Category: 2026
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Toyota heartbeak. Performance Review.
They’ve had worse, but that was harsh. Hypercar Performance – LMGT3 Performance Relative Performance– Hypercar The #35 Alpine and #7 Toyota were the two standout cars. Toyota had the strongest outright and short-run pace, but the #35 Alpine moved ahead as the sample…
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Lone Star Practice and Hourly
FIA WEC 2026 Round 5 Circuit of the AmericasWinner #50 Ferrari AF Corse, 167 laps Lap Chart Positions Record Tracking Sandbagging Shandbagging Closeness Hypercar was exceptionally close, even by WEC standards. The longer race-pace measures are tighter than the fastest-lap spread, with the…
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Lone Star: Cars Practice (post fp3)
Practice is done, on to the competitive part of the weekend next. Overall, FP3 has changed some of the headlines without changing the basic conclusion: Aston Martin, Alpine, Ferrari, Genesis and Toyota all show serious pace, but in slightly different ways and at…
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Lone Star: Ace Alpine Averages (fp1&2)
Alpine and Iron Lynx top the averages. Hypercar The average lap times Toyota topped the averages in fp1, but Alpine came to the fore by the end of the two sessions. The main story is just how tightly packed the Hypercar field is.…
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IMSA VIR All Practice
Just the competitive sessions left. Fastest Laps and Averages Not too many laps at this stage, so the 20% mark is less than the Top 10!Lamborghini and Corvette look like they have the pace. Heart of Racing have the GTD pace, but the…
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IMSA VIR Friday
Combining the classes in the charts? What kind of madness is this? Two GTD cars lead the way in terms of laps completed. Fastest Laps and Averages Not too many laps at this stage, so the 20% mark is less than the Top…
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IMSA Road America Class Performance Review: #43 Wins!
GTP – LMP2 – GTD PRO – GTD Words to follow… Relative Performance – GTP Acura was quickest in build-up, BMW came to the fore in the race. Cadillac won the race. BMW had the strongest outright performance, with the #24 setting the…
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Road America Lap Chart, Hourly Positions, Distances, Closeness
IMSA 2026 Round 16 Road America Lap Chart The investigation into #31 and #6 is still under review. Practice and Hourly Positions Closeness Race Distance Tracking 6 hours! New for 2026! That is not quite true as there was one 6 hour race…
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IMSA Road America All Build-Up
GTD – GTD PRO – LMP2 – GTP Less running than people would like due to the fp2 weather. Free Practice 2 times suffer because of it to, with the session over 16s off the pace of fp1. GTP Practice laps Several cars…
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IMSA Road America All Practice
GTD – GTD PRO – LMP2 – GTP Several cars don’t set a lap in FP2 as it chucks it down. So #43 doesn’t lead the laps completed list. The seven cars that didn’t bother potentially made a good choice as four cars…