{"id":23758,"date":"2018-07-28T11:17:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T15:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=23758"},"modified":"2018-07-28T11:17:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T15:17:48","slug":"lime-rock-park-announces-the-return-of-trans-am-on-memorial-day-weekend-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2018\/07\/lime-rock-park-announces-the-return-of-trans-am-on-memorial-day-weekend-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Lime Rock Park Announces The Return Of Trans Am On Memorial Day Weekend 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Lime Rock Park Announces The Return Of Trans Am On Memorial Day Weekend 2019
\nSVRA Joins The Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli On May 24-25 & 27, 2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n

LAKEVILLE, Conn.\u2014Lime Rock Park, the historic motorsports and entertainment destination nestled among the hills of beautiful Northwest Connecticut, is pleased to announce that the Trans Am Series by Pirelli and the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA)
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will headline the track’s 2019 season opening event.<\/p>\n

\u201cRacing at Lime Rock Park during Memorial Day Weekend is a tradition,\u201d said Skip Barber, Lime Rock Park President. \u201cWe look forward to carrying on that tradition in 2019 with classic sports car racing. This news will delight our fans as Trans Am was previously a great series at Lime Rock. With renewed enthusiasm, we think it\u2019s getting stronger and we look forward to offering it again.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trans Am Series event will also include racing by the SVRA, both of which will offer a full Memorial Day holiday weekend of activities, including practice and qualifying on Friday, May 24, racing on Saturday, May 25, and Monday, May 27, and the 10th annual Sunday Royals Car Show, which will include the Trans Am and SVRA race cars and second annual Farm-To-Table Picnic, on Sunday, May 27, 2019. The SVRA features vintage race cars that are from more recent decades than the VSCCA cars that race here during the Labor Day Historic Festival. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very excited to have Trans Am back racing at Lime Rock on our traditional weekend\u201d, said John Clagett, president of The Trans Am Race Company, LLC., who operates the Trans Am Series and oversees it\u2019s management and marketing. Sanctioned by SCCA Pro Racing, Trans Am features 70-plus car grids populated by Mustangs, Camaros, Challengers and Corvettes \u2014 a massive dose of pure Americana, with just a touch of nostalgia.<\/p>\n

SVRA President and CEO Tony Parella added, \u201cAt long last, our SVRA racers, spectators and sponsors will finally get a chance to experience this historic venue. I am thrilled to see this event come together and have the chance to work with Skip Barber.\u201d From 200 m.p.h Indy and Formula 1 cars to classic Jaguars and Porsches, SVRA events provide a \u201crolling history\u201d of motorsport where the cars are the stars at legendary tracks across the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrans Am has a great history at Lime Rock featuring America\u2019s greatest drivers,\u201d said Lime Rock Park General Manager Steve Sewell. \u201cWe think that our fans will enjoy mixing modern and vintage race cars on the same weekend and that this event will have a great future here at Lime Rock Park.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lime Rock Park Announces The Return Of Trans Am On Memorial Day Weekend 2019 SVRA Joins The Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli On May 24-25 & 27, 2019 LAKEVILLE, Conn.\u2014Lime Rock Park, the historic motorsports and entertainment destination nestled among the hills of beautiful Northwest Connecticut, is pleased to announce that the Trans Am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-lime-rock-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23759,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23758\/revisions\/23759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}