Trans Am Series Descends On Lime Rock Park For Round 2 Of The 2012 Championship

Defending Champion, Tony AveMIAMI - May 23, 2012  This week the Trans Am Series heads to Lakeville, Connecticut to participate in historic Lime Rock Park’s traditional season opener, the Memorial Day Race Weekend. Expect things to get pretty rough and tumble given five of the drivers entered for the 2012 Lime Rock Trans Am have previous Lime Rock Trans Am starts, and two have been victorious: 2010 winner Tony Ave and 1987 victor Pete Halsmer.

It would be nearly impossible to talk about American Road Racing without using Trans Am and Lime Rock Park in the same sentence. The idyllic setting has been the scene of some of the greatest racing and host to many of the legendary names in Trans Am history. Names like Peter Revson, Mark Donohue, Parnelli Jones, Ron Fellows, Tommy Kendall, Peter Gregg, Al Holbert, Sam Posey… the list goes on.

The most recent Lime Rock Park Trans Am  winner is defending Trans Am champion, Tony Ave.

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Outstanding Second Place Finish for Canadian Ian Patterson At Canadian Tire Motorsport Park Trans Am

When defending champion and 2011 race winner, Tony Ave, suffered a cut tire, a door of opportunity opened for several drivers in Sundays 100 mile season opener at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.

One of the beneficiaries was second place finisher, Ian Patterson. We caught up with Ian to get his take on the second place finish and to find out more about that beautiful Corvette's livery feature Canadian Heroes.

"I certainly wasn't counting on such a good finish," said Patterson. "But after practice Sunday on old tires I knew the car was going to be strong, so I was hoping for a top 5.  That Tony, Amy, and Blaise all had problems had more to do with getting a podium than anything else, though. That was a shame as I was looking forward to running with them. At least I got to have some fun dogging Simon [Gregg] and Andrew [Romocki] around for a lot of laps. I get a perverse sense of pleasure just riding the bumper of another car like that, just waiting for that opportunity to open up."

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Ruman Scores 6th At Canadian Tire Motorsports Park

Toronto – With a large crowd on hand to usher in the 2012 racing season, Amy Ruman opened the Trans Am championship with a run to sixth place at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park in the No. 23 McNichols Co./Goodyear/Cenweld sponsored C6 Corvette. The race weekend marked the debut event for Ruman with the C6 Corvette as the Ohio-based racer looked to build on her 2011 Trans Am season-finale race win with a strong result to open the year.

The event, known as the Victoria Day Speedfest Weekend, saw Ruman take fifth on the starting grid as she and her Ruman Racing crew worked to get familiar with the Corvette. The group had over a decade’s worth of set-ups and history with the previous Corvette, and the Victoria Day event marked the start of a new chapter with the new machine.

Ruman showed that the new C6 Corvette has promise as she posted the second quickest time in the morning warm-up, but the weekend was still a learning one for Ruman Racing.

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