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GMG Racing brings a season-high three entries to this weekend’s IMSA Porsche Carrera Cup North America doubleheader as one of the main support events for the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Notre Dame Island in the heart of Montreal. Saturday’s opening 40-minute race is scheduled to start at 5:55 p.m. EDT with Sunday’s final sprint set to go green at 9:40 a.m. EDT.

Canadian native Kyle Washington competes in the Carrera Cup Masters Class in the No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup. He is joined by his Pro-Am division teammates Ofir Levy in the No. 3 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup and GMG Racing Driver, Founder and Team Principal James Sofronas in the No. 14 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup.

“Montreal is going to be an unbelievable event,” Sofronas said. “The city is spectacular, the track is phenomenal and you can’t do better than running alongside Formula 1. I know Kyle will have some home-country fans, business associates and clients there. Now, with Ofir joining the team, it will be the first time the three of us are driving together. Kyle came close to joining me and Ofir at last month’s Carrera Cup races at the F1 Grand Prix of Miami, but he was a reluctant late scratch and focused that weekend on GT World Challenge in Sebring when we couldn’t make both races work after a late schedule change. Ofir had a great Carrera Cup series debut in Miami and will improve even more in Montreal, and I am just looking to get on the podium in Canada after a victory to open the year in March at Sebring. I am looking forward to an amazing race and an even more amazing experience.”

In his most recent Carrera Cup race, Washington secured a third-place Masters Class finish in the second and final sprint of the series opening weekend in March at Sebring. He is set for his third and fourth series races of the year in Montreal as a proud participant in the first IMSA Carrera Cup events run in his home country of Canada.

“Missing Miami was tough but being able to race at home in Canada a month later is definitely a plus,” Washington said. “I have been a spectator in Montreal many times. So to say I’m excited to race here for the first time is an understatement! Plus, Montreal is just such a wild town on the Canadian Grand Prix Formula 1 weekend.”

Washington competes in GMG Racing Porsches in several series and brings some recent podium momentum from those championships to Montreal as well. In his most recent races last month, Washington scored a season-best GT America powered by AWS runner-up finish at Circuit of The Americas (COTA) one week after his first race win of the year with a Masters Class Porsche Sprint Challenge USA West triumph at Utah Motorsports Campus.

Washington also experienced the thrill of hitting the podium on an F1 weekend when he scored a third-place class finish in a 2023 Carrera Cup race at Miami.

This year’s Miami Grand Prix Carrera Cup highlight for GMG was debuting driver Levy’s solid seventh-place Pro-Am finish in Sunday’s final sprint that set the stage for that day’s Formula 1 race. In his first career Carrera Cup race weekend, Levy finished both hard-fought sprints on the temporary and tight Miami circuit, avoiding the contact incidents and poor decisions that sidelined numerous competitors both days. Even with some battle scars of his own on his Porsche, Levy pressed on in the Sunday Miami race’s limited green flag runs to set some of his fastest laps of the weekend. The seventh-place result came not only in Levy’s Carrera Cup debut but also in his first race with GMG Racing.

“Montreal is a tight track, so Miami was good training for that, but rain looks like it is going to be a factor,” Levy said. “Still, it is a new track for me and most drivers, so we will all be learning regardless in the dry or wet. My goal is to keep the car in one piece and have some fun.”

Sofronas is GMG’s only driver who raced in both of the year’s opening weekends at Sebring and Miami. His highlight of the young season was a class victory in the very first race of the year at Sebring. Picking up where he left off after a sweep of 2023’s year-end Carrera Cup doubleheader at Circuit of The Americas, Sofronas secured his third-straight Pro-Am class victory in his No. 14 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup in his first start at Sebring in six years.

Like Washington and Levy, Sofronas makes his first career race starts in Montreal this weekend. He does have a flash of experience driving on the track in the wet, however, and that could prove useful with double-digit percentage chances of rain predicted for the Montreal area all weekend.

