LMP2 is a category for purpose-built race cars in endurance racing. Teams race these prototypes for long periods, so strategy and driver stints matter a lot.
The full entry list is the official roster of cars and drivers entered for a race. In endurance racing, it’s especially important because multiple classes run together and the list drives the class-by-class previews.
A class-by-class preview is a guide that explains each racing category separately. Since different types of cars compete together, it helps you understand what to expect from each group.
Louis Delatras is a race car driver. The hosts say he’s been confirmed to race for Jota, and they expect the team to be competitive enough to aim for wins.
Pro-Am is a racing class format where teams combine professional drivers with amateur or “paying” drivers. The idea is that the pro brings pace and experience, while the am side adds variety and broader participation—often with rules that affect how much each driver can race.
“Bronze” is a label for driver skill/experience level used in endurance racing. It helps determine who can be on a team and how the team is structured.
A safety car is a pace car that comes out when the track isn’t safe. Everyone has to drive slower behind it, and that can completely change race strategy.
The Nürburgring 24 Hours is a race that lasts a full day at a famous German track called the Nürburgring. Cars have to keep running fast for 24 hours, which makes it really tough on both the cars and drivers.
The Detroit Grand Prix is a big racing weekend held on city streets in Detroit. It’s the kind of event where lots of fans watch because the cars race right through the downtown area.
The Indy 500 is one of the biggest races in American open-wheel racing. It’s held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and it’s often treated like a major starting point for the rest of the IndyCar season.
IMSA is the organization behind a lot of North American sports-car racing. Here, the host is talking about how IMSA races are drawing more viewers, including online, and sharing a weekend with IndyCar.
IndyCar is a major type of race series in the U.S. with open-wheel cars (the wheels are exposed). The host is saying IndyCar is racing alongside another big series that weekend, so there’s a lot to watch.
Long Beach is a famous racing event on city streets in California. The host is using it as an example of weekends where fans get lots of racing action packed into a short time.
The Chevrolet Corvette is a sports car made by Chevrolet that’s designed to be fast and fun to drive. It’s also used in racing by a team called Corvette Racing, which helps test and improve performance parts. That’s why it often shows up in discussions about motorsport.
GTP is the top “prototype” racing class in IMSA. These are purpose-built race cars, not production models, and they’re usually the most technologically advanced cars on the grid.
GTD Pro is a racing class in sports car events for GT3-style cars. It’s the “more serious/factory-backed” version of the GTD category, with teams and drivers that are closer to factory effort.
Car
Cadillacs
They’re talking about Wayne Taylor Racing’s Cadillac race cars. In endurance racing, the manufacturer’s cars are a big deal, and results before Le Mans can tell you whether the team is trending the right way.
A revised package is basically an updated “car setup and parts combo” the team is trying to make faster. If it doesn’t improve things right away, the team may need more testing to figure out what’s still holding it back.
In sports car racing, “BOP” means officials try to make different race cars perform more similarly. They do this by adjusting things about the cars so the competition is closer and more about driving and strategy than one car being faster by default.
Car
Porsche 963
The Porsche 963 is a purpose-built race car Porsche uses in endurance racing. Here, it’s the specific car that JDC’s Privateer team is campaigning, and the hosts are talking about how their results and chances depend on which version they’re running.
GT3 is a common racing class for production-based cars. In this segment, it’s mainly used for comparison—GT3 is described as having more aero than GT2, while GT2 leans more on power.
GT2 is a category of race cars. The host is saying GT2 cars usually have less downforce (aero grip) than GT3 but more power, so they can be harder to drive smoothly in the turns.
Monza is a well-known race track in Italy. Because it’s fast and high-speed, it’s a good place to see how different race cars behave when they’re pushing hard.
This is a Porsche race car category (GT2) designed for track racing. The point here is that GT2 cars tend to be faster in a different way than GT3 cars, so they can feel more challenging through corners.
Aero here means the car’s aerodynamic grip from things like wings and body shape. Less aero usually means less downforce, so the car may feel less planted in corners and require more careful driving.
The Porsche 911 is a sports car model made by Porsche that’s known for its unique shape and performance. It’s also used in racing, including different types of competition cars. That’s why it shows up in podcasts when people talk about what’s on the track.
The Ferrari 296 Challenge is a Ferrari race car made for track competition. The host is highlighting that this is the first time that particular Ferrari model showed up in the group they’re discussing.
The Alpine A290 is a small hatchback made by Alpine that’s meant to feel sporty to drive. It’s designed for performance, not just everyday commuting. The podcast mention about it being very loud points to its noticeable exhaust/sound character.
The Ferrari 488 is another Ferrari model that’s been used in racing. In this discussion, it’s brought up as something they saw earlier in the field before the 296 Challenge appeared.
Car
Lamborghini
They’re saying the outcome of the race gets settled with Lamborghini involved. It’s basically about who ends up winning or being placed where after a decision.
They’re comparing the race car’s windscreen shape to the BMW M3’s road-car windscreen. Even small shape/angle differences matter because they affect how the car fits and how it performs.
They’re talking about adding an extra seat in the race car. The point is that the car’s safety setup is designed so it can be configured for a passenger too.
Term
endurance Brazil
“Endurance Brazil” refers to a long-distance race event in Brazil. Instead of a short race, teams race for a long time and have to manage tires, fuel, and driver stints. The speaker is noting a class win there.
Interlagos is a famous race track in São Paulo, Brazil. It’s known for being tough and twisty, so car setup and driving matter a lot. The host mentions it as where the endurance race took place.
Term
WC race
“WC race” means a world championship race—an event where teams earn points toward a season title. The speaker is saying the car’s setup will help for the next championship round after Le Mans. It’s about being ready for the most important races on the calendar.
Spa is a famous race track in Belgium. When people say they met or tested there, it usually means a major motorsport event or serious track time.
Car
Genesis GMR 001
This is a Genesis hypercar prototype used in racing and promotional videos. The point here is that Genesis got the car ready with a special livery and had a driver (Jackie) take it out, which shows how serious they are about the project.
Silverstone is a major race track in the UK. When teams test there, it usually means they’re doing important development runs on a track lots of top cars use.
A hypercar is an extremely high-performance car—usually the most extreme kind you can buy or build for racing. The hosts are using the term to say this Genesis project is in that top, headline-grabbing category.
Barcelona is a well-known race track in Spain where teams do testing. Mentioning it suggests they’ve been working with the same group over multiple events.
