On Friday morning, Bodymotion Racing’s Trent Hindman was fastest overall in the first practice session for the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge at VIRginia International Raceway. Hindman’s lap of 115.107 seconds (102.270 mph) was just over half a tenth of a second quicker than Stevenson Motorsports’ Robin Liddell. Rennsport One’s Dylan Murcott was third quickest, …
On the undercard of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s Michelin GT Challenge at VIR is the Continental Tire SportsCar Championship. Biscuitville, a Greensboro, N.C.-based chain of fast food restaurants that specializes in Southern food, will serve as the primary sponsor of Saturday’s two-hour race. 32 teams will challenge the tricky 3.27-mile full course at VIRginia …
For KohR Motorsports’ Dean Martin and Jack Roush Jr., they must be quite pleased when the electricity flows through the air. At Watkins Glen, they claimed their first win of the year in a race hampered by a red flag for lightning and heavy rains. Sunday was more of the same. The KohR Motorsports No. …
On Saturday morning, C360R’s Paul Holton did not waste any time in trying to lay claim to the pole for today’s IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge Road America 120. On his first flying lap, Holton turned in a lap of 140.185 seconds (103.955 mph). That lap turned out to be more than enough to give …
Unlike those competitors in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge teams got a second helping of the wet stuff on Friday. After another trying session, Motorsport in Action’s Chris Green‘s final lap of the session was fastest with a lap of 156.494 seconds (93.120 mph). The lap was six-tenths of a second …
On Friday afternoon, IMSA released the 2018 schedules for the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge as part of a State of the Series speech at Road America. As compared to 2017, there are a couple of changes of note. First off, 2017 is the last year for the PC class. Nothing …
The skies opened up at Road America just in time for the first IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge practice session of the weekend at Road America. Some teams were apprehensive about venturing onto the 4.048-mile course in the wet. The slippery surface did not bother Mühlner Motorsports America. They put their new drivers for the …
On Saturday, the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge will be back in action for a two-hour sprint race at Road America. 32 teams are currently entered in the race. In Grand Sport, TeamTGM is back, but with only one of their two Porsches. The No. 4 will run with Guy Cosmo and Hugh Plumb at …
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series: Last Lap the Sweetest for Kyle Busch – It took 1,114 laps led for Kyle Busch to turn into Victory Lane in 2017. Starting from pole for the fifth time this season, Busch led the most laps in Sunday’s Overton’s 400 at Pocono Raceway (74), surviving a 55-lap green-flag run to the end …
At Lime Rock Park on Saturday morning, Stevenson Motorsports’ Matt Bell and Robin Liddell used excellent pace and superior pit strategy to open up a lead of 31 seconds over the rest of the pack. Cautions cut that lead down, but Bell and Liddell were able to keep the No. 57 Camaro up front to …
Normally, qualifying for IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge races is a relatively quiet time for Trent Hindman. His teammate Cameron Cassels usually qualifies the car while Hindman cheers on his Canadian teammate. That was not the case on Friday. Hindman was given the nod to qualify his Trim-Tex No. 12 Porsche and he did not …
Depending on the series, ties can be broken in a variety of ways. In the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge, being first claims the spoils. CJ Wilson Racing’s Damien Faulkner and Bodymotion Racing’s Trent Hindman both turned in the same time (56.320 seconds, 97.798 mph) in CTSC Happy Hour. However, since Faulkner turned in the …
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