“I have a career total of two laps on Circuit Gilles Villeneuve,” Sofronas said. “I was coaching our good friend and teammate Brent Holden in Ferrari Challenge well over 10 years ago. On my out-lap, it started to drizzle and then the skies opened up and they red flagged the session. We were all on slicks and everybody had to slowly tiptoe in. Some cars crashed doing just 20 mph, but I managed to bring it in. I have basically a lap and a half at 20 mph in torrential rain, and it was all I could do to save the car from going off. The track was just flooded! So, I really have no experience on the track other than survival, and that was a good 12 years ago.”

Following morning and afternoon practice sessions on Friday, qualifying takes place Saturday morning to set the field for that afternoon’s first race at 5:55 p.m. EDT. Sunday’s final round closes out the Carrera Cup Montreal weekend at 9:40 a.m. EDT.

Both Montreal weekend Carrera Cup races can be viewed at IMSA.tv and PorscheCarreraCup.us and on NBC’s Peacock streaming app before archiving on the Porsche Motorsport North America YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@PorscheMotorsportNorthAmerica.

Kyle Washington capped a competitive and milestone month of May with a season-best second-place finish Sunday in his No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R in the second and final 40-minute GT America powered by AWS race of the weekend at Circuit of The Americas (COTA).

Building on a sixth-place finish in Saturday’s first GT America sprint, Washington started fifth on Sunday and began a run to the front from the start. The front runners scrambled when the outside front row starter overshot Turn 1, and Washington jumped to fourth and then passed series veteran Johnny O’Connell in the fast downhill run into Turn 2. Washington then passed his current coach, friend and teammate James Sofronas in the No. 14 GMG Racing Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO2 a few laps later to move into second.

“Circuit of The Americas is one of my favorite tracks, if not my favorite,” Washington said. “Everything is bigger here, the GMG Racing guys set up the car in tip-top shape, and on Sunday I found myself running up front with Johnny O’Connell and James. Johnny O was one of my very first coaches, and obviously I now work with James everyday, so there is no bigger goal than to get in front of those two, and I had an opportunity to do that today. It felt amazing!”

With Sofronas racing as Washington’s “wing man” in third just ahead of O’Connell, Washington immediately took the fight to the leader but a string of late caution incidents interrupted the battle for first and ended the race under caution.

“The number one goal of our racing program, and one of my top priorities with our customers, is driver development,” said Sofronas, GMG Racing Founder and Team Principal. “Whatever I can do to help them along and expedite the process and learning curve, that’s what I will do, and I noticed Kyle had significant pace on Sunday. I wanted to give him a chance to chase down the leader and I covered his back when we were racing on track. Kyle was nipping at the leader’s heels, and with a little more time I think he could have won the race. We are at mid-season, but I am only doing select races and really helping Kyle develop. To see him get a P2 overall was really a win in my book. It was a victory for our program and what we are trying to do.”

Sofronas crossed the finish line in third and joined Washington on the podium only to be assessed, along with O’Connell and several others, a restart procedure penalty that dropped him down in the finishing order. Sunday’s disappointment followed another heartbreaker in Saturday’s race when Sofronas held the lead only to be slowed by a loose aerodynamic diffuser under the back of the car. Sofronas nursed the stricken Audi to the finish to salvage a fourth-place finish.

“We had pace on Saturday to win,” Sofronas said. “We had it covered up front, but in racing things happen, and we had a diffuser come loose while leading. The car was basically undriveable, but we still held on for fourth place. On Sunday, we had decent pace and made it to the podium with Kyle but later were hit with a restart penalty that I thought was somewhat questionable. In the end, it is all about customers and how they finished. Overall, I am happy with the results from the weekend.”

In addition to the GT America success, Washington also co-drove with coach and first-year co-driver Tom Sargent in the COTA weekend’s 90-minute Fanatec GT World Challenge America races in the Type 992 No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R. Both drivers and the GMG Racing team continued to make progress and learn the Type 992 Porsche with a weekend-best seventh-place result Saturday in the just the third GT World Challenge race weekend together for Washington and Sargent.

Washington and Sargent combined for a pair of fourth-place Pro-Am finishes in the GT World Challenge races preceding COTA two weeks ago at Sebring International Raceway. The season-best GT World Challenge finishes began a three-week May stretch of top results for Washington that included Sunday’s runner-up finish at COTA and a Porsche Sprint Challenge USA West Masters class victory in a GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car at Utah Motorsports Campus last weekend.

