Resurgent Trans Am Series Opens Lime Rock Park’s 2013 Season
F1600/Formula F, F2000 and VSCCA races also on slate
LAKEVILLE, Conn. (May 15) – Yep, we know it’s a mouthful… What’s called the Lime Rock Park Season Opener featuring Trans Am and the Sunday Royals Garage Car Show benefitting the Wounded Warrior Project is Friday through Sunday, May 24-26.
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By Lou Modestino
TODD SZEGEDY MAKES A COMEBACK TO WIN NASCAR’S ONLY WHELEN MODIFIED TOUR RACE ON THE LIME ROCK ROAD COURSE AND OTHER THINGS……..
Todd Szegedy battled back after losing the lead during on a pit stop and then making an off-track excursion to win the NASCAR Whelen Modified 66/99 presented by Town Fair Tire at Lime Rock Park on Saturday.
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Lime Rock – Memorial Day Classic Highlights
Memorial Day Classic Winner Interviews
This Victory Is Solid as a (Lime) Rock SunTrust’s Angelelli, Taylor Dominate Memorial Day Classic for Second Year in a Row
Date: May 30, 2011
Event: Memorial Day Classic (Round 5 of 12)
Series: Daytona Prototype division of the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series
Location: Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Conn. (1.5-mile, seven-turn road course)
Start/Finish: 1st / 1st (Running, completed 183 of 183 laps)
Winners: Max Angelelli and Ricky Taylor of SunTrust Racing (Chevrolet)
Is it possible time has stood still in the lush, green hills of northwest Connecticut since Memorial Day 2010? That was when the SunTrust Racing driving duo of Max Angelelli and Ricky Taylor previously visited Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Conn., and scored their first GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series victory of the season in dominating fashion by leading three times for a race-high 95 of 174 laps.
Monday, it was déjà vu all over again, in the words of the immortal Yogi Berra, as Angelelli and Taylor made it look easy, once again, in scoring their second consecutive Memorial Day Classic victory at Lime Rock in even more convincing fashion, starting from the pole and leading three times for 153 of 183 race laps.
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Bill Auberlen – Three laps of Lime Rock Park
Memorial Day Weekend Classic Preview
Defending Race-Winners Look To Repeat at Lime Rock’s Memorial Day Classic
LAKEVILLE, Conn. (May 25, 2011) – It was all in a day’s work when Max Angelelli and Ricky Taylor drove their No. 10 SunTrust Chevrolet Dallara of Wayne Taylor Racing to a dominating victory in the inaugural Memorial Day Classic for GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototypes at scenic Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Conn., last May.
They first hit the track for practice at 9:30 a.m. and, by 4:50 p.m., the veteran Angelelli had recorded his 15th career Rolex Series win with his co-driver, then-20-year-old Taylor, earning his first win in 25 Rolex Series starts. They combined to lead a race-high 95 of 174 laps, taking advantage of brilliant strategy and lightning-fast pit work by the SunTrust team in ending the three-race win streak of the No. 01 Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates duo of Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas, who were essentially out of contention on the very first turn of the very first lap after being shoved off-course and heavily damaging the front of their racecar. Read Full Article →
“This weekend’s Grand-Am Road Racing Memorial Day Classic at Lime Rock Park will present new and interesting challenges for our Chevy Camaro teams in both the Rolex Sports Car Series GT and the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge GS.
“In GT, we have a new weight requirement for our Camaro GT.R race cars. Our three teams are very confident that they will easily adapt to the added weight and they will continue to be extremely competitive. Read Full Article →
Pit Strategy Goes Awry For Fadden Racing’s Jonathan Smith At LRP
Lakeville, Conn. (July 5, 2010): A mid-race pit strategy foiled a top-10 run for Fadden Racing’s Jonathan Smith in the NASCAR K&N 100 at Lime Rock Park Saturday afternoon, and relegated the No. 61 BaBoom! Energy Spray/Riondo Wine/Athlete’s of America Chevrolet to a 13th place finish after a solid performance race long.
“We were hoping to do a fuel mileage race and not pit, but it didn’t turn out like we thought. There were a lot of green flag laps. We came in to pit and right after that there was a six or seven lap caution period.”
Smith proved he was going to be a force to reckon with from the onset of the weekend. He was fast in practice and backed it up with a qualifying effort of 94.947 mph to earn a 12th place position on the starting grid.
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