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Table of Contents SCCA PRO RACING BATTERY TENDER MAZDA MX-5 CUP PRESENTED BY BFGOODRICH TIRES ROUNDS 1 & 2 • SEBRING INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY SEBRING, FLA. • MARCH 18-20 Weekend Information Page Event Schedule ........................................................................................ 2 Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup Entry List ............................................... 3 Pronunciation Key ...................................................................................... 4 Weekend Facts/Story Leads ...................................................................... 5 2014 Final Battery Tender MX-5 Cup Championship Point Standings ........ 8 2014 Final Skip Barber Point Standings ..................................................... 9 Last time at Sebring International Raceway ............................................. 10 Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup Career Driver Records Archive ............ 15 2015 Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup Schedule .................................... 25 1 Schedule of Events SCCA PRO RACING BATTERY TENDER MAZDA MX-5 CUP PRESENTED BY BFGOODRICH TIRES ROUNDS 1 & 2 • SEBRING INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY SEBRING, FLA. • MARCH 18-20 Wednesday, March 18, 2015 8:00 am - 8:30 am Practice #1 – Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup/Skip Barber MAZDASPEED Pro Challenge 8:45 am - 9:15 am Practice #1 – Lites 9:30 am - 10:00 am Practice #1 - GT3 Cup 10:15 am - 11:00 am Practice #1 – CTSC 11:00 am – 11:45 am Driver/Crew Chief’s Meeting – Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup/Skip Barber MAZDASPEED Pro Challenge (Pro Racing Trailer) 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Practice – HSR 12:45 pm - 1:15 pm Practice #2 Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup/Skip Barber MAZDASPEED Pro Challenge 1:30 pm - 2:10 pm Practice #2 – Lites 2:25 pm - 3:05 pm Practice #2 – GT3 Cup 3:20 pm - 4:05 pm Practice #2 - GTSC 4:20 pm - 4:50 pm Qualifying – Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup/Skip Barber MAZDASPEED Pro Challenge 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Qualifying - HSR 5:45 pm – 6:30 pm Track Walk – Walk Only 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm Driver’s ONLY Meeting – Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup/Skip Barber MAZDASPEED Pro Challenge (Pro Racing Trailer) Thursday, March 19, 2015 8:00 am - 8:20 am Qualifying - Lites 8:35 am - 8:55 am Qualifying - GT3 Cup 9:10 am - 9:55 am Race #1- Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup/Skip Barber MAZDASPEED Pro Challenge (45 minutes) 10:15 am - 11:15 am Practice – TUDOR Championship (All Classes) 12:30 pm - 12:45 pm Qualifying – CTSC ST 1:00 pm - 1:15 pm Qualifying – CTSC GS 1:35 pm - 2:05 pm Race #1 Lites – 30 minutes 2:25 pm - 3:25 pm Practice #2 Tudor Championship (All Classes) 3:50 pm - 4:35 pm Race #1- GT3 Cup (45 minutes) 4:55 pm - 5:40 pm Races – HSR (45 Minutes) 7:15 pm - 8:45 pm Practice – TUDOR Championship (All Classes) Friday, March 20, 2015 7:45 am - 8:30 am Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup/Skip Barber MAZDASPEED Pro Challenge Race #2 (45 Minutes) 8:45 am - 9:30 am Race #2 - Lites (45 Minutes) 9:50 am - 10:50 am Practice #4 – TUDOR Championship (All Classes) 11:10 am - 11:55 am Race #2 GT3 Cup (45 Minutes) 1:05 pm - 3:35 pm Race – CTSC – 150 Minutes 4:20 pm - 4:35 pm Qualifying - TUDOR Championship (GTD) 4:45 pm - 5:00 pm Qualifying - TUDOR Championship (GTLM) 5:10 pm - 5:25 pm Qualifying - TUDOR Championship (PC) 5:35 pm - 5:50 pm Qualifying - TUDOR Championship (P) 6:10 pm - 6:55 pm HSR Races - 45 Minutes *Schedule subject to change 2 Sebring MX- 5 Cup Entry List Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup No. Driver/Hometown Team Sponsors/Car Studio Road Marketing/Chryst Brothers 2 Beth Chryst/Herndon, VA Chryst Motorsports Construction MX-5 6 Timothy Paul/Mahopac, NY ALARA Racing ALARA Racing/Cellmark MX-5 7 Dean Copeland/Bowie, MD Copeland Motorsports Copeland Motorsports/Sync Speed Inc. MX-5 Sick Sideways/OOTSK 8 Nathanial Sparks/Spanish Fort, AL Performance Bimmerworld MX-5 10 Brent Mosing/Lafayette, LA ALARA Racing ALARA Racing MX-5 11 Ara Malkhassian/Houston, TX ALARA Racing ALARA Racing MX-5 12 Zach Lee/San Antonio, TX ALARA Racing ALARA Racing MX-5 14 Sarah Montgomery(R)/Lafayette, LA ALARA Racing Travel Lafayette, LA/Acadian Pawn MX-5 16 John Dean II/Sebring, FL Sick Sideways Projections Research/PPG MX-5 23 Christian Tetzlaff/Athens, GA Tetzlaff Motorsports Lanier Technical College/MAZDASPEED MX-5 24 Peter Portante/Plainville, CT Atlanta Motorsports Group Atlanta Motorsports Group MX-5 26 Tim Probert/Houston, TX ALARA Racing ALARA Racing MX-5 27 Nick Igdalsky(R)/Berwyn, PA McCumbee McAleer Racing ModSpace MX-5 