Next up for GMG Racing is the IMSA Carrera Cup doubleheader at the Canadian Grand Prix Formula 1 race at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, June 7 – 9.

Washington will drive the No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup in the Masters Class while Ofir Levy and Sofronas compete in the Pro-Am division in Montreal. Levy looks to build on a solid seventh place finish in his Carrera Cup debut earlier this month at the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix in His No. 3 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup. Sofronas wheels the same No. 14 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup he drove to the Pro-Am victory in the season-opening race in Sebring in March.

GMG Racing brings a trio of talented drivers and three different cars to Circuit of The Americas (COTA) this weekend for an all-GT3 effort across two SRO America racing series this Friday through Sunday on the 3.426-mile Formula 1 Grand Prix circuit.

First-year co-drivers Kyle Washington and Tom Sargent seek their first Fanatec GT World Challenge America Pro-Am-class podium finishes in the weekend’s pair of featured 90-minute races in the No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R. Washington also drives solo in a second No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R alongside GMG Racing Founder and Principal James Sofronas in His No. 14 GMG Racing Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO2 in the weekend’s GT America Powered by AWS sprint race doubleheader.

“Circuit of The Americas is just a fantastic venue, and it is always a great weekend,” Sofronas said. “The family is coming out, Kyle and I will be there pushing each other, and he and Tom will be looking for their first GT World Challenge podium after coming so close at Sebring.”

GMG Racing’s three drivers bring the combined momentum of both recent success this season and some race and pole-winning achievements at COTA last year to this weekend’s four-race schedule. Washington and Sargent combined for a pair of season-best fourth-place Pro-Am finishes in the most recent GT World Challenge races two weeks ago at Sebring International Raceway.

Just last weekend, Washington drove to his first race win of 2024 in any series with a Porsche Sprint Challenge USA West Masters class victory in a GMG Racing Type 992 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car at Utah Motorsports Campus. Sargent in turn returns to a COTA track where he won the pole last year in IMSA Carrera Cup competition one race after securing his first U.S. victory in the series at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.

“I love COTA,” Washington said. “The team is really pumped after our win last weekend, and its cool to take that right to COTA. It’s a great layout, flows really well and I really just love the circuit. The whole track is sexy, with the elevation, the big sweepers and heavy braking. It’s got everything. It’s got bumps and it has beauty. It still feels and races new and it’s got to be one of the best tracks in the world. Tom was on pole position in Carrera Cup last year at COTA. He’s fast here and hopefully I can use his brainpower.”

Sargent, a native of Australia, converted last year’s COTA pole into a pair of podium finishes to close out 2023 second in the Carrera Cup Pro Championship in his rookie season of U.S. competition.

“I have had one race at COTA, and it was at the Formula 1 Grand Prix with Carrera Cup last year,” Sargent said. “I did really well, had a pole position, and COTA will be good for us in GT World Challenge in the GT3 car. Kyle has done quite a few laps around there, as well. As far as our direct experience with the Porsche GT3 R, it’s very limited, we haven’t been to Texas with this car, but I know James and the team have plenty of experience here in GT3 Porsches. Currently, we have a really good setup, the team is excellent, and the engineers are great. I am confident we will have a good package, and I’m sure Kyle and I will quickly get up to speed quickly.”

Sofronas is set for his third GT America doubleheader of the season at COTA where he has won several GT races at the wheel of both Porsches and Audis. Perhaps his greatest achievement on the Austin circuit came in last year’s Carrera Cup finale where he swept the weekend’s Pro-Am races in what was remarkably the champion veteran’s first career starts in the series. Sofronas then picked right up where he left off last year at COTA with a Carrera Cup victory in 2024’s first race of the season at Sebring in March.

“I am comfortable at COTA,” Sofronas said. “Last year there we had a podium, and I am super excited to get back behind the wheel of the Audi. Sonoma left a bad taste in my mouth because we had a car to win, and at Long Beach we missed it by a little bit, so I am looking to charge at COTA.”