Place
Red Guard
This sounds like a track or event name, but the transcript text is unclear. It likely refers to where Andre watched Jackie drive, but the exact place can’t be confirmed from this snippet.
Genesis is a car brand. Here, “Genesis macro racing” is the racing team running Genesis cars, and the host is saying they scored points early in their program.
Concept
world championship points
It means they earned points toward a season championship. In long races, you don’t just need speed—you need to finish and stay consistent to score.
Term
24 hours of the month
It’s a race where cars keep running for a full day. Because it lasts so long, the team has to plan for reliability and driver changes—not just go fast for a short time.
Term
six hour racing
This is another endurance race length—shorter than 24 hours but still long enough that strategy and staying reliable matter. The point here is that 24 hours is a bigger step up.
The Dodge Challenger is a muscle car, which means it’s made for strong acceleration and a sporty feel. Dodge markets it with a bold look and performance options. It can come up in podcasts when people discuss newer changes that make it stand out.
Fault-free running means the car can drive and complete laps without problems. In testing, that’s important because it shows the car is reliable enough to learn from the data.
A V6 is an engine with six cylinders arranged in a V shape. It’s a common engine layout, and in racing it influences how the car is built and how it performs.
Spy shots are leaked photos of a car prototype taken before the team officially shows it. They’re usually the first clue about what the car looks like.
This is a high-performance version of the Ford Mustang. The “GTD Pro” label signals it’s aimed at serious track use and racing-style competition, not just everyday driving.
Term
oracle basis
This sounds like they’re talking about a shared “foundation” that different cars are built on. When companies share the same underlying design, it can make the cars cheaper and faster to develop.
Acura is Honda’s luxury car brand. In this discussion, it’s being compared to another brand in terms of how their cars are related underneath.
Term
FI World Insurance Championship
This is a major racing championship run under FIA rules. The “Insurance” part is just the sponsor name, and the big idea is whether a team will enter that top series in 2027.
A service provider is a company that does support work to keep a racing program running. Here, the point is that their jobs are at risk if the program gets pulled or delayed.
Term
stopgap situation
A stopgap situation is a temporary plan to get through the next problem. In this segment, it’s about keeping the racing program alive until a more permanent deal is worked out.
Pump priming funding means giving a program some early money to get it going and keep it stable. In this segment, it’s about Alpine helping cover costs so the effort can continue.
A semi-works entry is a race team that gets some manufacturer support, but not the full factory setup. Here, they’re saying it would still need approval and money from Alpine.
A manufacturers fee is a payment required for manufacturer-level participation or official backing in a racing program. In this context, the host is saying Alpine would fund that fee to enable the semi-works entry structure.
Re-homologation is like re-approval. If a race car changes enough—like who it’s built for or how it’s configured—it has to go through paperwork and checks again so it’s allowed to race.
ORECA is a company that helps build race cars for big racing series. In this context, they’re the ones who would have to make the parts and get the car ready for approval in time.
Mike Shank is a major name in U.S. racing. The host is saying his team’s sports-car program has a lot riding on what happens next in IMSA.
Topic
24 hours of limon
This is a 24-hour endurance race at Limon. Cars run for a whole day, and the winning team is the one that finishes the most distance reliably.
Topic
interweather tech sports car championship
They’re talking about a specific sports-car racing series. The exact series name is a bit unclear in the transcript, but it’s an organized championship with teams and drivers.
LIVE
Well, welcome to the latest edition of Weekend Sports Car's podcast, part of the Martial
Crewit podcast collection course, and brought to you as always with our friends, the Justice
Brothers and Toronto Motorsports.com. I'm joined, I'm Greg Gilbert. I'm joined by friend and
colleague, editor of Daily Sports Car these days, Stephen Kilby. Stephen, no platitudes.
Not at home to that this time. How are you, Graham? Timing is always impeccable there.
Partly into yet another race weekend, but ahead of the, there's no doubt about it,
the biggest dates in our racing diary, Le Mans, Scrutiny Rig and Test Day next weekend,
and then following that the race week itself. Lots and lots to talk about. Lots of news about
stuff that's happening, stuff that's coming forward, not just next weekend, but this weekend as well,
and lots about the future too. So, you know, putting all those platitudes aside as I urge
you to do on a permanent basis. Where do you want to go first?
Let's start by talking about some WEC slash Le Mans adjacent topics. I want to hear all about
the trip to Silverstone you did with Jota. Let's start there. Well, I do love it. It was a couple
of things with Jota. I was delighted to be asked by Data Club at Jota to present
a fabulous evening at the RAC club. He was there as a guest. I was there
suited and booted, and it was there. Road to Le Mans with the Royal Automobile Club.
Well over 100 of their members, some excellent guests, including five winners of Le Mans,
I think were there. Richard Atwood, Jackie Oliver, Stephanie Hanson, Mark Blondell, David Brebham,
and of course everybody there from Jota are Le Mans winners. Excellent evening there,
telling tales, telling stories, and then on the back of that, a fair number of the VIPs involved
in that rocked up just a few days later at Silverstone for the first of two days of testing for
Cadillac, Terps, Team Jota, head of Le Mans, of course, both cars there.
Getting in some sneaky laps before Silverstone returns to the calendar, do you think?
Well, look at that way. You know, I don't think the only ones...
Could be the world's worst idea, is it?
It's not going to be the world's worst idea. It was at least one of the WEC team playing
playing those kind of games. We'll talk about them in a moment. Yes, I'm looking at you,
Darren Leung and Gus Farfus. Nothing wrong with it.
Bit of rain, which saw so much to everybody else's amongst the driver's amusements.
Jack Ait can have a little bit of a skate around, but I think quite a lot of valuable
time on track for them. That's plenty of good thing. We know that Peugeot have been out
this week, and there'll be more on DSC about some excellent pre-Le Mans PR-age
being done with DSC Academy trainee Ewan Wayne. We'll have some stuff about that the next few days.
Yeah, everybody's in preparation mode, aren't they? Including, delighted to say,
we're beginning to get some of the one-off liveries coming to the fore.
Some really nice ones to look at. I mean, I thought for a moment when we opened one of them
that's a bit of a takeover bid by the Polish bakers for... Of course, it seems that it's not.
It's a Brazilian-coloured 150 Ferrari and LMGT-3 Gustadio Toledo's team. That looks splendid.
DKR engineering's LMP2 with reflective strips, and that can look cool as well.
