2014 TUDOR Belle Isle

Chevrolet Sport Car Classic Detroit Chevy Dealers

Ricky Taylor brought the No. 10 Konica Minolta Corvette DP home, only 0.207 seconds ahead of Richard Westbrook, who was in the pole-sitting No. 90 Spirit of Daytona Racing Corvette DP.  Westbrook co-drove with Michael Valiante. Olivier Pla finished third in the No. 42 OAK Racing Morgan/Nissan, after taking over from co-driver Gustavo Yacaman.  It was a third-consecutive Detroit victory for Jordan Taylor, following victories in 2012 and ’13 in the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series.

Taylor and Barbosa at Belle Isle

Ricky Taylor was out front but soon, Barbosa was lurking, ever closer with each lap. Taylor took the white flag but suddenly, Barbosa took the lead with a daring inside move into the Turn 3 right-hander, nudging Taylor into the wall.  Moments later, though, the left-rear tire on Barbosa’s car was shredding and then, he was spinning. Taylor sped by.

“When he put us in the wall the only thing I was thinking was either he is going to have a tire go down or I was definitely going to break because it was a hard hit,” Ricky Taylor said.  “For those last couple laps it was really tooth and nail.” 

Barbosa's tire shreds away the car!

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No. 63 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 458 Italia

Balzan No. 63 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 458 Iltalia 

Balzan took the lead when Tomy Drissi pitted with 33 minutes remaining, holding off the rest of the GT Daytona (GTD) class for the final 20 laps of the one-hour, 40-minute event.  It was the second career North American sports car racing victory for Balzan and the first in the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship – and the first career victory for Westphal. 

“It was a nightmare out there, because there were five or six cars that could have won today,” said Balzan. “It was difficult for me to stay focused in the car.  I think I said some bad words to my engineer, I said to him, ‘please, shut up’ because I needed 110 percent of myself today.”

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On this clip the GT category starts @ 1:17 time stamp.

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The Full Race 

The Chevrolet Sports Car Classic Presented by Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers at The Raceway at Belle Isle Park featured the P & GTD classes in the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. 

Thanks, Guys!  This is why I enjoy this series so much, they post it!

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12 Hours of Sebring

2014 Winter Testing

The winter test at Sebring International Raceway has come and gone.  Now, IMSA is analyzing the data from the two days of TUDOR United SportsCar Championship testing and other off-track activities to determine if additional balance of performance needs exist prior to the 62nd Annual Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh From Florida on March 15.

FOX Sports 1 will carry live coverage of the first three hours of the 62nd running of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh From Florida on Saturday, March 15, the second round of both the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship and the Tequila Patrón North American Endurance Cup.

The remainder of the event will be streamed live on IMSA and through the FOX Sports Go mobile app.  The IMSA stream will feature the FOX Sports broadcast team and be available globally. FOX Sports 1 also will televise a three-hour full race highlight show from Sebring beginning at 8:30 a.m. ET on Sunday, March 16. The balance of the 2014 TUDOR Championship television schedule will be announced next week. 

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TRACKSIDE!

Published on Mar 19, 2012:  What is it like to stand trackside at a major motorsports event? Well, now you know with trackside. No story, no opinion, just raw energy and excitement. This is what it's like to hear, feel, and see the best racing cars in the world, from just over the other side of the wall. 

This is Frickin' excellent, Sun up to Sun down, "great job /DRIVE."

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Dayview of TUDOR United SportsCar Championship

Action Express Saleen #5

This will be the best road racing of our time.

From IMSA: (International Motor Sports Association)

 More than 70 champions from all kinds of racing.  More than 25 countries represented and over 2,000 miles of high-speed action.  It's all going down on January 25-26, 2014!  The 52nd anniversary Rolex 24 At Daytona will be the first race for TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, the newly unified organization between the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series and the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón. Celebrate the start of a new era, as America's two major sports car racing leagues unify for their history-making first race.

The TUDOR Championship will have four classes of competition. The lead Prototype category pairs the Daytona Prototype from the Rolex Series with the P2 from the ALMS, bringing together the best from both divisions.  Also competing is the revolutionary DeltaWing coupe, which will be racing at Daytona for the first time. Making its Daytona debut is the ALMS' Prototype Challenge presented by Continental Tire (PC), virtually unchanged from 2013.  The ALMS GT division – recognized as the best GT competition in the world – continues as the GTLM (GT Le Mans) class.  The Rolex Series GT continues as GTD (GT Daytona), also including the former ALMS' GTC class.  The weekend also includes the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge, with the series returning to the same sanction as its debut in 1985 as the IMSA Firestone Firehawk Endurance Championship.

Ozz Negri – who won the 2012 Rolex 24 for Shank – drove the No. 60 Ford EcoBoost/Riley. "It was a very productive test," Shank said.  "We were able to get through a lot of items we needed to fix for next month. The car ran great, and the team was hitting on all cylinders.  This test set the precedent for the race."

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Sebring Test November

The RACER Channel brings you raw footage from the second day of TUDOR United SportsCar Championship testing at Sebring International Raceway.

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Ford EcoBoost Daytona Record Run

Team owner Michael Shank and driver Colin Braun chronicle their run into the Daytona record book with Wednesday's incredible closed course lap of 222.971 mph around the 2.5-mile oval.

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IMSA Tudor Series Testing at Daytona 

The Roar Before.  Teams from the IMSA Tudor United Sports Car Championship in their first ever test session at the Daytona International Speedway for P (DP,P2,PC,DW) GTLM and GTD cars in preparation for the 2014 Rolex 24. 11/19/13. 

What the hell is that @ 3:54 to 4:00 min mark in this clip, man that ride sounds sweet!

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