A three-day schedule, official SRO America competition begins Friday at COTA with morning and afternoon practice sessions for both GT World Challenge and GT America.

Following qualifying for both series Saturday morning, the first 90-minute GT World Challenge race is scheduled to start that day at 12:30 p.m. CDT. The opening 40-minute GT America race of the weekend goes green later Saturday afternoon at 3:25 p.m. CDT.

Sunday’s schedule begins with the second GT America sprint at 9:35 a.m. CDT while the final GT World Challenge race closes the weekend with a 2:15 p.m. CDT green flag.

All of the weekend’s race and qualifying action can be viewed live on the GT World channel on YouTube.

Kyle Washington scored his first USAC Porsche Sprint Challenge USA West by Yokohama Masters Class race win Sunday in his No. 232 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup at the Utah Motorsports Campus. The victory was also the first of 2024 for Washington in a full and multi-series schedule of races this year with GMG Racing and came after Washington charged from 10th on the starting grid to first in Masters in Turn 1 at the start of Sunday’s final 35 minute race of the weekend.

Rebounding from a fourth-place Masters finish Saturday after a contact incident hampered the handling of his Porsche, Washington bolstered his Masters Class championship campaign with his third podium finish in the year’s first four Sprint Challenge West races. In last month’s season-opening doubleheader at Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch in Nevada, Washington secured a runner-up Masters class finish in the first race and a third-place showing in the second.

“A great ending to the weekend for Kyle, winning his class and finishing fourth overall,” said GMG Racing President and Founder James Sofronas. “He’s been knocking on the door in multiple series this year, but to score his first win of 2024 in one of his two fulltime series this weekend in Utah is huge for the Sprint Challenge USA West Masters championship. We will take the momentum to Circuit of The Americas (COTA) the next two weekends where Kyle will race in his other full-season championship, Fanatec GT World Challenge America, this Saturday and Sunday and then be back in Porsche Sprint Challenge West Memorial Day weekend.”

“We started way back in the pack Sunday and I thought the only way we would get a good result today was if there was a big incident in Turn 1,” Washington said. “And what do you know, there was a big incident and we just got lucky when I stayed outside and got around a lot of cars. Then we held off Kevin Woods, who was behind me, filling my mirrors, pressuring me the whole time and it really couldn’t have worked out better. You have to be good to be lucky, and lucky to be good, but I had a lot of family here and we are all happy. Happy Mother’s Day to all of the Mothers out there, including mine, Phyllis. Thanks Mom, we will see you for dinner tonight!”

Washington was joined on track in Utah by his GMG Racing Pro-Am class teammate Patrick Mulcahy, who was contesting his second career Sprint Challenge race weekend in his No. 254 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup. Mulcahy was on pace from the start of the weekend but was unfortunately sidelined for both races after a contact incident in Saturday morning’s final practice.

“Patrick had a disappointing end to his weekend, but the important thing is he is okay,” Sofronas said. “His car is heavily damaged, but we have a Plan B we are working on, and Patrick is going to rebound and go to COTA in two weeks.”

Washington’s family at the track included his brother-in-law, mother-in-law and his 14-year-old son Blake Washington, who put in some laps of his own on track. The younger Washington joined Sofronas’ son Jenson Sofronas, 13, in USAC’s on-track testing program throughout the weekend in GT4-spec Porsches. Both second-generation drivers are targeting entry level USAC competition licenses later this year, which makes them eligible to compete in the Cayman GT4 Clubsport division.

“Jenson and Blake received their provisional USAC licenses and had more than five hours of track time over the three days to get them up to speed,” Sofronas said. “They both made big improvements, excelled for their young experience levels, and Jenson really got up to speed on Sunday and showed great pace. I was following him, and I could watch his lines and watch his inputs, and it was super cool.”

The younger Sofronas turned laps in both a Porsche Cayman and later even in his father’s Porsche GT3 Cup car.

“I want to compliment USAC for putting together this program and this evaluation period,” Sofronas said. “It was just us on track in these private run groups, it allowed USAC to observe and monitor, and we left with video, data and captured everything for review down the road.”

