2014 Continental Tire Road Race Showcase

Track map of Road America

The 2014 Continental Tire Road Race Showcase was a sports car race sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) held at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin on August 10, 2014. The event served as the tenth of thirteen scheduled rounds of the 2014 United SportsCar Championship.

Background

Preview

Road America, where the race was held.

International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) president Scott Atherton confirmed that the race was part of the 2014 United SportsCar Championship schedule in October 2013. It was the first year the event was held as part of the Tudor United SportsCar Championship. The 2014 Continental Tire Road Race Showcase was the tenth of thirteen scheduled sports car races of 2014 by IMSA, and it was the seventh round not held as part of the North American Endurance Cup. The event was held at the fourteen-turn 4.048 mi (6.515 km) Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin on August 10, 2014.

Before the race, João Barbosa and Christian Fittipaldi led the Prototype Drivers' Championship with 249 points, 2 points clear of Jordan Taylor and Ricky Taylor in second, and Richard Westbrook and Michael Valiante with 238 points. With 200 points, PC was led by Jon Bennett and Colin Braun with a forty four-point advantage over Martin Fuentes. In GTLM, the Drivers' Championship was led by Antonio García and Jan Magnussen with 219 points; the duo held a thirteen point gap over Kuno Wittmer and Jonathan Bomarito. Bill Sweedler and Townsend Bell led the GTD Drivers' Championship with 192 points, 9 points ahead of Leh Keen and Cooper MacNeil. Chevrolet and Ferrari were leading their respective Manufacturers' Championships, while Action Express Racing, CORE Autosport, Corvette Racing, and AIM Autosport were their respective Teams' Championships.

Entry list

Fifty-one cars were officially entered for the Continental Tire Road Race Showcase, with the bulk of entries in the Prototype (P) and Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) classes. Action Express Racing (AER), Marsh Racing, VisitFlorida Racing (VFR) and Wayne Taylor Racing (WTR) entered one Chevrolet Corvette DP. Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR) and Michael Shank Racing (MSR) entered one Ford-powered Riley MkXXVI while Starworks Motorsport entered one Honda-powered Riley MkXXVI. Speedsource had two Lola B12/80 while Extreme Speed Motorsports (ESM) entered two HPD ARX-03b cars and OAK Racing entered one Morgan LMP2 chassis with Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 engine. The DeltaWing car was reinstated to the championship after missing the previous round. The Prototype Challenge (PC) class was composed of ten Oreca FLM09 cars: two from Starworks Motorsport and RSR Racing. BAR1 Motorsports, CORE Autosport, JDC-Miller MotorSports, Performance Tech, PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports, and 8Star Motorsports entered one car each. GTLM was represented by ten entries from five different brands. In the list of GTD entrants, eighteen GT-specification vehicles were represented by six different manufacturers.

Practice

There were three practice sessions preceding the start of the race on Sunday, one on Friday and two on Saturday. The first two one-hour sessions were on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning while the third on Saturday afternoon lasted an hour.

Qualifying

Saturday afternoon's 80-minute four-group qualifying session gave 15-minute sessions to all categories. Cars in GTD were sent out first before those grouped in GTLM, PC, and Prototype had three separate identically timed sessions. Regulations stipulated teams to nominate one qualifying driver, with the fastest laps determining each classes starting order. IMSA would arranged the grid to put all Prototypes ahead of the PC, GTLM, and GTD cars.

Qualifying results

Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold and by ‡. P stands for Prototype, PC (Prototype Challenge), GTLM (Grand Touring Le Mans) and GTD (Grand Touring Daytona).

