The No. 24 BMW M Team RLL BMW M Hybrid V8 will start on the pole position for the 24-endurance race that opens the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar championship season. This is BMW’s first pole position in Grand Touring Prototype, which is entering its third season as the premier class in IMSA.

The race got underway again 10 minutes into the hour after the FCY called for the Inter Europol ORECA stopping and it was another frantic restart with Mathieu Jaminet leading the train across the line in the No.

BMW’s M5 has entered its hybrid era and now faces a new breed of rivals. How does it compare with another tech-packed German, Porsche’s Panamera Turbo E‑Hybrid?

The simple plug-and-play kit costs about $8700 and was created with input from the 993's designer, Tony Hatter.

Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway wrapped up Sunday, and Felipe Nasr and the No. 7 Penske Porsche repeated as champions.

The No. 7 Penske Porsche 963 maintained its advantage at the head of the Rolex 24 at Daytona field with four hours of racing still to go. Laurens Vanthoor held an 8.398-second advantage over the No. 24 Team RLL BMW M Hybrid V8 of Kevin Magnussen, with Mathieu Jaminet in third position in the second factory Porsche.

Porsche, Cadillac, and BMW have all led the race for stretches, but the story of the first twelve hours is the heavy top-class attrition.

GTD: The No. 13 Corvette, with Matthew Bell aboard, leads, with a variety of makes behind him: Mercedes-AMG, Porsche 911, BMW M4, Aston Martin, Lamborghini, and Ferrari. Laurens Vanthoor in the No ...

Through 160 uninterrupted minutes of practice on Friday, the #32 Team WRT BMW ended the day with the fastest time, a 2:02.9000s, set in Practice 1, ahead of the #75 75 Energy Mercedes-AMG.

Porsche and BMW have voiced concerns over the reliability of the high-voltage element of the one-make LMDh hybrid system going into this weekend’s Daytona 24 Hours. Their apprehension follows a spate of issues that have afflicted LMDh machinery and forced parts to be changed over the course of the pre-event Roar test last weekend and the opening two days of the IMSA SportsCar Championship curtain-raiser at Daytona this week.

To these eyes, the T doesn’t make the most auspicious start, as big-bottomed convertible 911s seldom do. A Carrera T coupe strikes just the right note; the messages here, perhaps as expected, are a little more mixed.