TEAM CHEVY RACE REPORT: Top-five finish for Jordan Taylor at VIR CTSCC race ALTON, Va. (Aug. 23, 2014) – Stevenson Motorsports’ pairing of Robin Liddell and Andrew Davis finished second Saturday in the Grand Sport (GS) class of the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge at Virginia International Raceway. The result extended Chevrolet’s lead in the GS manufacturer championship, and the Davis/Liddell pairing moved into the lead of the GS driver standings. The No. 6 Stevenson Motorsports Camaro also now leads in team points with two races left in the season. Eric Curran and class pole-winner Jordan Taylor were fifth in CKS Autosport’s No. 01 Camaro Z/28.R. All three Camaros – including the No. 9 Stevenson entry of Andy Lally and Matt Bell – led during the race. “Today was an incredible day with the Camaro Z/28.R,” said Lisa Talarico, Chevrolet Program Manager for the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge. “Congratulations go to Andrew Davis and Robin Liddell for their runner-up finish and moving into the lead of the driver’s championship. Leaving VIR with the lead in all three GS championships is a great accomplishment but a lot of racing remains in front of us with two events to go.” Davis began the race at the back of the GS field – 21st place overall – after the No. 6 Camaro was found to have a non-compliant air restrictor in post-qualifying inspection Friday. Davis moved into the top-10 after 12 laps and pitted six laps later during the first caution period. The strategy call worked in favor of the No. 6 team as the race went green the rest of the way. Taylor, making his first start in the series since 2012, ran second for the first 20 laps of his stint and led his final four before handing over to Curran. Pit cycles dropped the CKS entry to 12th place before Curran worked his way back into the top-five with three laps to go. The next round of the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge is set for 12:20 p.m. CT on Friday, Sept. 19 from Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas. JORDAN TAYLOR, NO. 01 CKS AUTOSPORT CAMARO Z/28.R “The plan was basically to stay out of trouble in the first stint. These races can get pretty crazy and I wanted to hand the car over in one piece. We were in the top-two for the first stint. Lally got by me but I was able to stay with him and save the car. Once we got back out front we had great pace until we pitted. I’m not sure what happened with strategy but we fell back to seventh and Eric got us back in the top-five. So overall, it wasn’t a bad day.” ERIC CURRAN, NO. 01 CKS AUTOSPORT CAMARO Z/28.R “Overall it was kind of a weird day. Jordan did a great job early and ran second behind the Stevenson Camaro. Our CKS Camaro Z/28.R ran great all day. The Stevenson car pitted, we went to first and Jordan ran a great rest of his stint. We had perfect pit stops - the best two we’ve done all year. They nailed it but we pitted later than the other guys had pitted 10 or 15 minutes earlier and they caught up. We banked on a yellow coming out but it never did. It’s still a top-five so you can’t complain. I felt like we had a podium car but it is what it is. The guys did a great job.”
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 04:57:54 +0000
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