With GT3 standardization in Pirelli World Challenge and extensive testing to come up with a Balance of Performance formula, knee-jerk penalties are a thing of the past.In the past in the Pirelli World Challenge Championships, domination by one or two makes would have brought some of the wrong kind of...

Michael Lewis will finish the Pirelli World Challenge GT series season for Calvert Dynamics in the No. 98 Porsche GT3 R, the team announced Tuesday."Thank you to Dr. Preston Calvert and the Calvert Dynamics team for providing three additional races to finish out the season," Lewis said. "This was totally...

EFFORT Racing announced Friday that its Pirelli World Challenge racing team is suspending operations for the remainder of 2016, with "every intention to continue the program in 2017.""The decision stems from the current supply and demand crisis in the oil industry, an industry from which EFFORT Racing receives funding to...

Laguna Beach, CA — Fresh off competing in front of his hometown crowd in Southern California, Michael Lewis and the...The post EFFORT Racing/Michael Lewis Travels to South Alabama appeared first on Pirelli World Challenge. Read full article on Press Room Pirelli World Challenge

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – At the Pirelli World Challenge Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, EFFORT Racing lived up to their...The post EFFORT Racing Dominates St. Petersburg with Michael Lewis Sweep appeared first on Pirelli World Challenge. Read full article on Press Room Pirelli World Challenge

It was a dream weekend for EFFORT Racing's Michael Lewis, who drove his Porsche 911 GT3 R to the pole and the win in both of the Pirelli World Challenge GT races at the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.Lewis, whose background is open-wheel racing, has adapted well to racing GT...

Just a few years ago, Michael Lewis was logging laps in open wheel cars in Europe, hoping – like so many young drivers – for that shot at Formula 1. It never came, and Lewis came back to the U.S., his future uncertain.He was invited to a Porsche young driver...

AUSTIN, Tex. – This weekend at the Pirelli World Challenge season opening double header at Circuit of the Americas, EFFORT...The post EFFORT Racing Earns First Win for Porsche 911 GT3 R in Austin appeared first on Pirelli World Challenge. Read full article on Press Room Pirelli World Challenge

Johnny O'Connell reminded the Pirelli World Challenge GT field why he's a four-time defending champion on Sunday at Circuit of The Americas, but he was certainly helped by some misfortune and mistakes suffered by his competition."The key for us was to get a decent start," he explained. "Yesterday I managed...

When sixth qualifier Bryan Heitkotter swept his Replay XD/Nissan GT Academy Nissan GTR around the outside and into the lead as the Pirelli World Challenge GT field charged into Circuit of the America's Turn 1, it caught polesitter Patrick Long by surprise."I was sort of shell-shocked on lap one when...