Daytona – Champion Motorsports

CMS Wins at Daytona 24 in LMP2

Race Report by David Anderson January 24, 2021 - The CMS Pro Team of Jordan Johnson, Chris Chmelir, and Chris Taylor were joined by Matthew Overton, Doug Hintze, and Andrew Cheslock to round out a six-man roster that took the win at the 24 Hours of Daytona this past weekend on iRacing. The team qualified fifth in the 30th of 47 total race splits. No doubt, the largest sim racing event in history. The team had a great start fighting up to 2nd place in the opening laps but as night fell their luck would change. After a couple of close calls with slower traffic, a spin, and some miscommunication in the pits, the team found themselves back in 6th place but had high hopes of catching back up. While contending with the challenge of consistently setting competitive lap times in constant traffic with slower class cars, the team > more

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VWSC 2021 – 2.4 Hours of Daytona

Race Report by George Angelidis January 24, 2021 - After New Year’s every sportscar fan in the world is waiting for Daytona. The twice around the clock endurance race traditionally held at the last weekend of January is for many of us the start of the racing season. With its high speeds and high banks, it’s a spectacle on its own. The sun may rise at Daytona in the United States, but it was the machine from the Rising Sun country where the day belonged. Nissan finished 1-2 in LMH-Pro and 1-2-3 in LMH-Am dominating the first race of this new era of hypercar sportscar racing. In GTE 2 teams dominated their classes respectively: the CMS Pro Ferrari and the Trash Panda Racing Aston Martin. LMH-Pro Ahmed Abdalla took the win in LMH-Pro class and overall, shifting from his dominant GTE-Pro performances from last year. While he couldn’t make > more

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NARS Modern Sportscar Championship – Round 1 at Daytona 2.4

Race Report by Matthew Overton Photo by Jerry Chen Broadcast by Ross Smith January 21, 2021 - The thunder was heard loud and clear last night at Daytona as the Hypercars and GTEs of the VMSC took to the track for the first of twelve rounds of action. LMH PRO Weather conditions were almost perfect and provided a stunning backdrop for the landmark victory of Ferrari FXX driver George Angelidis, who scored his maiden win at CMS with a commanding performance in the LMH PRO class. Lacking only the fastest lap and leadership of 5 race laps that fell to others while he was being serviced in the pits to complete a sweep of the race, it was nevertheless a long-held dream come true for the veteran CMS driver. Against a strong field in the class that included Brian Hall (2nd), Norm Graf (3rd), JT Tami, and, in a > more

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iRTES Round 1 at Daytona Road Course

Race Report by David Anderson January 18th, 2021 - Round 1 of the Champion Motorsports 2021 iRacing Team Endurance Series (iRTES) is complete, and big congratulations to "Revo Satellite Racing" for the overall win and class victory within LMP2, as well as "Unified Racing" for their class win in GTE. The race featured 36 teams taking the green flag and nearly all completed the race. It was a very strong and overall clean start to the five-race season for iRTES. LMP2 The Revo team piloted by Paul Darling and David Williams led 83 of the 93 laps in a dominant performance for the first win of the year. They were joined by "CMS Pro Summit" and "Imperial Motorsports -Shake" on the podium in LMP2. Paul Darling and David Williams GTE In the GTE Class, Justin Hess and Kurt Polter would lead and win from the Pole for > more

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VWSC 1971 – 2.4 Hours of Daytona Beach

Race Report by George Angelidis January 16, 2021 - Daytona holds a special place for many of us. In the United States, it is as sacred and as important as anything else when it comes to sports cars. It is the “Le Mans of the West”. With its high speeds and high banks, it’s a spectacle on its own. And for this year's race that spectacle belonged to Yassin Marzoug, who put on a fine show with his Lola T70 Mk.3B Chevrolet race car. Further down in the Top 5 positions there were monumental battles while other early leaders faced problems. S 5.0 - Purist Yassin Marzoug took the win in Purist class and overall, the 2nd of the season and solidified his spot to the top of the standings. Strong performances by both Marzoug and rookie in class Ross Smith in the opening two races seem to show > more

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