2018 Pirelli World Challenge Rounds 16 & 17: Utah Motorsports Campus

Mechanic Z · 3 Aug 2018, 18:04 (Ref:3841171)

Next weekend, Pirelli World Challenge will wrap up the Sprint-X part of the championship at Utah Motorsports Campus, formerly known as Miller Motorsports Park. UMC's high elevation can be an additional challenge for the teams and PWC's competition department.

R. Ferri's Toni Vilander and Miguel Molina lead the Sprint-X GT standings with 174 points, a 14 point advantage over Pfaff's Scott Hargrove and Wolf Henzler. Michael Christensen and Spencer Pumpelly sit a further 6 points back, and Rodrigo Baptista and Maxime Soulet have an outside shot, 37 points behind the leading Ferrari duo.

In GTS Sprint-X, the GMG Racing duo of James Sofronas and Alex Welch lead by 25 points over Racer's Edge driver Harry Gottsacker and 28 points over PF Racing's Jade Buford. The #1 of Aschenbach & Pilgrim, the #50 of James & Keegan and the #12 of Staveley are all within reach, but they'll need the leaders to have trouble in order to catch up.

There are a few changes to the entry list for UMC, with several additions to the GT3 ranks. LoneStar returns with their #80 Mercedes, while Turner Motorsports will bring a BMW GT3 for Naoto Takeda and Takuya Shirasaka.
Pro/Am features one of the most storied teams in GT racing, Risi Competizione. Their #82 Ferrari will be driven by Pierre Mulacek and Anthony Lazzaro.

(Photo from Motorsport.com)
In GTS, the legendary Johnny O'Connell makes his return to PWC, racing with his son Canaan in the #72 Robinson Racing Camaro.

(Photo from Sportscar365 on Twitter)
Also in GTS, the #45 Flying Lizard Motorsports Audi will be piloted by Michael Dinan and Robby Foley, instead of Mike Hedlund.

Schedule

Entry List

Live Stream (world-challenge.com)

Live Stream (PWC YouTube page)

Live Timing and Scoring

Track Map

Weather (racecastweather.com)

Weather (National Weather Service)

Tickets

@WCRacing on Twitter

TRspitfirefan · 5 Aug 2018, 21:31 (Ref:3841724)

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Originally Posted by Mechanic Z

Pro/Am features one of the most storied teams in GT racing, Risi Competizione. Their #82 Ferrari will be driven by Pierre Mulacek and Anthony Lazzaro.

Super cool!

TRspitfirefan · 5 Aug 2018, 21:38 (Ref:3841726)

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Originally Posted by Mechanic Z

In GTS, the legendary Johnny O'Connell makes his return to PWC, racing with his son Canaan in the #72 Robinson Racing Camaro.

That is awesome news! It's been weird not having Johnny O in World Challenge this season.

Mechanic Z · 6 Aug 2018, 17:42 (Ref:3841896)

Forgot to mention it in the first post: despite the heavy damage from Portland, CRP will be on the grid at Utah. They tweeted this several days ago. Looks like they had to do some pretty extensive repairs.

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CRP Racing‏ @goCRPracing Aug 1
The repairs on the @MercedesAMG GT3 from the race two incident at Portland are still ongoing, but she’ll be ready for @UtahMotorCampus next week!

nasportscar · 8 Aug 2018, 02:02 (Ref:3842223)

No Morad for the rest of the season. Curious to see who will be in the car with Matty Brabs this weekend.

Mechanic Z · 8 Aug 2018, 17:22 (Ref:3842373)

Maybe Michael Cooper? He mentioned a "new challenge" at Utah on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/BmOMFmxh...elcooperracing

nasportscar · 8 Aug 2018, 20:22 (Ref:3842398)

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Originally Posted by Mechanic Z

Maybe Michael Cooper? He mentioned a "new challenge" at Utah on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/BmOMFmxh...elcooperracing

I do not believe it's Michael

nasportscar · 9 Aug 2018, 12:42 (Ref:3842503)

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Originally Posted by nasportscar

I do not believe it's Michael

but, I've been wrong before...it will be interesting to see what happens with the team. Hope everything goes well for them for the remainder of the season!

cbbrit · 9 Aug 2018, 13:30 (Ref:3842517)

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Originally Posted by nasportscar

I do not believe it's Michael

Michael Cooper has been confirmed at CRP Racing for this weekend's meeting! Excellent news!

nasportscar · 9 Aug 2018, 13:40 (Ref:3842521)

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Originally Posted by cbbrit

Michael Cooper has been confirmed at CRP Racing for this weekend's meeting! Excellent news!

