Hello everybody, and welcome back to another edition of Steve's Motorsport Blog! A while back, I wrote about what makes a good champion. To recap; it wasn't just about raw speed, but other intangible things, like ones demeanor, or how they lift up others and their team to achieve greatness. In that, I mentioned that although Verstappen is a generational talent, I did not think that made him a great champion. It may have been a hot take, but this year I was proven right. Max lost the championship to Lando Norris by 2 points.

Hello everybody, and welcome back to another edition of Steve's Simracing Zone! I've mentioned before that was getting into Indycar and GTP racing this year on iRacing. With the tire model updates I had delayed GTP racing until they had gotten the model fixed so that there weren't any F1 levels of grip. I was also waiting on the hybrid system update as well, so I decided to focus on the Indycar. At the same time I was looking at joining an organized league, similar to what I had done in my simracing hay-days.

Hello everybody, and welcome back to another edition of Steve's Motorsports Blog! Here are photos from my Sunday outing at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park during the 2025 Victoria Day SpeedFest! Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to read this. If you enjoyed this, please consider liking, leaving a comment on this post, and sharing through your socials! If you are a WordPress user, please also consider subscribing (it's completely free) to get the latest blog posts right as they come out!

Hello everybody, and welcome back to another edition of Steve's Motorsports Blog! This is a quick update regarding the Canadian racing landscape. The news dropped earlier last month that the FEL Sportscar Championship will "pause" its 2025 racing season, due to a lack of entries. Let's take a bit of a deep dive and see what this could mean moving forward. On April 18th, FEL Motorsports put out a statement saying that they will pause the SCCC for the 2025 season, but will continue the Radical Cup Canada series due to insufficient entries.

Hello everybody, and welcome back to another edition of Steve's Motorsports Blog! As I previously wrote a little while back, we are living in a platinum age of sportscar racing. With Genesis (Hyundai), Ford and McLaren finally all confirming LMDH programs for 2026 & 2027+, there will be upwards of 6 additional entries in the WEC and another 4 entries in the IMSA GTP class for 2027/2028. This is assuming Ford comes to IMSA as well (as of writing it has not been confirmed yet). With more Hypercar/GTP teams coming, where do all those teams fit in?

Here's an original PUMA liveried Ferrari 296 GT3 from yours truly.

My original Rain-X liveried GTD-Pro IMSA Ferrari 296 GT3.

Hello everybody, and welcome back to another edition of Steve's Racing Concepts! There has been a lot of hype surrounding the current top tier sportscars; the Hypercar/LMDh classes in WEC and IMSA. One of the reasons for this, is that most are running hybrid machinery, and this has been that way for over a decade now (The first being the Panoz Esperante GTR-1 "Sparky" in 1998. Although the Panoz was a failure, a little over decade later, Porsche picked up where they left off and decided to give it another shake.

Hello and welcome back to another edition of Steve's Motorsport Blog. Now that this year's World Endurance Championship is complete, I want to discuss the present era of Sportscar Racing's top class; Hypercar/LMDH/GTP. I will cover how it is going, and the future of the class has in store. The current sentiment about the class, is that, (to borrow John Hindhaugh's term) we are in the "Platinum Era" of sports car racing. I think this perfectly describes the feeling at the moment. For reference the "Golden Era" would have been back in the 80's during the Group C regulations.