APR Motorsport is very proud to announce the signing of Sabine Schmitz, the winningest female endurance racer in the world, as a team driver. Sabine will join the team for her first of two initial races at Iowa Motor Speedway this coming weekend, co-driving the #181 APR Motorsport/Team Janica Racing VW GTI with Mark White. Sabine will be filling in for Randy Pobst, who has a conflicting race in the Speed GT Series, in which he is currently the points leader and is actively defending his 2007 Championship. Continue reading ‘APR Motorsport Brings The Queen of the Ring, Sabine Schmitz, to KONI Challenge’
We are live from the Rolex Sports Car Series Porsche 250 at Barber Motorsports Park. We had a strong 2hr drive over from Atlanta. Great weather and no traffic.
Today’s weather will be mostly sunny. Hazy through 9 am. Highs around 95. Light west winds. It is going to be a hot one.
The weekends racing will feature Rolex Series DP, Rolex Series GT as well as the Koni Series GS.
Today will consist of practice for all and qualifying for the Rolex Seris GT / DP.
The Koni Series GS cars qualified yesterday. We will post those results in a bit.
The Grand-Am has some excellent online timing so be sure and check it out here
The race will be shown on SPEEDtv, tomorrow at 3:00 PM ET.
#58 Brumos Racing / Porsche Riley takes pole in Daytona Prototypes, #23 Alex Job Racing / Porsche Crawford followed in 7th.
In GT #87 Farnbacher Loles / Porsche GT3 Cup took the 3rd spot behind the two Pontiac GXP.R. The #66 TRG / Porsche GT3 Cup followed up in 6th and the #86 Farnbacher Loles / Porsche GT3 Cup on 8th.
Race will be aired on March 29th, 6:00 PM SPEED * - tape delay
It is going to be a packed weekend on both side of the world. The BTCC will kick off tomorrow and we will be keeping a close eye on SEATS TDI effort with Jason Plato and Darren Turner at the controls. The SEAT Leon TDI’s have super strong in the WTCC.
Qualifying takes place tomorrow at 15.40 – 16.10 (3:30pm Standard time; 11:30am DST, New York)
On our side of the pond, we have the second race of the Rolex Sports Car series at the GAINSCO Grand Prix of Miami. We are not huge fans of the Daytona Prototypes but htere are a few Porsche powered cars. During yesterdays practice we saw one of the Brumos Racing / Porsche Riley in second.
We love the GT class where we saw the Top 6 divided by three Porsche GT3 Cup’s and three Pontiac GXP.R’s.
Qualifying takes palce today:
3:00 PM 3:15 PM Qualifying – Rolex Series GT
3:30 PM 3:45 PM Qualifying – Rolex Series Daytona Prototypes
This is a bit later than we wanted. March is around the corner! 12 Hours of Sebring is now 16 days away!
Completed! but now we need to add the Le Mans Series! We have but two to finish, the Grand Am Rolex Series and the KONI Challenge Series. They really don’t get going until May but it should be up by evening.
These will be updated as needed. Track, dates, times, PDF schedules and more (varies).
We are also working with our creative, STRENGTH interactive, on a special mobile concept! Stay tuned on that one!
APR Motorsport is excited to announce the testing of SPEEDtv.com documentary star James Hunt.
Hunt’s quest to become a pro driver is to appear season long on SPEEDtv.com, which is documenting his journey to become a professional race car driver throughout the entire 2008 season.
APR Motorsport will host Hunt at its test in early March at Virginia International Raceway. Hunt will be piloting one of APR’s VW GTi’s - which compete in the Grand-Am KONI Challenge Street Tuner class - for the test, working with APR’s other drivers Randy Pobst, Ian Baas, Mark White and Dion von Moltke. Video of Hunt’s experience with APR Motorsport while at VIR is scheduled to appear on SPEEDtv.com.
“It’s great that both James and SPEEDtv.com are allowing the public to see the trials and work it takes to become a pro driver in racing today,” team principal Stephen Hooks said. “Becoming a pro is not an easy course and few people likely know how hard these drivers work to turn their passion of racing into a paying career.
“I really think the public will be enlightened by the process,” Hooks added. “The whole team is excited to put James in one of our cars and see what he can do!”
Questions about the test or APR Motorsport in general can be directed to APR Motorsport PR. Director Michael Stahlschmidt at 847-899-5121 or mike @ motorsportspersonalities.com.
We found a great video from Garage419 which focuses on the new 2008 APR Motorsports effort. The video features footage from the Daytona Test Days, interviews with Randy Pobst and Ian Bass. Randy even breaks down the GTI for us in terms of the class regulations. *Hint: stock
It’s a great insight about the series, the car or APR Motosport.
Here’s to a successful, fun and safe season.
One of the leading VW, Audi, and Porsche tuning and engineering firms in the world, APR, is entering professional racing with the formation of the APR Motorsport. Garage419 met up with Team APR, including drivers Randy Pobst, Ian Baas, and Mark White, during pre-season testing at Daytona Speedway as they were fine tuning the three VW GTI race cars which they have entered in the Koni Challenge ST class for the 2008 Grand Am Series.
We’ve been putting together calendars from all racing series that we watch and repot on. This will include the American Le Mans Series, DTM, WTCC, BTCC, Le Mans, FIA GT, Speed World Challenge, Volkswagen Racing Cup, Volkswagen Polo Cup, Formula 3 Euro Series, Grand Am and more. Dakar was in but…
There are some good solutions out there but in the end we came back to Google Calendar. We will also set direct links up to the iCal (.ics) file. Here is a list of apps that support iCal format. In the end Google is web based and you can have access to it from wherever.
Click on over to our 2008 Racing Calendar page. Right now we have ALMS, BTCC, WTCC and the DTM program schedule on SpeedTV (last race Feb. 2)
Enjoy! Oh and if you have a series you’d like to see, let us know!
Excellent news rom the crew over at APR! I do enjoy watching the Grand Am racing and now it will be even better. Pobst is Pobst and no one can argue with that. Ian Bass has been tearing it up in the Speed World Challenge TC series. I’m not familiar with Mark White but it’s great to see a driver mature and move up in his/her career.
I do hope they campaign one DSG!
Las Vegas, NV - October 30, 2007 - APR, LLC, the world’s leading Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche performance engineering firm, is entering professional racing with the formation of APR Motorsport, LLC. APR Motorsport is excited to announce that it will campaign three Volkswagen GTI race cars in the Koni Challenge Sport Touring class of Grand Am in 2008.
Pulling off what might be the coup of the year in racing, APR Motorsport has signed ten-time national series champion Randy Pobst to drive for the team. Pobst, fresh off his third World Challenge Speed GT Championship in six years, narrowly missed the famed “double,” coming close to winning both the Speed Touring Car and GT Championship in the same year. Pobst narrowly missed out on this yet to be accomplished feat, only after being punted off the track in the final laps of the final Touring Car race of the season. In hiring Pobst, APR Motorsport brings one of America’s top talents back to the Grand American series, where Pobst has won two Daytona 24 Hour championships and has 9 Grand Am race wins.
The boys over at Bildon Motorsport just posted a new video of their Grand AM MKV GTI racer. I’ve been racing a lot on Forza Motorsport 2 and it is amazing to see how real the game is .vs an on-board video like this. My skills are a different story.