It's always a nice time. There's always some surprises to come. I can tell you they're not
hypercar team with a change in livery for the 24 hours at Le Mans. Looking forward to that,
actually really looking forward to the race week. I know that sounds odd to say in those
ways, but the reality is, apologies with the messages pinging away. We've got the DSC team
on the side. It's Detroit right now and lots going on there. It's often one of those times where you
grueling it is, Stephen, in preparation to just getting there. We've got a team coming together
from three different countries for our main team in the Le Mans press room. On top of that,
we've got the other side of life with my side of life with TV and the extended team we've got
coming there. Look out, by the way, for early next week and some, I hope, exciting and very welcome
news about the shape of that team for Le Mans TV. That's basically going to be the team that does
the international feed and also, of course, the new app this year. They're all familiar names,
but some names we've used before and some names we absolutely haven't. I'm hoping there's going to
be at least a couple of very pleasant surprises on that front. People that are going to make you
want to buy the app, do you think? Also, the other day, I'll say this much. It's been a little while
now since I tried to do two jobs as a full-time journalist and full-time TV commentator at Le Mans.
They were hard years when we were doing that. That's where you earn your spurs in filling
the gaps that inevitably came up. I've stopped doing that and I've stopped doing that for two
reasons. One, because not three reasons. One, because it's not really a sensible thing to try to do.
Two is that it basically meant that you weren't giving your best to either. Three is because,
to be blunt, mate, you're doing a crazy good job with the New Look DSC team and, quite correctly,
need to be given the room to do exactly that in what is by far the biggest, the biggest week
in sports car racing, every single day with significant news and we're expecting plenty of
that again. Part of the build-up, you mentioned deliveries and some of the key ones, I thought,
into Europe, we've got an art car, we've got AO, we've got a new character in conjunction with
number one. We've also got the full entry list now. Anyone who's heading there from
race week wanting to get yourself clued up on who's going to be there obviously will have our
extensive class-by-class preview to look forward to, which we'll go early race week after the test
day. But for now, you can at least know who's going to be in every car, which is always nice and
includes the odd change here and there. It means we can write the preview. Yeah, it does mean we can
write the preview. By the way, worth saying that we will have class-by-class preview editions of
Twisk in time for you to put them onto your mobile device and listen on the way down to
LeVon, if that's what you choose to do or ahead of whatever watch party you're going to have for
LeVon. Yeah, so we've got this full list now and it includes the odd shop and change here and there.
I mean, for me, the probably the biggest one is Louis Delatras getting confirmed for Jota
in the seat and the 12 usually filled by Alex Lynn. Delight for Louis that he's going to get the
chance to race with Jota at an event that they'll have aspirations of winning. A knock on effect,
by the way, which is of course Louis then out of the AO by TF car and that means James Allen
into that car, which is that's a very good substitute. A great addition to the L and P2
because he's someone who's got so much mileage in the Oracle 07, I certainly wouldn't want to race
against him. No, fabulous stuff and it puts together a grid and we'll save the analysis for
those previews next week. I've been asked as part of our prep for TV to give some predictions.
It's so tough. You look at the L and P2 and Pram fields,
there's potential for really good racing there. Oh, 100%. 100%. I just hope, I don't envy the job
of the TV directors. I have to choose what battles to focus on because I think there's just,
we really are at a point now where you look down that 62 car list and there's maybe one or two
lineups that you think, well, I can definitely count them out. But now we've got to a point,
practically, there's such a well-balanced film and practically every car has a case for
finishing relatively hard at the order or podium or better. I completely agree with you.
And the Pro-Am side of L and P2 continues to be intriguing. Why? Well, because generally speaking,
with the Pro-Am teams, you've got an extremely well-to-do and usually very rapid
driver at the helm of that. And that means they've got the opportunity to invest in the best talent
they can possibly get. And by God, there's some talent in that. That's a class.
And all it would take is some of these bronze drivers to have all their drive time done and
then it gets wiped away by a safety car. And I know last year's race, we only had one safety car
and it was an astonishingly green race, wasn't it? It really didn't get interrupted much.
If this is a more traditional one, we do see safety cars dotted throughout it. All of a sudden,
those Pro-Am cars are in the mix late in the race. I think one of the other things to add
into this is that as we come into, it seems to gallop towards us, coming off the back of what
was such a strong race across the piece at Spa, the level of interest and positivity has just
boomed. And I'm going to say that out loud. I think what's happened in the meantime
with the three-friars-of-Nerbberg ring is inevitably had a knock-on effect to people
thinking, what's this endurance racing all about? We've seen a lot of that. I think we're going to
it's been quite a while since I've seen the highlights reel on YouTube hit a million views
for the WC. It certainly did. I think it's up at about 1.1 million at the moment and that will
only go north as we get back into people disappearing down pre-Lamon YouTube rabbit holes.
So much is happening at the moment, just in general, in this area of the sport that
the Nurburgring 24 Hours and particularly the Spa
wetground feels like a long time ago now. It wasn't. It really wasn't. But it feels like
just so much happening each day and at the moment we're so locked into building up to
leaving for France next week that you have to remind yourself, hang on a minute.
Oh, it was BMW, wasn't it? Blimey. Before we get hooked into that though, there are two major
race beatings this weekend. One in North America, it is the Detroit Grand Prix, that comes off the
back of the Indy 500, of course, with... What a race. an absolute banger.
And what delight to see after some difficult weeks lately, Michael Schenck in such good order,
dropping the F-bomb on the broadcast, which I thought was particularly sports car.
It's amazing stuff. Congratulations to Felix Rogen for us and Kristen.
Honestly, really hard luck to David Maluchus, but my God, that gave us a stand-up moment.
Obviously, IndyCar and IMSA are double heading around the streets of Detroit.
They have so much momentum for both championships, kind of in terms of
interested in it heading into this weekend. I'm expecting there to be big numbers. I
saw some of the Vium figures that came out for Indy 500 and how well Fox have done through
the start of the Indy car season. Very impressive. How many people are watching those races.
IMSA is obviously just growing and growing, and we're seeing amazing figures, not just domestically,
but also on YouTube. And the double header weekends like this, and obviously we've had the one at Long
Beach, we've had IndyCar, double headed NASCAR, Phoenix, not Long Beach. What a festival for fans.
And it's these things, if you keep the cadence of these sort of events going,
it's just these are the ones you really look forward to the most. I think finally,
we've got to the stage where most of the big brains around motorsport have realised there's no
downside. Who's going to turn up to, I don't know, WEC race and suddenly decide,
no, I like this, I don't like Formula One anymore. It's not going to happen. People are going to be
motorsport fans rather than Formula One fans, or motorsport fans rather than WEC fans, or GT fans,
and on we go. There is no downside to these multifaceted events. What it means is
get more entertainment, people get more opportunity to see more and different.
