Chris Ingle LS3 Corvette takes the ARRC
11-09-2009, 03:14 PM
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Chris Ingle LS3 Corvette takes the ARRC Raeford , North Carolina's Chris Ingle took the overall, TCC class, and V8 StockCar GT2 wins Saturday, November 7 at the American Road Race of Champions. Ingle's margin of victory was just 2/10's of a second over Bob Mayer in his C6 Corvette. Mayer had led every lap, but Ingle never lost contact and as the two began to work lapped traffic, Ingle closed in.
As the pair came down the hill on the twentieth and last lap, Ingle got a great run and worked to the inside of Mayer, driving it in there deeper than ever, made it stick and just edged Mayer at the checker. Mayer did get the STO class win as well as becoming the first V8 StockCar series V8 GT2 champion, winning by just three points over Cape Coral, Florida's Doug Wilson in his BMW M3. Wilson came into the final weekend with a seven point advantage over Mayer, but down about 100 horsepower and in his first weekend of racing at Road Atlanta, Wilson and his Bimmer just couldn't hang with the Vette's. Ed Lewis finished third in the V8GT2 class for both the race and the points battle giving CrossRoads Motorsports Sam Power two of the top three spots in the Championship. Power preps both Mayer's and Lewis' Vette's.
Mayer took home the Mo's Gold Champions ring for his season efforts.
As the pair came down the hill on the twentieth and last lap, Ingle got a great run and worked to the inside of Mayer, driving it in there deeper than ever, made it stick and just edged Mayer at the checker. Mayer did get the STO class win as well as becoming the first V8 StockCar series V8 GT2 champion, winning by just three points over Cape Coral, Florida's Doug Wilson in his BMW M3. Wilson came into the final weekend with a seven point advantage over Mayer, but down about 100 horsepower and in his first weekend of racing at Road Atlanta, Wilson and his Bimmer just couldn't hang with the Vette's. Ed Lewis finished third in the V8GT2 class for both the race and the points battle giving CrossRoads Motorsports Sam Power two of the top three spots in the Championship. Power preps both Mayer's and Lewis' Vette's.
Mayer took home the Mo's Gold Champions ring for his season efforts.
