Daytona Beach, Fla. (23 January 2014) – Talk about making an adjustment. After building his racing career with a regular shot at qualifying sessions that were nearly an hour long, Anthony Mantella faced the prospect of the shortest qualifying session of his career on Thursday as he prepared for his first IMSA Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge session. At just 15 minutes, Mantella knew that it was going to be go time when the green flag dropped. But as fate would have it, instead of getting 15 minutes, he only…

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Daytona (US), 23rd January 2014. The countdown for the season opener of the new United SportsCar Championship (USCC) is on. In GTLM qualifying for the 24-hour race of Daytona (US) the two BMW Z4 GTLM cars of BMW Team RLL finished seventh and eighth. John Edwards (US) recorded a lap time of 1:45.667 minutes at the wheel of the number 56 car, finishing seventh. Andy Priaulx (GB) followed directly behind his team-mate in eighth, being just five thousands of a second slower in the number 55 BMW Z4 GTLM. Marc…

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., – Jan. 23, 2014 – Extreme Speed Motorsports took to Daytona International Speedway in qualifying today for the 52nd Annual Rolex 24 At Daytona, the opening race of the 2014 TUDOR United SportsCar Championship and the first round of the Tequila Patrón North American Endurance Cup (NAEC). For the start of a new season, in a new series, the Florida-based team expects a challenging and competitive year. Thursday’s opening day included one morning and one afternoon practice session totaling 90 minutes of on-track time.  As the sunset, the two-car team took to…

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Daytona Beach, Fla. (23 January 2014) – Stevenson Motorsports took its first official IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge qualifying laps with the new Camaro Z/28.R on Thursdayas Matt Bell piloted the No. 9 Camaro and Stevenson teammate Andrew Davis campaigned the No. 6 Camaro. Despite only having one flying lap due to a lengthy red-flag that came early in the 15-minute session, both Stevenson Motorsports Camaro Z/28.R machines netted a top-10 starting spot for Friday’s Daytona Rising 200 (Fox Sports 2,6:00 PM ET broadcast/Friday). Bell, who will share the No. 9 Camaro…

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Daytona Beach,  Fla. (23 January 2014) – They say that being lucky can be better than being good, but as Rum Bum Racing showed on Thursday at Daytona International Speedway, being well-prepared can sometimes trump both. Having the car prepared well in advance of the session, the championship team was first in the qualifying line and ready to go as the 2014 IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar (CTSC) Championship launched with the first grid-setting session of the season. That preparation paid dividends as Rum Bum Racing drivers Nick Longhi and Kaz Grala made…

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DAYTONA BEACH, FL (January 23, 2014) –  The DeltaWing Racing Cars team set its quickest lap to date on the high banks of Daytona during today’s qualifying session, earning the eighth starting position for this weekend’s Rolex 24 Hours – race one of the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. Katherine Legge put the revolutionary sports car prototype on the starting grid just behind the Daytona Prototypes, but ahead of the DeltaWing’s former American Le Mans Series P2 competitors with a quick time of 1:39.270. For Legge, as well as fellow DeltaWing drivers Andy…

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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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