If anything, the pressure for everybody is upwards in terms of the quality of the events
that you'll actually get to see now and in the future. Before we go any further, by the way,
I just did want to say, we just got some news just minutes before we started this recording
that a hugely significant member of the IMSA paddock, someone who's been around
way back into the American Le Mans series era and prior to that, Lee Driggers has passed away.
We heard that via our good friend and colleague Ryan Smith at Corvette Racing.
Huge contribution through the paddock boats and the timing support that we saw through decades
there, and he is going to be missed. I know his son is there carrying the batten forward,
but from all of us in the media pack, Lee, rest in peace, your efforts may not have always been
reflected in the moment, but they're always appreciated. It's been a pretty rough few months
of the motorsport world, isn't it? We had obviously Alex and Addy, we had Greg Biffle,
not long ago. We've had even more recent than both of those, Carl Bush,
a participant wrote 24. So young and shocking.
I guess what it gives us is a moment, doesn't it? I'm a bloke, as you probably noticed,
and we're not very good at putting our hands up when things aren't feeling great, not feeling well,
put your hand up and say something about it, do something about it. At the end of the day,
I've more often than not left it too late and suffered the consequences.
If you are feeling as if you're not 100%, do seek advice, please. That's a tragic,
tragic story, and you could see sort of scenes in the NASCAR paddock just how hard that hit people.
It just feels like the NASCAR community as a whole has just been taking so many
gut punches in a row in the last year or so. Really sad time for them all. Really, really
sad. So that leads us onto this Detroit weekend, and I think before we go into talking about some
other newsy bits around sports car racing, it's worth talking about this one, because it comes
at an interesting time, doesn't it Gromitz? It's a short race, it's 100 minutes, it's at a street
track that I think some people love, some people really dislike, but it's an incredibly important
market for the manufacturers, particularly the US ones, obviously Chevy and Ford in particular,
being in the most city, very big ones for big wigs there for both manufacturers.
But in terms of championship battles and in terms of Le Mans preparation, it's always
interesting as well, because there's so many teams, there's a few teams, isn't there? And
plenty of drivers who have been making the trip to Le Mans after this weekend in Detroit. I don't
know about you Grom, but for me, and is GTD Pro and GTP in action this weekend, the big thing I'm
going to be looking for is how do Wayne Taylor Racing get on with their Cadillacs, because they
really do need a result. And if it came this weekend, that would be a hugely positive boost for
them ahead of what's, you know, it's tough for everybody, it's going to be a very tough weekend
for them at Le Mans. I'll sit out loud. I've got some concerns about the trajectory for the team,
the two car team in the episode of the Xports Car Championship. And they do not appear to be
making as rapid progress as you would expect a team with factory backing of that level to be
making with this revised package. It's going to take some time. They've got a single car course
coming across to Le Mans. It's fair to say that when we saw them there last time, it was somewhat
underwhelming. I expected so much better. I think there's a testing couple of weeks for Wayne Taylor
Racing right now, not hearing anything in terms of their position being at risk. But ultimately,
the level, we were talking just before we press record on this about the prevailing
atmosphere amongst the fans and in the paddock in WEC and to a lesser extent because we're not
clamped down on BOP era. And I was reflecting that actually the pressure is on to achieve excellence.
And about you, Stephen, but I'm not sure at the moment I would suggest that that was all
that excellent. Well, they've just got to look inward, haven't they? They've got to really dig
deep and find where they're missing out. They've got a race winning package. They've got a car
that's more than capable of challenging titles and wins. And we've said it before in this podcast,
they're just a step off. They're not maximising the weekends where they could get the big results.
We've seen the odd incident here and there. And then the weekends where they're maybe off the pace
a little bit, just not coming away with enough points. And you don't have to look much further
than the championship standings for that last year on its own. But this year, I mean,
it's remarkable, isn't it, that we have four races into the championship and JDC's Privateer
Porsche is ahead of both of them in the championship standings. That's mental. That is shocking.
Yeah. I mean, I'll be honest with you, I didn't know that. That is genuinely shocking. And that's
no reflection, but I'm going to JDC. No. But something's got to change there. And on the other
side of that, you know, we talk about JDC, they obviously they won the last race at Laguna. And
Lauren Heinrich having raced for a pence, get the start season and then switch to JDC now leads
the championship on his own very arguably after racing for two teams in two different versions
of the 963. He's got nothing to lose, isn't he? Now that's going to be another storyline to follow
is how good, what did JDC do here? I mean, he's got a real chance. They really can go for this.
I'm really finding that entertaining a really great subplot to the season so far. So there's
that. And then you're looking at GTD Pro, which we haven't seen since, well, we saw them at Laguna,
we didn't see them at Long Beach. And again, it's, it's a big, big battle between some of these,
these manufacturers. And I'm looking at Corvette racing again, seem to be quietly
leading a championship with the four car, haven't won a race yet, but leading the championship
through consistency. And all of a sudden, it's looking like another one of those incredible
Corvette championship runs. It's still early days, of course, but it can't help but look
at that challenge at the standings and think here they come for third and second for the number four
car. They've got a lead over the Paul Miller guys. And this is the sort of weekend where,
particularly Corvette, and I'm thinking about Ford as well, one last time out at Laguna,
they're going to be really, really keen to show those executives that are on site,
what those cars can do. So, so much to look out for there. There's obviously the Indy car action
as well. And some interesting crossover, because I think Nikita Johnson is racing for RLL in GTD
Pro is doing Indy next, as well. So he's pulling double duty. That's a fun weekend, isn't it?
Oh, it is.
You can see Tizana and driving a McLaren on the same weekend.
Look, if you're in Detroit this weekend, you know, particularly in a supermarket,
if you just look down the Cannes Goods All, and you'll probably find some of the guys there from
Pratt Miller looking for where they can get a case of whoop ass Cannes. So they can open up those
Cannes a little later on. I think you're right. It's going to be primal, I think it's fair to say.
Around the streets. There's two Lexus. That's good to see that Professor Sullivan are doing that once
again. It's an aspect of what we've seen with these mixed class weekends. We've seen it along
Beach as well with GTD. It's great to see them putting their asset on track there. New look as
well for Rexy this weekend. The boxing gloves out. and mouth guard.
