Eric Curran leads the pack into turn one at Road America. [Andy Clary Photo]
Elkhart Lake, WI – The Action Express team runs great at Road America and today was no different.
Dane Cameron and co-driver Eric Curran drove their Action Express Corvette DP to victory at Road America in the Continental Tire Road Race Showcase TUDOR United SportsCar Championship event.
Eric Curran (left) and Dane Cameron celebrate in victory lane at Road America. [Andy Clary Photo]
Cameron finished the race that Curran had started and cruised to a fourteen second margin of victory over teammates Joao Barbosa and Christian Fittipaldi, winners of this event last season. Polesitters Scott Pruett and Joey Hand finished third in their Ford Ecoboost Riley DP at the four plus mile natural terrain road course.
The victory for Cameron and Curran was their second of the season, they also won at Belle Isle three races ago.
Wayne Taylor Racing, who won the last event at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park had a failure in the right rear of their Corvette while running on the lead lap with just under an hour to go in the race. After pitting to work on the issue, they fell two laps off the lead and finished 16th overall and 8th in class.
Prototype point leaders coming into the Road America race Michael Valiante and Richard Westbrook in the VisitFlorida.com Racing Chevrolet Corvette DP finished fifth overall, almost a minute behind the winners.
Bruno Junqueira took the Prototype Challenge class victory over Conor Daly by just under seven seconds after contact on the final lap.
GT LeMans was the class with the most action as Patrick Pillet took the victory in the Porsche 911 RSR. Behind him a fierce battle for second over the final laps between the Ferrari F458 Italia of Pierre Kaffer and the Porsche of Jorg Bergmeister ended up with the two cars racing side by side, banging wheels through turns 12 and 13 on the final lap and Kaffer running off track and finishing third.
In the GT Daytona class Dodge Viper driver Jeroen Bleekemolen passed Kuno Wittmer in the Aston Martin late in the race to take the lead and the class victory. With the victory Bleekemolen’s teammate Christina Nielsen moved into the class points lead.
A crash just nine laps into the race by Michael Marsal in the BMW Z4 brought out the safety car for the only full course caution in the event.
Just three more races, Virginia International Raceway, Circuit of the Americas and Road Atlanta, are left on the 2015 TUDOR United SportsCar Championship schedule.