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GMG Racing and driver Kyle Washington continued their dominant 2025 campaign with a flag-to-flag victory in GT America powered by AWS competition on Sunday at Sebring International Raceway.

Driving the No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R, Washington started from pole and led every lap of the 40-minute sprint, crossing the finish line with a 7.591-second margin of victory—his third win of the season and seventh consecutive podium in the highly competitive GT America series.

“I’m so impressed with Kyle’s performance today and all season,” said James Sofronas, GMG Racing Founder and Team Principal. “Even our competitors are taking notice. This success is the result of years of hard work and driver development at GMG Racing. Kyle is driving better than ever, and I believe there’s still more to come.”

A Championship Fight at the Halfway Mark

Sebring marked the halfway point of the 16-race GT America season, and Washington’s performance tightened the championship battle. With Sunday’s win and a third-place finish on Saturday, Washington leaves Sebring just two points shy of the series lead.

“We’re in a great position, but it’s one race at a time,” Washington said. “The Porsche the team gave me Sunday was probably the best car I’ve ever driven—just phenomenal. The GMG Racing crew gave me everything I needed to win.”

Season Highlights So Far
• Victory at Sonoma – Washington’s first career GT America win in the season opener.
• Victory at COTA – Second win of the season, followed by a P2 finish in the Sunday finale.
• Double Podiums at Long Beach – Back-to-back second-place finishes.
• Sebring Victory – Third win of the season, extending his podium streak to seven of eight races.

Strong Weekend in GT World Challenge America

Washington also teamed up with Tom Sargent in the No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R in GT World Challenge America. Despite challenging conditions and on-track contact, the duo secured a weekend-best P4 finish in Pro-Am on Sunday.

“Saturday I made the mistake of running GT America without the air conditioning on,” Washington joked. “I definitely overheated. On Sunday, I kept the AC cranked, drove smarter, and felt way stronger in the car.”

Looking Ahead to VIR in July

The SRO America season now pauses for the summer break, with racing resuming July 18–20 at VIRginia International Raceway (VIR). GMG Racing heads into the second half of the season within striking distance of the GT America championship lead and carrying strong momentum across both series.

“We’re ready for the second half of the season,” Sofronas said. “The team is performing at a championship level, and we’re looking forward to building on this success when we return at VIR.”

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GMG Racing and team drivers Kyle Washington and Tom Sargent soar back to Sebring International Raceway this weekend looking for more SRO America race wins and podiums in a full weekend of competition on the legendary 3.74-mile central Florida airport circuit. The team runs a pair of No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R entries, with the GT World Challenge America Porsche adorned in a black EBOOST livery and the GT America series machine carrying a white EBOOST scheme.

Washington has won a pair of GT America powered by AWS sprint races in the opening rounds of the 2025 championship at Sonoma Raceway and most recently at Circuit of The Americas (COTA). He also joined Sargent in securing the team’s first GT World Challenge America powered by AWS podium with a third-place finish in the opening race at COTA. Sargent led in the next day’s final 90-minute World Challenge race but an untimely safety car period around the time he handed the No. 32 off to race-finishing driver Washington didn’t work in the team’s favor.

“We have been fortunate to have all of our hard work and preparation in the off-season at GMG Racing pay off with a nice run of race wins and podium showings in the first part of the 2025,” said GMG Racing Founder and Principal James Sofronas. “We have won in five different racing series to date this year, both within and beyond SRO, and our first 2025 victory in GT World Challenge America is just around the corner. We were the fastest Porsche at COTA, hit the World Challenge podium for the first time this year, and both Tom and Kyle are driving at the peak of their performance. We look forward to seeing what the Sebring weekend brings.”

On the same weekend Sofronas won a race in the Pro-Am class, Washington secured a Masters class Carrera Cup podium finish on the “Respect the Bumps” Sebring circuit last year.

“I’m just going to Sebring for the barbecued Alligator because it’s not as tough as the track,” Washington said. “The bumps can knock your teeth out and make for a tricky track. My off-road background definitely comes into play always at Sebring. We have been on the podium there before in a Porsche and have four shots this weekend at taking our first win. Win or lose, you need some Advil and a stiff drink after racing at Sebring, and that’s all part of the experience!”

