Multiple sources have confirmed to DSC that IMSA and WC Vision (organising body for the Pirelli World Challenge) are engaged in dual lawsuits over recent senior staff hirings.

DSC understands that IMSA, or representatives thereof, have issued legal filings pertaining to the appointment of ex IMSA employee Julie Bentley as WC Vision’s new Director of Partnership Relations in November 2014.

More recently a similar level of legal correspondence has been instigated by World Vision pertaining to ex World Challenge Competition and Race Director Geoff Carter, directed towards IMSA after their hiring last month of Carter as the new Series Manager of the Tudor United Sportscar Championship.

When approached this morning by DSC, WC Vision Vice President General Manager Greg Gill offered no comment.

“Anything to do with internal business operations we don’t discuss so I cannot comment to either confirm or deny that.

IMSA too were unwilling to confirm, deny or comment on either issue “We never comment on matters such as this,” was the understandable response from David Higdon, Vice President of Integrated Marketing Communications at IMSA.

In the perhaps predictable void of public comment from either party it’s left for us to note, with some regret, that whilst the Cold War between the ALMS and Grand-Am is now sportscar history, the sportscar racing community in North America still sports some open wounds.