- Chloe Chambers Returns for Second Porsche Sprint Challenge Cayman Race of 2024 with TPC Racing this Weekend in the No. 77 Monoflo International Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport; Chambers Co-Drives with Tillman Schmid in Sunday’s Porsche Endurance Challenge Race
- Alan Grossberg and TPC Racing with Dream Racing Debut New McLaren Artura GT4 Next Weekend at Road America in SRO GT America Powered by AWS Doubleheader
- Masters Class Competitors Shaun McKaigue and Tom Kerr in Porsche Sprint Challenge Action This Weekend in TPC Racing Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport Entries
ELKHART LAKE, Wisconsin (August 8, 2024) – TPC Racing heads into a two-week stand at Road America with a returning Team Champion driver this weekend in USAC Porsche Sprint Challenge Cayman competition and an all-new TPC Racing with Dream Racing McLaren Artura GT4 debuting next weekend in SRO GT America powered by AWS competition. The Porsche Sprint Challenge race takes place this weekend, August 9 – 11, ahead of the SRO America race weekend on the 4-mile Wisconsin road course August 16 – 18.
Chloe Chambers, who anchored TPC Racing’s Sprint Challenge Cayman Team Championship in 2023 with a series-leading seven class victories, returns for her second guest-driving appearance of the season in the No. 77 Monoflo International Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport. Filling in for regular Monoflo drivers Tillman Schmid and Evan Hinkle, Chambers swept April’s doubleheader at Barber Motorsports Park with Pro-Am and overall Cayman-class victories that were her eighth and ninth career wins in the series.
In next weekend’s SRO America event, TPC Racing with Dream Racing debutes the No. 102 McLaren Artura GT4 for driver Alan Grossberg in the sprint-race based GT America series. Grossberg steps away from a championship-leading GT America GT2-class campaign with TPC and Dream to debut the McLaren in preparation for a full-season GTA GT4 campaign and more next year. Grossberg has tested the McLaren the last few weeks at the Thermal Club in California, but the upcoming twin 40-minute races at Road America mark his first starts in competition in the new car.
Before the McLaren roll out in GT America, TPC’s first order of business is this weekend’s three-car and four-driver Cayman effort taking on Saturday and Sunday 35-minute +1 Lap sprints and the weekend-ending one-hour Porsche Endurance Challenge race Sunday afternoon.
Chambers, who is joined on TPC’s sprint race roster by Masters Class competitors Shaun McKaigue and Tom Kerr, co-drives with Schmid in the endurance event in her series debut. Schmid is eighth in the Cayman endurance challenge point standings after a competitive run in the inaugural series race in May at Circuit of The Americas where he led the Cayman class and ran as high as second overall before an untimely caution in the race’s closing minutes foiled the team’s strategy.
McKaigue arrives in Road America after his best finish of the summer one race ago at Watkins Glen International in the No. 34 TPC Racing Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport. McKaigue crossed the finish line in the top-10 overall and fifth in Masters for his best Sprint Challenge result since a pair of podium showings at Barber in April.
Kerr, who made his first race starts at The Glen in the No. 74 TPC Racing Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport since Barber, has made it a quicker return to action this time around. The Road America doubleheader marks just the fourth time Kerr competes in his new GT4 Cayman but he has shown progress and solid improvement each time out.
After three days of unofficial testing and practice, the Sprint Challenge Cayman schedules picks up Saturday with qualifying that morning at 8:30 a.m. CDT. The weekend’s first race goes green Saturday afternoon at 1:15 p.m. CDT with Sunday’s second and final sprint scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m. CDT. The one-hour Porsche Endurance Challenge race closes the weekend Sunday afternoon with a 4:35 p.m. CDT start.
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Harris Levitas, TPC Racing Director of Race Operations: “The Road America summer stretch of races is somewhat of a new tradition and all of us at TPC Racing are looking forward to gettting the most out of the next two weekends with our total entry of four cars and five drivers. It’s great to have Chloe Chambers back with us again after she swept the Barber Motorsports Park races in her first return appearance of the year in April. She also won two races last year at Road America and that is the absolute goal again this weekend. Chloe will also drive with Tillman Schmid in the second round of the new Porsche Endurance Challenge series, and a good result could give Tillman a nice jump in the championsip standings. We are also happy to have our Masters Class competitors Shaun McKaigue and Tom Kerr back with us at Road America where we are targeting season-best finishes for both this weekend. On the SRO side, it is awesome to help Alan Grossberg shift over to sprint race GT4 competition and debut an all-new McLaren GT4 car at this point of the season. We want to end 2024 on a high note and gain some experience with the Artura as we prepare for a full 2025 schedule.”
Chloe Chambers, Driver, No. 77 Monoflo International Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport: “Of course, last year was a great weekend, so I’m looking to do more of the same this time around. It’ll be a fun weekend with the Porsche Endurance Challenge race as well as the sprint races. Usually I just focus on myself heading into these race weekends. Of course the goal is to win, but I don’t try to focus on others too much. I absolutely love Road America. It’s a very nice track overall with the layout and the general facilities off track. It’s not too far from home back in Indiana either!”
Alan Grossberg, Driver, No. 102 TPC Racing with Dream Racing McLaren Artura GT4: “My excitement is through the roof! McLaren has been amazing to work with, really supportive, which makes that part of it really easy and even fun. They have given us all of the technical support and engineering support that we feel we need to have a good race at Road America. The TPC Racing and Dream Racing collaboration is working really well. I have more history with the guys at Dream Racing, they know me and my driving style well, and TPC Racing has just been incredibly supportive as I transitioned from Super Trofeo into SRO. It has been a really great fit, and TPC has worked really hard with McLaren to come up to speed quickly on the engineering and how to keep me on track with the car. I have driven and tested the McLaren and just love the setup of the car. I am just really excited to take it on track with a bunch of other GT4s now. I am looking forward to being in the GT4 category now with a car that I think will be very competitive, and if I drive it well, I think we have a really good shot at having a competitive finish. I enjoyed our time in GT2, I am glad that series was available as it was a great way for me to jump into SRO, but to know I will now have eight to 10 peer competitors and cars to race against is fantastic. I feel like we have a fighting chance against a new group of competitors.”
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.