Pos.	Class	No.	Team	Driver	Time	Gap	Grid
1	P	1	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ryan Dalziel	1:55.166	_	1‡
2	P	90	Spirit of Daytona Racing	Richard Westbrook	1:55.487	+0.321	50
3	P	5	Action Express Racing	Christian Fittipaldi	1:55.961	+0.795	2
4	P	42	OAK Racing	Olivier Pla	1:56.019	+0.853	3
5	P	10	Wayne Taylor Racing	Ricky Taylor	1:56.175	+1.009	4
6	P	2	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Johannes van Overbeek	1:56.319	+1.153	5
7	P	01	Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates	Memo Rojas	1:56.395	+1.229	6
8	P	60	Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian	Oswaldo Negri	1:56.676	+1.510	7
9	P	31	Marsh Racing	Burt Frisselle	1:57.581	+2.415	8
10	P	0	DeltaWing Racing Cars	Andy Meyrick	1:57.754	+2.588	9
11	P	78	Starworks Motorsport	James Hinchcliffe	1:58.013	+2.847	10
12	PC	09	RSR Racing	Bruno Junqueira	1:59.411	+4.245	11‡
13	PC	08	RSR Racing	Jack Hawksworth	1:59.493	+4.327	12
14	PC	25	8Star Motorsports	Luis Díaz	1:59.931	+4.765	13
15	PC	8	Starworks Motorsport	Renger van der Zande	2:00.087	+4.921	14
16	PC	38	Performance Tech	David Ostella	2:00.144	+4.978	15
17	PC	54	CORE Autosport	Colin Braun	2:00.273	+5.107	16
18	PC	52	PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports	Gunnar Jeannette	2:00.395	+5.229	17
19	PC	7	Starworks Motorsport	John Martin	2:01.024	+5.858	18
20	PC	85	JDC-Miller MotorSports	Stephen Simpson	2:01.077	+5.911	19
21	P	07	Speedsource	Tristan Nunez	2:01.614	+6.448	20
22	P	70	Speedsource	Tom Long	2:02.169	+7.003	21
23	GTLM	56	BMW Team RLL	John Edwards	2:03.747	+8.581	22‡
24	GTLM	93	SRT Motorsports	Jonathan Bomarito	2:03.813	+8.647	23
25	GTLM	91	SRT Motorsports	Marc Goossens	2:03.930	+8.764	24
26	GTLM	55	BMW Team RLL	Bill Auberlen	2:03.964	+8.798	25
27	GTLM	912	Porsche North America	Patrick Long	2:04.550	+9.384	26
28	GTLM	4	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin	2:04.650	+9.484	27
29	GTLM	911	Porsche North America	Nick Tandy	2:04.685	+9.519	28
30	GTLM	3	Corvette Racing	Jan Magnussen	2:04.738	+9.572	29
31	GTLM	62	Risi Competizione	Giancarlo Fisichella	2:05.149	+9.983	30
32	GTLM	17	Team Falken Tire	Wolf Henzler	2:06.527	+11.361	31
33	GTD	007	TRG-AMR North America	James Davison	2:09.079	+13.913	32‡
34	GTD	94	Turner Motorsport	Dane Cameron	2:09.293	+14.147	33
35	GTD	33	Riley Motorsports	Jeroen Bleekemolen	2:09.345	+14.179	34
36	GTD	23	Team Seattle/Alex Job Racing	Mario Farnbacher	2:09.354	+14.188	35
37	GTD	22	Alex Job Racing	Leh Keen	2:09.434	+14.268	36
38	GTD	73	Park Place Motorsports	Kévin Estre	2:09.471	+14.305	37
39	GTD	58	Snow Racing	Jan Heylen	2:09.555	+14.389	38
40	GTD	44	Magnus Racing	Andy Lally	2:09.753	+14.587	39
41	GTD	555	AIM Autosport	Townsend Bell	2:09.968	+14.802	40
42	GTD	48	Paul Miller Racing	Christopher Haase	2:10.495	+15.329	41
43	GTD	63	Scuderia Corsa	Alessandro Balzan	2:10.673	+15.507	42
44	GTD	45	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Spencer Pumpelly	2:10.722	+15.556	43
45	GTD	27	Dempsey Racing	Andrew Davis	2:10.886	+15.720	44
46	GTD	18	Mühlner Motorsports America	Alex Davison	2:11.444	+16.278	45
47	GTD	81	GB Autosport	Damien Faulkner	2:11.759	+16.593	46
48	GTD	19	Mühlner Motorsports America	Christian Szymczak	2:12.460	+17.294	47
49	GTD	35	Flying Lizard Motorsports	None	No Time Established		48
50	GTD	46	Fall-Line Motorsports	None	No Time Established		49
51	GTD	71	Park Place Motorsports	None	No Time Established		51
52	PC	88	BAR1 Motorsports	None	No Time Established		52
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Race

Race results

Class winners are denoted in bold and ‡. P stands for Prototype, PC (Prototype Challenge), GTLM (Grand Touring Le Mans) and GTD (Grand Touring Daytona).

