USRRC-Lime Rock Fact Sheet
27 May 1999
Fact Sheet Dodge Dealers Grand Prix USRRC Can-Am and GT Championships . Round Two Lime Rock Park . Lakeville, Conn. . May 28-31, 1999 Race Weekend: May 28-31, 1999 Race Date: Monday, May 31, 1999 Green Flag: 2:30 p.m. EDT Race Television: The Speedvision Network, live, flag-to-flag, 2:00 p.m. (EDT). Circuit: Lime Rock Park, 1.54-mile, Seven-turn road course (USRRC runs chicane). Race Length: Two hours, 15 minutes 1998 Winners*: Can-Am: Butch Leitzinger/James Weaver, Riley & Scott Ford GT2: Marc Duez/Boris Said, BMW M3 GT3: Ross Bentley/Peter Cunningham, BMW M3 Circuit Records*: Qualifying Lap: Can-Am: 0:48.423 (114.491 mph), James Weaver, Riley & Scott Ford, 1996 GT2: 0:56.249 (97.870 mph), Dirk Layer, Porsche 911 GT2, 1997 GT3: 0:56.040 (98.929 mph), Pete Halsmer, BMW M3, 1997 Race Lap: Can-Am: 0:49.963 (110.962 mph), Wayne Taylor, Ferrari 333 SP, 1995 GT2: 0:57.130 (97.041 mph), Marc Duez, BMW M3, 1998 GT3: 0:56.802 (97.600 mph), Henry Taleb, Nissan 240SX, 1996 *- Lime Rock Park recognizes race winners and lap records for races sanctioned by PSCR and IMSA as USRRC class records Media Notes: Race Results are available on the AP SportsWire, via e-mail or direct filing, on the internet (http://www.usrrc-series.com) and on CompuServe's Racing Information Systems (GO RACEB) Forum. Story Leads: . 1998 Champion Dyson Racing goes for two-in-a-row at Lime Rock Park after finally winning at its home track with Butch Leitzinger and James Weaver in 1998. The team is based in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., less than one hour from the circuit. . The Doran Racing-prepped Ferrari 333 SPs of Lista and Matthews Racing will be gunning to regain supremacy on the 1.54-mile circuit. Doran Racing Ferraris won each of the first four Lime Rock Park contests since going to the open-cockpit in 1994. . Switzerland's Fredy Leinhard, owner of the No. 27 Lista/Michelin/MOMO Ferrari 333 SP, is on the closest thing he has to home turf in North America, as his worldwide corporation, Lista, has its North American headquarters in Massachusetts. Like Dyson Racing, Leinhard will no doubt have a strong contingent of supporters for the weekend. . Dublin resident Jon Field will turn the Lola Can-Am chassis' first laps at Lime Rock Park in the No. 28 Banana Joe's Lola Ford. Last year, Field campaigned a Riley & Scott. . Missing this weekend is the TRV Motorsports Riley & Scott Chevrolet, as regular driver Jeret Schroeder will be competing in another race this weekend-the 83rd Indy 500. . The Prototype Technology Group BMW M3s will again be the favorites in the GT3 class. Last year, they took both GT2 and GT3 at Lime Rock, but will concentrate all efforts on reaching the top of the GT3 podium-a feat which has eluded them in the last two USRRC races (Watkins Glen, 1998; Rolex 24, 1999). . Stephane Roy and Loic Depailler make their USRRC debuts this weekend in the No. 30 GT2 Mosler Raptor. Roy is a former Canadian F1600 standout and Depailler is the son of the late Formula One star Patrick Depailler. ***************************************************