Nielsen Prepares for Fourth Consecutive Race Weekend at Lime Rock Park

Following her race last weekend in Austria in the European Le Mans Series, Christina Nielsen is back in the United States for her next IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race July 22-23 at the Northeast Grand Prix at Lime Rock Park.

Danish driver Nielsen and Scuderia Corsa teammate Alessandro Balzan lead the GT Daytona class in the No. 63 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488 GT3 race car by 22 points, 191-169. A win July 3 in the Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen in Watkins Glen, New York, helped propel the team further ahead in the GTD class.

The two-hour and 40-minute event at Lime Rock Park, which starts at 3:05 p.m. (ET) Saturday, July 23, will be Nielsen's fourth consecutive race weekend in two series in three countries. She raced July 3 at Watkins Glen and July 10 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Bowmanville, Ontario, in the IMSA WeatherTech Championship and July 17 at Red Bull Ring in Austria in the European Le Mans Series.

"Lime Rock Park is a track that's tough both physically and mentally because the track is so short that you have to do a lot of laps," Nielsen said about the seven-turn, 1.53-mile circuit. "You don't really have any straights at Lime Rock, so you don't have time to relax. That's one of the challenges.

"The track also requires a lot of technical skills. There's a lot of technical corners. I'm looking forward to going back there with the Ferrari 488 and seeing what we can do with it!"

Following the Northeast Grand Prix, Nielsen has a well-deserved one-week break and then will head to her next IMSA WeatherTech Championship race - the Continental Road Race Showcase Aug. 5-7 at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.