Pos Class No. Team Drivers Chassis Tire Laps Time/Retired Engine 1 P 5 Action Express Racing João Barbosa Christian Fittipaldi Chevrolet Corvette DP C 61 2:46:52.622‡ Chevrolet LS9 5.5 L V8 2 P 60 Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian John Pew Oswaldo Negri Riley MkXXVI C 61 +2.240 Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Turbo V6 3 P 1 Extreme Speed Motorsports Scott Sharp Ryan Dalziel HPD ARX-03b C 61 +2.650 Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6 4 P 90 Spirit of Daytona Racing Michael Valiante Richard Westbrook Chevrolet Corvette DP C 61 +4.770 Chevrolet LS9 5.5 L V8 5 P 31 Marsh Racing Eric Curran Burt Frisselle Chevrolet Corvette DP C 61 +12.540 Chevrolet LS9 5.5 L V8 6 PC 8 Starworks Motorsport Mirco Schultis Renger van der Zande Oreca FLM09 C 61 +19.796‡ Chevrolet 6.2 L V8 7 PC 25 8Star Motorsports Luis Díaz Sean Rayhall Oreca FLM09 C 61 +20.211 Chevrolet 6.2 L V8 8 P 0 DeltaWing Racing Cars Katherine Legge Andy Meyrick DeltaWing DWC13 C 61 +23.838 Élan (Mazda) 1.9 L I4 Turbo 9 P 01 Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates Scott Pruett Memo Rojas Riley MkXXVI C 61 +24.441 Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Turbo V6 10 P 2 Extreme Speed Motorsports Ed Brown Johannes van Overbeek HPD ARX-03b C 61 +24.746 Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6 11 PC 85 JDC-Miller MotorSports Chris Miller Stephen Simpson Oreca FLM09 C 61 +26.034 Chevrolet 6.2 L V8 12 PC 08 RSR Racing Chris Cumming Jack Hawksworth Oreca FLM09 C 61 +26.583 Chevrolet 6.2 L V8 13 GTLM 62 Risi Competizione Giancarlo Fisichella Pierre Kaffer Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 M 61 +51.424‡ Ferrari 4.5 L V8 14 PC 7 Starworks Motorsport John Martin Martin Fuentes Alex Popow Oreca FLM09 C 61 +51.905 Chevrolet 6.2 L V8 15 GTLM 56 BMW Team RLL John Edwards Dirk Müller BMW Z4 GTE M 61 +53.012 BMW 4.4 L V8 16 GTLM 93 SRT Motorsports Jonathan Bomarito Kuno Wittmer Marc Goossens SRT Viper GTS-R M 61 +53.087 SRT 8.0 L V10 17 PC 38 Performance Tech David Ostella James French Oreca FLM09 C 61 +53.224 Chevrolet 6.2 L V8 18 P 07 Speedsource Joel Miller Tristan Nunez Mazda Prototype C 61 +53.894 Mazda Skyactiv-D 2.2 L Turbo I4 (Diesel) 19 GTLM 91 SRT Motorsports Marc Goossens Dominik Farnbacher Jonathan Bomarito SRT Viper GTS-R M 61 +54.534 SRT 8.0 L V10 20 GTLM 912 Porsche North America Patrick Long Michael Christensen Porsche 911 RSR M 61 +57.904 Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 21 GTLM 3 Corvette Racing Antonio García Jan Magnussen Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 61 +57.991 Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8 22 GTLM 4 Corvette Racing Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 61 +59.854 Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8 23 GTLM 55 BMW Team RLL Bill Auberlen Andy Priaulx BMW Z4 GTE M 61 +1:00.369 BMW 4.4 L V8 24 GTLM 17 Team Falken Tire Wolf Henzler Bryan Sellers Porsche 911 RSR F 61 +1:02.409 Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 25 GTLM 911 Porsche North America Nick Tandy Richard Lietz Porsche 911 RSR M 61 +1:09.409 Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 