I have seen that we've been told specifically it's not going to be a die cast. So you can put
your wallets away. Yeah. And neither are we supposed to say in any way that there will not be an
aftermarket vinyl as you can put on your spare Rexy model because there isn't. But no, always
want to look forward to always entertaining around the streets of Detroit or the streets of anywhere
to be able to be honest with you. I'm looking forward to that one. That's race beating one.
Once there's well, by the way, to mention that outside of our normal normal Bailey Wick for
these shows, but I think it deserves the attention is the latest endurance cup race meeting for
SRO in Europe GT will challenge Europe endurance cup with a full spread of SRO support races.
I think it's it 44 cars in GT for European Cup. And in particular wanted to mention
a record all bit 22 cars, but a record 22 cars in GT two. And I don't know about you,
Stephen, but I'm delighted to see that. Yeah, hugely delighted. It's it's a formula that,
you know, Stefan Mattel is never short of one ideas and two pushing an idea if he's got one.
And I've always thought it's always going to be a struggle to get the GT two platform when GT
three is so buoyant and GT four for that matter to get that off the ground and sustain it was
always going to be a challenge. But it is a sensible platform to have in their arsenal for
if something did go wrong with GT three and GT four in the future. And I'm glad to see that
it's now a point where you look at that all grid shot at Monza. It's nice. It's a good looking
field. We've got the uniqueness that is the Maserati, which is great to see. They're all
good looking cars. They all sound good. They'll they'll they're actually really interesting
to watch on track compared to like the actual GT two cars are interesting to watch and track
compared to GT three because of the way that they achieve the lap time. They don't have as much
aero, but they have more power than GT three. So actually, they can be a bit of a handful
through corners to drive. So actually watching some of these guys sort of hustle them round
is quite interesting. So yeah, we've seen copper genettas on there. The two new genettas built the
grid. There was a Porsche GT two car, but there are some cup cars. I think now some of them are the
Iron Danes livery car amongst two brand new Porsche cup cars. I mean, really interesting to see
about the lap times that can be done. And they are loud.
In my life, it took me my surprise how loud they were loudest thing there. Oh, yeah. Yeah, by a
distance. But but then beyond that, you know, they've got a 290 Ferrari 296 challenge. I'm pretty
certain that's the first time we did a 296 challenge in that field. I think we did see a 488
previously. A couple of the Lamborghinis again, KTM, Mercedes MG, as we've mentioned the Maserati
and I think at least one Audi as well. So great to see the variety. And for me,
the nicest part about it is, okay, it's born of necessity. It's a little bit of wrong what you
brung. And much as I love the variety in GT four and GT three, that little bit of quirkiness that
we always used to love about GT racing. And it seems to me as if that's coming in GT two. We're
yet, by the way, to see the debut of the already announced but not yet entered lige.
And there is, I agree with you on that. And there is something actually quite fun because it doesn't
happen very often. How often do you see a current spec Porsche Cup car racing head to head with like
a Ferrari Challenge current spec car? It doesn't really happen, does it? You might see it in like
Craventic where they get bundled in the same class within a bigger race. But that's quite,
it's quite interesting to see these these one mate races that are hugely popular, hugely
successful, have their own championships that, you know, develop some great teams and drivers.
Actually, you can put them together head to head. And usually, is there a Super Trofeo in there?
Two Trofeos and maybe next year we get a Tamarario in there. That'll be quite cool. But
it's quite, yeah, it's quite a quirkier side to this is you've got three key one mate races
up against each other. A couple of other bits and pieces on the GT racing world front.
Great grid for the endurance cup. Bigger grid again, though, of course, for next month. Not
next month, two liars. I know it is next month. It's the end of June this year,
it's part of 24 hours. But back to 70 cars run 75. I think that's sensible.
18 pro cars. Yeah, big field gunning for the overall win.
Also potential drama post November 24. Yes.
An emerging investigation into power. I think it's peak power output from the second place finishing
Lamborghini. Could that mean a bit of a reshake in terms of the overall podium positions? Well,
bit of hashtag wait and see, but want to keep an eye on us.
I'd like to get them sorted. In a way, you know, you never like these situations where you're waiting
on a result. I'm glad and relieved that it's not for the overall win, though. It's not the winning
car that's up for it because that's the worst when you're like, you come away from an event,
especially an event like that, which, you know, mostly ran very well, didn't it? It was a crowd
was phenomenal. It was a good race. Kind of went in the direction I think some people didn't expect
to. I'd certainly, you know, it was unlucky, wasn't it? For the staff and car, they didn't
get a podium or better. But yeah, you never want to leave a race weekend like that,
not knowing who's actually won the thing. So fingers crossed that gets resolved pretty soon.
It does get resolved and it gets resolved against Lamborghini. That won't mean that
BMW Touring finished fourth. She's completely leading. How good was the Touring? Very, very good.
There was a point. I kept flicking on the stream. That's what you're watching. I kept flicking on
the stream and actually I got held up a passport control at Charlotte for a wedding I was going
to do for so long. I mentioned what's two whole hours of the race on my phone and then I got
held at a higher car queue for two hours. So I watched quite a bit of the race and I was. I
kept showing the Touring. At the moment, it's the best car in the field. And it's rapid. It's so
cool. Effectively, it did really well. Please do take a read of the chat that I had with
Andreas Roos from BMW Motorsport before the another green 24. And he was going through,
but I say the differences, the similarities, everything from the windscreen is M4 GT3 Evo.
The windscreen is the same windscreen, but because the road car windscreen for the M3 is
a different angle, the M4, they've angled it differently. The rear wing is the same. The
underbody is pretty much the same. It's effectively all it is. It's a revised body shell and the
safety equipment is different specifically to allow the new owner of that car to fit a second
seat should he wish to do so for where else we'll see it. So we don't think we're going to see a
car race again. I was just looking at you as we were talking to say, because it's going to be a
few other events like demo doing demos, doing good words. And I just was thinking, when's
going to need to go to this clash roof Brazil. I need to see this car.
