Trans Am Series to open Lime Rock Park's season with 28-car field

Series’ entry largest to visit venue since ’99, doubles previous year

As Trans Am makes its way East for the third race of the 2013 season, it brings with it a field far larger than any in recent years as the series continues to make progress in what has been a milestone season.  

The Lime Rock entry is another step forward in a series of entry highs.  Earlier this year at Sebring International Raceway, Trans Am featured a decade high entry of 38 cars.  That effort was then followed up with a 28-car entry at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, which featured a record high 16-car TA2 entry.  Now, the 29-field is another move in the right direction for the longest running road racing series in North America. 

Plenty of drivers head towards Lime Rock with momentum, but none more so than Doug Peterson, driver of the #87 3Dimensional.com Chevrolet Corvette.  Peterson comes into the Lime Rock weekend with three consecutive wins behind him, dating back to last year’s season finale at Road Atlanta. 

“Our current run has just been awesome,” Peterson said.  “I didn’t even realize we’ve won three in a row.  I’m incredibly proud of the effort the team has put in.  Tony Ave has prepared such a fast car and its been a lot of fun to drive and compete in.” 

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Promising Race Ends Early For Ruman Racing

Bowmanville, Ontario (20 May 2013) – Ruman Racing traveled north to Canadian Tire Motorsports Park for Round 2 of the Trans Am Championship looking to bring home another strong result in the No. 23 McNichols Co. Corvette. Despite a promising race run, a major incident in the late stages of the race ended Amy Ruman’s day early and prevented a possible podium finish. 

The weekend got off to a good start with a solid day of testing at the daunting track on Friday ahead of Saturday’s official practice and qualifying. Ruman’s fast qualifying lap of 1:18.313-seconds lined the No. 23 McNichols machine up fifth on the 28-car grid for the start of the race.

Looking to make up ground in the 100-mile Victoria Day Speedfest event, Ruman opened the race from the third row. She ran among the top-five throughout the early stages with the car continuing to improve throughout the run. While the lead pack of cars all set their fast race-laps within the first five laps, Ruman set her fastest lap of the race on Lap 20.

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Doug Peterson tops 28-car field at CTMP for third straight win

Tony Buffomante wins TA2 class, edging out points leader Cameron Lawrence

As the Trans Am Series returned to Canadian Tire Motorsport Park for the Victoria Day Speedfest Weekend, the 28-car field made a mad dash through the 41-lap sprint; and, at the end of the day, Doug Peterson won his third straight race. 

Peterson and the #87 3Dimensional.com Chevrolet Corvette began the session in P3, behind pole setter Simon Gregg and the #1 Gregg Motorsports Chevrolet Corvette and teammate Tony Ave in the #4 Lamers/PME Engines/RPX Chevrolet Corvette.  Peterson overtook Gregg, who had fallen to second after a charge from Ave right after the green flag, during the 11^th lap of the session. 

Peterson followed teammate Ave throughout much of the session, and through the full course yellow that laster from lap 23 to 28.   However he preasured Ave going through much of lap 32 and overtook the #4 car during the 33^rd lap.  Peterson managed to hold Ave off till the checkered flag, finishing just .489 ahead of his teammate and former champion. 

“It feels awesome to have another win,” said Peterson. “I love this track.  It’ll chew your tires up if you let it.  I started out very conservative, for the first 10, 12 laps.  Then I just had to make the call, it’s time to get Simon, and I was able to overtake him.   I didn’t know where Tony was, and I figured we’d get a yellow sooner or later.  I think it really paid off to save the tires, but the car was really just spot on.  It’s great to have the three race streak, and I want to keep it going.”

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