26 GTD 94 Turner Motorsport Dane Cameron Markus Palttala Audi R8 LMS ultra C 59 +2 Laps‡ Audi 5.2 L V10 27 GTD 22 Alex Job Racing Leh Keen Cooper MacNeil Porsche 911 GT America C 59 +2 Laps Porsche 4.0L Flat-6 28 GTD 58 Snow Racing Jan Heylen Madison Snow Porsche 911 GT America C 59 +2 Laps Porsche 4.0L Flat-6 29 GTD 33 Riley Motorsports Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating SRT Viper GT3-R C 59 +2 Laps SRT 8.0 L V10 30 GTD 555 AIM Autosport Townsend Bell Bill Sweedler Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 C 59 +2 Laps Ferrari 4.5L V8 31 GTD 23 Team Seattle/Alex Job Racing Mario Farnbacher Ian James Porsche 911 GT America C 59 +2 Laps Porsche 4.0L Flat-6 32 GTD 45 Flying Lizard Motorsports Nelson Canache Jr. Spencer Pumpelly Audi R8 LMS ultra C 59 +2 Laps Audi 5.2 L V10 33 GTD 35 Flying Lizard Motorsports Dion von Moltke Andrew Palmer Audi R8 LMS ultra C 59 +2 Laps Audi 5.2 L V10 34 GTD 46 Fall-Line Motorsports Charles Espenlaub Charles Putman Marino Franchitti Audi R8 LMS ultra C 59 +2 Laps Audi 5.2 L V10 35 GTD 73 Park Place Motorsports Patrick Lindsey Kévin Estre Porsche 911 GT America 59 +2 Laps Porsche 4.0L Flat-6 36 GTD 48 Paul Miller Racing Christopher Haase Bryce Miller Audi R8 LMS ultra C 58 +3 Laps Audi 5.2 L V10 37 GTD 81 GB Autosport Ben Barker Damien Faulkner Porsche 911 GT America C 57 +4 Laps Porsche 4.0L Flat-6 38 DNF PC 52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports Gunnar Jeannette Frankie Montecalvo Oreca FLM09 C 55 Did Not Finish Chevrolet 6.2 L V8 39 PC 54 CORE Autosport Jon Bennett Colin Braun Oreca FLM09 C 53 +8 Laps Chevrolet 6.2 L V8 40 GTD 27 Dempsey Racing Andrew Davis Patrick Dempsey Porsche 911 GT America C 50 +11 Laps Porsche 4.0L Flat-6 41 DNF P 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Ricky Taylor Jordan Taylor Chevrolet Corvette DP C 47 Did Not Finish Chevrolet LS9 5.5 L V8 42 DNF P 42 OAK Racing Olivier Pla Gustavo Yacamán Morgan LMP2 C 44 Did Not Finish Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 43 GTD 44 Magnus Racing Andy Lally John Potter Porsche 911 GT America C 44 +17 Laps Porsche 4.0L Flat-6 44 GTD 19 Mühlner Motorsports America Mark Klenin Christian Szymczak Porsche 911 GT America C 43 +18 Laps Porsche 4.0L Flat-6 45 DNF GTD 63 Scuderia Corsa Alessandro Balzan Jeff Westphal Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 C 18 Did Not Finish Ferrari 4.5L V8 46 DNF GTD 18 Mühlner Motorsports America David Calvert-Jones Alex Davison Porsche 911 GT America C 13 Did Not Finish Porsche 4.0L Flat-6 47 DNF P 78 Starworks Motorsport Scott Mayer James Hinchcliffe Riley MkXXVI C 2 Did Not Finish Honda HR35TT 3.5 L Turbo V6 48 DNF PC 09 RSR Racing Duncan Ende Bruno Junqueira Oreca FLM09 C 2 Did Not Finish Chevrolet 6.2 L V8 49 DNS P 70 Speedsource Tom Long Sylvain Tremblay Mazda Prototype C -- Did Not Start Mazda Skyactiv-D 2.2 L Turbo I4 (Diesel) 50 DNS GTD 007 TRG-AMR North America Al Carter James Davison Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 C -- Did Not Finish Aston Martin 6.0 L V12 Sources:

Tyre manufacturers Key Symbol Tyre manufacturer C Continental M Michelin F Falken Tire