GT America Brings 29 Cars to Elkhart Lake
GT America powered by AWS gears up for its third race meeting in four weeks as the multi-class, all-Bronze sprint series rejoins the rest of the SRO America umbrella at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.
The provisional entry list is made up of ten classic and contemporary GT3 cars running in the SRO3 class, eighteen GT4 cars, and one GT2 car.
On the SRO3 side of things, Andy Pilgrim will make his third GT America appearance of the season, and his second at the wheel of the #56 SKI Autosports Ferrari 458 Italia GT3. Pilgrim raced to second in Race 2 at VIR – at Nashville, he drove a GT4 class Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 for Regal Motorsports/Bartone Bros. Racing.
Onofrio Triarsi will not be running this series after a near-perfect weekend at the street race in Nashville, but his Triarsi Competizione stable mate Justin Wetherill will represent the team in his #37 Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo, after picking up the win in Nashville Race 2 over Triarsi.
Jeff Burton will be back in action in his #191 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 which will be prepared this coming weekend by TR3 Racing, with continued support from Zelus Motorsports.
They and the rest of the SRO3 regulars will all be chasing after points leader George Kurtz, who’s going for a double championship in both GT America and the Pro-Am class of GT World Challenge America. Kurtz and his #04 CrowdStrike with Riley Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3 have a 52 point lead over Jason Daskalos (#27 Daskalos Motorsports Audi R8 LMS Ultra) in second place.
CJ Moses is expected to return to action aboard his #58 GMG Racing Audi R8 LMS GT2, fighting to finish inside the overall top ten. Moses was a late scratch before the Nashville weekend got underway.
A closely-fought GT4 championship looks like it could go down to the wire. Jason Bell still leads coming out of Nashville into Road America, despite only one win in his #2 GMG Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4. Ross Chouest (#50 Chouest Povoledo Racing Vantage GT4) looked poise to take a commanding lead after Race 1 in the Music City, until he crashed out on the opening lap in Race 2, and dropped 12 points behind Bell.
But Robb Holland has entered the discussion after driving his #99 Rotek Racing Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport to a weekend sweep in Nashville, and he’s now just 32 points outside of third place, ahead of Moisey Uretsky (#55 Accelerating Performance Vantage GT4), who rejoins the series after missing Nashville.
Also returning to the GT America grid this time is the #016 Hattori Motorsports Toyota GR Supra GT4 of teenager Seth Lucas, who swept the Watkins Glen weekend in his series debut – and looks to do the same again working alongside his mentor Matt Plumb.
GT AMERICA PROVISIONAL ENTRY LIST >>
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