- Gradient Racing announced Tuesday that they will be changing from the Acura NSX GT3 Evo22 to the Ford Mustang GT3 for the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season.
"We are incredibly excited to join the Ford Performance family with the new
Mustang GT3 for the 2025 season and beyond," said Gradient Racing team owner Andris Laivins. "Our good friends at Multimatic have done an incredible job with this car. It represents the pinnacle of GT3 engineering, and we can’t wait to put some serious miles on it and learn more. The factory team has done a massive job developing the new platform, and as a customer program we will benefit a lot from their experience."
This year, the team originally planned to field Sheena Monk and Katherine Legge full-time this year. Legge ended up leaving the team after Sebring in order to race part-time in INDYCAR. Stevan McAleer, who was originally hired just for Daytona, has stepped in alongside Monk for the remainder of the season. The team's best finish so far this year is a third this past weekend at Road America.
The team has raced the NSX since 2018 in both WeatherTech and Fanatec GT World Challenge America powered by AWS. The team's biggest accomplishment to this point was winning GTD at the 2022 Motul Petit Le Mans, their only class victory in IMSA.
- SRO America announced a date change for the 2025 season finale Tuesday. The Indianapolis 8 Hour weekend has been pushed back by two weeks to the weekend of Oct. 16-19. This is the weekend after the Motul
Petit Le Mans. The Indianapolis 8 Hour, which will once again serve as the season finale for both the Intercontinental GT Challenge and Fanatec GT World Challenge America powered by AWS, will be on Oct. 18.
The reasoning for the move is that the SRO has confirmed the Suzuka 1000k as part of the 2025 Intercontinental GT Challenge calendar for Sept. 14. The date has been pushed back
to allow teams to make the commute from Japan to the United States since the series primarily uses sea freight as opposed to air freight to move equipment around the world.
- MMG announced Wednesday morning that they will finally make their Fanatec GT World Challenge America powered by AWS debut at Road America. The team will field the No. 92 Porsche for Jean-Frederic Laberge and
Kyle Marcelli.
The team was originally supposed to join the grid at the beginning of the season at Sonoma with Alex Tagliani teamed up with Laberge, but this did not come to pass. A number of the race weekends since then have had the team listed on the entry list, but they never showed up.
The team officially made their SRO America debut in GT America powered by AWS at VIR a couple of weeks ago with Laberge driving the Porsche solo. Those races resulted in seventh and eighth-place finishes in the SRO3 class.
Photo is courtesy of Gradient Racing.
