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Tommy Milner and former American Le Mans Series class champion Dirk Müller will fill out the full-season lineup for BMW Rahal Letterman Racing team, Rahal Letterman and BMW of North America announced Wednesday. The pairing will join Bill Auberlen and Joey Hand as the drivers for the team's inaugural two-car effort with the new BMW M3 in the Series' GT2 class for 2009. ...more
December 22, 2008
Flying Lizard Motorsports announced a two-car GT2 program for the 2009 American Le Mans Series season, adding American Porsche factory driver Patrick Long to its lineup. Long will reunite with Jörg Bergmeister in the team's No. 45 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, a combination that netted the 2005 GT2 championship. ...more
December 16, 2008
Four of the American Le Mans Series' best received postseason honors from the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association. Motorsports journalists from around the country selected Patrón Highcroft Racing's David Brabham and Scott Sharp along with Jörg Bergmeister and Wolf Henzler from Flying Lizard Motorsports as AARWBA first-team All-American Auto Racing Team members. ...more
December 10, 2008
Since 1999, Johnny Mowlem has been competing in the American Le Mans Series. As one of the most experienced drivers on the grid, Mowlem talks about his dual 2008 season, first behind the wheel of a GT2 sports car and later transitioning into a LMP1 Zytek prototype. ...more
December 8, 2008
Audi is pulling out of the American Le Mans Series, ending a dominating nine-year run in which its cars won the LMP1 class championship every season. ...more
December 6, 2008
The campers are ready to file in and take their place along one of the turns and the engines of cars past have awoken the historic track from its summer slumber. ...more
December 5, 2008
The International Motorsports Association is breaking new ground in 2009 with a new title sponsor for its Porsche GT3 Cup-based championship. The Patrón Spirits Company has joined with IMSA to form the Patrón GT3 Challenge, with news of additional partners to come shortly. ...more
December 2, 2008
The past couple of seasons have seen LMP2 vie with GT2 as the most fiercely-contested class in the American Le Mans Series. ...more
November 29, 2008
For its return to the GT2 class of the American Le Mans Series in 2009, BMW of North America signed Bill Auberlen and Joey Hand as its first two drivers for BMW Rahal Letterman Racing Team's new BMW M3. In choosing Auberlen and Hand, BMW of North America has picked two of the most successful BMW drivers in the world and two of the most familiar names to M3 racing fans in North America. ...more
November 18, 2008
To be sure, the 2008 American Le Mans Series was a season to remember for Farnbacher Loles Racing's Dirk Werner. The 27-year-old German was the lead driver for the team's first full season with a Porsche 911 GT3 RSR in GT2, the deepest class in the Series. ...more
November 17, 2008
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