IMSA stories from their official website from throughout October

Some of these stories came to fruition after the Petit Le Mans in October.  Only just getting to highlight them now.

Heinricher Racing LLC. Teams Up With Caterpillar Inc. to Lead All Female Driver Lineup in the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship 2019

https://www.imsa.com/news/102018/heinricher-racing-llc-teams-caterpillar-inc-lead-all-female-driver-lineup-imsa

NSX GT3 Evo To Compete Globally in 2019
https://www.imsa.com/news/102018/nsx-gt3-evo-compete-globally-2019

Lexus Partners With AIM Vasser Sullivan To Compete In IMSA's GTD Class
https://www.imsa.com/news/102018/lexus-partners-aim-vasser-sullivan-compete-imsas-gtd-class

Mustang Sampling Looking Ahead to 2019 With Action Express Racing
https://www.imsa.com/news/102018/mustang-sampling-looking-ahead-2019-action-express-racing

IMSA Announces Sponsorship Extension with OMP
https://www.imsa.com/news/102018/imsa-announces-sponsorship-extension-omp

Hankook 12 Hours of Spa

Another Creventic endurance race.  The 12 Hours of Spa.

Night Practice

Qualifying

Race, Part 1

Race, Part 2

SRO clarifications

Just to clarify about the 2019 season, Pirelli World Challenge is no more as it has been integrated entirely into the SRO platform from now on.  So, these classes, will be highlighted for their races, on this blog, beginning in 2019.

Being covered, will be the following:

Blancpain GT Europe

Blancpain GT America

Blancpain GT Asia

GT4 America

Intercontinental GT Challenge

news and features from IMSA's official website

A few noteworthy news and feature stories from the official IMSA webpage.

Strong Finish To 2018 IMSA Season Builds Positive Momentum For 2019

https://www.imsa.com/news/102018/strong-finish-2018-imsa-season-builds-positive-momentum-2019

Proof that consistency determines championships in racing, far more than race wins do.

Magnussen, Garcia Join Short List of Drivers To Win Championship Without Winning A Race

https://www.imsa.com/news/102018/magnussen-garcia-join-short-list-drivers-win-championship-without-winning-race

Simple Approach Brings Home More IMSA Titles For Action Express Racing

https://www.imsa.com/news/102018/simple-approach-brings-home-more-imsa-titles-action-express-racing

Testing On A Tuesday: Porsche, Shank Back On Track At Daytona
https://www.imsa.com/news/102018/testing-tuesday-porsche-shank-back-track-daytona

Yours truly has other commitments, on the day of this race, so it will not be covered live.  But, if there is a replay, I will cover that.  All about the entry list for the Michelin Sports Car Encore.

Michelin IMSA Sports Car Encore Features Variety of Top Talent Across IMSA’s Challenge Classes

https://www.imsa.com/news/102018/michelin-imsa-sportscar-encore-entry-list-features-variety-top-talent-across-imsas

FIA WEC headlines

Some of the more recent stories from the FIA World Endurance Championship.

Gavin, Milner Confirmed in Corvette Entry for Shanghai
https://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/gavin-milner-confirmed-in-corvette-entry-for-shanghai/

Gavin: Shanghai Debut Will Help Corvette "Stay Sharp"
https://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/gavin-shanghai-run-out-will-help-corvette-stay-sharp/

919 Hybrid Evo Retires To Porsche Museum
https://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/919-hybrid-evo-retires-to-porsche-museum/

Three More Teams Receive 24H Le Mans Auto Invites
https://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/three-more-teams-receive-24h-le-mans-auto-invites/

Corvette Redline Livery Revealed
https://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/corvette-redline-livery-unveiled-for-shanghai/

6 Hours of Fuji Race Replay

The 52 minute recap of the full race for the 6 Hours of Fuji. 

more IMSA news

More major headlines from the world of IMSA.

Performance Tech Aiming for 2019 return after tough season

https://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/performance-tech-aiming-for-2019-return-after-tough-season/

Penske Confirms Management Changes for 2019

https://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/penske-reveals-management-changes-for-2019/

AIM Vasser Sullivan Confirms Hawksworth for 2019
https://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/aim-vasser-sullivan-confirms-hawksworth-for-2019/

Gary Pratt: Corvette Racing’s Driving Force

https://sportscar365.com/features/videos/corvette-racings-driving-force-gary-pratt/

A story relating to both Blancpain GT and IMSA, as AKKA ASP would love to run in IMSA, but finds logistics a hard thing to overcome, and team boss Jerome Policand says they’d be more comfortable running the Sprint Cup events at first, rather than diving headlong into the Endurance Cup races, while scaling back to four cars in Endurance and Sprint on the Blancpain side.

AKKA ASP Could Add IGTC, IMSA Races to Blancpain GT
https://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/akka-asp-exploring-new-series-alongside-blancpain-gt-plans/

Flying Lizard Closing In On IMSA GTD Return
https://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/flying-lizard-closing-in-on-imsa-gtd-return/

Porsche, MSR Back on Track in Daytona Test
https://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/porsche-msr-back-on-track-in-daytona-test/

Laurens Vanthoor's latest column for Sportscar365.

VANTHOOR: Rennsport Reunion, Petit Le Mans... and a New Piggy
https://sportscar365.com/features/commentary/vanthoor-rennsport-petit-le-mans-and-a-new-piggy/

20 Entries for Michelin Encore; No GT3 Cars
https://sportscar365.com/imsa/20-entries-for-michelin-encore-no-gt3-cars/

CORE to Remain in LMP2 in 2019
https://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/core-to-remain-in-lmp2-next-year/