Perhaps no one feared NEO’s return to Interlagos more than the GT field. Two faster prototype classes promised to make their lives difficult at the shortest track on the schedule, and based on past history at the circuit, contact seemed inevitable for the slowest cars on the grid. While GT cars were the victims of […]
As NEO’s new middle class this season, P2 teams at Interlagos must have felt the same way as Stealers Wheel described in their 1972 hit song: Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right. Here I am, stuck in the middle with you. At the shortest track on the schedule, HPDs found themselves […]
Being the fastest car on track sometimes comes at a price. At a short circuit such as Interlagos, the top prototype teams could have passed dozens or even a hundred or more slower cars than their mid-pack competitors over a six-hour race. For the Thrustmaster Mivano Racing #3 P1 team that has dominated this NEO […]
It was already perhaps the most feared track on the schedule due to its short length and endless traffic, but the recent addition of day-night transitions has added yet another element of suspense leading up to this weekend’s 6 Hours of Interlagos. In this race preview, we look at the challenges of this race and […]
The season-opening 6 Hours of Sebring may have left more questions than answers in NEO’s deep GT class after CoRe SimRacing drove its Ford GT from the mid-pack to victory lane. What about the Porsche stranglehold on the class? How did the top-qualifying teams let the race slip away? At least it seemed like series […]
The departure of the top HPD teams from past NEO Endurance Series seasons left a void in the P2 class in search of a new frontrunner. After two races so far this season, one team has separated itself from the pack as the favorite at the pointy end of the field. From the beginning of […]
With a proven pace in their season-opening 1-2 finish at Sebring, everyone in the NEO Endurance Series’ P1 class expected Thrustmaster Mivano Racing to contend for the win in round two at Circuit of the Americas as well. However, the wildcards of the series and the circuit, including multiclass traffic and the off-track monitoring system […]
One of the most technical tracks on the NEO Endurance Series calendar allowed the top teams to separate themselves, but it also caused some COTA carnage in the second round of the season. The six-hour race at Circuit of the Americas began with two hours of trouble, including a lap-one, turn-one incident in the P1 […]
The second round of the fifth NEO Endurance Series season is coming up this Sunday at Circuit of the Americas — a modern racing facility built to challenge manoeuvrable Formula 1 cars that proves extra difficult for sports cars in a multiclass setting. In this preview, we asked teams to offer their insights about the […]
With few returning teams and plenty of newcomers, perhaps no class was more up-for-grabs entering the new NEO Endurance Series season than Prototype 2. Following an unpredictable pre-qualifying race, the season opener at Sebring did not disappointment, delivering drama for the top contenders from the green flag until the checkered and close battles in the […]