2014 Continental Tire Road Race Showcase
The 2014 Continental Tire Road Race Showcase was a sports car race sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) held at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin on August 10, 2014. The event served as the tenth of thirteen scheduled rounds of the 2014 United SportsCar Championship.
Background
Preview
International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) president Scott Atherton confirmed that the race was part of the 2014 United SportsCar Championship schedule in October 2013.[1] It was the first year the event was held as part of the Tudor United SportsCar Championship. The 2014 Continental Tire Road Race Showcase was the tenth of thirteen scheduled sports car races of 2014 by IMSA, and it was the seventh round not held as part of the North American Endurance Cup.[1] The event was held at the fourteen-turn 4.048 mi (6.515 km) Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin on August 10, 2014.[1]
Before the race, João Barbosa and Christian Fittipaldi led the Prototype Drivers' Championship with 249 points, 2 points clear of Jordan Taylor and Ricky Taylor in second, and Richard Westbrook and Michael Valiante with 238 points.[2] With 200 points, PC was led by Jon Bennett and Colin Braun with a forty four-point advantage over Martin Fuentes.[2] In GTLM, the Drivers' Championship was led by Antonio García and Jan Magnussen with 219 points; the duo held a thirteen point gap over Kuno Wittmer and Jonathan Bomarito.[2] Bill Sweedler and Townsend Bell led the GTD Drivers' Championship with 192 points, 9 points ahead of Leh Keen and Cooper MacNeil.[2] Chevrolet and Ferrari were leading their respective Manufacturers' Championships, while Action Express Racing, CORE Autosport, Corvette Racing, and AIM Autosport were their respective Teams' Championships.[2]
Entry list
Fifty-one cars were officially entered for the Continental Tire Road Race Showcase, with the bulk of entries in the Prototype (P) and Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) classes.[3] Action Express Racing (AER), Marsh Racing, VisitFlorida Racing (VFR) and Wayne Taylor Racing (WTR) entered one Chevrolet Corvette DP. Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR) and Michael Shank Racing (MSR) entered one Ford-powered Riley MkXXVI while Starworks Motorsport entered one Honda-powered Riley MkXXVI.[4] Speedsource had two Lola B12/80 while Extreme Speed Motorsports (ESM) entered two HPD ARX-03b cars and OAK Racing entered one Morgan LMP2 chassis with Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 engine.[4] The DeltaWing car was reinstated to the championship after missing the previous round.[5][3] The Prototype Challenge (PC) class was composed of ten Oreca FLM09 cars: two from Starworks Motorsport and RSR Racing. BAR1 Motorsports, CORE Autosport, JDC-Miller MotorSports, Performance Tech, PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports, and 8Star Motorsports entered one car each.[6] GTLM was represented by ten entries from five different brands.[3] In the list of GTD entrants, eighteen GT-specification vehicles were represented by six different manufacturers.[3]
Practice
There were three practice sessions preceding the start of the race on Sunday, one on Friday and two on Saturday. The first two one-hour sessions were on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning while the third on Saturday afternoon lasted an hour.[7]
Qualifying
Saturday afternoon's 80-minute four-group qualifying session gave 15-minute sessions to all categories. Cars in GTD were sent out first before those grouped in GTLM, PC, and Prototype had three separate identically timed sessions. Regulations stipulated teams to nominate one qualifying driver, with the fastest laps determining each classes starting order. IMSA would arranged the grid to put all Prototypes ahead of the PC, GTLM, and GTD cars.[7]
Qualifying results
Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold and by ‡. P stands for Prototype, PC (Prototype Challenge), GTLM (Grand Touring Le Mans) and GTD (Grand Touring Daytona).
