Race Pictures: The Rolling Hills Of The Southern Virginia Countryside As soon as Once more Host IMSA Racing Greatness!
(Phrases and Pictures by David Whealon) Properly, we’re again to the rolling hills of the southern Virginia countryside at one of the vital lovely and award-winning street racing programs within the USA, Virginia Worldwide Raceway (VIR) in Alton, Va. This occasion marks the eighth consecutive working of America’s world-class sports activities automobile racing sequence returning for the IMSA Michelin GT Problem. Not like most different IMSA occasions, this one is proscribed to solely GTD Professional and GTD racers sans the Prototypes. However that doesn’t imply there’s any lack of quick motion or pleasure on the state park-like 3.27-mile street circuit. With the lengthy straights, winding turns, and elevation modifications, VIR is without doubt one of the quickest and most technical tracks that these factory-based and non-factory groups will compete on all season. With the likes of Lamborghini, Lexus, Acura, AMG Mercedes, BMW, and the ever-popular Chevy Corvette, bragging rights to this one are really cherished.
Accompanying the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship races had been the multi-class IMSA Michelin Pilot Problem (GT4 and TCR) and the doubleheader weekend races of the Idemitsu Mazda MX-5 Cup, Lamborghini Tremendous Trofeo and the IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Problem of which included the multi-class racing of the LMP3 Prototypes and GT4.
As soon as once more the illustrious VIR hills got here alive with of among the greatest kick-butt spec sequence and multi-class sportscar racing at its best.
