- Kyle Washington, Tom Sargent and the No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo Team Bring GT World Challenge America Powered by AWS Pro-Am Driver and Team Championship Leads to Road America This Weekend

- GMG Racing Tightens McLaren Trophy Pro-Am Championship Battle After First Overall Win of the Season with Deniz Teoman and Jeff Cook in the No. 5 GMG Racing McLaren Artura Trophy in June at Road Atlanta

- Randy Highland Aims to Remain Podium Perfect on the Season with McLaren Trophy America Pro-Am Teammate Michael O'Brien in the No. 7 GMG Racing McLaren Artura Trophy

GMG Racing rides into Road America this weekend for the start of the second half of the 2026 SRO America season leading the GT World Challenge America powered by AWS Pro-Am point standings and several other SRO America racing series championships. The first full-series race weekend in 10 weeks after SRO's traditional summer break, GMG Racing and its teams and drivers look to start the final part of the 2026 season the same winning way they ended the first half at Road America this weekend, August 28 - 30.

Competing in GT World Challenge, GT America and McLaren Trophy America, GMG Racing and its teams and drivers closed out the first half of the 2026 the same way it started with an overall race win and a string of podium finishes in the most recent SRO America race weekend at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, June 12 - 14.

Veteran team driver Kyle Washington and his third-year co-driver Tom Sargent persevered through the Road Atlanta weekend's featured three-hour GT World Challenge America race on Sunday to secure their third Pro-Am podium finish in the year's first four races.

Coming into the Atlanta race leading the GT World Challenge America driver and team Pro-Am standings by seven points, Washington, Sargent and the No. 32 team bring a season-high 12-point lead to Road America after the more than two-month mid-season break.

"The annual SRO America summer break seemed longer than usual this year, and maybe it was, but we never quit preparing and planning for the final stretch run of races, which starts this weekend at Road America," said GMG Racing Founder and Principal James Sofronas. "The momentum from our solid start to the season has not diminished at all despite the off time, but the same preparation and planning back at our headquarters operation at The Thermal Club, and the endless commitment from our drivers, crew and engineers, is incredible. This top-level effort and focused discipline from all on the GMG Racing team will continue straight through the end of the season."

The class-leading podium streak by Washington and Sargent in the No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo includes a pair of Pro-Am race wins at Sonoma Raceway and Sebring International Raceway.

"It's great to be coming back to GT World Challenge America after a summer break," Sargent said. "I’ve been super busy with racing in other series, so I do feel we have a good advantage going into this round. This has been a good track for us in the past and I think we’ll have a successful result. We will have our work cut out for us though, with most other teams doing testing, but I have faith in the GMG Racing guys and what we can achieve."

Washington also contests the single driver GT America sprint race championship this year and remains in the mix for that championship for the second-straight year. He arrives at Road America third in the overall "SRO3" class for top-tier GT3 cars and drivers.

The Road Atlanta weekend's overall race win was delivered by first-year GMG Racing McLaren Trophy America drivers Deniz Teoman and Jeff Cook (pictured below), who built on the momentum of their first Am-class win one race earlier in Miami to secure the outright win in Sunday morning's second and final race. The overall win was the first for GMG Racing in McLaren Trophy since a dual one-two overall sweep by both GMG Racing entries last year at Circuit of The Americas (COTA). The COTA race was part of last year's championship success in the inaugural season of McLaren Trophy America that saw GMG Racing capture both the Am division championship and the overall McLaren Trophy Team title.

The defense of both championships couldn't be closer, with Teoman, Cook and the No. 5 GMG Racing McLaren Artura Trophy team just one point shy of the Am championship leader, 43 - 42. In the overall team championship GMG Racing is a close second in the standings with 32 points, just seven markers behind the current leaders.

Contributing to the team title race with a podium perfect run of results to date is first-year motorsports competitor Randy Highland in the No. 7 GMG Racing McLaren Artura Trophy. A pair of third-place Pro-Am finishes with co-driver Michael O'Brien at Road Atlanta have Highland a perfect five-for-five in victory lane visits this year. A multiple championship winner in McLarens overseas, British driver O'Brien joined Highland prior to the second McLaren Trophy race weekend of the year in Miami to immediately give Highland and the No. 7 team a boost in their on-track performance.

Highland's No. 7 McLaren debuts a new livery this weekend (pictured below), a vibrant and colorful design and application for which GMG Racing extends its thanks to McLaren Newport Beach and Protective Film Solutions (PFS) for a first class job on a narrow deadline.

“We’re now halfway through the McLaren Trophy season going into this race weekend," Highland said. "It will be good to get back racing after a bit of a break since Atlanta, and not a better place to do it than Road America. This track is the real deal, and I can see why many consider it the best road track in America. Three long high-speed straights, with some challenging downhill braking zones and technical corners make it a handful. Looking forward to the challenge, and having such a talented driving partner in Michael to work with and learn from gives me the confidence that it takes to keep improving. Our GMG Racing team always has the car ready to go and puts us into the best position possible when race time comes. The rest is up to us… we’ll be ready for the weekend!”

A multiple championship winner in McLarens overseas, British driver O'Brien joined Highland (pictured at bottom) prior to the second McLaren Trophy race weekend of the year in Miami to immediately give Highland and the No. 7 team a boost in their on-track performance.

"It’s really exciting to be heading to Road America with everything well and truly to play for," O'Brien said. "The team is in a great position and we’re all fighting for our relative championships. From my side, it’s business as usual, I want to continue my pole run in McLaren Trophy America and support Randy as much as possible in our quest to keep building points. I love this time of year when championships are on the line, and thanks to Randy’s efforts and some great teamwork at GMG Racing, we’re in a great spot to push ahead with our goals. Road America is going to be a real treat for us in these McLaren Trophy Evo spec cars. The long straights and fast flowing nature of the track make for an exhilarating ride and should set up some good battles. I can’t wait to get started!"

Meanwhile, first-year GMG Racing drivers Teoman and Highland also lead their respective classes in the McLaren Trophy Papaya Cup Championships. Designed to recognize the on-track achievements of McLaren Trophy Pro-Am and Am drivers over a certain age or with limited race experience, Papaya Cup is named after the vibrant, bright and now legendary "Papaya Orange" colors schemes team founder Bruce McLaren chose for the first McLaren Formula 1 and Can-Am cars of the late 1960s and early 1970s. McLaren's current World Championship Formula 1 team brought the Papaya hue back to the world stage in 2018, appropriately 50 years after the eye-catching orange first appeared on an F1 McLaren in 1968.

After three official practice sessions over the course of Friday and Saturday, the weekend's featured three-hour GT World Challenge America race is scheduled to start at 2 p.m. CDT this Sunday, August 30. Qualifying for the race takes place earlier on Sunday morning.

The McLaren Trophy twin 50-minute races take place Saturday at 3:10 p.m. CDT and Sunday at 10 a.m. CDT.

Qualifying and race coverage will be streamed live all weekend from Road America on SRO RaceControl powered by Vbrick, the GTWorld YouTube channel and SRO Motorsports Twitch. Additionally, one-hour highlights and commentary will air on Fox Sports 1 (FS1).