Motul Course de Monterey explained

Race Title:	Motul Course de Monterey
Series Long:	IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship
Series Short:	USCC
Venue:	WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca
Sponsor:	Motul
First Race:	1950
First Series Race:	2014
Duration:	2 hour 40 minutes
Previous Names:	IMSA Monterey Grand Prix Pebble Beach Road Races Monterey Triple Crown Monterey Sports Car Championships American Le Mans Monterey America's Tire 250
Most Wins Driver:	5 drivers tied (3)
Most Wins Team:	Audi Sport North America (6)
Most Wins Manufacturer:	Porsche (9)

The Course de Monterey is a sports car race held annually at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA). The event began in 1950 as a race on the roads of Pebble Beach, California. In 1951, it was added to the new SCCA National Sports Car Championship. When Laguna Seca Raceway was built in 1957, the races moved there. The event fell dormant after the National Championship was discontinued in 1957, but was revived by the SCCA's new United States Road Racing Championship in 1963. The race fell dormant again in 1969, and was revived in 1973 with the IMSA GT Championship.

Between 1999 and 2013 the event was a part of the American Le Mans Series, until the series merged with the Rolex Sports Car Series in 2014 to form the United SportsCar Championship.

Pebble Beach

Year	Drivers	Team	Car	Duration/Distance	Race Title	Report
Non-Championship
1950	Phil Hill	Phil Hill	Jaguar XK120 M	100miles	Pebble Beach Road Race	report
SCCA National Sports Car Championship
1951	Bill Pollack	Tom Carstens	Allard 2J-Cadillac	100miles	Pebble Beach Cup	report
1952	Bill Pollack	Tom Carstens	Allard 2J-Cadillac	100miles	Del Monte Trophy	report
1953	Phil Hill	Phil Hill	Ferrari 250 MM Vignale Spyder Series I	100miles	Del Monte Trophy	report
1954	Sterling Edwards		Ferrari 340 MM	100miles	Del Monte Trophy	report
1955	Phil Hill		Ferrari 750 Monza	100miles	Del Monte Trophy	report
1956	Carroll Shelby	Dick Hall	Ferrari 750 Monza Scaglietti	100miles	Del Monte Trophy	report