You've created an instant icon. By the way, on the subject of BMWs and icons,
it does occur to me the one thing we want the things rather we don't know is which
livery the 69 GT3 car is going to appear in for the mom. Remember, it's doing an iconic BMW
livery for each race. No, we did suggest that. It's a fun sort of boss. And he did find it very,
very funny. You know, they already punched us. Real rivals, but friendly. So one of the quick bit,
by the way, which is the other car, the 32 car was at least two of the three crew for the GT3
down in the young guest office. I think that a really smart thing and did the interlagos race
for endurance Brazil last week. Took a class win in that. But with the car running to full
LM GT3 spec, which I think is really, really smart ahead of what will be the next regular
WC race after Le Mans. Yeah, it's any advantage you can gain. And knowing Darren as I do,
I've got feature in the works with him about the levels he goes to, to learn about his own
driving ability and assess all the different GT3 platforms. He goes to some serious lengths. He's
someone who's properly committed to this. And I love that when you get, you know, he's a businessman
he's come into this later in life. And he's gone at it full beans. And I love the fact that he's
so desperate to win races. And he's so passionate about the sport. And he's so keen to do it properly.
He's not just there for a nice flash dinner on an evening and touring around for a few hours at
a racetrack. He's there because he wants, he wants trophies. And I have huge respect for that. So
don't surprise me that he'd go to those sort of lengths and fair play to the guy building his own
team. They were in action this week. No, he doesn't could just pay for a driver. You know,
very much a family man to great team there with the kids. You know, always approachable,
lovely fellow, lovely, lovely fellow, but brutally competitive. Yes. You know, and that's great to
see. I love to see it. It's one of the reasons I'm such a big fan of the current crop of bronze
drivers we've got. They're always in the bar on each other. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And you just,
you take it for granted and you look back at where we were 10, 15 years ago. Just the difference.
Yes. And for me, like, if we're looking at the domino effect, how did we get to this point? For
me, it started when Simon Dolan started to take it very, very seriously indeed in LMP2.
Simon was always motivated not to find the best he could for himself, but to reach the
level of the pros around him. And that would prove to be beyond him, but not that far beyond him.
But that was, you're right. That's where before that, you could argue that Mike Newton in his day
became the first of what I think the radial amount of time dubbed the sportsman races.
And I get that. And I think that was a good dubbing rather than dubbing for it. But now
that's the rule rather than the exception. They're all on the same. They're all nailed to it.
You know, I bumped into Ben Keating at Spa and delighted that he's going to be back at the
Mon with his Robo Armon. Obviously, he's still injured from a mountain biking accident.
And he was just like, I'm ready to go. I just need to sign me off.
I've been sitting on the Sim up and doing hours of prep. And he's like,
and you're just like, I can believe it. Come on, son. You've fled all the way to Belgium just to
plead. So there you go. Let's do keep an eye on the IMSW Sports Club championship from Detroit
as well. Keep an eye on what's going on with GT World at Monza, because that's
tearing forward beautifully as well on this crest of this current wave.
What else have we got before we pack this? Yeah, there's a couple of odd sides. So
we mentioned about Joe to testing Silverstone, something you were at. But there's been some
other interesting cars out testing. First of which was the Genesis, but not the Genesis in the way
you'd expect, because Genesis, I'm delighted to say, dropped a really cool video last week,
which is they liveried up a GMR 001. GMR. GMR. Yeah. So he said, sure. Okay. Well,
either way, the hypercar in Jackie X's helmet design, and he drove the car. And he clearly
didn't know that was going to happen. No, he was quite, the video shows him quite emotional about
it. Drove the car. And it was a throwaway thing that I was at a test with them at Barcelona
last year, and we were there. And obviously, all the drivers were there. Jackie was there,
because he's part of that setup. He's like a sporting advisor for the Genesis. And we were
saying, go on, you've got to put him in the car. Go on. He'd love to do it. He'd love to do it.
And Andre Lotra was like, Oh, I'd love to see him drive the car. Well, he was there at Red Guard,
watching Jackie drive it. Well, the the Thames are so good, of course, that Andre is now out
of the car for a month. No, he's not. But you know, what a cool thing to do in the lead up to
this event. And look, amazing result from Genesis macro racing at Spa, their first world championship
points in their second ever event with that car. Does that mean we're going to be talking about
them as potential winners of the 24 hours of the month? No, it doesn't. You know, it's a very tough
gig to come from a six hour racing to 24 hour racing. And I think they have felt
as if the first two races have gone as well as they possibly could have done with the leading
they've had. But I'm impressed about the way they're going racing. I'm impressed with their
outreach. I'm impressed with the way they conducted themselves. You know, it's it's good to see.
They're getting creative as well. Yeah, this Challenger brand are coming forward
and turning a few heads. So if you are looking for, you know, maybe not the car that you think
will win the race, but a car to just cheer on, have a look at those two, you know,
they're not going to be difficult to miss. But have a look at those two for the 24 hours of the month.
And it's great to see proper racers going racing. Yeah. And you're starting to see signs that,
you know, because they are supposedly in this for the long haul. And if they do stick it out,
and if they do keep investing in it like they are at the moment, they're going to get some
proper results with this car. It just looks, it looks the part sounds the part goes the part.
Yes, like you say, you've only seen it in a six hour race so far. And they're pretty,
you know, in hindsight would have liked to have that Qatar race back at the start of the season.
So they could have had a long race under their belts. But don't necessarily expect both of them
to make the finish wouldn't surprise me if not even finish because it is a new car, a new event.
But in a year's time, I think we're going to be looking back at these early days. And I just,
I could just see them being relative front runners pretty quickly. Just there's nothing,
there's no alarm bells ringing that this could be in trouble at any point. Well, talking about
that's our newest contender in the current ranks. But we've got two more to look forward to are
confirmed. And one of them, one of those new cars was out this week and running with a couple
of their new drivers. Yeah, so that's where Claren out with their MCL high, MDH, the Laura-based
racer, which looks the part now and it's almost homologated form. That's out testing at Imola
with Ben Hanley, Greg Varsalci, Lawrence Vent, obviously the new flashy name on the driver roster
Michele Jensen. And it's, again, really impressive how that's coming together that
program. And, you know, I've seen the odd social media post here and there. It doesn't look like
they've had fault free running by any means at Imola, but this is testing. It's very, very, very
early days. The car sound was different and good. Yeah. And it does, you know, it's
the auto-technic of V6. Yeah. And it's good to see that variety. And again, in the same manner as
Genesis, I'm fully expecting it not to be very long before we see McLaren, you know, in the mix
for big results. I just, everything about the program looks like is where it needs to be.
