Double Win Weekend for Robert Todd / BRracing Motorsports Porsche 991 Cup Car in Pirelli GT3 Cup Trophy USA at Circuit of the Americas

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March 12 – 13, 2016

Opening the series’ 10th anniversary season, the 2016 Pirelli GT3 Cup Trophy USA staged Round 2 of its 16-race season on Sunday, March 13, 2016, at Circuit of the Americas with a race that once again ran under green flag conditions from start to checkers.

And for the second time in as many races, it was BRracing’s Robb Todd atop the overall podium as he took an assured victory over TruSpeed Autosport’s Jason Godfrey, who shrugged off a disappointing Race 1 to take his first podium finish of the season.

BRracing’s Jesse Menczer backed up his Saturday run to second place with another podium result as he drove to a third place finish on Sunday.

“It was a lot of fun,” enthused Todd following the race. “We took the sweep which wasn’t something I expected coming in, given the high level of drivers we have. Jason Godfrey, who is always quick, gave me a run for my money in this race. The race was about patience and just waiting for other drivers to make a mistake or finding the opportunity to make a pass.

Once I did that, I settled into a rhythm and was able to put a gap between myself and second place. The team did awesome this weekend. All in all I think we did a fabulous job. I’m definitely pleased with the team, hats off to the BRracing Motorsports crew for getting the cars to where they are.”

Robb Todd also blistered the field in qualifying for Race 2, getting pole position with a gap of over 1.2 seconds over 2nd place, while the next five cars were separated by just .5 seconds.

The Platinum Class (Porsche 997.2 Cup Cars) saw TruSpeed’s Tom Haacker bring home a convincing victory over Annand Sharma, who scored his second runner-up finish on the weekend for Cameron Racing. Haacker had also seen an early end to his race on Saturday so was elated to emerge atop the board at the finish on Sunday.

“Yesterday getting hit in Turn 1 and being knocked out was not fun,” offered Haacker. “We had a good car all weekend. We had great pace in the first race, we just got nailed by a rookie driver. Today everything stayed together and it was a fun, good race. I’m happy. It’s an old beater car and we got her dialed in and it ran well.”

The Platinum Masters honors went to Larry Schnur, who added to the trophy collection for TruSpeed Autosport with his second big run of the weekend.

With the race weekend also marking the launch of the Silver Class (Porsche Cayman GT4 ClubSport), it was a new name winning the new class, as Keith Jensen scored his first Silver class victory on Sunday, despite battling some ongoing issues with his car.

“Yesterday I had car problems and I had the same problems today,” said Jensen. “At about Lap 5 at Turn 12, my Motec display went to showing no data, I had no shift lights for the remainder of the race and just raced!”

Kevin Woods / BRracing, who had qualified 2nd for Sunday’s race, and led the race at multiple times, was involved in an incident in the last turn and did not score any points as a result, after winning on Saturday.

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Jensen was followed by TRG’s Patrice Gautier of TRG, who made the most of his first-ever weekend of racing a Porsche machine with the runner-up result.

In just his second-ever car race, Sean McAllister was again a podium visitor, having taken second on Saturday and returning to the rostrum again on Sunday with his third place finish.

Greg Franz, President of Competent Motorsport, was pleased with the event and looks forward to the rest of the season as the series celebrates its 10th year.

“It’s very exciting to kick off this 10th season of ours,” said Franz. “The feedback I’ve received is that everyone had a fabulous time. This Circuit of the Americas facility is wonderful, it’s a great track, and the drivers are saying they’re excited about getting to the next event. We’re going to keep going and build on the the momentum from this first race event, and the growing number of competitors we had.”

The Pirelli Porsche GT3 Cup Trophy USA will next be in race action April 8-10 at The Thermal Club.