Laguna Seca

Year	Drivers	Team	Car	Duration/Distance	Race Title	Report
SCCA National Sports Car Championship
1957	Pete Lovely	Fred Armbruster	Ferrari 500 TR		Pebble Beach Races	report
1958 - 1962	Not held
United States Road Racing Championship
1963	Chuck Parsons	Chuck Parsons	Lotus 23-Ford	150miles	Laguna Seca 150	report
1964	Jim Hall	Chaparral Cars	Chaparral 2A-Chevrolet	150miles		report
1965	Jim Hall	Chaparral Cars	Chaparral 2A-Chevrolet	150miles		report
1966	Charlie Hayes		McLaren Elva Mark II-Chevrolet	150miles	Monterey 150	report
1967	Lothar Motschenbacher		McLaren Elva Mark II-Chevrolet	250km (160miles)		report
1968	Mark Donohue		McLaren M6A-Chevrolet	150miles	Pimm's Cup Trophy	report
1969 - 1973	Not held
IMSA GT Championship
1974	Elliot Forbes-Robinson	F.A.R. West Racing	Porsche Carrera	100miles	Monterey Triple Crown	report
1974	Milt Minter	Toad Hall Motor Racing	Porsche Carrera RSR	100miles	Monterey Triple Crown	report
1975	Peter Gregg	Brumos Porsche	Porsche Carrera RSR	100miles	Monterey Triple Crown	report
1975	Hans-Joachim Stuck	BMW Motorsport	BMW 3.0 CSL	100miles	Monterey Triple Crown	report
1976	Al Holbert	Holbert/Dickinson Racing	Chevrolet Monza	100miles	Monterey Triple Crown	report
1977	Danny Ongais	Interscope Racing	Porsche 934	100miles	Monterey Triple Crown	report
1978	George Follmer	Vasek Polak	Porsche 935/77A	100miles	Monterey Triple Crown	report
1979	Peter Gregg	Brumos Porsche	Porsche 935/79	100miles	Winston GT Monterey Triple Crown	report
1980	John Fitzpatrick	Dick Barbour Racing	Porsche 935 K3	100miles	Datsun Monterey Triple Crown	report
1981	Brian Redman	Cooke Woods/Garretson	Lola T600-Chevrolet	100miles	Datsun Monterey Triple Crown	report
1982	John Paul Jr.	Holbert Racing	Lola T600-Chevrolet	100miles	Datsun Monterey Triple Crown	report
1983	Al Holbert	Holbert Racing	March 83G-Chevrolet	100miles	Monterey Triple Crown	report
1984	Randy Lanier	Blue Thunder Racing	March 83G-Chevrolet	100miles	Red Lobster Monterey Triple Crown	report
1985	Al Holbert	Holbert Racing	Porsche 962	300km (200miles)	22nd Annual Nissan Monterey Triple Crown	report
1986	Klaus Ludwig	Zakspeed USA	Ford Mustang Probe GTP	300km (200miles)	Monterey Triple Crown	report
1987	Klaus Ludwig	Bayside Disposal Racing	Porsche 962	300km (200miles)	Nissan Monterey Triple Crown	report
1988	Not held
1989	Hans-Joachim Stuck	Audi of America	Audi 90 Quattro	1 Hour	Toyota Monterey Grand Prix	report
1990	Not held
1991	Davy Jones	Bud Light/Jaguar Racing	Jaguar XJR-16	300km (200miles)	Grand Auto Supply Monterey Camel GT	report
1992	Juan Manuel Fangio II	All American Racers	Eagle Mk III-Toyota	2 Hours	Grand Auto Supply Monterey Camel GT	report
1993	P. J. Jones	All American Racers	Eagle Mk III-Toyota	1 Hour, 45 Minutes	Monterey Camel GT	report
1994	Andy Evans Fermín Vélez	Team Scandia	Ferrari 333 SP	2 Hours	Monterey Sports Car Grand Prix	report
1995	Not held
1996	Not held
1997	John Paul Jr. Butch Leitzinger	Dyson Racing	Riley & Scott Mk III-Ford	1 Hour, 45 Minutes	VISA Sports Car Championships	report
1998	Bill Auberlen Didier de Radigues	BMW Motorsport	Riley & Scott Mk III-BMW	2 Hours, 30 Minutes	VISA Sports Car Championships	report
American Le Mans Series
1999	JJ Lehto Steve Soper	BMW Motorsport	BMW V12 LMR	2 Hours, 45 Minutes	VISA Sports Car Championships presented by Honda	report
2000	Rinaldo Capello Allan McNish	Audi Sport North America	Audi R8	2 Hours, 45 Minutes	Globalcenter Monterey Sports Car Championships	report
2001	Frank Biela Emanuele Pirro	Audi Sport North America	Audi R8	2 Hours, 45 Minutes	Monterey Sports Car Championships presented by Mazda	report
2002	Frank Biela Emanuele Pirro	Audi Sport North America	Audi R8	2 Hours, 45 Minutes	Monterey Sports Car Championships	report
