Postcards From The Edge
We’re pleased to present these highlights from featured events throughout the year. These are just a few postcards to wet your appetitie. If you’d like to purchase usage rights, prints or view additional and complete photo coverage, please visit the galleries of John Thawley.
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2013 12 Hours of Sebring
The two Audis shared the lead 21 times among themselves. All three drivers won at Sebring and in the ALMS for the first time. The victory marked Audi’s 11th in America’s oldest sports car race since 2000. Jarvis is 2-for-2 to start the season, having won the GT class of the Rolex 24 At Daytona in an Audi R8. -
Continental Challenge at Daytona
The Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series and the ALMS have been all the talk lately when it comes to U.S. sports car racing, but some of the best racing in America is in a support series, the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge. The series opened their season at Daytona on the Friday before the 24 and was won by the Roush Performance Ford Mustang 302R GT driven by Billy Johnson and Jack Roush Jr. -
2013 Rolex 24 at Daytona
2013 was the final running of the 24 Hours of Daytona under the Grand Am Rolex banner, as 2014 will see the first full season of the two series running as a combined unit, so it was a great time to sneak a peek at what might be around the corner for fans of sports car racing in North America. -
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Grand Am Six Hours of Watkins Glen
The Six Hours of Watkins Glen is one of the premier races on the Grand Am calendar and had renewed importance this year, as it was round two of Grand Am's new North American Endurance Championship. The race was hard-fought with plenty of drama, with overall victory going to the Action Express Corvette DP of Joao Barbosa and Darren Law, and GT victory going to the Stevenson Motorsport Camaro GT.R of Robin Liddell and John Edwards. -
Trans Am at Lime Rock Park
Great weather, great fans and an equally great Trans Am race took place at the annual Memorial Day Weekend at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Connecticut. But no one was celebrating more than Trans Am veteran driver, Simon Gregg driving the No. 59 Derhaag prepared Gregg Motorsport Corvette. -
Trans Am at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park
Canadian racing fans got a taste of true ground pounding thunder this weekend as America's Road Racing Series, Trans Am, set the fastest times of the Victoria Day Speedfest Weekend. When the dust had settled, it was the 800HP Trans Am cars that rocked the house. -
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March 2012 Swamp Buggy
Lorrie Johns, who drives the V8 Sportsman entry called Lady Liberty, became only the second woman to win the Budweiser Cup Series points championship. Bonnie Walsh (Fatal Attraction) did it in 2005. Sunday, Johns held on to her lead over Troy Ortega and his Pro Modified entry called Terminator III. -
2012 Cars On 5th - Naples, FL
This show continues to grow and continues to impress with its eclectic collection of machinery. It's a great location and a great time of the year to spend the afternoon scoping out beautiful cars. -
2012 ALMS Winter Test
It's hard not to notice the lack of buzz for this year's ALMS Championship. While I'm sure the season will pick up and the racing will be as good as ever, the energy around this year's test was just a bit flat. -