I'll take it! Heard a different name yesterday, but this is better!

cbbrit · 10 Aug 2018, 01:55 (Ref:3842674)

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Originally Posted by cbbrit

Michael Cooper has been confirmed at CRP Racing for this weekend's meeting! Excellent news!

And Michael's also confirmed for the final races at Watkins Glen in three weeks time, something that he's really looking forward to. He did a one-off race with CRP at Mid-Ohio in 2013 driving an Audi R8 LMS.

nasportscar · 8 Aug 2018, 19:26 (Ref:3842393)

Should be another cool driver doing Audi TCR stuff this weekend

nasportscar · 10 Aug 2018, 02:20 (Ref:3842679)

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Originally Posted by nasportscar

Should be another cool driver doing Audi TCR stuff this weekend

Sounds like the Kleinubing is now just testing an Audi this weekend. Hope he still gets a race seat though.

cbbrit · 10 Aug 2018, 16:34 (Ref:3842822)

Thursday's Notebook:

https://sportscar365.com/world-chall...ay-notebook-3/

cbbrit · 10 Aug 2018, 18:23 (Ref:3842846)

GTS/GTSA Practice 1 notes:

https://sportscar365.com/world-chall...ts-practice-1/

And results:

https://www.tsl-timing.com/file/?f=P...3206fp1pws.pdf

cbbrit · 10 Aug 2018, 20:03 (Ref:3842871)

GT/GTA Practice 1 notes:

https://sportscar365.com/world-chall...ah-practice-1/

And results:

https://www.tsl-timing.com/file/?f=P...3206fp1pwx.pdf

cbbrit · 11 Aug 2018, 04:56 (Ref:3842929)

GTS/GTSA Practice 2 notes:

https://sportscar365.com/world-chall...ts-practice-2/

cbbrit · 11 Aug 2018, 04:58 (Ref:3842930)

GT/GTA Practice 2 notes:

https://sportscar365.com/world-chall...ah-practice-2/

And results:

https://www.tsl-timing.com/file/?f=P...3206fp2pwx.pdf

Mechanic Z · 11 Aug 2018, 14:46 (Ref:3842986)

Quote:

Originally Posted by cbbrit

GT/GTA Practice 2 notes:

https://sportscar365.com/world-chall...ah-practice-2/

And results:

https://www.tsl-timing.com/file/?f=P...3206fp2pwx.pdf

Great first day back in PWC for Risi!

cbbrit · 11 Aug 2018, 14:47 (Ref:3842987)

Friday's Notebook:

https://sportscar365.com/world-chall...ay-notebook-3/

cbbrit · 11 Aug 2018, 15:53 (Ref:3843001)

GTS/GTSA Qualifying notes:

https://sportscar365.com/world-chall...s-race-1-pole/

And results:

https://www.tsl-timing.com/file/?f=P...3206qu1pws.pdf

TRspitfirefan · 11 Aug 2018, 17:16 (Ref:3843017)

https://sportscar365.com/world-chall...ng-gts-debuts/
It's going to be really fun to watch how the O'Connells Camaro does today.

cbbrit · 11 Aug 2018, 20:55 (Ref:3843071)

GTS/GTSA Race 1 notes:

https://sportscar365.com/world-chall...eason-in-utah/

And results:

https://www.tsl-timing.com/file/?f=P...3206rc1pws.pdf

Mechanic Z · 12 Aug 2018, 00:22 (Ref:3843090)

Wow, what a race from the GT cars! Great drive by R. Ferri, they really earned the win. Good battles between the Alegra and Lonestar cars for P2, and the TR3 and TruSpeed cars for ProAm.

Another run of bad luck for both KPAX and CRP. Both those teams just seem to be collecting all of the trouble this year. Good news for KPAX is that Soucek and Parente will be starting from pole tomorrow.

cbbrit · 12 Aug 2018, 05:18 (Ref:3843104)

GT/GTA Race 1 notes:

https://sportscar365.com/world-chall...ah-race-1-win/

And results:

https://www.tsl-timing.com/file/?f=P...3206rc1pwx.pdf

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