JOHANNES van OVERBEEK/No.2 Extreme Speed Motorsports HPD ARX-03b is on pole for Sunday afternoon’s Continental Tire Monterey Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. His lap was 1:18.970. Van Overbeck was also fastest in the second Tudor Championship practice session just prior to qualifying. He said “The long fast […]
Day: May 3, 2014
BOYS, HAVE AT IT
Not so much into each other, but more so into walls, barriers, gravel went some of the drivers in the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge in Saturday afternoon’s race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. There will be a lot of gnashing and groaning tonight. The action made for a lot of replays and no doubt enough […]
THE USUAL SUSPECTS
It was many familiar faces at the top of each class for the first session of the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship practice session at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Fifty-five cars spread among the four new classes had its first on-track session of the weekend, scheduled for sixty minutes on the 2.238-mile, 12-turn elevated road course. […]
LET’S GO RACIN’
MICHAEL LEWIS/No.98 Cmp.Mot./Curb-Agajanian took the pole for the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA by Yokohaa, lapping at 1:27.786/91.778mph. Second through fifth were ANGEL ANDRES BENITEZ/No.05 Formula Motorsport, SLOAN URY/No.20 JDX Racing, JESSE LAZARE/No.31 Door Doctor and COLIN THOMPSON/No.14 Kelly-Moss Motorsports. They are all in the Platinum category. In the Gold category, PAUL BARNHART Jr/No.17 Kelly-Moss […]
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES!
What a difference makes at Mazda Raceway Laguna Raceway in Monterey CA. The fog has rolled in big time, temperature has dropped to 52 degrees F, the humidity is pegged at 89 percent. This puts a crimp in the already packed into the three-day, five series, and seven-race schedule for the Continental Tire Monterey Grand […]