2012 Winter Classic - Swamp Buggy!
The second race of the three-race championship was met with great crowds and spectacular competition. Of course, the on-track action was as hot as ever! -
November 2011 Naples Swamp Buggy - John Thawley
Postponed due to heavy rains, this year's season kick-off for the World Famous Naples Swamp Buggy races was moved to the second weekend in November, Saturday the 12th and Sunday the 13th. The delay didn't squelch the competition or the enthusiasm. -
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Zolder - Ed Fahey
The GT1World championship travelled to Europe for round 2 at Belgiums 'other' circuit, the picturesque, fast and flowing Zolder circuit,in the rather laid back and relaxed Flemish region for 2 action packed and at times destructive races. The All-Inkl.com Lamborghini team won both the qualifying and championship races, ahead of the Hexis Aston Martin team. Sportscarinsider very much enjoyed their first visit to Zolder and will be back in the future. -
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Preseason Testing at Sebring - John Thawley
I don't think a day goes buy that there isn't a car buzzing around Sebring Int'l Raceway. It's always active. I had the opportunity to shoot a couple of private tests this winter. Here are a few shots of the action. -
ALMS 2011 Winter Test ~ John Thawley
Photos from the annual ALMS Winter test held in February. -
Sebring 2010 Revisited
A quick look back at the 2010 Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring with images from Rick Dole, Regis Lefebure and John Thawley -
Race Retro - Stephen Errity
The annual Race Retro show at Stoneleigh Park, near Coventry in the English West Midlands, has come to be associated primarily with runs by classic rally machinery on its live stage. It caters to all forms of historic racing, however, and the exhibition halls at this year’s event offered up jewels from the past of F1 and other single-seater formulae as well as classic sportscars, motorcycles and even go-karts. -
Autosport International 2011 - Ed Fahey
The Autosport International show, held every year in the cavernous halls of the UK’s National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham, has long been the traditional ‘curtain raiser’ for the European motorsport season – a chance for old friends to catch up and new acquaintances to be made. It’s also a favoured location for manufacturers, drivers and teams to finally lay the winter rumours to rest and confirm their plans for the season ahead. -
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Regis Lefebure - LMS at Silverstone
The 2010 LMS season is now over. In the end, Team ORECA Matmut and Peugeot, as a car-manufacturer, came away with everything, and Audi with nothing. Stephane Sarrazin started the 1,000Km of Silverstone as title favorite and duly ended it as champion for the second time. Full Report -
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John Thawley @ Miller Motorsport Park
Always a challenge, the wide open spaces of MMP offer a slightly different perspective of racing. It's an unusual opportunity to exploit the somewhat bizarre contrast of these high-tech man-made machines against the magnitude of mother nature. -
Regis Lefebure @ Miller Motorsports Park
Once again Regis shows his ever keen awareness of his surroundings. On and off the track, he seems to always get it right! -
Rick Dole @ Miller Motorsports Park
Images from the viewfinder of Rick Dole offer a unique perspective of this high-speed playground in the desert. Check out Rick's take on the action in the pits. -
Chris Clark at Mid-Ohio Vintage Grand Prix
Chris offers a fantastic retro look at this classic Mid-Ohio event. Spectacular black and white images of some equally spectacular race cars. -
24 Hours of Le Mans - Rick Dole
Le Mans is the World Cup of racing. Le Mans is the Olympics of racing. The difference is it occurs every 12 months, not ever four years. Like the World Cup, Le Mans is all about country pride. Like the Olympics, teams and drivers prepare a lifetime for the opportunity to compete and the skills to win. Le Mans is about emotion, preparation, dedication, acceleration, and motivation. -
24 Hours of Le Mans - Regis Lefebure
It was supposed to be yet another “battle for the ages” between the factory-entered Peugeot 908 HDI and Audi R15 Plus TDI prototypes. Two proud manufacturers squaring off against each other with their $75,000,000 (or more) annual budgets to demonstrate supremacy in the world’s most famous - and important - endurance road race… the 24 Hours of Le Mans. -
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Rick Dole @ Long Beach
The ALMS sprint race - which lasted approximately an hour and 40 minutes - was exactly what the series needed. Everything was present and accounted for in order for it to qualify as an excellent race, including intense on-track action throughout the four classes, boneheaded moves, and plenty of wheel-to-wheel action. ~ Peter De Lorenzo -
Regis Lefebure @ Long Beach
As our Brit racing enthusiast friends might say, “It was a proper motor race.” And then some. Forget the fact that the Long Beach street circuit suffers from intense “CSS” disease (can’t see shit), and forget the fact that parts of the “track” are akin to racing around inside a shopping mall, the fact of the matter is that the American Le Mans Series put on a great show. ~ Peter De Lorenzo -
John Thawley @ Long Beach
I have a love/hate relationship with the Long Beach Grand Prix. I hate it because it's more pop festival than racing (see Tecate Rock and Roar). I love it because it's high energy everywhere you go. I hate it because it's more about walking around people watching than race watching. I love it simply because I love all things American Le Mans. -
John Thawley @ Sebring 2010