2003	Marco Werner Frank Biela	Infineon Team Joest	Audi R8	2 Hours, 45 Minutes	Fry's Electronics Sports Car Championships	report
2004	Johnny Herbert Pierre Kaffer	ADT Champion Racing	Audi R8	4 Hours	Audi Sports Car Championships	report
2005	Tom Chilton Hayanari Shimoda	Zytek Engineering	Zytek 04S	4 Hours	Monterey Sports Car Championships	report
2006	Allan McNish Rinaldo Capello	Audi Sport North America	Audi R10 TDI	4 Hours	Monterey Sports Car Championships	report
2007	Allan McNish Rinaldo Capello	Audi Sport North America	Audi R10 TDI	4 Hours	Monterey Sports Car Championships	report
2008	Marco Werner Lucas Luhr	Audi Sport North America	Audi R10 TDI	4 Hours	Monterey Sports Car Championships presented by Patrón	report
2009	Gil de Ferran Simon Pagenaud	de Ferran Motorsports	Acura ARX-02a	4 Hours	Monterey Sports Car Championships presented by Patrón	report
2010	David Brabham Simon Pagenaud Marino Franchitti	Patrón Highcroft Racing	HPD ARX-01C	6 Hours	American Le Mans Series Monterey presented by Patrón	report
2011	Adrián Fernández Harold Primat Stefan Mücke	Aston Martin Racing	Lola-Aston Martin B09/60	6 Hours	ModSpace American Le Mans Monterey presented by Patrón	report
2012	Klaus Graf Lucas Luhr	Muscle Milk Pickett Racing	HPD ARX-03a	6 Hours	American Le Mans Monterey presented by Patrón	report
2013	Klaus Graf Lucas Luhr	Muscle Milk Pickett Racing	HPD ARX-03a	4 Hours	American Le Mans Monterey presented by Patrón	report
IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship
2014	Renger van der Zande Mirco Schultis	Starworks Motorsport	Oreca FLM09 Chevrolet	2 Hours (PC, GTD)	Continental Tire Monterey Grand Prix Powered By Mazda	report
2014	Johannes van Overbeek Ed Brown	Extreme Speed Motorsports	HPD ARX-03b	2 Hours (P, GTLM)	Continental Tire Monterey Grand Prix Powered By Mazda	report
2015	Michael Valiante Richard Westbrook	VisitFlorida.com Racing	Corvette DP	2 Hours, 40 Minutes	Continental Tire Monterey Grand Prix Powered By Mazda	report
2016	Oswaldo Negri Jr. John Pew	Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian	Ligier JS P2 Honda	2 Hours (P, GTLM)		report
2016	Robert Alon Tom Kimber-Smith	PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports	Oreca FLM09 Chevrolet	2 Hours (PC, GTD)		report
2017	Marc Goossens Renger van der Zande	VisitFlorida.com Racing	Ligier JS P217	2 Hours, 40 Minutes	America's Tire 250	report
2018	Pipo Derani Johannes van Overbeek	Tequila Patrón ESM	Nissan Onroak DPi	2 Hours, 40 Minutes	America's Tire 250	report
2019	Dane Cameron Juan Pablo Montoya	Acura Team Penske	Acura ARX-05	2 Hours, 40 Minutes	IMSA Monterey Grand Prix	report
2020	Hélio Castroneves Ricky Taylor	Acura Team Penske	Acura ARX-05	2 Hours, 40 Minutes	Hyundai Monterey Sports Car Championship	report
2021	Filipe Albuquerque Ricky Taylor	Konica Minolta Acura	Acura ARX-05	2 Hours, 40 Minutes	Hyundai Monterey Sports Car Championship	report
2022	Filipe Albuquerque Ricky Taylor	Konica Minolta Acura	Acura ARX-05	2 Hours, 40 Minutes	Hyundai Monterey Sports Car Championship	report
2023	Sébastien Bourdais Renger van der Zande	Cadillac Racing	Cadillac V-Series.R	2 Hours, 40 Minutes	Motul Course de Monterey Powered by Hyundai N	report
2024	Mathieu Jaminet Nick Tandy	Porsche Penske Motosport	Porsche 963	2 Hours, 40 Minutes	Motul Course de Monterey Powered by Hyundai N	report
Doubleheader events in 1974 and 1975 IMSA were also the headlining race at the Monterey Grand Prix in 1976 and 1977 Split races in 2014 and 2016

External links

United SportsCar Championship official site
Ultimate Racing History: Laguna Seca archive
Racing Sports Cars: Laguna Seca archive, Pebble Beach archive
World Sports Racing Prototypes: SCCA National archive, USRRC archive, IMSA archive
Etceterini