Tough Weekend for TC Motorsports at Lime Rock

Auburn, WA, June 10, 2010—With a mechanical issue in qualifying, and two crashes during the race, TC Motorsports had a tough weekend at the fifth race of the 2010 Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge (CTSCC) season at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Connecticut, May 28-29. The second crash of the race was severe enough to prevent the team from racing the #14 Boss 302R at last weekend’s Continental Tire 150 at the historic Watkins Glen International in New York, and next weekend’s EMCO Gears Classic at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

After two practice sessions, Rick Edwards went out to qualify the #14 Boss 302R. On the out lap, the brakes did not work correctly. It turns out that a small brake part had failed as Edwards rolled onto pit lane. However, per the series regulations, the team cannot touch the car after the car is on pit lane and has been presented for qualifying, so the team sat out the rest of the session, qualifying 31st out of 31 cars.

Starting in 31st at the beginning of the 2.5 hour race, Edwards raced his way up to 17th. Towards the end of his stint, Edwards got spun and put into a wall at Turn 3. During a long pit stop, the team repaired the damage to the left front of the car, and Ted Anthony, Jr. got behind the wheel. Anthony raced back up to 19th but got spun into a wall at the final, high speed, downhill turn with only 20 minutes to go. The damage was too severe to repair in the pit lane, so Edwards and Anthony finished 25th of 31 cars. Both Edwards and Anthony walked away from their accidents without any injuries.

Unfortunately, the Lime Rock race is the only CTSCC race this season that will not be broadcast on SPEED. For photos of the event, go to ColdTrackDays.com and search for posts tagged with “TC Motorsports.”

The next CTSCC race to be broadcast is the Continental Tire 200 from Watkins Glen International this Sunday, June 13 at 1:00 pm Eastern (10:00 am Pacific) on SPEED.

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About About TC Motorsports, LLC
TC Motorsports, LLC is a complete and comprehensive source for sport, club, and professional driving enthusiasts who want to maintain, modify, drive, or race high performance sports cars and race cars. Whether at our Auburn, WA, Service Center, at our online store (www.tcmotorsports-store.net), or at the track, our professional and experienced team helps our customers reach their motorsports goals. TC Motorsports provides race car preparation, maintenance, and transportation, as well as full arrive and drive support, driver coaching, and race car rentals for amateur and professional racing drivers. To find out more about opportunities to drive with TC Motorsports in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge (formerly KONI Challenge), or in a BMW Pro-3 or a Spec Miata, please visit the company website at www.tcmotorsports.net.

Corporations interested in developing a motorsports marketing campaign for our 2010 Continental Sports Car Challenge program should direct all proposals to info@tcmotorsports.net.

About Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Series
The Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge is a professional endurance racing series featuring today’s hottest import and domestic production-based race cars that usually race together while competing for both class honors (GS and Street Tuner classes) and the overall victory. The GS class is the faster and more powerful of the two classes with iconic automotive brands such as Chevrolet, Ford, BMW, Dodge, and Porsche racing for the manufacture’s championship title. GRAND-AM Road Racing sanctions the Continental Tire Challenge. The series will feature 10 races in 2010, deliver professional sports car racing to key markets throughout North America, and be televised on SPEED. Series races are primarily run as the featured support events for the Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16. For more information about the GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge visit www.grand-am.com.

Source: TC Motorsports press release

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