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The IMSA season starts tomorrow with the legendary 24 Hours of Daytona. As connoisseurs know, the abbreviation IMSA stands for "International Motor Sports Association". It used to be mocked as "International Marijuana Smuggler Association". Why? We provide the explanation here.

A long time ago, our author was driving through the Canadian Arctic with Hans-Joachim Stuck. At some point, the two came to talk about one of motorsport’s most tragic episodes.

Endurance racing is the ultimate challenge, no challenge in racing is more relentless, merciless and revelatory for man, brand and machine. The queen of endurance races: Le Mans. We approach this myth.

Stéphane Lenglin penned the design of the Porsche 963 Le Mans prototype. That’s rather unusual, given the fact that this is a performance-oriented racing car and Lenglin is not an aerodynamic engineer but a designer. But that’s typically Porsche. How so? In our interview, he tells us all about it.

Surfing was an Olympic discipline for the first time this year. Among the athletes competing in Tokyo was Leon Glatzer, a young surfing talent from Germany. He didn’t win any medals, but we’re still convinced that we’ll be hearing a lot about this twenty-four-year-old in the future.

Together with a team from Porsche Motorsport, Hollywood star Michael ­Fassbender is busy getting fit for Le Mans – where, as an amateur driver, he plans to measure himself against the pros in the ultimate racing event. You can follow the actor’s road to Le Mans in a special Porsche YouTube series. Definitely worth a watch.

What's the best way to start a Monday and a new working week? Of course, in an unagitated way - and with a relaxed bike ride. Preferably along the Swedish coast and with the CEO of a wonderfully unobtrusive and relaxed brand: Thomas Ingenlath from Polestar, for example. On the way, of course, it's all about bikes, the electric performance brand itself - but also craftsmanship and design.

This weekend, Formula 1 visits the USA again after a forced break - and we remember our last trip through 'Murica in a good mood. Admittedly: Two years ago we were on the East Coast and at the NASCAR season finale - not in Austin. But that doesn't matter, since a Ferrari 812 Superfast and a Camaro LT1 also play a starring role.

"Don't look back" is a slogan of skateboarders. But that shouldn't stop us from taking a look back. And certainly not on today's "Go Skateboarding Day". An "Ollie" through seven decades of board culture.

Of course, you can always just move in circles. Or think into the future and take a radically different approach, like the Extreme E off-road racing series. We saw for ourselves with the official timekeeper Zenith on site - and are electrified after the race in Sardinia.

When the skies open their floodgates, the Formula 1 season is over again, the McLaren 765LT is wearing semislicks and the weather forecaster really has no idea about life, the only thing that helps is to take courage from the performances of the Formula 1 rain masters. A dry spare shirt and a raw potato don't hurt either.

This weekend is the last round of the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2022. Porsche will not yet be competing with its new "963" prototype, as some would expect. Instead, it prefers to concentrate on the coming season.