It’s a rarity in this day and age that an event actually exceeds the promises of the preceding media-driven hype. Seriously, how many Super Bowls have been as “super” as the advance campaigns would have you believe? How many Daytona 500s since the legendary Allison / Yarborough slugfest in turn four have been all that gripping? Heavyweight title fights rarely rise to anything much bigger than Don King’s hair. Even close political battles are predicted before the polls close… except in Florida were the chads are hanging and the counters can’t count. -
Rick Dole @ Sebring 2010
The 12 Hours of Sebring was the first motor sports race I ever saw in person. The year was 1984 and I was in awe of the speed, the crowd, the entire Sebring experience. 26 years later very little at Sebring has changed. The speed of the cars and the talent of the drivers is truly amazing. The loyalty and size of the crowd is inspiring. And the fact that so little has changed in the past quarter century, other than a new pit lane structure, is in some ways endearing, but in far more ways staggering. -
Regis Lefebure @ Sebring 2010
Every January, Doug “dawg” Shuler would post one word to the old ALMS forum: SEEEEEEBBRRRIIIIIIIIINNNNNGGGGGG!!!!!!!! With that briefest of reads, the winter’s cold and snow and the shitty xmas presents of socks and boxers and neckties are immediately forgotten and the nose imagines the scent of orange blossoms over synthetic oil, strip steaks grilling at Vanessa’s, and tyre rubber chunking in turn one. -
2010 Budweiser Shootout - Swamp Buggies
The World Famous Naples Swamp Buggies wrapped up their 2009/2010 season March 5~6 crowning Eddie Chesser as the Budweiser Shootout Champion. Running in front of yet another packed house at the Florida Sports Park, the buggies put on a fantastic display of wheel-to-wheel racing. -
2010 American Le Mans Winter Test
A record turn-out of cars took to the track at Sebring in preparation for the 2010 Season. Photos by Rick Dole, Regis Lefebure and John Thawley. -
2010 Cars on 5th - Naples
Cars On Fifth is an annual event that takes place on 5th Avenue in downtown Naples. The show, hosted by the Ferrari Club of Naples, is a terrific eclectic mix of Ferraris, exotics, muscle cars and cruisers. -
Swamp Buggies - January 2010
I’m not going to lie to you. I still don’t know why I feel compelled to photograph this instead the Rolex 24 (that’s not true… but I’m being politically correct). But I like it. I like the racers. I like the spirit. I like the ingenuity. I like that it truly is just man and machine versus the swamp. -
2010 Dole at Daytona
The Daytona International Speedway is a great place to kick off the racing season, except for any decent or new shooting locations. Two horseshoes, a chicane, an outside start shot and a pan shot inside of turn 4 pretty much covers the entire shooting locations. I did find one new place to shoot this year... -
Cavallino Classic 2010 - Concorso d’Eleganza
The high point of the Cavallino Classic is the Concorso d’Eleganza. The presentation is staged on the front lawn of The Breakers Resort Hotel, on Saturday. No less than 150 immaculate Ferrari automobiles are judged by leading international experts. -
Cavallino Classic 2010 - On Track
The first segment of the Cavallino Classic takes place Thursday and Friday at the Palm Beach International Motorsports Park. Over 120 competition Ferraris revive memories of days gone by, as their owners let them loose again in a race course setting. -
2009 Year in Review - John Thawley
I think it's fair to say that 2009 was a far better year than was initially anticipated. Like everything else in our world, auto racing struggled with the downturn in our global economy. Maybe you can attribute it to that racer "gitterdone" mentality. All in all, I'd say we came out of it stronger than we went in. That's not to say racing is back on easy street. Quite the contrary. But I think the powers that be should be congratulated for digging in and making adjustments where adjustments needed to be made. So here's my look back at 2009 in the American Le Mans Series. Enjoy! -
LMS Year In Review - Regis Lefebure
With the prize-giving ceremony at Le Mans this weekend the 2009 Le Mans Series season has officially come to an end. Time to take a brief look back at the 2009 season, before fully focusing on a new season with lots of interesting changes. Here's the season through the lens of Regis Lefebure. -
Cayman Interseries HSR
Well, my little trip out to Sebring to check out the HSR Sebring Fall Classic was met with a near total washout. I however, had quite a pleasant surprise in discovering the HSR Cayman Interseries. These cars are very cool and absolutely great looking. Billed as “Back to the Future,” Historic Sportscar Racing Ltd. (HSR), recently announced the Cayman Interseries Challenge featured the Series as a guest group at a number of HSR races in 2009. -
Corvette Racing @ Le Mans - Rick Dole / Regis Lefebure
On June 14, 2009 Corvette Racing brought down the curtain on the GT1 era with the team’s victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Johnny O’Connell, Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia had scored Corvette Racing’s sixth class victory in the world’s biggest sports car race. The winning No. 63 Compuware Corvette C6.R completed 342 laps, and put a six-lap margin of victory over the No. 73 Luc Alphand Aventures Corvette C6.R of Yann Clairay, Julien Jousse and Xavier Maassen. Enjoy this spectacular collection of images from Rick Dole and Regis Lefebure. Two photographers who are champions in their own right. -
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Regis - Regis Lefebure in Japan
When the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, organizers of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and European-based Le Mans Series, took another stab at bringing Le Mans racing to Asia, there were some skeptics. After all, you only needed to look back in the history books to see the rocky road European-style sportscar racing has taken in the Far East over the past 10 years. Regis Lefebure takes to the track and through the countryside... in pictures. -
Drive It Like You Stole It!
