By Johan Laubscher
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| 2012 Daytona 24 Hours |
The new Audi R8 GRAND-AM debuted during 2012, and recently took its
first race win almost unnoticed. The car is a version of the Audi R8 LMS which has been build
according to the Grand-Am GT rules. Four of these cars were built for 2012
with the aim of being run by customer teams in Grand-Am. The debut came at
Daytona as APR Motorsport and Oryx Racing entered their Audi R8 GRAND-Am race
cars for the first time. Since then Limitless Racing has also joined the other two
teams. The fourth car made one race appearance with APR at the Watkins Glen six hour
event.
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| Limitless Racing at IMG Pocono |
The car underwent much development this year as APR
soldiered on with
it and ultimately scored the car’s highest Grand-AM result when the team
finished second in the final round at Lime Rock.
The car has shown much potential and will be a challenger in 2013,
however amongst all of the big Grand-Am news it has gone almost unnoticed that
the Audi R8 GRAND-AM achieved its first ever race victory during September. The
Limitless Racing Audi R8 competed at one Grand-Am event during the year, at NJMP. Since then Dr Jason Lee (Owner/driver) has competed at
various other events which includes SCCA (STO class) and
IMG Racing events.
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| Limitless Racing at IMG Pocono |
During the weekend of 8 September Dr Lee was competing in the IMG
Twilight race at Pocono and took the Audi R8 GRAND-AM’s first race win. He won
both the qualifying and sprint races that evening. It may indeed only have been a
club event, but a win is a win. It is also great to see the Limitless Racing
machine competing at many events in America. We hope that this victory will be
emulated by the cars in Grand-Am next year as the Audi R8 will surely be a
strong contender in 2013.
Photos by IMG Racing and GoAPR.com
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