Earl Bamber (New Zealand) and Laurens Vanthoor (Belgium) will share driving duties in the 911 RSR (#912) fielded by the Porsche GT Team as the IMSA SportsCar Championship makes its first appearance on the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on 6 May to contest round four of the season.
“Our performance at Long Beach was good, although we ultimately weren’t able to use our chance to win,” commented Bamber. “Now I’m looking forward to Mid-Ohio. This is an interesting track, somewhat tight and twisty, which should suit our 911 RSR. The main thing for us is to improve our position in the championship with a good result before the Le Mans break.”
Bamber and Laurens currently lie sixth overall in the GTLM class on 79 points. Ryan Briscoe and Richard Westbrook (Ford Chip Ganassi Racing) lead with 95 points.
The Porsche GT Team fields two Porsche 911 RSR race cars in the strongly represented GTLM class on the storied 3.634-kilometre circuit in America’s Midwest. The other Porsche will be driven by the winners of the Sebring 12-hour race, Patrick Pilet (France) and Nick Tandy (Great Britain).
The Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course with its 13 corners is one of the most beautiful and time-honoured racetracks in the United States. Opened in 1962, the demanding circuit lies north of Cincinnati, not far from Lexington in the US state of Ohio. The last time Porsche won on this track was back in 2011 with the 911 GT3 RSR driven by Wolf Henzler and Bryan Sellers in the American Le Mans Series.
The IMSA SportsCar Championship, a sports car race series contested in the USA and Canada, was run in 2014 for the first time. The series was formed from the merger of the American Le Mans Series and the Grand-Am Series. Sports prototypes and sports cars start in three different classes: GTLM (GT Le Mans), GTD (GT Daytona) and P (Prototype). The Porsche 911 RSR runs in the GTLM class, with the Porsche 911 GT3 R contesting the GTD class.
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