28 Aurora Straus(R)/New York, NY McCumbee McAleer Racing ModSpace MX-5 32 Keith Jensen(R)/Dallas, TX ALARA Racing ALARA Racing MX-5 34 Matt Koskinen(R)/Harper Woods, MI ALARA Racing ALARA Racing MX-5 35 Devin Jones/Mooresville, NC ALARA Racing ALARA Racing MX-5 44 Patrick Gallagher/Thornville, OH Atlanta Motorsports Group Atlanta Motorsports Group MX-5 49 Sebastian Landy/Great Falls, VA Atlanta Motorsports Group Excitations.com/Atlanta Motorsports Group MX-5 72 Charles Paquin/Ottawa, Ont., Can. McCumbee McAleer Racing ModSpace MX-5 77 Hernan Palermo(R)/Houston, TX Copeland Motorsports CMS/Brimtek/Sync Speed Inc. MX-5 Royal Rugby/Mazda Motorsports Development/ 99 Drake Kemper(R)/Toluca Lake, CA Sick Sideways BFGoodrich Tires MX-5 00 Harrison Williams/Houston, TX ALARA Racing ALARA Racing MX-5 Mazda Motorsports Development/BFGoodrich 07 Kyle Loustaunau(R)/Vacaville, CA Atlanta Motorsports Group Tires MX-5 Skip Barber MAZDASPEED Pro Challenge No. Driver/Hometown Team Sponsors/Car 61 Ben Albano/Greenwich, CT Skip Barber Race School SBMX-5 62 Kieron O’Rourke/Grand Cayman Skip Barber Race School SBMX-5 Blackmore Partners/xBorder Foods & Wine 63 Bryan Hixon/San Antonio, TX Skip Barber Race School SBMX-5 65 Robby Foley/Randolph, NJ Skip Barber Race School SBMX-5 67 Sam Adams/Richfield, WI Skip Barber Race School SBMX-5 68 Nikko Reger/Houston, TX Skip Barber Race School SBMX-5 Blackmore Partners/xBorder Foods & Wine 69 Chris Beaufait/Freeland, WA Skip Barber Race School SBMX-5 3 MX-5 Cup Pronunciation Guide Correct pronunciation of SCCA Pro Racing Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich Tires drivers’ names: Chris Beaufait boh·fay Beth Chryst krist Dean Copeland kohp’ land Ara Malkhassian r’ uh mal·cass’ e·an Brent Mosing mō’ zing Charles Paquin pack·win’ Nikko Reger ree’ ger Christian Tetzlaff tetz’ lahf Oxford American Dictionary Key used. For multi-syllabic names, accent the syllable followed by ´. 4 Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup Weekend Facts and Story Leads Weekend Facts What: The SCCA Pro Racing Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich Tires visits Sebring International Raceway for the fourth consecutive year for Rounds One and Two of the 2015 season. Qualifying: Wednesday, March 18, 4:20 p.m. EDT Races: Race 1: Thursday, March 19, 9:10 a.m. EDT Race 2: Friday, March 20, 7:45 a.m. EDT Race Lengths: 45-minute timed race. Track Records: Qualifying Lap: 2:29.195 (89.303 mph), Elliott Skeer, 2012 Race Lap: 2:29.059 (89.360 mph), John Dean, 2014 Margin of Victory: 0.045-second, John Dean over Elliott Skeer, 2012 Previous Winners: 2014: Kenton Koch (Race 1) John Dean (Race 2) 2013: Christian Szymczak (Race 1) Elliott Skeer (Race 2) 2012: Stevan McAleer (Race 1) John Dean (Race 2) Florida Following One driver in the field will go to battle on the soil of his home state. John Dean, of Sebring, Florida, is not only the local boy, but the last Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup driver to stand on the top step of the podium at Sebring after winning the second race of the week in last season. Dean also heads Sebring-based Sick Sideways Racing, which will field two other cars at the doubleheader event. If any of the three Sick Sideways pilots can find their way to victory lane, it would be an extremely popular victory with the hometown fans. But if Dean is once again able to win at his home track, it would make the race weekend that much better for the local spectators. Story Leads The SCCA Pro Racing Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich Tires begins the 2015 campaign with a mixture of old and new. New series colors, thanks to brand new title sponsor Battery Tender, are the most eye-catching. However a crop of new drivers are going to test their mettle against series veterans, who in some cases have been around since the inception of the series in 2006. The close finishes, and the nimble Mazda MX-5 on which the series is based, are a few of these things that attracts these drivers to the series. The 2015 season is also the last which will be run using the current generation of MX-5s. In 2016, the new-generation MX-5 will take to the track at circuits around the world. North America will be part of a larger plan to take this affordable and ultra-competitive form of sports car racing worldwide. The Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup will serve as a template from which to build. The worldwide nature of this class of racing will result in the first-ever MX-5 Cup World Championship to be held at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Leading the hometown charge will be Sick Sideways Racing, led by John Dean, of Sebring, Florida, in his No. 16 Projections Research/PPG MX-5. He is one of the defending race winners at this track, 5 Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup Weekend Facts and Story Leads having won the second race of the weekend in 2014.