{"id":243631,"date":"2026-03-30T17:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243631\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:25:19","slug":"pfaff-confirms-temerario-gt3-entry-for-long-beach-with-vanier-sportscar365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243631\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfaff Confirms Temerario GT3 Entry for Long Beach With Vanier \u2013 Sportscar365"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MTEsMCwxLDEw\" href=\"https:\/\/www.michelinman.com\/why-michelin\/trust?utm_source=sportscar365&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=whymichelin-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MICH_Motorsports-Banner-Ad_728x90.png\" height=\"90\" width=\"728\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143204\" class=\"size-full wp-image-143204\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Badraoui-SEB12-03-19-26-89273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-143204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Brandon Badraoui\/IMSA<\/p>\n<p>Pfaff Motorsports will tackle next month\u2019s Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach with its new Lamborghini Temerario GT3, having confirmed its GTD class entry with Andrea Caldarelli and Zachary Vanier.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian squad, which gave the twin-turbo V8-powered car its global debut in the recent Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, has elected to enter the GTP\/GTD-only IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship street race.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, FIA Silver-rated driver Vanier, who has been sponsored by Pfaff Automotive through his career, will make his WeatherTech Championship debut, taking the seat typically occupied by Sandy Mitchell when the car runs in GTD Pro.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Canadian, who finished third in last year\u2019s Porsche Carrera Cup North America championship, recently stepped up to GT3 competition in GT World Challenge America powered by AWS, making his debut in last weekend\u2019s season opener at Sonoma Raceway at the wheel of a McCann Racing-entered Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo.<\/p>\n<p>The Long Beach outing will mark the Temerario GT3\u2019s street course debut, following its tenth place class finish at Sebring with Caldarelli, Mitchell and Franck Perera.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-del=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dagysheadshot3-80x80.jpg\" class=\"avatar pp-user-avatar avatar-60 photo \" height=\"60\" width=\"60\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>John Dagys is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Sportscar365. Dagys spent eight years as a motorsports correspondent for FOXSports.com and SPEED Channel and has contributed to numerous other motorsports publications worldwide.  <a href=\"http:\/\/sportscar365.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#f491909d809b86b487849b868087979586c7c2c1da979b99\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Contact John<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ss365-1.png\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Brandon Badraoui\/IMSA Pfaff Motorsports will tackle next month\u2019s Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach with its new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-243631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}