Few people wondering, they've seen a lot lesser Ford. You do wonder whether or not we're going to
get something big from Ford at the moment this year. I think we're just going to hear about a
driver announcement. Not going to see the car. I don't think we're going to see the car. So,
Mark Rushbrook at Spa, and I think I wrote this at the time, was talking about the kind of timeline
for it. They're on track. The question was, of course, asked, you know, is it a concern that
McLaren's beat you to getting on track first? It's not that program. So we'll see it later in the
summer. August and Mark said specifically, there isn't a plan at the moment for how they're going
to reveal the car. And the likelihood is we're going to see it for the first time in spy shots
from testing. So the great thing about that is we really don't have a baseline of what you think
is going to look like aero wise. I'm hoping because Ford don't produce ugly race cars. It's
going to look like a Mark 1S car. I hope it does. it. Well, if not,
a Ford cat, that would be quite a good cat sport. Yes, crossover. But it's going to sound amazing
as well. Like we keep getting teasers there because it's got like VA. It's a weird thing.
When you realise you're a fan of a brand without realising you're a fan of the brand,
and I've had a number of road going forwards. Actually, quite recently, my last car before
my current car all bit some years ago was a Ford. The beloved ex-DSC Funbus S-Max cracking car that
was. Still see that car, by the way, sold it onto a guy who lives just a couple of miles down the road
and I've seen it on a couple of occasions on the road. And you know me and you're sitting at the
moment in DSHQ surrounded by the ludicrous model collection that's been built up. And you suddenly
realise, I've got a lot of Fords, including by the way to brand you Mustang GTD Pro. Yeah,
I have to get some of those. They are lovely. But it's a slow burn when you realise just how
iconic their design language has become over many, many years. So I am very much looking forward to
seeing what they're going to do about making that oracle basis that we can clearly see the
lineage between the Acura and the Genesis. How much more different is the Ford and the Alpine?
How much more different is the Ford going to be? So that's going to be an interesting one.
So that's them. We talked about about Cadillac. We talked a
little bit about Peugeot testing this week as well. What else have we got before we
practice? Do you want to talk about BYD? Interesting one, isn't it? So
we've talked about it on this show. We've seen friends and colleagues having written about it
up to and including the level that the deal is done, they've brought the Alpine effort.
And by the way, they are colleagues that you would think they've got a good reason to write that.
And then you've got other people saying, no, they're not even talking to them at this point.
They'll include them, Philippe Senior. Yeah. So what do we think and what do we know?
And it's always quite difficult at times to get the mix between those two things completely
correct. In this case, it's particularly difficult. I'll say this out loud. The most likely outcome
of where we are is that Alpine will not race in the FI World Insurance Championship in 2027.
But it's fair to say that ship has not entirely sailed yet, correct?
I believe so. Yeah, And again, it comes around to you've got
different voices in and around the Alpine, the Signitech, the Oraca side of things,
the organisation, the rule makers saying variations, but key variations on the same
thing. So the last we heard about the kind of situation that this programme is in was at Spa
when Philippe Senior was specifically asked about the rumours about BYD. And he said,
a lot of rumours. We talk about BYD, but I've never met anyone from BYD. My main job is to prove
to people we have a good level of performance so we can do a good job. We still have a lot of things
to do. If someone wants to talk to me directly, I'll be happy to talk to them. Everyone wants
to survive. We're touched very deeply about this, but it's now time to deliver. We are in a way
to contact some of them with the support of Alpine. I'm very shattering on because it's
a common future. We have to start work now to contact them to have and hope to have something to
say to you at Le Mans. Le Mans is clearly approaching fast and I'm hoping that in the gap
between Spa and Le Mans, there's been some progress made with particularly seeing the tech
who are the ones who are left out most in the cold here because they're the service provider
and there's jobs at stake there. Ultimately, there are three big package
possibilities at the moment. Probability because this is all we know is Alpine had done
at the end of the year. Possibilities are that something is dragged together with BYD who appear
to be interested. I've also heard rumors linking BYD by the way with the Alpine Formula One team
whether or not that has any basis in fact remains to be seen. Then you've got the other part of it
which I'm sure that everybody involved would prefer as a
kind of stopgap situation is that you find some way to have those cars staying on track as Alpines
with a little bit of pump priming funding from Alpine who by the way have already committed a
lot of money anyway going forward on this programme before the thing was pulled,
affected the money's been allocated and therefore spent is that perhaps you've got a kind of
semi-works possible entry but would have to be blessed by and with the manufacturers fee
funded by Alpine themselves. They're the three possibilities right now and I'm struggling
to give a measurable set of possibilities, probabilities against those three.
And if there's nothing on the table at all for next year, for the likes of Sydney Tech,
through those options, if nothing comes to go for next year, it's going to be a real challenge for
Philippe Signo to one, keep hold of drivers, to keep hold of engineers, to keep hold of people
who have been with him for a very long time. The biggest barrier for next year,
if we're talking about the BYD thing, is that you've got the one who restarted the car,
the arrow will have to change, it has to be re-homologated as a BYD and the time frame for that
is very challenging for ORECA to get stuck in the divine, produce the parts, it will probably need
to test, it will then need to be homologated and that doing that between now and Qatar
is borderline impossible at this point? Maybe there's a middle way, maybe the middle way is
that they race on in 2027 in some way with the Alpines, Badges Alpines but liberated by BYD.
