News that the new Honda NSX GT3 Evo 25 has been homologated is just one of the topics covered in this week’s Racecraft & Race Cars Roundup. I also have racecraft tips, how to recover from a bad race weekend and rumors of a new Porsche GT4.
Racecraft Tips & Techniques
In the video above, Enzo Mucci explains how to recover from a bad race weekend. “Just off the back of a “BAD” race weekend at the F1 Miami weekend with Oliver Bearman. This is how we turn things around and how you can do the same.”
Grassroots Motorsports‘ J.G. Pasterjak shares a few more driving tips that he picked up from his now nearly 40 years behind the wheel. You can read them here.
Ugo Ugochukwu is the latest member of the 2025 FIA F3 grid that was tasked with building the perfect racing driver and after some deliberation, the PREMA Racing rookie delivered. Here is what he said.
Samir Abid of Your Data Driven explains how you don’t learn from experience, you learn from experiments. “You arrive full of optimism – car prepped, tyres warm, mindset focused. But you’re quickly met by traffic, shifting grip levels, and the clock ticking down on each session. You tweak your setup, push hard… and by the end of the day, you’re left asking: “Did I actually learn anything… or just rack up laps?” Read more here.
Ross Bentley of Speed Secrets recalls the story of his lap time simulation. “This was relatively early days of data, but we had the latest Pi system in the Atlantic car, and I loved digging into it. I’d stare at data graphs for hours, thinking about how the shape of the speed, throttle, brake, and steering angle traces related to one another. The more I learned, the more questions I had.” Read more here.
Race Car & Series Developments
A new version of the Honda NSX GT3, dubbed the Evo25, has been homologated to run in the Italian GT Championship this season and will be campaigned by the Nova Race team. “The upgraded car, which was revealed by Nova Race in the run-up to this weekend’s Italian GT opener at Misano, features a raft of changes compared to the previous Evo22 model, with the front and rear aerodynamics having been significantly modified.”
In the midst of a milestone fifth season, Porsche Carrera Cup North America is back for a third season as a support series to Formula 1 races in North America. This year, all three of the championship classes will appear in doubleheader rounds at Miami, Montreal and Austin. PMNA CEO Volker Holzmeyer explains to Sportscar365 the importance of F1 events on Carrera Cup schedule.
Goodyear introduced a new slick tire compound for the LMP2 category at last weekend’s 4 Hours of Le Castellet, the second round of the European Le Mans Series season.
Braselton, Georgia-based rally car manufacturer JRD Motorsport is currently developing an all-new, American-built Rally2 car designed to compete in the American Rally Association (ARA) RC2 class, and will debut the new car at the 2025 PRI Show, December 11-13, downtown Indianapolis.
Eleven years into its motorsports program, Toyota Motor Philippines (TMP) continues its mission to celebrate racing talent, car culture, and the Filipino spirit of challenge with TOYOTA GAZOO Racing (TGR). The recently concluded first race weekend of the TGR Philippine Cup, the mobility company’s premier racing series, shows that motorsports is alive more than ever in the country.
GEDLICH Racing has announced its calendar for the 2026 Winter Series, which will once again visit Portugal and Spain’s finest circuits. Autosport has the details.
Grassroots Motorsports asks the question, what’s in store for Porsche’s next GT4? “On the horizon though is a new Porsche GT4 offering for the 2027 season based on an entirely different model and it will start an exciting new chapter in Porsche motorsport history.”
From the Sim Racing Roundup
The birth of the hybrid racer, where sim racing is the primary domain for motorsport is just one of the topics covered in last week’s Sim Racing Roundup. I also explore how a Formula E team leverages simulators for real-world race preparation, reveal a chance to enroll in an all-encompassing sim racing school, and uncover why racing legend Mark Martin experienced motion sickness while using a simulator. Plus, there’s plenty more exciting sim racing news to discover!
Author: Mark Boudreau
Mark is the publisher of Motorsport Prospects. As a lawyer, he applies his legal background and research skills to assist race drivers by showcasing the resources they need to make their motorsport careers happen.
