As one of the most highly anticipated races on the NTT IndyCar Series calendar, Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) drivers Jack Harvey and Helio Castroneves battled a tight race course and 90-degree temperatures through 80 tough laps in the inaugural Big Machine Music City Grand Prix on Sunday.
Team Hardpoint EBM earned a hard-fought eighth-place finish in IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GT Daytona (GTD) competition on Sunday afternoon at Road America.
The inaugural running of the Music City Grand Prix in Nashville, Tennessee on August 7 proved a typically attritional encounter with the race interrupted by yellow flags under the bright southern sun bringing down the heat. Billed as the Big Machine Vodka presents the Franklin Road Apparel Classic this was in fact Round 8 of the 2021 Trans Am presented by Pirelli Championship.
Despite going airborne on Lap 4 and receiving an avoidable contact penalty, Chip Ganassi Racing's Marcus Ericsson fought and clawed his way back to score his second victory of the 2021 NTT IndyCar Series season at the first-ever Music City Grand Prix in Nashville.
Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque made the most of a challenging afternoon for the No. 10 Konica Minolta Acura ARX-05 in the IMSA SportsCar Weekend at Road America.
Corvette Racing finished second and third in the GT Le Mans (GTLM) category of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship on Sunday at Road America as the program now heads across the Atlantic Ocean for the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The Wayne Taylor Racing stable swept the top two classes, dominating the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America weekend at Road America with five class wins, six podiums, and every driver finishing top five in class in both races.
Sixteen-year-old Landon Pembelton won his first career NASCAR Late Model Stock Car Division race and Peyton Sellers, the current leader in the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series national standings
Team Hardpoint EBM drivers Riley Dickinson and Efrin Castro each earned Porsche Carrera Cup North America podium finishes on Saturday at Road America, while Rob Ferriol and Katherine Legge will start Sunday’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race on row six at the same track.