Next up for GMG Racing are the back-to-back COTA weekends starting later this week, May 17 – 19, with the SRO America event. Washington and Sofronas both compete in the SRO GT America powered by AWS sprint race series at COTA while Tom Sargent joins Washington for the weekend’s featured Fanatec GT World Challenge doubleheader.

The following Memorial Day weekend, May 24 – 26, will see Washington and Mulcahy return for Porsche Sprint Challenge West Rounds 5 and 6.

GMG Racing persevered through a hot and hard-fought “Florida Double” this weekend at the Miami Grand Prix IMSA Carrera Cup North America doubleheader and the Fanatec GT World Challenge and GT America powered by AWS series races at Sebring International Raceway. Fielding a pair of Porsches in both weekend races, GMG Racing and team drivers Kyle Washington, Tom Sargent, Ofir Levy and James Sofronas overcame near-record temperatures, on-track contact incidents and costly moves by over-zealous competitors for some season-best results and an encouraging debut performance.

The top results of the weekend were a pair of fourth-place finishes by Washington and his first-year co-driver Sargent in the No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R in the Saturday and Sunday GT World Challenge races at Sebring.

The Miami Grand Prix Carrera Cup highlight was debuting driver Levy’s solid seventh-place Pro-Am finish in Sunday’s final sprint that set the stage for that day’s Formula 1 race.

“Sebring and street courses are known for being notoriously tough and we had more than our fair share of hard knocks at both the SRO America event weekend and in the Carrera Cup rounds at the Grand Prix of Miami,” said Sofronas, GMG Racing Founder and Principal. “We didn’t have a single car of the combined four Porsche entries in both races that didn’t take a few body blows, some much worse than others, but in the end it is a testament to our drivers and the GMG Racing team for a no quit effort that still delivered some solid results. Kyle and Tom moved closer to their first GT World Challenge podium with some hard-earned fourth-place finishes at Sebring while Ofir honestly drove smarter than some of his more experienced competitors did for a seventh-place finish in his Carrera Cup debut.”

In only their second race weekend together, Washington and Sargent improved two positions for an overall eighth-place finish and gained a Pro-Am spot for the fourth-place class result in Saturday’s first 90-minute World Challenge race. A podium was the goal in Sunday’s final round but the No. 32 sustained heavy front-end damage in the fight into Sebring’s fast Turn 1 at the race start. The damage created quite a bit of speed-draining drag on the long Sebring straights, but Washington and Sargent still fought to the finish to duplicate Saturday’s P8 overall and P4 Pro-Am results.

“On Sunday the car unfortunately got hurt in the first 100 feet – or about the length of a football field – of the race,” Washington said. “It nailed the splitter on the front side, and Tom was fighting with a tough car from the start. We lost 15 mph down the front straightaway and then it didn’t like to turn left. We tried to fix it as best we could on the pit stop but it was a handful to get to the finish.”

An Australian, Sargent drove the No. 32 Porsche for the first time on a track he knew. In his American racing debut last year at Sebring, Sargent secured a pair of second-place Carrera Cup finishes.

“If you told us at the start of the weekend we would get two P4s, we would have gone to the moon,” Sargent said. “After the race, you always want more. I wish we had a couple of podiums, but ultimately it was still good results for a very, very new team and two very new co-drivers. Kyle and I feel so much more comfortable in the car, and we’re getting up to speed with the rules, regulations, pit stops and all of that type of stuff.”

Washington also drove the No. 32 in the GT America powered by AWS sprint races after his similar Type 991.2 model was sidelined early in the weekend. Battling to crack the top five throughout Sunday’s final 40-minute sprint, Washington secured P5 in the race’s closing minutes and earned the SUPERFUEL Hard Charger Award for gaining four race positions.

Levy survived a pair of true street fights on the temporary and tight Miami circuit, steering clear of the contact incidents that sidelined several competitors. Despite sustaining some damage to his Porsche, Levy made the most of the Sunday race’s limited green flag runs to set some of his fastest laps of the weekend. The seventh-place Pro-Am showing came in his debut with both GMG Racing and in Carrera Cup.