Last month I took a ride out to Palm Beach International Raceway to check out one of Guy Cosmo's Trackday Elite events. These are exclusive trackday driving events hosted by Cosmo-Sport and professional race driver Guy Cosmo. -
Eye On The Swamp
In less than 20 months, I’ve taken in three of a possible four scheduled World Famous Naples Swamp Buggy Races. I don’t how to explain it, but after a year of bouncing around the countryside following the high-speed circus known as the American Le Mans Series, there’s something “salt-of-the-earth” about hanging out in the swamp. -
2009 Monterey Sports Car Championship
Gil de Ferran rode into the sunset with a victory in his final race, and Patrón Highcroft Racing had its own special ride as well at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca to close the 2009 American Le Mans Series. De Ferran and Simon Pagenaud won the Monterey Sports Car Championships presented by Patrón after the retiring Brazilian legend’s thrilling duel with Adrian Fernandez in the final 30 minutes of the four-hour classic. -
IHRA Thunder Jam
Immokalee Regional Raceway is a visual throwback in time. And I mean that in a good way. It’s an 1/8 mile drag strip located next to a small regional airport and it’s out in the sticks. Most of all… it’s a blast. In more ways than one. -
Petit Le Mans 2009
Franck Montagny and Stephane Sarrazin gave Peugeot its first American Le Mans Series victory on Friday, winning a weather-shortened 12th annual Petit Le Mans powered by MAZDA6. Race officials, citing hazardous conditions due to torrential rains that fell at Road Atlanta just past the four-hour mark, called the race at eight hours, 44 minutes running. -
Dear Mosport - Rick Dole
Hello. I am the customer. I am literally the life and breath of this sport. I am the teams, the sponsors, the media, the corporate guests, and the fans who make this event happen. Would it be too much to ask you to please spend the money to bring this facility up to modern day communications standards? Just a simple cell tower and some sort of halfway decent internet service would do. By doing so, no one, including the guy that owns this place, will have to go to Starbucks, back to a hotel room, or simply drive 300 meters outside the front gate, to communicate with the outside world. -
2009 Road America - ALMS
David Brabham and Scott Sharp ended de Ferran Motorsports’ four-race overall win streak Sunday with a close, tense victory in the Time Warner Cable Road Race Showcase at Road America. Patrón Highcroft Racing’s Brabham beat Gil de Ferran to the checkered flag by 0.461 seconds. -
Mid-Ohio 2009 ALMS
Gil de Ferran and Simon Pagenaud went flag-to-flag Saturday to win the Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, their fourth consecutive overall victory in the American Le Mans Series. Team owner de Ferran qualified on the overall pole position, and the pairing won at Mid- Ohio for the first time in their careers. -
2009 Lime Rock Park - ALMS
After a rookie season of near-misses, it's starting to look like de Ferran Motorsports can do no wrong. Simon Pagenaud and Gil de Ferran won again in the American Le Mans Series, their third straight on the year, in the American Le Mans Northeast Grand Prix at Lime Rock Park. -
2009 Utah Grand Prix
A year ago, Gil de Ferran and Simon Pagenaud were elated with a third-place finish in their American Le Mans Series debut at Miller Motorsports Park. Oh, how times have changed. The de Ferran Motorsports pairing dominated the Larry H. Miller Dealerships Utah Grand Prix on Sunday for their second overall victory in a row. -
Tequila Patront American Le Mans Series at Long Beach
Gil de Ferran finally got his win at Long Beach, and de Ferran Motorsports took its first victory in the American Le Mans Series on Saturday as de Ferran and Simon Pagenaud won at the Tequila Patron American Le Mans Series at Long Beach. de Ferran and his Acura ARX-02a beat Patron Highcroft Racing's David Brabham across the finish line on Shoreline Drive under yellow. There was both joy and relief in the de Ferran camp. In its rookie season in 2008, the team finished on the P2 podium three times including a runner-up finish at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca to close the season. The team jumped up to P1 with Patron Highcroft to start the season. -
2009 Acura Sports Car Challenge - St. Petersburg