Yeah, maybe it is BYD Alpine, maybe it's something like that, how that works I've no idea but look
what do we know, we know there's interest, what we don't know is there's a deal, we don't know that,
we don't know how serious the interest is, we don't know how serious the interest is,
we could very easily get ourselves over excited about it, you know we've been there, done that a
number of times with other programs before and sometimes our spider senses can guide us to
the point where you almost hit the button and publish and find out later that things have come,
I've gone awry, on a couple of times we have done that, not because we were wrong looking at
Yumasani's AMG but because things changed, that's I think the key thing to say and we'll
say this out loud right now, not quite sure when MP is going to get this podcast up and running but
there is a story that you've been sniffing around to do with another of our hypercar
manufacturers that does add new information to a story that's done the rounds, that's certainly
one worth people looking out for before them all, it's not necessarily good news but it explains I
think far more clearly some confusion about another program. So that leaves us with one or two
small bits left, we mentioned the Indy 500 and Mike Shank win that race and this obviously is a
crucial time for Mike Shank racing in his sports car program because another Oracle based MDH
being pulled from this which is the accurate program at the end of the year in IMSA, Mike has
been vocal to RJ O'Connell, colleague in the States working for us and Racer about how hard he's
pushing to try and find a way to get Mike Shank racing on the grid in GTP once the accurate
program ends, that's not going to be easy, I mean there's not many options there, you've got to think
he'd be tapping up the likes of a Genesis and then McLaren for something further down the line
when they bring their cars over to the States but again in a similar way to student tech
there's always real jobs at stake here with these sort of decisions that get made and I hope
that Mike Shank sports car team which has had amazing success over the years finds a way to
carry on running, the final bit is not hypercar, it is LMP2 and next gen LMP2 is not that far away
now, it's 2028, we heard a little bit in the fallout of a meeting that took place at Barcelona
for the ELMS where some of the organised body and the rule makers and some of the key suppliers
came together to talk to the ELMS teams about where that rule set is going, that was kind of the
first we'd heard something tangible for quite a long time as the technical regulations for these
cars comes together, we are probably going to hear something relatively substantial at Le Mans,
likelihood is we might get to see those technical regulations or at least we'll have the timeline
of when they're going to be published but they're pretty much there now and with that in mind we've
had a piece of news that kind of came out of nowhere and took me by surprise, I don't know
about you Graven, that is that United Auto Sports, the powerhouse they are in sports car racing have
come in early and become the first team globally to commit to a chassis supplier
and they have chosen Orica for the next gen, well they've had success with Orica but then again
they've had success with Lige before then, they were of course, only team to win with a Lige and
an Orica, no no we've had wins for, sorry wins with both chassis, I think that might be right,
we've had wins for Lige's and other races but yeah it's a significant move from them,
it underlines the message that Richard Dean has been giving us for many months which is that the
taking on of the McLaren hypercar effort does not mean the end of their pro-am racing heartland,
they very much value the customers they've got in that vein both in the into-weathers
exports car championship and in the European Le Mans series and for that matter in Asia as well,
it's a really interesting time for United and the other thing by the way that Richard had
told us but I think said to you on the record for the first time is they're going to move again,
you know now you and I have both been more than once to their extraordinary, to my mind,
new headquarters up in Wakefield in West Yorkshire, amazing place originally designed to extend
there what is supposedly a mezzanine floor to the full length of their warehouse like structure
but they've decided to do this properly and with the expansion in other areas of the business
they're going to need to find somewhere bigger that that is extraordinary that is and in time
he tells me for the p2 next gen p2 program to come online so by 2028 that's great to see and
great to hear that you've got teams investing in that kind of facility in all sorts of areas of
motorsport we're due to in the summer come see our friends at garage 59 then you place to replace
to a three places they've been working from you and I last year at Paul Rickard but then at
JMB classic you know stalwarts of the historic racing scene and they've got extraordinary
plans for expansion that shows that you've got some of the organisations underpinning this growth
at the moment investing in the future that's great to see and what I'd like to say about this
before we go further is chatting to Richard Dean about this on the phone after the announcement
because I was keen to pick up the phone to him because you know but there is you know walking
up and down the alms paddock and talking to some of these teams about next year and p2 there's a
real mixture and vibe there's teams that are not really thinking about it yet it's too far down the
line even though at this point it really isn't there are teams that still don't understand why we
should move on to the new formula there are teams that are beginning to be a little bit concerned
about how they're going to fund a million pound of car to buy a new chassis to carry on in this
formula and then you've got the teams like united which are fully embracing the move to the next
gen and the move to you know from the amazing oracle 07 dominated era to what we're going to get next
with oracle lige and and Richard was keen to one point out you know this decision obviously hasn't
been taken lightly and it's not because anyone's been standing at a track seeing these cars with a
stopwatch they don't it's it's ultimately it's a gamble whatever way they'd have you know gone
because we don't have the cars on track yet we haven't got full details of them yet we don't
have a full set of technical regulations all rich you can go on is obviously the 07 chassis has
been fantastic the support he's received from oracle like lige when he's you know doing business
with lige for a long time and he's got great relationships there and totally acknowledges
how good they are at servicing customers but just has to make a decision has you know ultimately
someone's going to be disappointed and they want to be first in the queue to get cars because
they're going to be racing and elms and asian the moment it starts i think that's a huge part of
it is what what richard is buying is a place in the queue for a whole range of series range of
things that will determine how quickly these teams can get their head around what is going to be a
fundamentally different package i think that's the key thing here is they want any advantage
they can possibly get in what is going to be a fundamental change the first fundamental change
we've had remember in a decade in lmp2 and we are talking here about teams that do not necessarily
have the resources you'll see in hypercar they're all very very good make no mistake the level of
lmp2 is astonishing yeah outstanding you know we can talk about the super teams that moved on to
to hypercar but the teams are still there the tds is of this world you know and being mentioned in
terms of potential hypercar gtp same for into europeal same for algar pro racing yeah all that's
void that was left when a number of teams stepped up has been filled and filled completely by teams
that are just operating in a kind of absolutely world-class level yeah and this is a big moment
for the formula because if you get a team of a statue of united and how long they've been involved
you get a team like that come out and declare they're on board they've made a choice they're
moving on with this for any of the teams that are sitting there not really thinking about this yet
it'll be a wake-up call for them and i have no doubt we'll suddenly start hearing
i'm sure other teams who which camp they're going to jump into and this is our point as well
from lesia's perspective they've got to get busy you've got to get people on that customer book
there's going to be very busy customer outreach teams from oracle and lesia at the 24 hours of the
morning i bet they're looking forward to those two weeks with absolute dread in terms of just how
grueling it's going to be trying to find the time the quality of time necessary to have the
the kind of conversations will lead to the kind of announcement we've seen from the united auto
sports yeah is that a lot that's our show then um remember next up as we said uh in
test week uh next week uh will be the first of three shows with steve and i going through the
runners and riders in all four classes remember hypercar lmp2 lmp2 pro ham and lm gt3 for the 62
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as well well anyway there you go um anyway with thanks again to uh the justice brothers
and toronto motorsports.com thanks to you steven killby for giving so much time uh for the shows
he's been steven i'm graham goodwin this has been the weekend sports cars part of the marshall
pruit podcast collection and we will speak to you for the preview from on next week
About this episode
WEC and Le Mans build-up takes center stage, starting with a trip to Silverstone tied to Jota and the latest pre-Le Mans chatter, including one-off LMGT-3 and LMP2 liveries. The hosts point to the newly released full Le Mans entry list and highlight Louis Delatras confirmed for Jota. Strategy and TV coverage get tactical, with safety cars and bronze drivers reshuffling Pro-Am outcomes. The calendar widens to Detroit double-headers, BOP trends, GT2/GT3 feel at Monza, and next-gen IMSA/ELMS planning.
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