Category: Press Releases

Daytona, FL, 23 January 2014.  Risi Competizione is a proven winner of endurance sportscar races, and has won several times before after starting from the back of the grid.  However, that scenario definitely wasn’t what the team was hoping for on the eve of the first round of the new Tudor United Sportscar Championship. Following a very encouraging two practice sessions today, during which much progress was made in setting up the car for the Rolex 24 at Daytona, due to start at 2:10 pm on Saturday, 25 January, World GT Champion…

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Woodcliff Lake, N.J. – Jan. 23, 2014 . . . BMW Team RLL brings a power-packed driver lineup to the 52nd Rolex 24 at Daytona to pilot the two BMW Z4 GTLM racing machines. Bill Auberlen, Joey Hand, Maxime Martin and Andy Priaulx will share the black No. 55 car. John Edwards, Dirk Müller, Graham Rahal and Dirk Werner will co-drive the white No. 56 machine. Among them Auberlen has two class wins (1997 GT3, 1998 GT3) and Müller one (1998 GT1) while Hand and Rahal co-drove to the 2011 overall…

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Daytona Beach, Fla. — Level 5 Motorsports is ready for a history making run this weekend, as the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship stages its first-ever race with the 52nd running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona. The new chapter in North American sportscar racing, which sees the merger between GRAND-AM Road Racing and the American Le Mans Series, also marks an exciting next step for the Madison, Wis.-based organization as it launches its new customer program. After winning championships in both the Prototype Challenge (PC) and P2 classes, Level 5…

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A long off-season is ready to come to an end this Friday as the IMSA-sanctioned Continental Tire Series opens its championship at Daytona International Speedway, and Virginia’s BimmerWorld Racing is ready to resume its pursuit of a title in the Street Tuner class. The BMW aftermarket and tuning experts have re-tooled their program to expand from three cars to four, added new drivers and have continued their uncompromising development of BMW’s latest 3-Series chassis platform, the F30. All of that work, according to BimmerWorld team owner/driver James Clay, has been done with…

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The Austin, Texas based team will continue to run it’s multiple race winning Mazda MX-5s in the ST Class of the CTSCC but the driver combinations will have an unfamiliar look to them. For 2014 the #3 CJ Wilson Mazda/Head & Shoulders car will be driven by Marc Miller and Tyler McQuarrie while the #5 ModSpace MX-5 will be driven by the combination of Stevan McAleer and Chad McCumbee. Those four drivers combined for three pole positions, two wins and one Rookie of the Year title in 2013. The driving…

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STUART, Fla., – Jan. 21, 2014 – Extreme Speed Motorsports (ESM) – equipped with two Tequila Patrón-sponsored Honda Performance Development (HPD) ARX-03b race cars and seven world-class, championship-winning drivers – is ready to conquer the 2014 TUDOR United SportsCar Championship this weekend with the series’ longest and most challenging endurance race – the 52nd Annual Rolex 24 At Daytona. This marks ESM’s third straight Rolex 24 At Daytona race.  In 2012 and 2013, the team entered one GT racing machine with a best finish of ninth place in class.  With the formation of the…

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BATAVIA, Ohio, Jan. 21 — Batavia, Ohio-based Wright Motorsports is in the final stages of preparing a brand-new Porsche 911 GT America car, the Universal Industrial Sales #58, that is Snow Racing’s entry in the 52nd annual Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., this weekend, Jan. 25-26. The race is the inaugural event in the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, sanctioned by IMSA. A total of 67 cars are entered among four classes. The Snow Racing Porsche that Wright Motorsports will service before, during and after the race…

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Jan. 21, 2014) – Three-time sports car champion and two-time Rolex 24 At Daytona winner Wayne Taylor hung up the racing gloves as a full-time competitor in 2006 and, albeit for one-off appearances in the 2007 through 2010 Rolex 24s, he says he hasn’t missed it one bit while running the perennially championship-contending team that bears his name. But for this weekend’s 52nd Rolex 24 on the Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway road circuit, Taylor has decided to come out of retirement to fulfill one of his racing dreams…

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Freedom Autosport is returning to the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge Series for the 2014 season, and the team will be fielding three Mazda MX-5s in the ST class. Brothers Mat and Mark Pombo will co-drive the No. 25 Freedom Autosport Mazda MX-5. Both brothers have been racing the series full-time since 2011, and both of them honed their skills racing Spec Miatas. Mark Pombo is the first veteran to drive for Freedom Autosport, a team which honors the men and women of the U.S. military and…

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Daytona Beach, Fla. (21 January 2014) – With international interest at an all-time high and a brand new championship to fight for, the 2014 Rolex 24 At Daytona is poised to be a watershed event. This weekend’s Rolex 24 At Daytona will mark the launch of the IMSA TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, with a full range of new competition on hand as well as the deployment of a new set of technical rules. But for Spirit of Daytona Racing and its drivers Richard Westbrook (UK), Michael Valiante (Canada), and Mike…

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