David Brabham and Scott Sharp scored an overall victory for Acura at the aptly named Acura Sports Car Challenge of St. Petersburg on Saturday as the auto manufacturer swept both prototype classes in the second round of the 2009 American Le Mans Series. Brabham and his Acura ARX-02a finished 32.150 seconds ahead of Adrian Fernandez as Acura took the top two overall positions. Fernandez was the LMP2 winner for the second straight race with Luis Diaz in Lowe's Fernandez Racing's Acura ARX-01b. -
2009 Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring
It's a familiar story with a familiar ending - Audi debuts a new car with a victory at Sebring. The German marque posted win No. 1 for the Audi R15 TDI on Saturday as Allan McNish, Dindo Capello and Tom Kristensen beat Peugeot at the 57th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh from Florida. -
2009 American Le Mans Series Winter Test
A group of the most anticipated new entries to the American Le Mans Series make their public debuts at the annual Winter Test at Sebring International Raceway. It’s one of many reasons to look forward to the 57th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh from Florida, the start of the Series’ second decade of sports car raci -
HSR at Sebring - 2009
Sebring is an odd place when it's empty and void of spectators. Not that it isn't a weird place when there are spectators... trust me, there is plenty of weirdness to go around during the 12 Hour... but when it's empty, it's very awkward to shoot. It's one track that you rely on the visual cacophony to add interest to the backgrounds. Being a flat abandoned air field, when it's just you and the cars out there, it looks a bit desolate. -
Manatee Matinee
Wwith a history of 59 years and Naples being the only venue in the World, I knew this was an event that would produce a World Champion... and not to mention, a 2008 Swamp Buggy Queen. The Swamp Buggy Queen selection is a highly organized community funded scholarship pageant. The queen represents Swamp Buggy, Inc., her community and proudly participates in the traditional jump into the Sippy Hole with the winner of the Big Feature race. The 2008-2009 Swamp Buggy Queen is 18-year-old Gulf Coast High School graduate Olivia Katheryn Culp. -
Laguna Seca 2008 Postcard
It’s hard to imagine the end of the American Le Mans Series season is in sight. After 10 action-packed races, the stars and cars end their 2008 journey at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for Saturday’s Monterey Sports Car Championships. While the drivers and teams’ championships are all accounted for, the four-hour enduro into the California darkness will still surely spark up some excitement. -
Guest Gallery - John Hindhaugh
John Hindhaugh made his Radio Le Mans debut in 1989, and loved it so much he bought the company! Since then he's only missed the 24 hours once, and he's commentated on all but three ALMS races in the decade since that series started. Here's a view through the eyes of John during his week at the 2008 Petit Le Mans -
2008 Petit Le Mans
The 11th annual Petit Le Mans powered by the Totally New Mazda6 is shaping up to be one of the most anticipated races in American Le Mans Series history – all for the right reasons. Thirty-eight cars are entered for the 1,000-mile/10-hour test of endurance at Road Atlanta, with incentives such as the inaugural Green Challenge bundled into the action-packed weekend. -
2008 Le Petit Elegance
It is estimated that in 2008 more than 182,460 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed among women in the United States. Statistics like this are why the American Le Mans Series, the premier sports car racing series in North America, reaches out to Emory Health Care and hosts the annual Le Petit Elegance charity event. The event is a unique fundraising experience that takes place at Road Atlanta on during and following the pre-Petit test. -
Detroit Grand Prix 2008
From the quickest circuit to one of the slowest: that’s the theme this weekend as the American Le Mans Series rolls into the Motor City for the Detroit Sports Car Challenge presented by Bosch. The stars and cars are fresh from a North of the Border adventure at Mosport and now shift gears to go street racing for the third and final time this season. -
Postcard From Mosport
From one North American treasure to the next: Mosport is yet another classic venue that provides challenges to drivers and teams. Built in the late 1950s, the track has remained relatively intact from its original layout. The 10-turn, 2.459-mile circuit has a certain mystique to it, making it a driver’s favorite, but also one of the most demanding on the Series schedule. -
