EMCO Gears Classic this week

The EMCO Gears Clas­sic begins the 2012 sea­son at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course this week­end, June 8–10.

Fea­tur­ing GRAND-AM Road Racing’s top league, the Rolex Sports Car Series, the EMCO Gears Clas­sic will start the sea­son at Mid-Ohio for the fifth time in six years. Last season’s race was a thriller as the Clas­sic closed both the track and series sea­sons in 2011. The head­line event goes on track at 4:30 p.m. on Sat­ur­day, June 9 and will be tele­vised live on SPEED.

“We feel like this is the per­fect event to begin our sea­son and can’t wait to get it started. GRAND-AM not only brings close, com­pet­i­tive rac­ing to Mid-Ohio but fans have tremen­dous access to the dri­vers and cars,” said Craig Rust, pres­i­dent of Mid-Ohio, “This year the pits are also open to fans with pad­dock passes for the first time at this event so that adds another excit­ing ele­ment to the weekend.”

The GRAND-AM sanc­tioned Con­ti­nen­tal Tire Sports Car Chal­lenge and Total Per­for­mance Show­case join Play­boy Mazda MX-5 Cup, Trans Am Series and Ohio Val­ley Region SCCA Improved Touring/Spec Miata Shootout com­pet­ing in sup­port of the head­lin­ing Rolex Sports Car Series.

Auto­graph ses­sions from nearly every series, the GRAND-AM Fan Zone and grid walks – before the Con­ti­nen­tal Tire Sports Car Chal­lenge and the Rolex Sports Car Series races – pro­vide fans with ample oppor­tu­ni­ties to get close to the cars and com­peti­tors through­out the weekend.

Last year’s EMCO Gears Clas­sic was won by the #8 Star­works Motor­sport Ford-Riley in Day­tona Pro­to­type, but a runner-up fin­ish for the #01 TELMEX Chip Ganassi Rac­ing with Felix Sabates dri­ven by Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas was enough to earn them a sec­ond straight cham­pi­onship. The GT class was won by the #57 Steven­son Motor­sports Camaro, but Leh Keen and Andrew Davis landed on the last step of the podium to claim the cham­pi­onship for the #59 Bru­mos Rac­ing entry.

Week­end Gen­eral Admis­sion tick­ets start at $45. Gen­eral park­ing is free and chil­dren 12 and under are also admit­ted free. Visit www.midohio.com any­time or call 800-MID-OHIO (643‑6446) Mon­day through Fri­day from 8 a.m– 5 p.m. to order tick­ets or for more information.

Posted by Rob Hamilton on Jun 6 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.