USC - Extreme Speed Motorsports wins at Laguna Seca

Extreme Speed Motorsports turned its pole into victory with the HPD ARX-03b of Johannes van Overbeek and Ed Brown, thus signing the first P2 success in USC. Starworks won the PC/GTD race.

Published on 05/05/2014 à 10:02

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USC – Extreme Speed Motorsports wins at Laguna Seca

The Monterey Grand Prix held at Laguna Seca (California) offered two events separating the PC/GTD from the P2/GTLM. After starting from pole in the main race, the HPD ARX-03b n°2 of Johannes van Overbeek and Ed Brown took victory after a strong comeback from van Overbeek who finally won with just five seconds to spare. ahead of the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Corvette DP of Jordan and Richie Taylor, thus signing the first P2 success in USC. The podium is completed by the Chip Ganassi Racing Riley-Ford of Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas.

Jan Magnussen quickly took a nice lead in the GTLM category behind the wheel of the Corvette C7R that he shares with Antonio Garcia. The #3 Chevrolet won ahead of the BMW Z4 GTE of Andy Priaulx and Bill Auberlen and the Ferrari of Risi Competizione led by Giancarlo Fisichella and Pierre Kaffer.

The event reserved for PC/GTD saw the victory of Starworks Motorsport with the No. 8 of Renger van der Zande and Mirco Schultis who crossed the finish line with a dozen seconds ahead of the No. 25 of Luiz Diaz and Sean Rayhall. The latter perhaps missed a great opportunity to win after spinning a few laps from the finish, but he was still able to maintain a few seconds ahead of the n°09. RSR Racing driven by Duncan Ende and Bruno Junqueira who completed the podium.

En GTD, c’est la BMW Z4 du Turner Motorsport pilotée par Dane Cameron et Markus Palttala qui s’est imposée par surprise en profitant d’une panne d’essence de l’Audi R8 LMS du Flying Lizard de Spencer Pumpelly et Nelson Canache Jr survenue dans le dernier tour. Dane Cameron a franchi la ligne avec seulement un dixième d’avance sur l’Audi du Paul Miller Racing emmenée par Christopher Haase qui partageait la n°48 avec Bryce Miller. La Porsche n°22 d’Alex Job Racing de Cooper MacNeil et Leh Keen complète le podium de la dernière catégorie.

Discover the report from USC at Laguna Seca in issue 1959 of AUTOhebdo, available this evening in digital version on all platforms, and on newsstands from Wednesday.