Robby Foley enters uncharted waters in American sports car racing. The Turner Motorsport driver, who competes in both the GTD class of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and the Pro class of GT World Challenge America, arrives at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta (MRRA) for Saturday’s ten-hour Motul Petit Le Mans with a chance to secure the first of two championships in 2026 aboard the No. 96 BMW M4 GT3 EVO.
If successful, Foley could become the first driver to win a GT championship in both of North America’s premier sports car racing series in the same season — an accomplishment the BMW driver would love to achieve.
“Yeah, it’d be amazing,” Foley said. “I mean, it’s kind of always the goal. You start out, I’m lucky to drive in all three programs, and you always start the season with those ambitions. Over the past couple years, we’ve been fortunate to win a championship in one of those three programs the last three years. So that’s been great. But yeah, to be kind of in contention in all three is amazing. It’s just a testament to how hard everybody works. There’s a lot of crossover between programs, so it’s great to have all that continuity within the team.
“Since I’ve been there, which has been a while now, there’s really not been much turnover. We have a lot of the same core group of people that, year in and year out, we just try to improve on little things, and I think we’ve made a major step in our performance in GTD this year with the new Evo car. That’s crossed over to other programs as well.
“So, to summarize, it’d be amazing. I mean, I’m not sure if anybody’s done it before. I don’t think it’s been done, but to win one of three would be amazing, but we’ll try to do all three.”
Positively for Turner Motorsport and Foley, the team enters Road Atlanta with strong momentum after securing an IMSA GTD class victory at Indianapolis two weeks ago. Following that result with last week’s GT World Challenge America race at Barber Motorsports Park, Foley and the team head into the championship finale with confidence and an opportunity to carry that momentum into Petit Le Mans, where they could leave with the GTD title by night’s end.
“We had a really strong Indy, which was great. It kind of put us more in the championship picture. We were always kind of there, thereabouts, but I feel like the last couple years, with the No. 57 sort of dominating, you have to win a race or two or three to really be in the conversation.
“It was nice to get a good haul of points there. Obviously, they (No. 57) finished second, so we didn’t close too much of a gap. I think it’s going to come down to just having a good, clean race. That’s kind of been our M.O. all season. It’s kind of always being in and around the top five and around the podium.
“For us, it’s really no different. It’s just another race, but in the end, we’re definitely going to be focused on what the 57 car is doing in qualifying, and in the end, it could come down to one position. We were strong there last year in terms of pace. The race didn’t quite work out. We had an incident or two that kind of took us out of the front, but yeah, just another race for us, and we’ll keep up kind of the same mentality as what’s got us to this position.”
Foley, along with Turner Motorsport, will look to begin writing history this Saturday, Oct. 3, when the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship closes out its 2026 campaign with the 10-hour Motul Petit Le Mans at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.
The season finale is scheduled to begin at noon ET, with live coverage in the United States available across NBC, NBCSN and Peacock, as well as internationally on IMSA.tv and IMSA’s official YouTube channel.
