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The International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) is a North American sports car racing sanctioning body based in Daytona Beach, Florida, under the jurisdiction of the ACCUS arm of the FIA. It was started by John Bishop, a former executive director of SCCA (Sports Car Club of America), and his wife Peggy in 1969 with help from Bill France Sr ...
The IMSA SportsCar Championship, currently known as the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship under sponsorship, is a sports car racing series based in the United States and Canada and organized by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA).
The 2024 IMSA SportsCar Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship) is a motor racing championship, which is the 54th racing season sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association and traces its lineage back to the 1971 IMSA GT Championship.
Alex Palou rounds Turn 5 on his way to an IndyCar victory last year at Road America. Palou is one of five drivers racing in the series for Chip Ganassi Racing, which also fields a car in IMSA.
The race is sanctioned by IMSA and is the first race of the season for the IMSA SportsCar Championship. The race has borne the names of several sponsors over the years. Since 1992, the Rolex Watch Company has been the title sponsor of the race, replacing Sunbank , which replaced Pepsi in 1984.
International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) president John Doonan confirmed the race was part of the 2024 IMSA SportsCar Championship (IMSA SCC) in August 2023. [1] It will be the eleventh consecutive year the IMSA SCC hosts a race at Road Atlanta. The 2024 Petit Le Mans will be the final of eleven scheduled sports car races of 2024 by IMSA. [2]
The departure from sports car racing comes after a cheating scandal at Daytona in January, which Shank won in the new Acura ARX-06 hybrid GTP. But Acura later alerted IMSA that the team was found ...
The following is a list of circuits that have hosted International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) SportsCar Championship races from the inaugural season in 1971 up to and including the 2024 season. The list includes the combined IMSA history of races held as part of the IMSA GT Championship , the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series , the American ...