“I visit Miami often, I am familiar with the area, and I like it, and it was great being able to race in the Grand Prix of Miami,” Levy said. “These Formula 1 venues are really what drew me to Carrera Cup. I have been watching some F1 races in person, saw the guys out there racing in their Cup cars and thought, ‘man, I would love to be one of those guys.’ You can go racing and then watch Formula 1 at the same time. It was great to finally have the chance to do it with James and everyone at GMG Racing and I can’t wait for the next one.”

Sofronas competed in the Carrera Cup Pro-Am class alongside Levy, but his best memories from this year’s Miami Grand Prix happened off the track. Starting from the very back of the 37 car field for Saturday’s first race after just missing the minimum ride height in post qualifying tech inspection, Sofronas improved 14 positions to finish eighth in Pro-Am and 23rd overall. He took the green flag in 24th for Sunday’s finale but was one of seven contenders knocked out of the race in the first turn after a competitor’s overly ambitious move into Turn 1.

“For starters, I have to thank Ofir for a truly fantastic time and graciously hosting us all weekend,” Sofronas said. “We made sure he had a good time on the track, and he took care of us off it. Miami is great, the Grand Prix is truly a spectacle, and Ofir gave us an amazing time taking it all in. On track, all I can say is that I hope the driving is better in Montreal when we are on a big stage with Formula 1 again. We will move on from this weekend’s races and look ahead.”

The Sebring and Miami races kicked off a run of four-straight race weekends for GMG Racing and its drivers filling all four weekends in May.

Next up is Rounds 3 and 4 of the Porsche Sprint Challenge USA West by Yokohama series this weekend, May 10 – 12, at Utah Motorsports Campus.

The following weekend SRO America is back in action at Circuit of The Americas (COTA), May 17 – 19. That event is the first of two in a row for GMG Racing at COTA to close out May.

The Memorial Day weekend race at COTA is the first national Sprint Challenge event of the year, with the USA West teams on track with their peer teams in the Porsche Sprint Challenge North America by Yokohama series, which races primarily East of the Mississippi.

The Memorial Day weekend event also features the debut of the new Porsche Endurance Challenge North America that brings the curtain down on the race weekend with a 60-minute race Sunday afternoon.

GMG Racing will do a “Florida Double” this weekend with a pair of Porsches competing in both the Miami Grand Prix IMSA Carrera Cup North America doubleheader and the Fanatec GT World Challenge and GT America powered by AWS series races at the SRO America event at Sebring International Raceway. Kyle Washington competes at Sebring in both the Fanatec GT World Challenge with co-driver Tom Sargent and the single-driver GT America sprint races in a pair of No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R entries. Meanwhile, in Miami debuting GMG Racing driver Ofir Levy makes his first IMSA Carrera Cup race starts in the No. 3 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup. Levy races in the Carrera Cup Pro-Am division alongside GMG Racing Founder and Principal and Team Driver James Sofronas in the No. 14 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup.

“We have two IMSA Carrera Cup entries at the Grand Prix of Miami Formula 1 race for Ofir Levy and myself,” Sofronas said. “At Sebring, Kyle Washington will be focusing on his full-season championship campaign in Fanatec GT World Challenge with his coach and co-driver Tom Sargent. Kyle will also compete in the Sebring weekend’s pair of GT America races.”

Running multiple programs is more than familiar and practically standard operating procedure for Sofronas and everyone at the championship-winning GMG Racing organization.

“We are up for and honestly excited about the dual events in Florida this weekend,” Sofronas said. “Running parallel programs is familiar to everyone at GMG Racing. Whether it’s at the same track running multiple cars in different series, or doing the same thing at two different tracks a couple hundred of miles apart, it doesn’t change the focus or at-track approach. Everyone knows their roles and responsibilities and we will have competitive cars and maximum effort at both Miami and Sebring.”

