc Racing's No. 42 Audi. Optimum Motorsport's No. 27 McLaren fpr Rob Bell, Ollie Millroy and Mark Radcliffe were third, then Al Manar Racing by GetSpeed's Mercedes. Optimum Motorsport's No. 69 for James Cottingham, Sam de Haan and Tom Gamble were fifth.
The LMP2 and
GT champs get automatic entries into the 24 Hours of Le Mans. As of now, 99 Racing has a 10-point lead over CrowdStrike Racing by APR in LMP2. AF Corse and Proton Competition's No. 22 are third and fourth.
In GT, Sainteloc Racing's No. 42 has an 11-point lead over Pure Rxcing. Al Manar Racing by GetSpeed is third, then Attempto Racing's No.
66.
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