Postcard From Road America
The sites, the sounds (not really) of Road America... sports car racing the way it should be. -
Mid-Ohio 2008
With the American Le Mans Series in the midst of back-to-back races, there’s no time for rest for Series competitors. After the conclusion of last Saturday’s Northeast Grand Prix, teams began their trek west to the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for this weekend’s Acura Sports Car Challenge. -
Lime Rock Park
The stars and cars of the American Le Mans Series kick into high gear this weekend, racing their way to Connecticut for the Northeast Grand Prix. The picturesque Lime Rock Park plays host to round five of the 11-race season. After an eight-week break for teams competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, all of America’s finest are back together, starting a long summer stretch that will take them to five races over the next eight weeks. -
2008 ALMS Utah Grand Prix
After two thrilling races in the streets of St. Petersburg and Long Beach, the American Le Mans Series heads back to a natural terrain road course this weekend at Miller Motorsports Park. The Larry H. Miller Dealerships Utah Grand Prix presented by the Grand and Little America Hotels is shaping up to provide a new set of challenges to teams and drivers, as the outer course layout of the facility will be used for the first time. -
2008 Grand Prix of Long Beach
In the landscape of American motorsports, it doesn't get much more glamorous than the Grand Prix of Long Beach weekend. After a sensational debut in 2007, the American Le Mans Series returns again this weekend for the Tequila Patrón American Le Mans Series at Long Beach, Round 3 of the 2008 season. -
Acura Sports Car Challenge of Saint Petersburg
For the second year in a row, the American Le Mans Series hit the streets of St. Petersburg in the first of three races on a temporary street circuit. The exotic sports cars of the American Le Mans Series ran an abbreviated 1 hour and 55 minute event with Audi taking top honors on the Tampa Bay waterfront. -
2008 Grand Am at Homestead
The anticipation of the unknown turned into the appreciation for knowlege Saturday in the GAINSCO Grand Prix of Miami for the two new Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 Daytona Prototype car constructors. Teams using both the new Lola and Dallara bodywork were hopeful their cars would challenge for greatness and even victories in Saturday's race, and their wishes were granted and any questions were answered as both constructors ran up front. -
12 Hours of Sebring 2008
The 2007 American Le Mans Series was a magical one for Penske Racing. The 2008 season may be even better if the 12 Hours of Sebring was any indication. Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas and Emmanuel Collard drove to an historic overall win at the 56th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh from Florida. -
2008 ALMS Winter Test
I don’t think I can recall an American Le Mans Series winter test as upbeat and promising as this most recent. And, while there wasn’t a “major” story that everyone typically hangs their hopes on, there was plenty of great news. Perhaps all the news was the big story? -
2008 Rolex 24 At Daytona
In a race that featured Grand-Am Rolex Series and Rolex 24 records for car leaders (15), driver leaders (25) and lead changes (60), the Ganassi team stayed out of trouble to complete 695 laps and march to a two-lap victory over defending series champions No. 99 GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing Lowe’s Pontiac Riley of Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty, joined by back-to-back NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson and former Champ Car champion Jimmy Vasser. -
2008 Daytona Test
The first outing of the year was greeted by cool temperatures and a new set of chassis specs. All the usual suspects turned out and the cream was rising to the top. -
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2007 Petit Le Mans
The 10th running of this fall classic continued a long time tradition of great racing at Road Atlanta. It was a terrific week at one of the best tracks on the planet! -
Sunchaser 1000k at Miller Motorsports Park
