.jpg?environment=live)
IMSA: 2015 TUDOR Championship schedule revealed
Related Stories

circuitoftheamericas.com/wectudor
The TUDOR United SportsCar Championship will hold 10 races for its four classes across 12 venues in 2015. Heeding the calls of its competitors, the series has reduced the total number of races per class by one, dropping from 11 to 10. The 2015 season spans Jan. 24-25 at the Rolex 24 at Daytona to Oct. 3 with the finale at Petit Le Mans."The decision by us to go to 10 was motivated by a very consistent request coming out of our paddock – teams described as very highly resourced and some of those without as many resources," IMSA President and COO Scott Atherton told RACER. "Merging these two championships together, the biggest positive was this calendar we assembled at all of the iconic venues. That's the positive cut from the blade.
"The negative cut from that same blade came in the total number of hours running for both camps. If you were an American Le Mans Series team, you saw a nearly 50 percent increase, and if you were a Grand-Am team, it was somewhere in the 28 to 30 percent range. Both sides had a big increase, and we believe this schedule retains all of the magic from the 2014 calendar, but at a 10-race schedule for each class."Kansas and Indianapolis, two of the events on the 2014 calendar, have also been dropped for 2015. Lime Rock, which hosted a Continental Tire Series round in May, makes its return with two TUDOR Championship classes added to the schedule next year.Another notable change includes the addition of PC to Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, and the deletion of GT Daytona from the event. GT Le Mans and GTD will hold their own race at VIR, while PC will hold a standalone race at the winding Virginian road course."This is an example where we say there's a genuine desire to come back together in the future is an accurate statement," Atherton said of IMS. "The Indianapolis Motor Speedway and IMSA want to rejoin to have an event there in the not too distant future. It wasn't able to be confirmed this year, but I'm confident we'll have the TUDOR Championship or some other IMSA content back at the Speedway.""We had more feedback last year across all categories, from the Governor of Connecticut to fans, about Lime Rock not being on the schedule, and while it wasn't a write-in campaign, we polled our stakeholders and when the ranking came in, it was a fairly consistent request for Lime Rock to make a return."Did IMSA get the 2015 schedule right, or are there event(s) that should have made the cut in place of some that were chosen? Share your thoughts below.2015 TUDOR UNITED SPORTSCAR CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE
Date | Event | Classes |
*Jan. 24-25 | Daytona International Speedway | ALL |
*March 21 | Sebring International Raceway | ALL |
April 18 | Long Beach Street Circuit | P/GTLM |
May 3 | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca | P/GTLM and PC/GTD |
May 30 | Detroit Belle Isle | P/GTD |
*June 28 | Watkins Glen International | ALL |
July 12 | Canadian Tire Motorsport Park | P/PC/GTLM |
July 25 | Lime Rock Park | PC/GTD |
Aug. 9 | Road America | ALL |
Aug. 23 | Virginia International Raceway | PC/GTLM/GTD |
Sept. 19 | Circuit of The Americas | ALL |
*Oct. 3 | Road Atlanta | ALL |
* Tequila Patrón North American Endurance Cup Event
Latest News
Comments
Comments are disabled until you accept Social Networking Cookies. Update cookie preferences
If the dialog doesn't appear, ad-blockers are often the cause; try disabling yours or see our Social Features Support.



.jpg?environment=live)