Sargent is well experienced at Sebring and expects the recent race-leading pace at COTA to carry over to the Florida circuit. He and Washington won their first only GT World Challenge America race together last year at VIRginia International Raceway (VIR) in the GMG Racing No. 32 Porsche.

“I think a win is close,” Sargent said. “We had our breakthrough win last year at VIR. We definitely had good pace, but we also got a little bit lucky at VIR on penalties and other stuff. That put us in a position to take advantage, but this year there is a win in the future just pure-pace wise. That was even in the cards at the second COTA race last month if it wasn’t for a safety car. We definitely had the potential to win there, or at least get a podium like we did in the first race. Now, we go to a track I know quite well at Sebring, and it is probably the track I have done the most laps on. Kyle also has a Carrera Cup podium at Sebring, and I think we are going to have a strong package again there. I have been doing a lot of driving lately too, so I am definitely feeling good about Sebring. We will see what we can do.”

Sebring features Rounds 7 and 8 of the GT America championship, and Washington has finished no lower than second in the series since winning the second race of the season in March at Sonoma Raceway. His second win of the year in the first race at COTA followed a pair of second-place showings at Long Beach. Most recently, he followed up the COTA win with a second-place finish in the Sunday weekend finale on the Austin Formula 1 circuit. Washington arrives in Sebring second in the GT America championship, just nine points shy of the class leader, 121 – 112.

After a test session Thursday and official practice Friday, qualifying for both GT World Challenge and GT America takes place Saturday morning. The opening races of the weekend take place later on Saturday, with the first 40-minute GT America race starting at 11:55 a.m. EDT and the GT World Challenge 90-minute opener going green at 3 p.m. EDT.

Sunday’s final rounds start at 9:05 a.m. EDT for GT America and the weekend-ending GT World Challenge race goes off at 1:45 p.m. EDT.

All of the weekend’s races air live on RACER TV and the GTWorld YouTube channel.

GMG Racing Principal, Founder, and Team Driver James Sofronas made IMSA Porsche Carrera Cup North America history this weekend, becoming the first driver to score Pro-Am class wins at all three Formula 1 event venues—Miami, Montreal, and Circuit of The Americas (COTA).

The milestone victory came during Saturday’s 40-minute sprint at the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix, where Sofronas took the Pro-Am win in commanding fashion aboard his No. 14 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, crossing the line eighth overall and more than 10 seconds ahead of the next driver in class.

“Carrera Cup is the top-level, single-make Porsche series in America, so you know if you do well here, you’ve beaten some really talented drivers,” said Sofronas. “And to race on an F1 weekend is super special. There’s over 100,000 people here, and they love these cars. We were fortunate to be able to deliver.”

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A Milestone Years in the Making

Although Carrera Cup North America launched in 2021, Sofronas only made his series debut at COTA in 2023—but wasted no time making his presence felt, sweeping the Pro-Am races at the Austin F1 weekend that year. He followed it up with a wet-weather win at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal in 2024, taking the lead just before the field was neutralized under full-course caution.

Now, with his Miami victory, Sofronas becomes the first driver to win at all three F1 Carrera Cup events. He backed up Saturday’s triumph with a second-place finish on Sunday, narrowly losing out to the same driver he beat the day before.

“Street circuits like Miami are always intense,” Sofronas said. “With the tight Turn 1 here, it’s not a question of if but when someone will make contact. You’ve got to be aggressive and smart, and I think we executed both races well.”

In just 13 Carrera Cup starts, Sofronas has now collected six Pro-Am victories, firmly establishing himself as a front-runner in the championship. His results from Miami provisionally move him up to third in the 2025 Pro-Am standings.

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Mulcahy Continues Strong Rookie Season

The Miami GP also marked the Formula 1 race weekend debut for GMG Racing’s Patrick Mulcahy, who made his Carrera Cup debut at Sebring in March. After briefly running as high as third in class, Mulcahy secured another top-five finish with P5 in Pro-Am in the No. 54 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup.

“The fact that Patrick had the pace that he did so quickly in just his second career temporary circuit and Carrera Cup weekend is very encouraging,” said Sofronas. “He’s developing exactly the way we hoped, and I expect him to keep moving up the rankings.”

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Next Stop: Canadian Grand Prix at Montreal

With momentum in hand, GMG Racing now turns its attention to the next Carrera Cup doubleheader at the Canadian Grand Prix, June 13–15 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal—a track where Sofronas has already made history.

