There are easier places to lose your air conditioning. Mattia Drudi had to finish the Lone Star Le Mans without it, fighting the Texas heat while bringing the #27 Heart of Racing Aston Martin home for the LMGT3 victory.
Behind him, the sister #23 finished third - completing a double Aston Martin podium at Heart of Racing’s home WEC round.
Two years after their last win here, Heart of Racing came back to COTA and gave the home crowd another one to remember.
Photos by @dppiimages
Six hours in Austin. Here we go! One last take on COTA before the Lone Star Le Mans gets underway.
Amazing Artwork by @fat_factor_creation for DITPL
Texas, turned all the way up. The Mustang. The tower. Stars and stripes.
Our take on COTA as the FIA WEC returns to Austin for the Lone Star Le Mans.
Artwork by Victor Okhakhume aka @trivsdraws
Some circuits are difficult to win.
COTA can be difficult just to finish.
Ahead of this weekend’s Lone Star Le Mans, a few numbers worth knowing.
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Photos by @dppiimages
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Not everything worth seeing happens at the front. GT World Challenge Nürburgring, in fragments.
Photography by @panningpedro | @xynamic
A GT3 grid is a study in different ideas.
At the GT World Challenge Nürburgring this weekend, some of the world’s leading manufacturers are racing under the same GT3 regulations - yet look at the cars from behind and no two solutions are quite the same.
Rear wings are shaped by compromise. Downforce against drag. Grip against speed. And the constant search for balance.
Sometimes the smallest details tell you the most about a racing car.
Photography by @jakobebrey | @gtworldcheu
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The #80. The Nordschleife. 24 hours. Victory. 🏆
Three months later.
Still one for the books.
Photography by @gruppec_phtography
Five months can change a lot. When the Lamborghini Temerario GT3 made its racing debut at Sebring in March, Pfaff Motorsports was beginning the process of learning and developing an entirely new car.
At Road America came the first victory.
At VIR, pole position and a second consecutive win.
Now, with two rounds remaining, Andrea Caldarelli and Sandy Mitchell sit just 56 points from the GTD PRO championship lead.
From learning a new car to fighting at the front.
Five months can change a lot.
Photography by Fred Hardy II | Lamborghini
One of those Spa frames we keep coming back to. A good day to bring it back, too!
Happy birthday, Dennis Marschall. 🍰
Photography by @gruppec_phtography
Every circuit has its own silhouette. One month from now, the FIA World Endurance Championship returns to Circuit of The Americas. Until then, one photograph is enough to remember why this round always feels a little different.
Home soil. A Texas sky. The American icon.
Some places leave an impression long before the racing begins. 💙🐎
Photography by @paoladepalmas | @protoncompetition
Not every fan falls in love with motorsport because of statistics.
Sometimes it starts with a green dinosaur. 🦖
Rexy has become something much bigger than a Porsche 911 GT3 R competing in IMSA. It has become one of those rare race cars that people connect with long before they know where it finished.
Children spot it instantly.
Fans arrive at the circuit wearing dinosaur costumes.
The merchandise disappears almost as quickly as it’s released.
In a paddock built around engineering, strategy and precision, AO Racing reminded everyone that motorsport is allowed to have personality too.
Perhaps that’s why Rexy works so well.
It never tried to become an icon. It simply became one.
Photography Porsche Motorsport | @hochzweiphotoagency | @lenssenphoto
Motorsport is built on constant evolution.
Every season brings new technology, new regulations and new ideas. Teams spend millions searching for the next tenth of a second.
Yet every so often, they choose to look backwards. This weekend at Road America, Porsche Penske Motorsport will race with liveries inspired by two defining chapters of its history, celebrating 75 years of Porsche Motorsport and 60 years of Team Penske.
Car #6 pays tribute to the legendary Porsche 917/30 of 1973, while Car #7 revives the colours of the Porsche RS Spyder that raced at Road America in the 2000s.
Because some liveries become more than design. They become memories. They remind us that every generation of racing builds on the one before it.
In motorsport, the future is always chasing the past. 💙💛❤️
Progress rarely arrives with an announcement. It arrives one lap, one test and one difficult weekend at a time.
BMW M Team WRT spent months building a Hypercar programme capable of winning.
At Interlagos, the result finally caught up with the work.
The victory belonged to one Sunday.
The progress belonged to every day before it.
Photography by @dppiimages
Some victories are built quietly. Away from the headlines.
Racing Team Turkey by TF didn’t dominate every session or every lap. They simply kept themselves in contention.
In endurance racing, that’s often the difference. Staying close enough for opportunity to find you.
At Interlagos, it finally did.
Photography by @dppiimages
Pole position.
A front-row lockout.
Early control of the race.
Everything pointed towards a perfect Sunday.
Then endurance racing reminded everyone why nothing is guaranteed.
Tiny moments.
Small mistakes.
Changing fortunes.
Sometimes victory isn’t lost through lack of speed.
It’s lost because endurance racing rarely allows perfection.
Photography by @dppiimages
Every circuit has its own palette. At Interlagos, Brazil painted it. 🟢🟡🔵
The kerbs. The light. The skyline.
Featuring the FIA WEC’s two Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3 entries - Manthey DK Engineering’s #91 and The Bend Manthey’s #92.
Photography by @javierjimenezphoto_ | @drewgibsoncaptures
Some circuits are defined by their layout. Others are defined by the people who race there. Interlagos has always been both.
From local heroes to world champions, every return adds another chapter to one of endurance racing’s most iconic venues.
Over the coming days, we’ll explore some of the stories that emerged from last weekend’s FIA World Endurance Championship round at Interlagos.
But every story begins in the same place.
Interlagos.
Photography by @dppiimages
