Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Event Last Chance To Get in On 2015 Stuttgart Cup and Mission Foods GT3 Cup Championships
LEXINGTON, Ohio (June 4, 2015) – The Mid-Ohio Vintage Grand Prix is up next for The Stuttgart Cup™ and Mission Foods GT3 Cup Trophy USA by Car Amigo, June 25 – 28, at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
Round 6 of the 2015 Stuttgart Cup/Mission Foods GT3 Cup 10 event race schedule, the Mid-Ohio weekend is the last chance for new competitors to get in on this year’s championship battles.
Stuttgart Cup and Mission Foods GT3 Cup competitors are eligible for 2015 season-ending championship awards only if they participate in at least five event weekends. Mid-Ohio is the first of 2015’s final five races, which means even competitors making their first start of the season on the Buckeye road course can contend for the overall series championship if they compete in each of the year’s remaining events. For a complete breakdown of the 2015 championship rules and points system, please click here.
The Stuttgart Cup™ and Mission Foods GT3 Cup have also posted a team championship this year. In addition to on-track performance and per-race points, the team championship also takes into account distance traveled and the number of cars teams bring to each race, offering an extra incentive to competitors around the country to literally “go the extra mile” to race in The Stuttgart Cup™ and Mission Foods GT3 Cup.
The Mid-Ohio race weekend features points-paying Friday and Saturday sprint races and Sunday’s featured enduro. Practice, qualifying and a Sunday warm-up session are also on the schedule, along with a Thursday test day that has four individual on-track sessions. The weekend’s provisional event schedule is available by clicking here, and the Thursday, June 25, test day schedule is available by clicking here.
The Stuttgart Cup™ and Mission Foods GT3 Cup official entry form for the Mid-Ohio event is available by clicking here. First time entrants are also eligible for a $500 entry discount through a program with series partner Bob Woodman Tires.
Local driver, Mark Sandridge, never misses a chance to race at Mid-Ohio, which is located less than an hour from his home in Medina, Ohio. Sandridge will be among the Mission Foods GT3 Cup favorites in his No. 25 Porsche GT3 Cup that carries the livery of the Le Mans-winning Porsche 911 GT1.
Top competition for Sandridge and the rest of the Mission Foods GT3 Cup field will come from Kevin Wheeler and his KMW Motorsports team out of Florida. The KMW shop will field several competitive GT3 Porsches at Mid-Ohio.
On The Stuttgart Cup™ Cayman front, 2015 race winners and title-contenders Rick Stavola and Vern Chevalier will look to continue their victorious ways at Mid-Ohio. They will compete in their Bodymotion-prepared Caymans along with teammate Tom Kievit.
Stavola, who won the season-opening enduro at the Palm Beach Grand Prix, drives the 3.4-liter No. 22 Bodymotion Cayman S. Chevalier competes in a 3.8-liter No. 24 Cayman S with the support of EFS Combust. Kievit races the No. 27 3.4-liter Cayman S.
Classic Auto Restoration Services (CARS) is bringing at least two Stuttgart Cup Caymans to Mid-Ohio. The Omaha, Nebraska-based shop also prepares the crowd-favorite No. 23 “Pink Pig” Cayman S owned by Randy Cassling and his wife Lori Cassling.
Mike Cassling, Randy’s brother, last raced at The Mitty in April where he scored his first series podium finish. He returns at Mid-Ohio in his orange No. 2 Cayman S out of the CARS stable, which is themed after the popular Jägermeister Porsches.
Another CARS competitor Mid-Ohio bound is Stuttgart Cup race winner, Henry Davis, who drives the No. 21 Cayman S. He won his first series event in a sprint race at the 2014 Sebring finale.
About The Stuttgart Cup™ and the Mission Foods GT3 Cup Trophy USA by Car Amigo: The Stuttgart Cup™ and the Mission Foods GT3 Cup Trophy USA by Car Amigo are managed by Americas GT Cup L.L.C. Both series are sprint and endurance race based with The Stuttgart Cup™ open to all Porsche Caymans and Boxsters and Mission Foods GT3 open to all 2000 and later Porsche 911 GT3s and related models. Rules for both series are centered on power to weight ratio. All competing Stuttgart Cup cars must compete with stock make and model engine and transmissions with approved allowances for exhaust and intake modifications. Stuttgart Cup organizers also welcome all competitors with existing race-prepared Caymans or Boxsters to compete with body and engine modifications balanced within series power to weight ratio parameters. All such competitors will not be eligible for championship points or class-designated race wins, but the door is always open to all Cayman and Boxster competitors to get in on the action.
The Stuttgart Cup™ and Mission Foods GT3 Cup Trophy USA by Car Amigo race with the support of series partners Mission Foods, Pirelli Tire North America, BRM Chronographes, VP Racing Fuels, Pacifico Costa Rica, Palm Beach Driving Club, Car Amigo and Bob Woodman Tires.
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