Title Battles Heating Up Entering Road America Weekend

Porsche Carrera Cup North America heads to Road America this weekend, with a total of 36 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars set to do battle over the course of the double-header weekend.

The single-make series has eight races remaining across four event weekends and no class championship – Pro, Pro-Am or Masters – is a lock.

In fact, the contenders in Pro and Pro-Am have changed in each weekend run thus far.

The battle at the front of the standings is heated. Loek Hartog continues to sit atop the Pro class standings with 150 points.

The driver of the No. 24 Kellymoss Porsche has three wins and two additional podium finishes including a pair of second places at the most recent weekend at Watkins Glen International.

A victory in round eight – the second race at The Glen – moved Alex Sedgwick and the No. 98 PT Autosport Porsche readied by JDX Racing into second place with 119 points.

The position swap came when Michael Cooper missed the podium at Watkins Glen in the No. 88 Baby Bull Racing Porsche. Cooper holds third place just ahead of Ryan Yardley.

The Pro-Am class is even more intense as the top spot again swapped back between the two leading contenders at Watkins Glen.

Marco Cirone took advantage of a low points haul in round eight by Moisey Uretsky to drive the ACI Motorsports No. 84 into a 13-point lead in the class.

Meanwhile, former class champion Alan Metni used a Round 7 win to jump into the top three.

Having only missed one podium in the first eight races of the season, Dallas Georgia’s Matt Halcome continues his firm grip on the Masters class padding his lead to 43 over Mark Kvamme.

However, Kvamme has withdrawn from the series moving Chris Bellomo to the effective second position in the title chase.

Pre-Event News & Notes:

***In addition to Dan Clarke, Sabre Cook and Kenton King finding new homes at Era Motorsport, fellow ex-MDK Motorsports driver Yves Baltas will drive for GMG Racing this weekend, leaving only MDK team owner/driver Kvamme as the lone withdrawal from the series.

***Road America is a legacy track on the Porsche Carrera Cup schedule. The track joins Sebring International Raceway, Watkins Glen International, Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta as tracks that hosted the one-make race series in its 2021 debut season. Road America, Watkins Glen, Sebring and Indianapolis have hosted a Carrera Cup weekend each season.

***After one year racing in support of the NASCAR Xfinity Series here at Road America, Carrera Cup North America is back on the IMSA SportsCar Weekend in 2024.

***Porsche Motorsport North America continued its long tradition of preparing the next generation of professional race drivers. The Porsche Driver Development Workshop was held in Mooresville, N.C. on July 18-19 at Team Penske, factory partner to Porsche in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s GTP class.

***Ten drivers received valuable career experience in sessions with experts from the disciplines of physical training, nutrition, technology, media and career planning. The workshop was held exclusively for Porsche EBOOST North America Junior Program and Porsche Mobil 1 Female Driver Program North America drivers.

***Kellymoss brings a record nine entries to its home race at Road America. The operation, started in 1988, is housed in an 80,000 square-foot facility in nearby Madison. In 2023, Kellymoss won two of the three classes (Pro and Pro-Am) in both rounds at Road America. The operation also won here in the first year of the series as well.

***PT Autosport’s Aspiring Driver Shootout program continues this season, with 88 drivers making the cut to the second round of deliberations. Each applicant was asked to submit answers to both video and written questionnaires and a personal profile, with up to 12 aspiring drivers to be chosen to attend the Nov. 11-13 Shootout at New Jersey Motorsports Park. The winner will earn a driver partnership package of up to $250,000 for the 2025 and 2026 racing seasons, with second and third also receiving scholarships toward a racing school.

***Practice begins on Thursday, with a second session on Friday morning. A 30-minute qualifying session is scheduled for Friday afternoon, with the first of the two rounds taking the green flag Saturday at 11:45 a.m. CDT. The second race  will run at 11:35 a.m. CDT on Sunday.

***Live coverage of the two races will be available on PorscheCarreraCup.us, Peacock and IMSA.tv. All are archived on the Porsche Motorsport North America YouTube channel.