Longtime GMG Racing driver Kyle Washington continued his 2025 roll in national sports car racing sprint race competition Saturday and Sunday at the 50th Grand Prix of Long Beach with a pair of second place finishes in each day’s 40-minute SRO GT America powered by AWS races in his No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R.

The hard-earned runner-up results are Washington’s best career finishes at Long Beach and give him a run of four-straight podium finishes in top-tier sports car sprint race series to date that are just part of his early-season success this year.

The Long Beach podiums follow back-to-back victories in both his No. 32 GT R and his identically liviried No. 232 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup in GT America and the USAC Porsche Sprint Challenge USA West series respectively last month at Sonoma Raceway. Washington also scored a Bronze-class victory in an IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge sprint race last January at Daytona International Speedway in the GT R.

Washington’s success also carried the flag for GMG Racing at Long Beach after his three teammates – Patrick Mulcahy, CJ Moses and James Sofronas – were all forced to persevere through a challenging and at times frustrating weekend.

“We just didn’t get the across-the-board results, but I have to thank Kyle for carrying the torch for us this weekend,” said Sofronas, who is both a driver and the Principal and Founder of GMG Racing. “I am obviously happy for his pace, and two second-place finishes is a tremendous effort. His driving and racecraft has never been better, and he is still improving.”

Joining Sofronas in getting off to a pair of fast starts in both of the weekend’s 40-minute sprints, Washington’s Porsche ran in podium contention with the No. 14 GMG Racing Audi R8 LMS of Sofronas both days.

With Sofronas up front, Washington put on the show of the race on Saturday when he battled back-and-forth for third place with an Aston Martin. On Sunday, Washington and Sofronas both got a jump on the race polesitter and ran in tight formation with Washington in second and Sofronas in third for the majority of the race.

“Saturday was definitely one of the harder races I’ve done after battling with and chasing that Aston Martin down,” Washington said. “We had a good start, got a little lucky when I went pretty aggressive, but it worked out well. Then the chase was on to catch that really fast Aston for most of the race. It was all I could do, and it was the entire time. I was right behind him as the race was winding down and, finally with about two laps left, it was it was great to get him with a switch-back pass.”

While Washington delighted the cheering crowd with his podium pass, Sofronas was cruising comfortably up front Saturday when disaster struck less than two minutes from the finish. Accelerating out of the famous Long Beach hairpin, one of the Audi’s half shaft axles snapped and Sofronas agonizingly came to a stop just before the start/finish line on the front straight. Washington moved up to second after passing his stricken teammate while Sofronas saw what would have been his fourth Long Beach win slip away.

“You have to be prepared for the ups and downs,” Sofronas said. “We started off with mega pace from all the guys with Kyle, Patrick and me in the GT3 class, and CJ, who was anxious to get behind the wheel again in GT2 after a lot of time off.”

Debuting Long Beach driver Mulcahy, in the No. 54 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R, and Moses, in his
No. 58 GMG Racing/CrowdStrike/AWS Audi R8 LMS GT2, both rebounded from Saturday mechanical issues before the race for solid showings on Sunday.

“For me personally, I would certainly like to forget this weekend, and I definitely don’t like it when my teammates are not able to make a race start due to some technical issues,” Sofronas said. “As always, the GMG Racing team persevered and rebounded and worked all night to make sure all of our cars were fixed to get them back out on Sunday. My first concern is always the team clients and making sure they’re taken care of. My racing is just a bonus after that.”

Mulcahy did well to finish seventh in the GT3 class Sunday, the final car to take the checkered flag on the lead lap, despite his limited track time. Moses shook off Saturday’s issues to race competitively in the GT2 division and reached the podium as the second-place finisher in what was a respectable battle with the race winner in the two-car class.

“We had a reasonably decent qualifying, but it was cut short by the red flags and we really never got in a flyer,” Moses said. “Then, going out the grid for the first race, we had what turned out to be a regulator fault in the alternator that was spiking voltage in the car. That basically didn’t allow the car to operate and we missed the race, but overnight the team worked hard, did some trouble shooting and figured it out with 45 minutes to spare Sunday morning. We rolled the car out, were ready to go, and GMG Racing, in their typical form, took care of the car and got us out there. I went out and ran a very solid stint for having not been in the car for six months and only having basically an hour’s worth of track time up to that point. I feel very positive about how we did, and I look forward to my next race, which will be at VIRginia International Raceway (VIR).”

