As pleasure builds for the 2025 season and the 63rd Rolex 24 at Daytona, there are nonetheless some moments to relive from the 2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. RACER has rounded up just a few movies that spotlight some cool stuff from 2024, and a pair to rev up followers for 2025.
Relive Motul Petit Le Mans with this prolonged highlights reel from Motorsports on NBC:
Go trackside at Michelin Raceway Highway Atlanta as IMSA captures the sights and sounds of Motul Petit Le Mans:
In search of slightly extra evaluation from the season finale? The penultimate episode of IMSA’s “Win the Weekend” season 2 has it for you.
Petit Le Mans was thrilling as all the time, however in the end it was the cap on one other nice season of IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship competitors. This “Win the Weekend” season recap focuses on the extraordinary battles in GTD PRO and GTD:
Pit stops are the whole lot in endurance racing, Very often final tempo isn’t what determines the winner, however quite the period of time spent at a standstill within the pits. Tires, gas, driver modifications – and within the case of a nasty day, components swaps – all require fastidiously orchestrated precision to make it occur rapidly and accurately. See how Motion Categorical Racing prepares to execute good pit stops lengthy earlier than the automobile is loaded on the transporter.
Get a peek on the new Bosch hand controls that improved Robert Wickens’ expertise within the Bryan Herta Autosport Hyundai Elantra N TCR with this IMSA video. The identical system will enable Wickens to race the DXDT Corvette Z06 GT3.R in WeatherTech Championship dash races subsequent season.
Allow us to fanboy for a minute. All of the GTP automobiles sound incredible as they change from electrical propulsion to the interior combustion engine when leaving the pits. However the naturally aspirated Cadillac V8 has a sound like no different, and when it kicks in, it’s a punch to the intestine that the turbo engines simply can’t match. Cadillac’s engine workforce explains how that guttural sound is produced.
Did you see the Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup race at Martinsville? Why the hell not?
2024 was a incredible season of racing. However 2025 may very well be even higher. Lamborghini enters its second season of competitors with the SC63. And Aston Martin debuts the Valkyrie AMR … the sound of that V12 is divine. Prepare for 2025 by testing some uncooked footage of testing at Daytona Worldwide Speedway from November.
Lastly, a thanks from IMSA and IMSA President John Doonan:
IMSA’s official YouTube channel has highlights and full replays of WeatherTech SportsCar Championship races, but in addition all of the help collection as properly – Michelin Pilot Problem, VP Racing SportsCar Problem, and all of the single-make collection similar to Lamborghini Tremendous Trofeo, Porsche Carrera Cup North America, Mustang Problem, and Mazda MX-5 Cup (did we point out to take a look at the Martinsville race?). Plus “Win the Weekend” and different particular productions are hosted on IMSA’s channel as properly.
