Pirelli World Challenge

[Coach Ep]

Updated GT/GT Cup/GTS Schedule (preliminary)

March 6-8 — Circuit of The Americas - stand alone
March 27-29 — St. Petersburg - with Indycar
April 17-19 — Long Beach (GT/GT Cup Only) - with Indycar/TUSC
April 24-26 — Barber Motorsports Park - with Indycar
May — Mosport [Canadian Tire Motorsport Park] (TBC)
June 26-28 — Road America - stand alone
June/July — Event(s) TBD
July 31-Aug. 2 — Mid-Ohio - with Indycar
Aug. 21-23 — Sonoma Raceway - with Indycar
Sept. 11-13 — Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca - stand alone

[Rcz]

Will they use the long or short course at COTA?

[Mike Hedlund]

Originally Posted by Rcz

Will they use the long or short course at COTA?

Surely the long course. Nobody liked the short course and the racing on it was pretty terrible (it removed the 2 of the 3 best overtaking places).

The only reason they used the short course in 2013 was because the V8 Supercars wanted shorter lap times.

-mike

[Fogelhund]

If GT goes to Mosport this year, I'd like to make that.

[Coach Ep]

If Mosport gets confirmed and (one of) the TBA is gonna be either Watkins Glen or Lime Rock the schedule will look great as far as venues are concerned!

[jasonjessica09]

Originally Posted by Coach Ep

If Mosport gets confirmed and (one of) the TBA is gonna be either Watkins Glen or Lime Rock the schedule will look great as far as venues are concerned!

As someone in the northeast, PWC at Lime Rock would get my interest to buy some tickets. A TUSC race of LMPC and IMSA spec GTD will not do it for me.

[nezy37]

Wonder who they plan on running with at road america? Trans am and mx-5 cup run with nascar so what does that leave?

[Breitling24]

Originally Posted by nezy37

Wonder who they plan on running with at road america? Trans am and mx-5 cup run with nascar so what does that leave?

"Stand Alone" means no other series. GT classes will be the headliners. They will most likely have the "T" classes there as well.

Looking forward to the Monterey peninsula in late summer. Texas in March might not be bad either.

[MitchZ06]

So they're actually going for being the headliner now? Atleast a few rounds of the season is a start....

[Breitling24]

Originally Posted by MitchZ06

So they're actually going for being the headliner now? Atleast a few rounds of the season is a start....

IIRC, they had a couple this season, too. Last race at Miller in Salt Lake area was a headliner, for sure.
With the momentum that they've been building, they should do well.

[nasportscar]

Originally Posted by nezy37

Wonder who they plan on running with at road america? Trans am and mx-5 cup run with nascar so what does that leave?

NASCAR moved to August at Road America. I would expect some other SCCA races to go along with GT/GT-Cup, GTS, and the TC races. Mazda MX-5 Cup would be great. Trans Am would make sense, but (until the schedule announcement was retracted) Trans Am was going to race at Road American with NASCAR in August...Hopefully the retraction brings Trans Am to Road America with PWC

[schmidder]

Stand alone a laguna!!!! I assume that means headliner..gotta be some other cars there....

[Coach Ep]

'stand alone' does not exclude other series but they won't run with Nascar/Indycar/TUSC on those weekends.

Road America being such a stand alone event it should see all PWC classes in action, they might combine the different classes into 2 groups (instead of 3) for that one, GT(A) + Porsche Cup and GTS+TC classes.

TransAm does quite a few of their events with SVRA and some with Nascar (Road America, Mid-Ohio) basically because of financial considerations, joining PWC at Road America sounds like a great idea but not sure if it makes enough financial sense (for TA at least, maybe for both of them). A full weekend of SCCA Pro Racing series will certainly fill the event schedule but they might need an outside partner. This year finale at Miller was run in conjunction with the lower K&N Nascar league (which had the Sunday afternoon slot for their feature race) so not really stand alone nor PWC as headliner.