Sofronas was the only member of the team to miss out on a Sunday rebound when more frustration set in, once again in the race’s final minutes. He was looking at a third-place finish after tracking Washington in second only to have the fourth-place car tap the Audi and put Sofronas in the wall at the hairpin. Sofronas recovered to take the checkered flag sixth in GT3 but left Long Beach disappointed after coming so close to another race win on his 20th anniversary at Long Beach.

“We had high hopes coming into this weekend, but I’ve been in this business for over 32 years and have seen it all,” Sofronas said. “So, I have to look at the silver lining of the weekend, which is Kyle’s double podium and that he has stepped into the championship hunt in GT America. CJ will have a better weekend for sure on his home track at VIR, and I feel bad he and Patrick didn’t have a chance to show the pace they had in practice in Saturday’s race. Patrick is definitely an emerging force to be reckoned with as an up-and-coming driver, and we are proud to be associated with him. His name will definitely be well known in the future. He’s good.”

Next up for GMG Racing on the SRO America schedule is an all-series weekend of competition at Circuit of The Americas (COTA), April 25 – 27.

GMG Racing Back to The Beach with Another Four-Car Entry for the SRO GT America Doubleheader at the 50th Grand Prix of Long Beach

GMG Racing has a new home track after moving into its state-of-the-art headquarters last year at The Thermal Club, but Long Beach will always be the championship winning team’s “Home Surf.” Multiple GT racing champions and Long Beach race winners, GMG Racing was founded in nearby Orange County and returns for the 50th running of the Grand Prix of Long Beach this weekend with another formidable four-car effort.

All four GMG Racing entries compete in the Long Beach weekend’s twin SRO GT America powered by AWS 40-minute sprint races on Saturday and Sunday. Three entries run in the top-tier GT3 division while another is set for a battle of only mid-engine cars in the GT2 class.

Veteran GMG Racing driver Kyle Washington returns to Long Beach as one of the hottest Porsche sprint-race drivers in North America. He broke through for his first GT America victory one race ago at Sonoma Raceway less than two weeks ago in his No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R. Washington followed it up just yesterday with a Masters Class victory and impressive second-place overall finish in the No. 232 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 cup Sunday at Sonoma in USAC Porsche Sprint Challenge USA West competition.

Washington also started the year with a Bronze Cup race win in an IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge race in the No. 32 GT3 R 911 at Daytona International Speedway in January. The trio of early-season race wins came in series run by three different racing organizations: SRO, USAC and IMSA.

“I love Long Beach,” said Washington, who makes his fifth-straight appearance with GMG Racing on the 1.968-mile street circuit. “Absolutely! That city course is so amazing. I was lucky enough to get the fast lap last year and I did lead the race for a moment. I definitely have pipe dreams of winning that thing, and we’ll take a little luck and try and make it happen this weekend.”

Washington competes in the GT3 class alongside debuting Long Beach teammate and emerging driver Patrick Mulcahy and GMG Racing Founder, Principal and Team Driver James Sofronas. Mulcahy, in just his second season of full-time and top-tier competition, makes his Long Beach debut in the No. 54 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R. Sofronas wheels his No. 14 GMG Racing Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO2.

“This will be my 20th anniversary at Long Beach,” Sofronas said. “For me personally, 2005 is when we first went there, and I know it’s a favorite race for Kyle. He brings in a bunch of friends and family. And then our new up-and-coming driver Patrick Mulcahy will be joining us in another Porsche. In fact, he will be in a type 991.2 Porsche, one of Kyle’s old and favorite cars. We have kept in tip-top shape. We expect that car to be competitive as Patrick has shown he has the talent and skill set to run up front. It will be his first time in GT America competition so we’re super excited.”

Mulcahy debuted in Porsche Sprint Challenge last year and this season runs the full IMSA Carrera Cup series. His first foray into SRO GT America this weekend is also his first street race.

“Long Beach was the first ever GT race I saw when I moved out here back in 2010,” Mulcahy said. “So, it is a bit of surreal moment for me to race at the 50th anniversary of Long Beach in a GT3 car. GMG Racing has been a staple of Long Beach for many years, and I am super excited to be a part of it. I have tested the Porsche GT3 car, and it is definitely a lot more planted than the other types of 911 Porsches I have raced. The aero does take some getting used to but by the third session or so we were rocking and rolling.”

