Stevenson Motorsport Pre-Daytona Report

2016 STEVENSON MOTORSPORTS AT DAYTONA DRIVER ROSTER:
No. 6 Audi R8 LMS – Andrew Davis, Robin Liddell, Matt Bell, Lawson Aschenbach
No. 9 Sun Energy1 Audi R8 LMS – Kenny Habul, Boris Said, Dion von Moltke, Tristan Vautier

STEVENSON MOTORSPORTS AT A GLANCE
- Stevenson Motorsports has 12 years of IMSA experience dating back to 2003 when Johnny Stevenson and Chip Vance ran a Porsche in the Rolex Series
- The Stevenson Motorsports team won the 2015 IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge team and driver championships  
- Based in Jacksonville, North Carolina, Stevenson Motorsports steps up to the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with another two-car effort in 2016
- The 2016 Rolex 24 At Daytona marks Stevenson Motorsports’ debut with the Audi R8 LMS

THE STEVENSON MOTORSPORTS VETERANS: Stevenson Motorsports veteran drivers Andrew Davis, Robin Liddell, Matt Bell, and Lawson Aschenbach all return full-time to the team in 2016. For the Rolex 24, the four will combine to pilot the No. 6 Audi R8 LMS. Davis and Liddell won the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge Championship last year while Bell and Aschenbach placed fourth in the championship standings.

Between them, the four have made 33 Rolex 24 At Daytona starts which includes one win, two podiums, and two pole positions. Liddell won the 2004 edition of the event with Orbit Racing. Davis finished second in last year’s Rolex 24 At Daytona driving for Alex Job Racing. The 2016 Rolex 24 At Daytona marks Aschenbach’s fifth start in the race, but first with Stevenson Motorsports while half of Bell’s Rolex 24 starts have been made with the Stevenson Motorsports team.

THE STEVENSON MOTORSPORTS NEWCOMERS: Stevenson Motorsports welcomes four new drivers to the team for the 54th running of the Rolex 24 At Daytona. Kenny Habul, Boris Said, Dion von Moltke, and Tristan Vautier complete the line-up in the team’s No. 9 Audi R8 LMS sponsored by Sun Energy1. Said won the event in 1998 and has started every Rolex 24 event ever since. Both von Moltke and Vautier have experience in the 24-hour endurance classic with von Moltke having made seven starts and Vautier having made two starts. von Moltke won the race in 2013 in an Audi R8. The 2016 Rolex 24 At Daytona will mark the first start for Habul, who has experience in the Australian CASCAR Super Series. 
  
THE 2015 IMSA CHAMPIONSHIP: Andrew Davis and Robin Liddell won the 2015 Continental Tire SportsCar Championship last year in the No. 6 Camaro Z/28.R. Davis and Liddell scored four wins, two poles, eight podiums in 10 races, never finished outside of the top-five and led 77 laps in 2015. The No. 9 Camaro Z/28.R of Matt Bell and Lawson Aschenbach scored three pole positions, three podiums, and led an impressive total of 159 laps.

THE 2013 NAEC CHAMPIONSHIP: Stevenson Motorsports won the North American Endurance Championship (NAEC) title in 2013 after a run to second place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The three-hour race at IMS was the third and final round of the North American Endurance Championship which was staged as a “championship within a championship” and also included the Rolex 24 At Daytona and Sahlen’s 6 Hours of the Glen endurance events. A victory at the Glen helped the team secure the inaugural 2013 NAEC Championship title.

ROLEX 24 LIVE TELEVISION COVERAGE: 
FOX Sports 1    2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
FOX Sports 2    4:00 PM – 10:00 PM
IMSA.com    10:00 PM – 7:00 AM
FOX Sports 1    7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
FOX Sports 2    12:00 PM – 3:00 PM