A full season of wheel-to-wheel battles in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Special Reserve will culminate with a one-race shootout to determine the Daytona Prototype driver’s champion. With only the Sunchaser 1000k at Miller Motorsports Park remaining, the Rolex Series championship remains the closest in series history and the tightest motorsports title chase in the world. -
Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix
While other markets may be more populated and familiar to the American Le Mans Series paddock, none can match the strategic importance of Detroit. The world's leading sports car series visits the Motor City this weekend for the Detroit Sports Car Challenge presented by Bosch, part of the Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix weekend. -
Mosport 2007
Just as they lauded Road America two weeks ago, American Le Mans Series drivers are ever eager to heap praise on Mosport International Raceway. The site of this weekend's Mobil 1 presents the Grand Prix of Mosport is a 2.459-mile layout just outside of Toronto that is blindingly fast and keeps drivers on their toes throughout the 10-turn lap. -
2007 Road America
There may not be a track in North America that gets a driver's heart thumping and pounding more than Road America. A drive around the circuit offers four miles and 14 turns of adrenaline-pumping thrills that go up, down, around and through rural Wisconsin. No wonder it's a favorite of drivers in the American Le Mans Series, who get their annual crack at Road America in this weekend's for-hour Generac 500. -
Detroit Media Lunch
Joining Detroit Grand Prix officials, along with representatives from Audi, and race sponsor Bosch, was two-time American Le Mans Series champion, driver of the Audi R10 LMP1, Allan McNish. McNish was extremely enthusiastic about the venue and the potential competitiveness of the track. McNish concurred with race officials that the design of the track and the attention to detail showed all the makings of a great race track. McNish was especially impressed with the widening of the turns and the increased visibility for the drivers. -
2007 Miid-Ohio American Le Mans
History may look back and declare the Mid-Ohio American Le Mans weekend as a turning point in the resurgence of sports car racing in North America. Attendance numbers pushed the track capacity to overflow. -
2007 Lime Rock Park - American Le Mans
The American Le Mans appearance at the historic Lime Rock Park provided one of the largest crowds the track as seen in years. -
2007 Mid-Ohio Grand Am
The Grand Am series put all four classes through their paces on one of America's most picturesque road courses. -
2007 Watkins Glen - Grand Am & SWC
Classic sports car racing on a legendary natural terrain road course.. Watkins Glen. -
2007 SPEED World Challenge GT @ Charlotte
In a one-off GT only event, the SPEED World Challenge Series took on the high banks of Lowes Motor Speedway in Charlotte... under the lights! -
2007 Utah Grand Prix
Miller Motorsports Park is the longest track on the ALMS circuit.An amazing facility providing a long dusty run through the desert. -
2007 Lone Star Grand Prix - Houston
Not the prettiest venue on the circuit, but the cars and close action make up for it. -
2007 Long Beach Grand Prix
This was the first appearance of the American Le Mans Series at this classic southern California street venue. Great fit! -
2007 St. Petersburg Grand Prix
St. Pete provides a beautiful backdrop for the Acura Sports Car Challenge. Race cars by the bay! -
2007 Rolex 24 at Daytona
If you can only get to one Grand Am event in a given year, make it to the 24 Hours at Daytona. There's nothing like seeing war torn gladiators and day break. -
2007 MOBIL 1 TWELVE HOURS OF SEBRING
Some personal favorites from the 12 Hours of Sebring. Great racing action and fantastic photo opportunities. -
2007 Sebring Test Days
A look at the annual spring training for the American Le Mans Series. -
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Motorsports Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
The Seventeenth Annual Motorsports Hall of Fame of America Induction Ceremony. -
3R Racing Open House
The SCCA Pro racing community enjoys an evening at the race shop of 3R Racing -
The Racers Group
These are photos taken during our visit to The Racers Group facility on a recent trip to Sonoma. Look closely at the cars on hand and the beautiful wine tasting room. Truly a first class operation. -
ALMS Race Party
Party at the Gloria Ferrer Winery sponsored by ALMS, Yokohama and Racer Magazine.