| Pos. | Class | No. | Team | Driver | Time | Gap | Grid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | P | 1 | Extreme Speed Motorsports | Ryan Dalziel | 1:55.166 | _ | 1‡ |
| 2 | P | 90 | Spirit of Daytona Racing | Richard Westbrook | 1:55.487 | +0.321 | 50 |
| 3 | P | 5 | Action Express Racing | Christian Fittipaldi | 1:55.961 | +0.795 | 2 |
| 4 | P | 42 | OAK Racing | Olivier Pla | 1:56.019 | +0.853 | 3 |
| 5 | P | 10 | Wayne Taylor Racing | Ricky Taylor | 1:56.175 | +1.009 | 4 |
| 6 | P | 2 | Extreme Speed Motorsports | Johannes van Overbeek | 1:56.319 | +1.153 | 5 |
| 7 | P | 01 | Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates | Memo Rojas | 1:56.395 | +1.229 | 6 |
| 8 | P | 60 | Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian | Oswaldo Negri | 1:56.676 | +1.510 | 7 |
| 9 | P | 31 | Marsh Racing | Burt Frisselle | 1:57.581 | +2.415 | 8 |
| 10 | P | 0 | DeltaWing Racing Cars | Andy Meyrick | 1:57.754 | +2.588 | 9 |
| 11 | P | 78 | Starworks Motorsport | James Hinchcliffe | 1:58.013 | +2.847 | 10 |
| 12 | PC | 09 | RSR Racing | Bruno Junqueira | 1:59.411 | +4.245 | 11‡ |
| 13 | PC | 08 | RSR Racing | Jack Hawksworth | 1:59.493 | +4.327 | 12 |
| 14 | PC | 25 | 8Star Motorsports | Luis Díaz | 1:59.931 | +4.765 | 13 |
| 15 | PC | 8 | Starworks Motorsport | Renger van der Zande | 2:00.087 | +4.921 | 14 |
| 16 | PC | 38 | Performance Tech | David Ostella | 2:00.144 | +4.978 | 15 |
| 17 | PC | 54 | CORE Autosport | Colin Braun | 2:00.273 | +5.107 | 16 |
| 18 | PC | 52 | PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports | Gunnar Jeannette | 2:00.395 | +5.229 | 17 |
| 19 | PC | 7 | Starworks Motorsport | John Martin | 2:01.024 | +5.858 | 18 |
| 20 | PC | 85 | JDC-Miller MotorSports | Stephen Simpson | 2:01.077 | +5.911 | 19 |
| 21 | P | 07 | Speedsource | Tristan Nunez | 2:01.614 | +6.448 | 20 |
| 22 | P | 70 | Speedsource | Tom Long | 2:02.169 | +7.003 | 21 |
| 23 | GTLM | 56 | BMW Team RLL | John Edwards | 2:03.747 | +8.581 | 22‡ |
| 24 | GTLM | 93 | SRT Motorsports | Jonathan Bomarito | 2:03.813 | +8.647 | 23 |
| 25 | GTLM | 91 | SRT Motorsports | Marc Goossens | 2:03.930 | +8.764 | 24 |
| 26 | GTLM | 55 | BMW Team RLL | Bill Auberlen | 2:03.964 | +8.798 | 25 |
| 27 | GTLM | 912 | Porsche North America | Patrick Long | 2:04.550 | +9.384 | 26 |
| 28 | GTLM | 4 | Corvette Racing | Oliver Gavin | 2:04.650 | +9.484 | 27 |
| 29 | GTLM | 911 | Porsche North America | Nick Tandy | 2:04.685 | +9.519 | 28 |
| 30 | GTLM | 3 | Corvette Racing | Jan Magnussen | 2:04.738 | +9.572 | 29 |
| 31 | GTLM | 62 | Risi Competizione | Giancarlo Fisichella | 2:05.149 | +9.983 | 30 |
| 32 | GTLM | 17 | Team Falken Tire | Wolf Henzler | 2:06.527 | +11.361 | 31 |
| 33 | GTD | 007 | TRG-AMR North America | James Davison | 2:09.079 | +13.913 | 32‡ |
| 34 | GTD | 94 | Turner Motorsport | Dane Cameron | 2:09.293 | +14.147 | 33 |
| 35 | GTD | 33 | Riley Motorsports | Jeroen Bleekemolen | 2:09.345 | +14.179 | 34 |
| 36 | GTD | 23 | Team Seattle/Alex Job Racing | Mario Farnbacher | 2:09.354 | +14.188 | 35 |
| 37 | GTD | 22 | Alex Job Racing | Leh Keen | 2:09.434 | +14.268 | 36 |
| 38 | GTD | 73 | Park Place Motorsports | Kévin Estre | 2:09.471 | +14.305 | 37 |
| 39 | GTD | 58 | Snow Racing | Jan Heylen | 2:09.555 | +14.389 | 38 |
| 40 | GTD | 44 | Magnus Racing | Andy Lally | 2:09.753 | +14.587 | 39 |
| 41 | GTD | 555 | AIM Autosport | Townsend Bell | 2:09.968 | +14.802 | 40 |
| 42 | GTD | 48 | Paul Miller Racing | Christopher Haase | 2:10.495 | +15.329 | 41 |
| 43 | GTD | 63 | Scuderia Corsa | Alessandro Balzan | 2:10.673 | +15.507 | 42 |
| 44 | GTD | 45 | Flying Lizard Motorsports | Spencer Pumpelly | 2:10.722 | +15.556 | 43 |
| 45 | GTD | 27 | Dempsey Racing | Andrew Davis | 2:10.886 | +15.720 | 44 |
| 46 | GTD | 18 | Mühlner Motorsports America | Alex Davison | 2:11.444 | +16.278 | 45 |
| 47 | GTD | 81 | GB Autosport | Damien Faulkner | 2:11.759 | +16.593 | 46 |
| 48 | GTD | 19 | Mühlner Motorsports America | Christian Szymczak | 2:12.460 | +17.294 | 47 |
| 49 | GTD | 35 | Flying Lizard Motorsports | None | No Time Established | 48 | |
| 50 | GTD | 46 | Fall-Line Motorsports | None | No Time Established | 49 | |
| 51 | GTD | 71 | Park Place Motorsports | None | No Time Established | 51 | |
| 52 | PC | 88 | BAR1 Motorsports | None | No Time Established | 52 | |
| Sources:[8][9] | |||||||
Race
Race results
Class winners are denoted in bold and ‡. P stands for Prototype, PC (Prototype Challenge), GTLM (Grand Touring Le Mans) and GTD (Grand Touring Daytona).
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