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Tudor United SportsCar Championship, round 4 in Laguna Seca, USA

Continental Tire Monterey Grand Prix Powered by Mazda

The 4th round of the Tudor United Sports Car Championship was the first running at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. This event replaces the ALM race series of the past and guarantees new and exciting racing. The series brings two styles of cars, prototype and GT to the track. Each group has two classes, pro and pro-am, which places 4 classes of racecars on the track at all times, each with their own battle for the lead. The different in performances and skills results in much passing an fighting for points placing.

Not to allow quiet to overtake the Laguna bowl there was also more cars to race. The Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge, with the Mazda MX-5 Cup cars, IMSA GT3 Challenge by Yokohama and the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Series competing on race weekend.

P GTLM Class
Brown- van Overbeek in a ARX-03b took first place beating out the Corvette of R.Taylor -J.Taylor

First in PC class, (Schultis)/van der Zande in a ORECA FLM09

Race results GTLM class
1. Magnussen/Garcia (DK/E), Chevrolet Corvette, 84 laps
2. Priaulx/Auberlen (GB/USA), BMW Z4 GTE, 84
3. Fisichella/Kaffer (I/D), Ferrari F458 Italia, 84
4. Henzler/Sellers (D/USA), Porsche 911 RSR, 84
5. Gavin/Milner (GB/USA), Chevrolet Corvette, 84
6. Farnbacher/Goossens (D/B), SRT Viper, 84 8. Christensen/Long (DK/USA), Porsche 911 RSR, 83
9. Lietz/Tandy (A/GB), Porsche 911 RSR, 83

GTD class
1. Cameron/Palttala (USA/SF), BMW Z4, 78 laps
2. Haase/Milner (D/USA), Audi R8 LMS, 78p
3. Lally/Potter (USA/USA), Porsche 911 GT America, 78
4. Keen/MacNeil (USA/USA), Porsche 911 GT America, 78
5. Neiman/von Moltke (USA/USA), Audi R8 LMS, 78
6. Pumpelly/Canache (USA/VZ), Audi R8 LMS, 77

The Porsche North America 911 RSR of Richard Lietz (Austria) and Nick Tandy (Great Britain) crossed the finish line in third position of the 2-hour race, but a penalty for "on-track contact" put the Daytona winners down to ninth in the GTLM standings.

The Team Falken Tire Porsche 911 RSR, driven by Wolf Henzler (Germany) and American teammate Bryan Sellers, however had their fourth-place finish stand. The second Porsche North America 911 RSR car driver Danish Michael Christensen had a first-lap contact and spun the car in the turn-three losing many positions. His teammate Patrick Long (USA) fought a damaged front end leaving the Sebring 12h winners on 8th place at the end.

van-Overbeek, ARX-03b

Brown van-Overbeek in a ARX-03b took first place

R-Taylor, J-Taylor, Brown, van-Overbeek, Pruett, Rojas in Pro-GTLM

Magnussen and Garcia

Priaulx - Auberlen; Magnussen-Garcia; Fisichella-Kaffer in GTLM

R-Taylor and J-Taylor finished second in the Corvette

Westbrook and Valiante manages to stay in front of Yacaman-Brundle's Nissan Morgan

Corvette, BMW and Porsche run the Corkscrew

New parts needed

Looks like it was a brake rotor

A train of prototypes

Curran-Said in the Corvette

Al-Carter and Aleks-Altberg play shoving at the CorkScrew

Lamborghini Super Trofeo Series Andrew Palmer driving the No. 14 Lamborghini Beverly Hills Gallardo LP 570-4 Super Trofeo, finished a sweep of both Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo North America races making him the first two-time winner in the series for the season. Palmer held the lead for all but 4 laps.

Andrew-Palmer

Tim Bell in the No. 81 Lamborghini Chicago entry, was second, only 3.241 seconds behind Palmer. John Farano driving the No. 63 Lamborghini Dallas Gallardo stood on the podium in third place.