For the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge, there are 36 cars entered in Saturday’s Continental Tire 120 at the Glen. The Grand Sport class is flat with the entry at Circuit of the Americas in early May. A couple of teams took some hard hits (most notably CJ Wilson Racing’s No. 35 Porsche), but everyone is back. This includes the No. 69 Motorsports in Action McLaren, which caught fire while being rolled out to the grid in Austin.
The Street Tuner class is where the interesting tidbits are located. There are five more teams entered than there were at COTA. Three of those teams will making their season debuts.
Riley Racing, which has not raced their No. 66 Mazda since Lime Rock last July, is entered. AJ and Jameson Riley will do the driving. In addition, the Goldcrest Motorsports-run Strategic Wealth Racing team returns for their first race of 2017. The team will once again have Matthew Dicken and Corey Lewis drive the No. 36 silver, yellow and blue Porsche Cayman. While Lewis has his full-time ride for Change Racing in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Dicken has been racing in IMSA Prototype Challenge in a LMP3 entry. Prototype Challenge is on the undercard in Watkins Glen, so Dicken will be doing double-duty.
There are two teams making their series debuts as well. Kensai/DXDT Racing has entered a Porsche Cayman for David Askew and Aaron Povoledo. This is a team that debuted in the Pirelli World Challenge Sprint-X weekend at Utah Motorsports Campus last year with an Audi R8 LMS Ultra. Povoledo has previous driven in the class for C360R, but for Askew, Saturday will be his series debut. Team Octane has entered the first customer MINI JCW in the class. Adam Isman, formerly of Autometrics Motorsports, will drive the No. 47 MINI JCW alongside of Alain Lauziere.
Finally, there is one driver change of note. Robby Foley is out of the No. 27 Freedom Autosport Mazda MX-5. Matthew Fassnacht will race in Foley’s place. Fassnacht is a regular in Pirelli World Challenge’s TCA class for S.A.C. Racing that has competed for Freedom Autosport in the past. Foley will still be in Watkins Glen racing in the IMSA Prototype Challenge.
Entry List: Continental Tire 120 at the Glen
| Class | Team | Drivers | Car |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Sport | 4 - TeamTGM | Ted Giovanis Hugh Plumb | Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR |
| Grand Sport | 7 - VOLT Racing | Alan Brynjolfsson Chris Hall | McLaren 570S GT4 |
| Grand Sport | 12 - Bodymotion Racing | Cameron Cassels Trent Hindman | Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport |
| Street Tuner | 17 - Rennsport One | Nick Galante Spencer Pumpelly | Porsche Cayman |
| Street Tuner | 18 - Rennsport One | Connor Bloum Aurora Straus | Porsche Cayman |
| Grand Sport | 21 - Muehlner Motorsports America | Cameron Lawrence Chuck Quinton | Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport |
| Street Tuner | 25 - Freedom Autosport | Stevan McAleer Chad McCumbee | Mazda MX-5 |
| Street Tuner | 26 - Freedom Autosport | Andrew Carbonell Liam Dwyer | Mazda MX-5 |
| Street Tuner | 27 - Freedom Autosport | Britt Casey Jr. Matthew Fassnacht | Mazda MX-5 |
| Grand Sport | 28 - Rennsport One | Dillon Machavern Dylan Murcott | Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR |
| Street Tuner | 31 - Bodymotion Racing | Devin Jones Drake Kemper | Mazda MX-5 |
| Grand Sport | 33 - CJ Wilson Racing | Till Bechtolsheimer Marc Miller | Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport |
| Street Tuner | 34 - Murillo Racing | Christopher Stone Christian Szymczak | Mazda MX-5 |
| Grand Sport | 35 - CJ Wilson Racing | Damien Faulkner Russell Ward | Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport |
| Street Tuner | 36 - Strategic Wealth Racing | Matthew Dicken Corey Lewis | Porsche Cayman |
| Street Tuner | 37 - MINI JCW Team | Mike LaMarra James Vance | MINI JCW |
| Street Tuner | 44 - CRG-I Do Borrow | Sarah Cattaneo | Nissan Altima Coupe |
| Grand Sport | 46 - TeamTGM | Guy Cosmo Ted Giovanis | Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport |
| Street Tuner | 47 - Team Octane | Adam Isman Alain Lauziere | MINI JCW |
| Street Tuner | 52 - MINI JCW Team | Mark Pombo Jared Salinsky | MINI JCW |
| Street Tuner | 54 - JDC/Miller MotorSports | Michael Johnson Stephen Simpson | BMW 228i |
| Street Tuner | 56 - Murillo Racing | Eric Foss Jeff Mosing | Porsche Cayman |
| Grand Sport | 57 - Stevenson Motorsports | Matt Bell Robin Liddell | Chevrolet Camaro GT4.R |
| Grand Sport | 59 - KohR Motorsports | Dean Martin Jack Roush Jr. | Ford Mustang GT4 |
| Street Tuner | 63 - Kensai/DXDT Racing | David Askey Aaron Povoledo | Porsche Cayman |
| Street Tuner | 65 - Murillo Racing | Brent Mosing Tim Probert | Porsche Cayman |
| Street Tuner | 66 - Riley Racing | AJ Riley Jameson Riley | Mazda MX-5 |
| Grand Sport | 68 - Motorsport in Action | Rod Randall Kenny Wilden | McLaren 570S GT4 |
| Grand Sport | 69 - Motorsport in Action | Chris Green Jesse Lazare | McLaren 570S GT4 |
| Street Tuner | 73 - MINI JCW Team | Derek Jones Mat Pombo | MINI JCW |
| Street Tuner | 75 - C360R | Roy Block Pierre Kleinubing | Audi S3 |
| Grand Sport | 76 - C360R | Paul Holton Matt Plumb | McLaren 570S GT4 |
| Grand Sport | 77 - C360R | Matthew Keegan Nico Rondet | McLaren 570S GT4 |
| Street Tuner | 81 - BimmerWorld Racing | Ari Balogh Greg Liefooghe | BMW 328i |
| Street Tuner | 84 - BimmerWorld Racing | James Clay Tyler Cooke | BMW 328i |
| Grand Sport | 99 - Automatic Racing | Al Carter Rob Ecklin Jr. | Aston Martin Vantage GT4 |
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