OT: I'm expecting the TA schedule to come out at the latest at their last event at Daytona, mid November.

[TRspitfirefan]

I'm really looking forward to next years Road America stand alone event.
Hopefully some extra support series will be added, however I feel that the standard PWC classes alone would be well worth the trip.
PWC 2014 was AWESOME, and I think that 2015 will only get better!

[TRspitfirefan]

http://www.roadamerica.com/buy-ticke...challenge.html
From RA's website.

Tickets will be available for purchase November 3.....

A tentative schedule will be posted when available........


Gates 3, 4, and 5 CLOSED...........

Since tickets will be on sale by November 3rd, I expect that additional support series (if any) will probably be announced soon.

It is interesting that many of the entrance gates will be closed. I don't think that Road America is expecting a very large turnout.
We'll have to surprise them!

[jasonjessica09]

Originally Posted by Mike Hedlund

Surely the long course. Nobody liked the short course and the racing on it was pretty terrible (it removed the 2 of the 3 best overtaking places).

The only reason they used the short course in 2013 was because the V8 Supercars wanted shorter lap times.

-mike

Yeah good move. Even though I have not been to COTA. It seems that in certain places especially if you are standing on the top of some of the grandstands you can see a large percentage of the track.

[Coach Ep]

Originally Posted by Coach Ep

OT: I'm expecting the TA schedule to come out at the latest at their last event at Daytona, mid November.

For anyone interested the TA schedule (which was apparently out when I made my earlier comment) can be found here: http://www.racinboys.com/2014/10/08/...ship-schedule/

No 'official' release or confirmation yet (but it looks reliable enough to me).

PWC and TA will not share any events in 2015. Unfortunately.

[hondafan37]

Real Time was testing the Acura two days at Mid-Ohio.
https://www.facebook.com/RealTimeRac...type=1&theater

[Canada ALMS fan]

Originally Posted by jasonjessica09

Yeah good move. Even though I have not been to COTA. It seems that in certain places especially if you are standing on the top of some of the grandstands you can see a large percentage of the track.

Even if you are standing on the grass you can see large portions, just like Road Atlanta - great track!

[nasportscar]

Here's the GT entry list tracker, although there has been 1 change since I've posted this. Will update by next post. http://nasportscar.com/2015-entry-li...enge-gt-class/

[NaBUru38]

Thanks, Nasportscar!

[nasportscar]

Originally Posted by NaBUru38

Thanks, Nasportscar!

you're very welcome

[HighParker]

Originally Posted by Fogelhund

If GT goes to Mosport this year, I'd like to make that.

PWC GT at Mosport in May 2015, joining Touring Cars and Canadian Nascar series that were there at Mosport in May 2014.
http://www.world-challenge.com/news/...-schedule.html

2015 Pirelli World Challenge Schedule

March 6-8 — Circuit of The Americas**
March 27-29 — St. Petersburg*
April 17-19 — Long Beach* (GT/GT-Cup Only)
April 24-26 — Barber Motorsports Park*
May 15-17 — Canadian Tire Motorsport Park**
June 26-28 — Road America**
July 31-Aug. 2 — Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course*
Aug. 21-23 — Miller Motorsports Park**
Aug. 28-30 — Sonoma Raceway*
Sept. 11-13 — Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca**

*Events with IndyCar
**Pirelli WC Headline Events (All standalone races will also feature TC/TCA/TCB rounds, with one further event still to-be-announced)

[Coach Ep]

More good entry news, 2 full time Beamers from Turner!

http://sportscar365.com/world-challe...gram-for-2015/

[Coach Ep]

Another TUSC GTD team making the switch to PWC: NGT is planning on running 4 to 5 cars next year!

Couple of Cup Porsches but also 2 GT3 cars in GT, assuming current Porsche GT3s (but not confirmed yet).

http://www.racer.com/pwc/item/110028...orld-challenge

It's gonna be busy on the grid next year!