2019 IMSA Prototype Challenge
The 2019 IMSA Prototype Challenge is the fourteenth season of the IMSA Lites series and its successors and the third season as the IMSA Prototype Challenge. It began on 5 January at Daytona International Speedway, and concluded on 11 October at Road Atlanta. The IMSA Prototype Challenge series is for future IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship drivers and veteran drivers alike. Entering its 14th season, IMSA Prototype Challenge shifts to a single-class, endurance race format in 2019 with six races held on North America’s most premier road courses. The series will continue to feature the global-spec LMP3 prototypes. The endurance format pairs two-drivers per car in a six race season.
Series news
[edit | edit source]- NBC Sports Group took over from Fox Sports as the series' official broadcaster.[1]
- Michelin became the new official tire supplier of the series, following the departure of Continental Tire at the end of 2018.
- The Mazda Prototype Challenge (MPC) class was discontinued at the end of 2018.
Calendar
[edit | edit source]Race schedule
[edit | edit source]The 2019 schedule was released on 2 August 2018 and features six rounds.[2]
| Rnd | Circuit | Location | Date | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daytona Beach, Florida | 5 January | 3 hours | |
| 2 | Sebring, Florida | 14 March | 1 hour 45 mins | |
| 3 | Lexington, Ohio | 5 May | 1 hour 45 mins | |
| 4 | Error creating thumbnail: Canadian Tire Motorsport Park | Bowmanville, Ontario | 6 July | 3 hours |
| 5 | Alton, Virginia | 24 August | 1 hour 45 mins | |
| 6 | Braselton, Georgia | 11 October | 1 hour 45 mins |
Calendar changes
[edit | edit source]- The round at Barber Motorsports Park was replaced with a round at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
- The rounds at Daytona International Speedway and Canadian Tire Motorsport Park had their race lengths increased from 1 hour 45 minutes to 3 hours.
Entry list
[edit | edit source]All teams use the Nissan VK50VE 5.0L V8 engines.
| Team | Car | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Error creating thumbnail: ANSA Motorsports | Ligier JS P3 | 2 | All | |
| Error creating thumbnail: Michal Chlumecky | 1, 3–6 | |||
| 1 | ||||
| 2 | ||||
| 4 | Brazil Leo Lamelas | All | ||
| All | ||||
| 13 | 3 | |||
| France Jordan Perroy | 3 | |||
| Ligier JS P3 | 3 | 5–6 | ||
| Ligier JS P3 | 7 | All | ||
| Brazil Júlio Campos | 1 | |||
| 2–6 | ||||
| 19 | Error creating thumbnail: Dean Baker | All | ||
| Error creating thumbnail: Bradley Baker | 1–2, 4 | |||
| 1, 3–6 | ||||
| 75 | Error creating thumbnail: Cameron Cassels | All | ||
| All | ||||
| Norma M30 | 9 | Australia Scott Andrews | 2–6 | |
| 2–6 | ||||
| Norma M30 | 10 | 2–6 | ||
| 1 | ||||
| United Kingdom Stevan McAleer[4] | 1, 4 | |||
| 43 | United Kingdom Stevan McAleer[4] | 2–3, 5–6 | ||
| Ligier JS P3 | 11 | 1–3, 5 | ||
| France Nicolas Rondet | 1–3, 5 | |||
| 12 | 2–3 | |||
| 2–3 | ||||
| Norma M30 | 23 | Error creating thumbnail: Anthony Simone[5] | 1–3 | |
| 1 | ||||
| 3, 5–6 | ||||
| Ligier JS P3 | 25 | 1–2, 5 | ||
| Error creating thumbnail: Aaron Povoledo[6] | 1–2, 5 | |||
| Ligier JS P3 | 25 | 6 | ||
| Error creating thumbnail: Aaron Povoledo[6] | 6 | |||
| Norma M30 | 47 | All | ||
| Peru Rodrigo Pflucker | All | |||
| 55 | All | |||
| 1–3 | ||||
| 4–6 | ||||
| 74 | 1–2 | |||
| 1 | ||||
| 2 | ||||
| Error creating thumbnail: Garett Grist | 5–6 | |||
| 5–6 | ||||
| Ligier JS P3 | 26 | United Kingdom Matthew Bell | 2 | |
| 2 | ||||
| 51 | 1–4 | |||
| Error creating thumbnail: Garett Grist | 1–4 | |||
| 64 | 1–5 | |||
| 1–3 | ||||
| United Kingdom Matthew Bell | 4–6 | |||
| Ligier JS P3 | 30 | 6 | ||
| 6 | ||||
| 33 | All | |||
| United Kingdom Nigel Greensall | 1, 4 | |||
| Ligier JS P3 | 40 | All | ||
| All | ||||
| 4 | ||||
| Ligier JS P3 | 52 | 2–5 | ||
| 2 | ||||
| 3–5 | ||||
| Ligier JS P3 | 54 | 2–6 | ||
| 2 | ||||
| 3–4, 6 | ||||
| 5 | ||||
| Ligier JS P3 | 60 | All | ||
| Estonia Tonis Kasemets | All | |||
| Error creating thumbnail: Scott Maxwell | 1 | |||
| 4 | ||||
| Ligier JS P3 | 66 | Error creating thumbnail: Will Lin | 4 | |
| 4 | ||||
| 4 | ||||
| 86 | All | |||
| All | ||||
| Ligier JS P3 | 70 | All | ||
| All | ||||
| Entry Lists:[8][9][10][11][12][13] | ||||
Results
[edit | edit source]Race results
[edit | edit source]| Rnd | Circuit | Pole position | Race winners | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Error creating thumbnail: No. 4 ANSA Motorsports | |||
