Mario Farnbacher completed one of his most successful rounds of the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season yet with a fighting fifth in class at the Laguna Seca Raceway. After showing front-running pace at both the Rolex 24 at Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring earlier in the year before misfortune cost them…
Mario Farnbacher is already looking ahead to a strong event at Laguna Seca following a consistent albeit difficult IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship weekend around the notoriously tight and twisting streets of Long Beach. Farnbacher, teaming only with Misha Goikhberg at this past weekend’s Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, finished a points-paying twelfth with Forte Racing. The #78 Lamborghini…
Mario Farnbacher continued his IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season with a fighting drive to twelfth in-class at the 73rd 12 Hours of Sebring. Competing once again aboard the Forte Racing Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2 alongside Misha Goikhberg and Parker Kligerman, Farnbacher entered his eleventh 12 Hours of Sebring this past weekend, an event at which…
Category-leading pace during the 2025 Rolex 24 at Daytona has left Mario Farnbacher feeling confident of a strong IMSA SportsCar Championship campaign this year with Forte Racing, despite a taxing race in Florida. Mario, who teamed with Misha Goikhberg, Parker Kligerman and Franck Perera for his 13th consecutive 24-hour event at Daytona, remained well in…
It was the season’s finale at the USA’s legendary Petit Le Mans on Mario Farnbacher’s agenda. The top-class IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship finale saw the Franconian driving an Aston Martin Vantage GT3 from Heart of Racing together with works driver Marco Sörensen and the Canadian Zacharie Robichon. “Our aim was to drive a clean…
22 September saw Mario Farnbacher facing the six-hour challenge of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race action at the legendary Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Together with Heart Of Racing teammate Roman De Angelis, the Aston Martin pilot ranked sixth in a race that was characterised by freak weather. “We certainly experienced a very interesting race,…
Another outing in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for Mario Farnbacher. At the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Bowmanville, the Franconian drove an Aston Martin Vantage GT3 from Heart of Racing together with Ross Gunn in the GTD Pro class of the popular racing series. “It was an interesting weekend, I was happy to…
Mario Farnbacher was back behind the wheel of the Aston Martin Vantage GT3 on the weekend of 10 to 12 May. Farnbacher, who was in action for Heart of Racing at Laguna Seca in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, came home in sixth position in the GTD Pro class together with Ross Gunn. “We…
Mario Farnbacher and the team Heart of Racing joined the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season’s second race on 16 March. The Aston Martin driver and his team colleagues secured fifth place in a challenging run of the 12 Hours of Sebring’s 72nd edition. “We made the most of it,” Farnbacher summed up. “Unfortunately, we…
For several years now, Mario Farnbacher hasn’t been able to imagine life without the traditional Daytona 24 Hours season-opener. However, 2024 sees a new beginning for him: from now on, he’ll be at the start of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship as a regular driver for the Heart of Racing team. And that right…