Photo: Jamey Price/Lamborghini
***A complete of 33 automobiles have been entered for this weekend’s Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America races at Virginia International Raceway, together with two further Pro class entries in Jaden Conwright within the No. 99 NTE Sport Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo EVO2 and Nate Stacy again within the prime class resulting from driving the No. 8 Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport Lamborghini solo this weekend due to a scheduling battle for Nick Persing.
***Brett Jacobson is again with Joel Miller, who moved into Pro at Road America within the No. 55 Forty7 Motorsports entry, whereas Tom Capizzi is driving solo in Pro-Am after his common co-driver, John Capestro-Dubets, is recovering from a again harm sustained in an accident final trip.
***Nikko Reger, in the meantime, has rejoined Shehan Chandrasoma, who made the swap from NTE Sport to TPC Racing at Road America. Reger stated: “This is kind of a last minute thing we put together with Shehan and has family and we are super excited to be with TPC Racing. I have seen the work they have done in the past. Some amazing drivers have been with the organization and we are just happy to contribute to that as well and get that championship for Shehan.”
***Neither the No. 96 TR3 Racing entry of Billy Johnson and Todd Coleman nor the No. 70 Forte Racing by US RaceTronics Lamborghini of Alexandre Premat and Jay Logan are current this weekend in Pro-Am, with the Am class No. 24 ANSA Motorsports entry of Ron Atapattu and Kevin Madsen additionally electing to skip VIR.
***Mark Brummond, in the meantime, has changed Fred Roberts within the No. 89 NTE Sport Lamborghini in LB Cup.
***Quite a lot of groups, together with Flying Lizard Motorsports, examined on the 3.27-mile circuit in recent weeks within the build-up to this weekend’s seventh and eighth rounds of the season.
***Flying Lizard program supervisor Darren Law stated: “We are coming off a great race weekend at Road America and looking forward to VIR. We had the opportunity to test at VIR a couple of weeks ago, and the team and drivers are very comfortable here. Although this is a challenging track, it is one of the best in the U.S. and we are ready to go.”
***WTR Andretti’s Danny Formal and Kyle Marcelli, which swept qualifying on Saturday morning, prolonged their Pro class championship result in 35 factors over Giano Taurino and Lucas Petersson of TR3 Racing, with Ryan Norman one level additional behind in third. Given the present trajectory, Formal and Marcelli might clinch the title subsequent trip at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
***Pro-Am is at present being led by NTE’s Keawn Tandon, who’s once more joined by Luke Berkeley this weekend, whereas Anthony McIntosh and Glenn McGee maintain the lead within the Am class and Mark Wilgus with a large benefit in LB Cup coming into this weekend.
***The first 50-minute race of the weekend will get underway at 2:35 p.m. EDT with Race 2 set for Sunday at 11:30 a.m. Both rounds shall be streamed dwell on Peacock and IMSA.television, that includes the IMSA Radio commentary workforce of Brian Till and Jeremey Shaw.
***A one-hour recap present will air on CNBC on Sun. Sept. 10 at 10:30 a.m. EDT.