| Error creating thumbnail: Garett Grist |
Brazil Leo Lamelas | |||
| 2 | ||||
Peru Rodrigo Pflucker |
United Kingdom Stevan McAleer | |||
| 3 | ||||
| Error creating thumbnail: Anthony Simone |
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| 4 | Error creating thumbnail: Mosport | |||
| United Kingdom Stevan McAleer |
Peru Rodrigo Pflucker | |||
| 5 | ||||
| United Kingdom Stevan McAleer | United Kingdom Stevan McAleer | |||
| 6 | ||||
| United Kingdom Stevan McAleer | ||||
| Sources:[14][15][16] | ||||
Points system
[edit | edit source]| Position | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Race | 35 | 32 | 30 | 28 | 26 | 25 | 24 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Drivers' Championship
[edit | edit source]Overall
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Bold - Pole position |
Bronze Cup
[edit | edit source]| Pos. | Driver(s) | DAY |
SEB |
MOH |
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VIR |
ATL |
Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 190 | |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 175 | |
| 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 168 | |
| 4 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 145 | ||
| 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 123 | |||
| 6 | Error creating thumbnail: Michal Chlumecky | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 121 | ||
| 7 | 1 | 1 | 70 | |||||
| 8 | United Kingdom Nigel Greensall | 2 | 4 | 32 | ||||
| 9 | 4 | 5 | 54 | |||||
| 10 | Error creating thumbnail: Bradley Baker Error creating thumbnail: Dean Baker |
6 | 25 | |||||
| 11 | 7 | 24 | ||||||
| Pos. | Driver(s) | DAY |
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MOH |
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ATL |
Points |
Team's Championship
[edit | edit source]| Pos. | Team | DAY |
SEB |
MOH |
MOS Error creating thumbnail: |
VIR |
ATL |
Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #47 Forty 7 Motorsports | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 175 |
| 2 | #4 ANSA Motorsports | 1 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 5 | 149 |
| 3 | #60 Wulver Racing | 3 | 17 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 139 |
| 4 | #54 MLT Motorsports | 5 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 18 | 130 | |
| 5 | #75 Performance Tech Motorsports | 5 | 6 | 23 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 130 |
| 6 | #7 Performance Tech Motorsports | 14 | 4 | 9 | 17 | 7 | 9 | 127 |
| 7 | #40 Polestar Motor Racing Inc. | 19 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 127 |
| 8 | #64 K2R Motorsports | 6 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 23 | 2 | 126 |
| 9 | #43 Robillard Racing | 1 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 114 | ||
| 10 | #23 Gilbert/Korthoff Motorsports | 15 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 113 | |
| 11 | #19 Performance Tech Motorsports | 7 | 20 | 12 | 13 | 3 | 21 | 112 |
| 12 | #70 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports | 8 | 11 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 15 | 106 |
| 13 | #10 Robillard Racing | 17 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 17 | 13 | 103 |
| 14 | #33 Sean Creech Motorsports | 11 | 12 | 21 | 19 | 16 | 14 | 93 |
| 15 | #9 JDC MotorSports | 21 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 19 | 88 | |
| 16 | #2 ANSA Motorsports | 18 | 23 | 19 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 88 |
| 17 | #55 Forty 7 Motorsports | 10 | 25 | 22 | 12 | 20 | 12 | 85 |
| 18 | #86 ONE Motorsports | 16 | 16 | 18 | 15 | 19 | 17 | 85 |
| 19 | #52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports | 22 | 11 | 2 | 11 | 81 | ||
| 20 | #11 Simraceway Motorsports | 4 | 24 | 10 | 18 | 69 | ||
| 21 | #51 K2R Motorsports | 12 | 19 | 17 | 7 | 69 | ||
| 22 | #25 Forty 7 Motorsports | 9 | 14 | 12 | 22 | 67 | ||
| 23 | #74 Forty 7 Motorsports | 13 | 9 | 15 | 20 | 67 | ||
| 24 | #3 Jr III Racing | 9 | 8 | 45 | ||||
| 25 | #26 K2R Motorsports | 3 | 30 | |||||
| 26 | #30 Sean Creech Motorsports | 3 | 30 | |||||
| 27 | #12 Simraceway Motorsports | 15 | 20 | 27 | ||||
| 28 | #13 ANSA Motorsports | 6 | 25 | |||||
| 29 | #66 ONE Motorsports | 14 | 17 | |||||
| Pos. | Team | DAY |
SEB |
MOH |
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VIR |
ATL |
Points |
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Prototype Challenge Website Archived 2019-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
- IMSA Website