2015 Continental Tire Road Race Showcase
The 2015 Continental Tire Road Race Showcase was a sports car race sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA). The Race was held at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin on August 9, 2015. The race was the ninth round of the 2015 United SportsCar Championship.
Background
Preview
International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) president Scott Atherton confirmed the race was part of the schedule for the 2015 IMSA Tudor United SportsCar Championship (IMSA TUSC) in August 2014.[1] It was the second consecutive year the event was held as part of the United SportsCar Championship. The 2015 Continental Tire Road Race Showcase was the ninth of twelve scheduled sports car races of 2015 by IMSA, and was the sixth round not held as part of the North American Endurance Cup.[2] The race was held at the fourteen-turn 4.048 mi (6.515 km) Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin on August 9, 2015.[2]
Entry list
Thirty-three cars were officially entered for the Continental Tire Road Race Showcase, with most of the entries in the Prototype, Grand Touring Le Mans (GTLM), and Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) categories. Action Express Racing (AER) fielded two Chevrolet Corvette DP cars while VisitFlorida Racing (VFR) and Wayne Taylor Racing (WTR) fielded one. Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR) entered one Ford-powered Riley MkXXVI. Mazda Motorsports had one Lola B12/80 and Michael Shank Racing (MSR) entered one Ligier JS P2 chasis with Honda HR28TT twin-turbocharged 2.8-liter V6 engine. They were joined by DeltaWing with no major changes in that field.[3] The Prototype Challenge (PC) class was composed of seven Oreca FLM09 cars. BAR1 Motorsports, CORE Autosport, JDC-Miller MotorSports, Performance Tech PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports, RSR Racing, and Starworks Motorsport entered one car each.[3] GTLM was represented by eight entries from four different brands. In the list of GTD entrants, ten GT-specification vehicles were represented by six different manufacturers.[3]
Qualifying
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 | 01 | Chip Ganassi Racing | Joey Hand | 1:56.452 | _ | 1‡ |
| 2 | P | 5 | Action Express Racing | Christian Fittipaldi | 1:57.020 | +0.568 | 2 |
| 3 | P | 90 | VisitFlorida.com Racing | Michael Valiante | 1:57.173 | +0.721 | 3 |
| 4 | P | 10 | Wayne Taylor Racing | Ricky Taylor | 1:57.437 | +0.985 | 4 |
| 5 | P | 60 | Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian | John Pew | 1:57.502 | +1.050 | 5 |
| 6 | P | 0 | DeltaWing Racing Cars with Claro/TracFone | Memo Rojas | 1:57.736 | +1.284 | 6 |
| 7 | P | 31 | Action Express Racing | Eric Curran | 1:57.930 | +1.478 | 7 |
| 8 | PC | 38 | Performance Tech Motorsports | James French | 1:59.658 | +3.206 | 8‡ |
| 9 | PC | 11 | RSR Racing | Chris Cumming | 1:59.710 | +3.258 | 9 |
| 10 | PC | 85 | JDC-Miller MotorSports | Chris Miller | 2:00.749 | +4.297 | 10 |
| 11 | PC | 52 | PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports | Mike Guasch | 2:01.304 | +4.852 | 11 |
| 12 | PC | 54 | CORE Autosport | Jon Bennett | 2:01.727 | +5.275 | 12 |
| 13 | P | 07 | SpeedSource | Tom Long | 2:01.929 | +5.477 | 13 |
| 14 | PC | 8 | Starworks Motorsport | Mirco Schultis | 2:02.078 | +5.626 | 14 |
| 15 | PC | 16 | BAR1 Motorsports | Matt McMurry | 2:02.155 | +5.703 | 15 |
| 16 | GTLM | 912 | Porsche North America | Earl Bamber | 2:02.384 | +5.932 | 16‡ |
| 17 | GTLM | 3 | Corvette Racing | Antonio García | 2:02.608 | +6.156 | 17 |
| 18 | GTLM | 62 | Risi Competizione | Giancarlo Fisichella | 2:02.721 | +6.269 | 18 |
| 19 | GTLM | 24 | BMW Team RLL | John Edwards | 2:03.262 | +6.810 | 19 |
| 20 | GTLM | 4 | Corvette Racing | Tommy Milner | 2:03.689 | +7.237 | 20 |
| 21 | GTLM | 25 | BMW Team RLL | Bill Auberlen | 2:03.772 | +7.320 | 21 |
| 22 | GTLM | 17 | Team Falken Tire | Wolf Henzler | 2:03.890 | +7.438 | 22 |
| 23 | GTD | 73 | Park Place Motorsports | Patrick Lindsey | 2:09.370 | +12.918 | 23‡ |
| 24 | GTD | 33 | Riley Motorsports | Ben Keating | 2:09.488 | +13.036 | 24 |
| 25 | GTD | 007 | TRG-AMR North America | Christina Nielsen | 2:09.947 | +13.495 | 25 |
| 26 | GTD | 48 | Paul Miller Racing | Dion von Moltke | 2:10.125 | +13.673 | 26 |
| 27 | GTD | 63 | Scuderia Corsa | Bill Sweedler | 2:11.116 | +14.664 | 27 |
| 28 | GTD | 23 | Team Seattle / Alex Job Racing | Ian James | 2:11.695 | +15.243 | 28 |
| 29 | GTD | 22 | Alex Job Racing | Cooper MacNeil | 2:11.836 | +15.384 | 29 |
| 30 | GTD | 44 | Magnus Racing | John Potter | 2:12.016 | +15.564 | 30 |
| 31 | GTLM | 911 | Porsche North America | Patrick Pilet | 2:12.307 | +15.855 | 31 |
| 32 | GTD | 97 | Turner Motorsport | Michael Marsal | 2:12.941 | +16.589 | 32 |
| 33 | GTD | 76 | Compass360 Racing | Ray Mason | 2:14.891 | +18.439 | 33 |
| Sources:[4][5] | |||||||
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).
References
- ^ Dagys, John (August 10, 2014). "2015 TUSC, CTSC Schedules Released". Sportscar365.com. John Dagys Media, LLC. Retrieved October 29, 2024.
- ^ a b Pruett, Marshall (August 10, 2014). "IMSA: 2015 TUDOR Championship schedule revealed". Racer. Archived from the original on March 23, 2015. Retrieved October 29, 2024.
- ^ a b c Dagys, John (July 29, 2015). "35 Cars on Road America Entry List". Sportscar365.com. John Dagys Media, LLC. Retrieved October 29, 2024.
- ^ "Qualifying" (PDF). IMSA. August 8, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 13, 2015. Retrieved October 29, 2024.
- ^ "United SportsCar Championship Road America 2015 Grid Positions". Racing Sports Cars. Retrieved October 29, 2024.
- ^ "Unofficial Race Report" (PDF). IMSA. August 9, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 9, 2016. Retrieved October 29, 2024.
- ^ "2015 Continental Tire Road Race Showcase". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved October 29, 2024.