Washington and Sargent run their second GT World Challenge race weekend together at Sebring after debuting in the Pro-Am class in the season-opening SRO America race weekend at Sonoma Raceway in the Type 992 No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R. The team and drivers shook off some mechanical gremlins and in-race issues in the weekend’s opening round to run on a competitive pace with the other contenders and score a seventh-place Pro-Am finish in Sunday’s final 90-minute race. Washington turned his fastest laps of the weekend in the second half of the Sunday finale after an equally strong race-opening stint by Sargent, who was making his Sonoma debut.

Washington also competes in the Sebring weekend’s dual GT America powered by AWS races after strong and near-podium runs in the year’s first doubleheaders at Sonoma and the Grand Prix of Long Beach less than two weeks ago. Washington drives in GT America his Type 991.2 No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R, which he calls a favorite among the cars he owns.

Until recently, Washington was slated to compete at both the Sebring and Miami events. In addition to his SRO America programs, Washington also races in Carrera Cup and scored a third-place Masters Class finish in the season-opening doubleheader weekend in March that was held, ironically, at Sebring.

“Doing the Sebring/Miami double with Kyle was always our intention, but a recent change that moved the Sunday GT World Challenge race up to an earlier start time really threw a monkey wrench into the plan,” Sofronas said. “It basically made doing the Sunday races in both Sebring and Miami impossible, and we had to choose Sebring as Kyle is contesting his first full season of major competition this year in GT World Challenge.”

A native of Australia, Sargent returns to a Sebring circuit on which he secured a pair of second-place Carrera Cup finishes in his American racing debut last year.

“I’m very excited to go back to Sebring, and hopefully we can have a strong showing,” Sargent said. “Kyle did very well in Carrera Cup at Sebring in March. He had a successful result that weekend, and so did James, and that gives us a good starting block. I do feel for Kyle not being able to run under all of the glitz and glamour of the Miami Formula 1 race this weekend too, but the good news is he will be up in Canada very shortly in June for Carrera Cup at the Montreal Formula 1 race, which is a big event for him being a Canadian. For now, we set focus on just the Sebring side of it and GT World Challenge, which is the main championship Kyle is running for this season.”

Levy is a longtime friend of GMG Racing and is part of the team’s driver development program based at The Thermal Club in California, where GMG opens its new headquarters facility this summer.

“It should be exciting, I’m looking forward to it, the platform is new for me, but one I have been interested in,” said Levy, who also competes this season and in recent years in the IMSA Lamborghini Super Trofeo series. “I have known James for years, and we used to work together on the street side before I got into racing. He’s kind of the Porsche expert that I knew, and so far it has been so good. He’s a good driver, but having a good car is imperative, and James has had some recent wins, which is a testament to what GMG Racing is able to do. I thought it would be a natural fit to go with GMG.”

Sofronas won the season-opening Carrera Cup Pro-Am race at Sebring and a victory in Miami’s first race on Saturday would give him a stout tally of four victories in the last five races. The winning run started with a sweep of 2023’s year-end Carrera Cup doubleheader at Circuit of The Americas and the third-straight win in the Sebring opener.

“First and foremost, we want to welcome Ofir to the racing team and we are going to do everything we can to help make his first Carrera Cup race weekend a success,” Sofronas said. “We wish Kyle was with us, and he should be, but we will be keeping a close eye on him and Tom all weekend in Sebring from Miami. Kyle made it to the podium at Miami last year and we plan to build on that success even more with more podiums and hopefully even a victory.”

This weekend’s GT World Challenge and GT America races at Sebring can be viewed live on SRO’s GT World channel on YouTube.

The Carrera Cup races in Miami can be viewed live on NBC’s Peacock streaming app, IMSA.tv and PorscheCarreraCup.us.

The 40-minute GT America sprints in Sebring begin the day’s racing action on both Saturday at 12:55 p.m. and Sunday at 8:40 a.m. EDT. The first 90-minute GT World Challenge race goes green at 3:05 p.m. on Saturday and is followed by Carrera Cup Round One in Miami at 5:50 p.m. EDT.

The Carrera Cup weekend finale starts Sunday at 10:30 a.m. in Miami with the 11:15 a.m. EDT GT World Challenge race at Sebring wrapping up GMG Racing’s full weekend schedule of six races later that morning.