Tasca Moves No. 37 Fly Alliance/TPC Racing Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 LB Cup Program to TPC Racing at One Year Anniversary of Racing Debut at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca
MONTEREY, California (May 9, 2024) – TPC Racing is focused on celebrating debuting team driver Chris Tasca’s first anniversary in racing with a podium finish this weekend in the No. 37 Fly Alliance/TPC Racing Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 in Rounds 3 and 4 of the IMSA Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America championship at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Tasca and TPC have joined forces for the balance of the 2024 Super Trofeo season, and the new partnership begins on the same Laguna Seca road course where Tasca began racing a year ago.
Tasca drove in an auto race for the first time at WeatherTech Raceway last May, his first event in a full-season rookie campaign. He returned for this year’s season-opening Super Trofeo doubleheader in March at Sebring International Raceway where he scored a weekend-best fifth place finish in the LB Cup class.
Tasca now moves his Lamborghini LB Cup program to TPC for all but one of 2024’s five remaining doubleheader race weekends. He begins with his new team where his competition driving career began with his first race last year, which complements some major firsts TPC has accomplished in Lamborghini competition at Laguna Seca.
In May of 2022 on the picturesque Monterey circuit, TPC Racing won its first career Super Trofeo race in none other than the LB Cup class. The team has since added to its list of Super Trofeo career achievements with additional podium results and race wins, including a Pro-Am class victory in last year’s season-ending Super Trofeo North America race at the Lamborghini World Finals in Vallelunga in Italy.
Tasca has only been racing for a year but he comes from a legendary and fast family tree of racers. His cousin Bob Tasca III is a top competitor in NHRA Funny Car competition in the Motorcraft/Quicklane Nitro Ford Funny Car, carrying on a family tradition of drag racing that has had parallel success for decades with the family’s long-established dealership network, which is one of the biggest automotive groups in the country. Tasca III scored his 16th career Nitro Funny Car victory last month in the NHRA 4-Wide Nationals in Las Vegas and earlier this year was the first drag racer to eclipse the 340 mph barrier with a staggering pass of 341.68 mph in Bradenton, Florida.
A three-day event weekend, the Super Trofeo schedule begins with a pair of practice sessions on Friday. Qualifying takes place Saturday at 11:05 a.m. PDT with the first 50-minute race scheduled to start that afternoon at 5:40 p.m. PDT. Sunday’s second and final race of the weekend goes green at 9:40 a.m. PDT. Both races stream live on NBC’s Peacock online network and IMSA.TV.
Harris Levitas, TPC Racing Director of Race Operations: “The TPC Racing Team is thrilled to welcome Chris Tasca to the program in the No. 37 Fly Alliance Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2. Chris is running in the LB Cup class, which is part of how the Lamborghini Super Trofeo series does such a great job of catering to every group and experience level there is. The series has classes to fit every type of driver, and we’ve won races in the LB Cup Class before. We have won at Laguna Seca before, and that is where Chris got his start in racing last season. The guys at the shop have worked extremely hard to prepare his car prior to this event, so we know that Chris is going in with a good Lamborghini under him. He’s got the confidence to get out there, work with his coach and start performing right away. At the Sebring opener, he was running with another team, but he still performed well with a result we can build on. Going into Laguna Seca, and going forward into the season, hopefully we can deliver some great results and put Chris where he needs to be in the championship standings.”
Chris Tasca, Driver, No. 37 Fly Alliance/TPC Racing Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2:
“The support from TPC Racing, even before getting to the race track, has just been A plus-plus. I’m really excited to have the support from Harris and the entire crew at TPC, and I’m just as excited about the entry list. There’s more than 40 entries, and 12 or 13 in the LB Cup class. I’m really familiar with some of the drivers, and two of the top four guys from Sebring dropped out, so with that top-five finish I’m really looking forward to reaching my first podium this coming weekend. My focus is on being a true competitor out there this year, this being my second year in Super Trofeo. A year ago was my first race in Super Trofeo at Laguna Seca, my first true race as a competitor, my first time ever in a race car, so this is my one-year anniversary. I’m really looking forward to showing everybody that I’m not just here for brand positioning with my company Fly Alliance, which is a private jet charter company, but I’m also here to be a competitor. I still give my cousin Bobby a hard time. That side of the Tasca family is only good at going straight! I have been able to master the turns of a race track too!”
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.
