- Aaron Farhadi Doubles Up on GT America GT2 Victories in His Sonoma Debut in the No. 127 TPC Racing Team With Dream Racing Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2
- Alan Grossberg Sets Fastest GT2 Lap Sunday in the No. 102 TPC Racing Team With Dream Racing Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 and Finishes Second for TPC Racing’s First Career Top-Two Sweep
SONOMA, California (April 8, 2024) – Building on Saturday’s season-opening SRO GT America powered by AWS GT2-class victory, the TPC Racing Team with Dream Racing turned up the performance even more for Sunday’s final race of the weekend at Sonoma Raceway. Debuting Sonoma Raceway driver Aaron Farhadi swept the weekend with his second victory in the No. 127 Dream Racing/TPC Racing Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo on Sunday and was joined on the podium by his resurgent teammate Alan Grossberg who set the fastest GT2 race lap.
The pair of victories extended to three races TPC Racing’s undefeated career win streak in the emerging GT2 category even though the three-peat of victories came a full three years apart. At Circuit of The Americas (COTA) in 2021, a TPC Racing Lamborghini Super Trofeo went into the record books as the first GT2-spec car to compete in GT America. Scott Schmidt drove the Lamborghini to an uncontested GT2 victory while finishing in the top-10 overall.
Starting second on the GT2 grid on Sunday, Farhadi stayed close to polesitter early race leader Brent Holden from the drop of the green flag. Farhadi poured on the heavy pressure as the race approached 10 minutes into the 40-minute sprint and made what turned out to be the winning pass for the lead with just under 27 minutes to go.
With Farhadi’s rapid run to the lead and eventual victory complete, Grossberg stepped up to stage a charge of his own in the second half of the race in the No. 102 Dream Racing/TPC Racing Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo. Shaking off a contact incident with Holden in Saturday’s first race, Grossberg gradually improved his pace throughout Sunday’s race and was even presented with the CrowdStrike Fastest Lap Award for setting the fastest GT2 lap time on his way to the second-place finish.
The one-two GT2 finish was the first top-two podium sweep in TPC Racing’s accomplished sports car racing history.
Grossberg and Farhadi are back with TPC Racing following successful late-season runs with the team a year ago in partnership with Dream Racing that brings both of the race-winning and high-end motorsports entities together on track. The weekend sweep marked the first victories for the TPC/Dream collaboration in just their third race weekend together.
Next up for the TPC Racing Team with Dream Racing and Farhadi and Grossberg is Round 3 and 4 of the 2024 GT America powered by AWS championship at the Grand Prix of Long Beach, April 19 – 21.
Harris Levitas, Director of Race Operations: “You couldn’t have asked for a better start to the 2024 SRO GT America season. Our TPC Racing Lamborghini Super Trofeo GT2 cars were just absolutely amazing and reliable all weekend long. Alan Grossberg and Aaron Farhadi did an absolutely amazing job. I can’t say enough about how great they did in their driving and improvement. Today, Aaron took a few laps to settle in and then stepped up to battle and passed for the lead. It was really nice, clean racing and he got up front and just took off from there to sweep the weekend’s race wins. Alan Grossberg then came alive in his car and then set the fastest lap in the race in the GT2 category. Huge congratulations for that achievement, and that’s really great progress for him. We’re looking forward to the remainder of the season and going in with a strong points advantage to Long Beach. Today was our first one-two finish and Long Beach will be our debut at that famous street race. It’s all really awesome. None of this would be possible without our partnership with Dream Racing. It’s a really great relationship. Ado De Micheli and Enrico Bertaggia from Dream Racing are really wonderful people. They have the same views and goals we have at TPC Racing, which is to prepare the best cars and win races. We proved this weekend we are off to a strong start with what we’ve put together for the SRO championship this year and we are definitely looking forward to more victories, podiums and strong finishes together.”
Ado De Micheli, President, Dream Racing: “Certainly, it’s a great accomplishment this weekend. I’m extremely proud of both Alan and Aaron who both did an amazing job. At Dream Racing, we love to develop drivers and help them accomplish what they want. They are different ages, have different experiences and different goals overall, but they both delivered great results. The main results are the first and second place finishes today, but they also had great lap times, no mistakes and managed the traffic. There’s lots of challenges when you look at GT2 at this level of motorsports without the proper experience. There are a lot of things you need to take into consideration, such as the extra effort sometimes needed to keep the cars competitive. TPC Racing did so much more work last night to make today happen. A shoutout to how they stood behind the issues they faced. They are an incredible organization and proved this weekend they want to do well.”
Aaron Farhadi, Driver, No. 127 Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo: “It’s been amazing this weekend. The guys are awesome. They gave me the equipment I needed to perform the best and the rest just came down to me. The equipment is there and that’s what I love about it. Harris Levitas is an amazing guy and my mechanic Trevor Griffin did a great job. Everybody just put in an incredible effort this weekend. I wasn’t mentally prepared for yesterday. Today, I was way better and I didn’t fall off nearly as much, or even at all, and just stayed consistent throughout the race. It’s just a mental effort. This whole sport is mental. Physically, I was able to keep myself intact and today my head was in the right space. I looked at this really as a learning weekend. With our competitor, Brent Holden, there’s an immense amount of respect. I really love to see it, be a part of it, it’s great for the sport. He is a fantastic driver. There was a lot of respect with that battle at the start and I enjoyed it quite a bit.”
Alan Grossberg, Driver, No. 102 Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo: “It’s good to have a nice finish. I learned a lot about the series, and certainly getting some track time yesterday helped me a lot. It’s also the coaching that makes you better. I go into this blind without that guidance. My team sits me down and says, ‘hey, you’ve got to work on this, you’ve got to work on that and these are the areas where you will pick up time.’ It makes a big difference. It was an easier drive today than it was Saturday, getting some coaching and debriefing after we had a chance to get some laps in yesterday. We had a strategy, some planned places to push, and on the third or fourth lap it suddenly all started to settle in. I found a good line and was able to put it together with the coaching and it was like ‘ah-ha! I was getting some confidence and focused on a faster laps after faster laps and then even better laps. I started settling down and driving my race. All credit to the team for having the car ready every minute we were here. When we got on track we had a contact issue in Saturday’s race, but what I love about these guys is that they know the car well and they ‘humpty dumptied’ it and put it back together to get me back on track with confidence. I knew I would have a good race car.”
About TPC Racing: TPC Racing is the Mid-Atlantic’s premier maintenance, service, tuning and modification center dedicated solely to Porsche sportscars. TPC Racing specializes in R&D and sales of high-performance modifications for Porsche sports cars and race cars, offering a wide range of vehicle upgrades. Best known for a line of forced induction solutions for the Porsche 911, Cayman and Boxster, a long-time focus on only one make, Porsche, has enabled TPC Racing to become experts in Porsche service, tuning, and racing. In 2000, TPC Racing began entering races under its own banner, scoring an SGS-class Championship in 2004 in the Grand-American Rolex Series and was a class winner in the 2006 Rolex 24 At Daytona, and captured the 2013 and 2016 IMSA Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA Gold Cup Championships. More information can be found at www.TPCRacing.com.