In the GT2 class, longtime GMG Racing contender CJ Moses makes his 2025 season debut at Long Beach in the No. 58 GMG Racing/CrowdStrike/AWS Audi R8 LMS GT2.

“I will do a one-off start for Long Beach in the Audi,” Sofronas said “It’s such as special race for me that really gave our business a boost many, many years ago when we won in 2009. I will have my Audi, and CJ returns to the mix in his GT2 Audi and it so great to have him and that car back on track.”

Sofronas, a four-time SRO America champion, has three career race wins in GT competition at Long Beach with overall victories in 2009 and 2013 and a class win in 2017 while recording a top-10 overall finish.

Last year at Long Beach in the Audi, Sofronas finished third in the Saturday GT America race and improved to second in Sunday’s finale.

Washington set the fastest race lap last year on Sunday while Moses also earned a trip to the Long Beach winners circle for earning the EBOOST Hard Charger Award for improving the most positions in the same race.

After practice and qualifying on Friday, the Long Beach weekend’s twin 40-minute races are scheduled to start at 5:20 p.m. PDT on Saturday and 11:20 a.m. PDT on Sunday. Both races and Friday’s qualifying session can be viewed live on SRO’s official YouTube channel GT World at https://www.youtube.com/@GTWorld.

Veteran GMG Racing driver Kyle Washington broke through for his first career SRO GT America powered by AWS race win Sunday in a wet and wild sprint race at rain-soaked Sonoma Raceway. Starting on the outside front row in the No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R, Washington took a lead he would hold to the finish on the first green flag lap after polesitter and former GT America Champion George Kurtz was among the half dozen competitors to go off course in the treacherous conditions.

A full course yellow was shown just minutes later, but Washington held steady up front. He waded through the standing water in the Porsche and skillfully held his own on the slippery circuit as others continued to slide off course, even under caution.

“I’m super proud of Kyle for his first win in GT America,” said GMG Racing Founder and Principal James Sofronas. “In fact, it’s long overdue. I think about his experience and the many, many years of growing up or spending time in Vancouver. Rain is not foreign to him, and his hand control and his athleticism are off the charts. So, it’s just developing his race craft, which is what he’s been doing over the years. He was the guy to beat. We knew he had the pace in the rain, and he was strong off the corners. The Porsche was prepared great by the GMG Racing team with the rain setup, so Kyle just had to do what he does best. He just put his head down and got it done.”

A restart at the race’s halfway mark quickly produced another full course caution when a pair of GT4 competitors came together and went off course. The safety car returned to the track and led Washington and the rest of the surviving field under yellow for the remainder of the scheduled 40-minute race, which ended six months early due to increasingly treacherous conditions and the need for substantial barrier repairs.

“It was amazing,” Washington said. “Very sketchy out there, but it’s interesting. I like being uncomfortable where it can go away at any second, right on the edge. Your focus is laser in those situations at feeling the car. I was just trying to hang on and not put it in the wall, and it turned out to be a great day. George Kurtz was in front of me on the pole at the start, but I think on the second lap or so and he looped it just being a little aggressive, but no contact. I took P1 and didn’t look back.”

Known for his skill for and even love of driving in the rain, Sunday’s Sonoma win was Washington’s second wet weather race win of the season. He was also victorious on a wet Daytona International Speedway in January in the No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R where he won the Masters class and even led briefly overall in a VP Racing SportsCar Challenge sprint.

“Being from Vancouver, where it rains five out of six days, was probably pretty good training,” Washington said. “I think my Montana background on the ice probably helped as well.”

Next up for GMG Racing is Rounds 3 and 4 of the GT America championship at the 50th Grand Prix of Long Beach, April 11 – 13. After carrying the GMG Racing flag solo in the GT America at Sonoma, Washington will be joined by three teammates at Long Beach as GMG returns with another four-car entry for the milestone running of America’s oldest street course race. The full GMG Racing Long Beach lineup will be announced later this week.

“I was super proud to see Kyle results at Sonoma, but not surprised,” Sofronas said. “I’m super impressed with what Kyle and the GMG team earned yesterday. Now, even more confidence is behind him, and we look to have a pretty big field at Long Beach in two weeks for the next GT America race. He’ll have a few teammates pushing him there, which helps everybody.”