IMSA – Indy Wrap on to Road America

Action Express racing dominated the Grand Prix at the Brickyard this past weekend. Joao Barbosa and Christian Fittipaldi took the lead going into the first turn of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course and didn’t look back. With the win the two drivers have taken over the points lead heading into next weekends event at Road America. But as dominating of a victory it was I believe the real story coming out of Indy was that of Wayne Taylor racing. The driver combo of Jordan and Rickey Taylor, were virtually…

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SCCA – KCRSCCA Solo Event 8 Photos

We’re three quarters of the way through the SCCA Kansas City Region’s Solo season. Event 8 was held last Sunday at the usual venue, the Metropolitan Community College Precision Driving Center in Independence, MO. It was a fast, but technically challenging course which proved too much for this photog turned driver. At the end of the day, I remembered Alain Prost’s famous quote, “When I look fast, I’m not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.” If only I’d remembered…

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IMSA – TUDOR Brickyard Grand Prix in Photos

Brad Plant was on hand for the TUDOR United Sports Car Championship’s Brickyard Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Be sure too keep an eye out for his recap to be posted later in the week as well as his Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge. In the meantime, here are his TUSCC photos. Enjoy! Photos from the TUSCC Brickyard Grand Prix

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IMSA-Six Hours Makes for a Great Race

Perfect! Watching the Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen this word came to my mind time and time again. Sure not everything IMSA did was perfect the racing it self was not flawless to say the least. But that is part of what made this race perfect for racing fans in general. Not to mention the fact that after the 6 hours the points races in all for classes are just beginning to heat up. Yes we can have the performance equality conversation between the DP and the LM P2…

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SCCA – Mazda MX-5 Cup Joins the Double-Header Madness in Houston

Credit: Steve Bernstein

Double-Header Madness is in the air! The Verizon IndyCar Series and the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires will share the NHK Stadium parking lot with the SCCA Pro’s Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BF Goodrich, and every will run two! It’s a rare thing for the MX-5 Cup to join IndyCar for a race weekend, although it’s not unheard of, especially at Houston where the MX-5 Cup was a regular with CART and Champ Car. The championship points standings after four races thus far is in many ways…

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Goikhberg stretches championship lead in the Cooper Tires Prototype Lites Powered by Mazda

Mikhail Goikhberg stretched his championship lead in the Cooper Tires Prototype Lites Powered by Mazda series winning Round 4 and finishing second in Round 3 on Saturday, June 7 at Kansas Speedway. Goikhberg has won three of the four races this season in the No. 10 JDC Motorsports car and now leads the series with 78 points. “Overall, I’m happy with how the weekend went,” Goikhberg said. “We were a corner away from winning the first race, won the second race. I’m very happy with the car, very proud of JDC, and…

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Davison, Wilson Give TRG-AMR GS Win while Valiante, Gilsinger take ST Kansas Victory

James Davidson battled throughout the final hour of the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge race at Kansas Speedway this past Saturday, to take home the win with co-driver Kris Wilson in the No. 07 TRG-AMR Aston Martin Vantage. Wilson started from the pole and led the opening 70 minutes of the two-hour, 30-minute race. As the No. 07 pitted, Matt Plumb inherited the lead after taking over for starting driver Nick Longhi in the No. 13 Rum Bum Racing Porsche 911. “It was certainly a competitive race, and I was trying…

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8Star and Core Autosport Score Prototype Challenge Victories At Grand Prix of Kansas

8Star Motorsports and their orange FLM-009 Oreca PC, driven by Sean Rayhall, finished on the podium in race one of two during the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship at Kansas Speedway. From the drop of the green flag, Sean Rayhall power 8Star Motorsports #25 PC off the line to take the lead entering the first corner. Rayhall was able to maintain his lead throughout the entire race, despite two yellow flags, building a nearly five second gap to second place, in addition to setting the fastest lap of the 31-lap race…

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PR – Pirelli World Challenge returns to New Jersey Motorsports Park with TC, TCA, TCB doubleheader

Millville, N.J. – The 2014 Pirelli World Challenge season, the 25th Anniversary of the championship, sees the series in two places this weekend of May 30 through June 1. While the GT, GT-A and GTS divisions are racing on the streets of Detroit, the Touring Car (TC), new Touring Car A class (TCA) and Touring Car B-Spec class (TCB) have a doubleheader weekend as the series makes its return to New Jersey Motorsports Park for the first time in five years. Thus far Honda has dominated the TC class, but…

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TUSCC – Startworks wins in PC as GTD ends with a Shocker

An exciting finish at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for the first of two, two-hour TUDOR United SportsCar Championship races as race strategies determined who won and lost in PC and GT Daytona. The 8Star Motorsports entry of Luis Diaz and Sean Rayhall looked like the overall win was going to come with ease, but following a final pit stop by Starworks Motorsport for right-side tires only, saw the Martini-sponsored No. 8 cross the finish line 12.234 seconds ahead of the No. 25 8Star car. If the race for the overall win was good, the…

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