Sixty-Three Pirelli World Challenge Drivers Set to Race on the Streets of St. Petersburg
Monday, March 23, 2015
St. Petersburg, FL – The Pirelli World Challenge's 2015 season continues March 26-29 with GT, GTA, GT Cup presented by MOMO, and GTS teams and drivers heading to St. Petersburg to compete on the 14-turn, 1.8-mile temporary street course. Sixty-three drivers will take to the track for Rounds 3 and 4 and the Pirelli World Challenge Cadillac Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, part of the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg weekend.
Since 1990, the series has competed at St. Petersburg 10 times; the 2015 visit marks the sixth straight year and the 11th time the series will race at the Florida street course. With 43 cars entered in the GT/GTA/GT Cup classes, it will be interesting to see how drivers transition from racing at the Circuit of The Americas (COTA) – a circuit that was designed with a deliberate widening of corners, to encourage drivers to follow multiple racing lines – to the narrow confines and concrete barriers of the street circuit at St. Petersburg. In GTS, there should be some great battles among the highly talented 20 drivers entered. Qualifying will be important as seven of the last nine GT wins from 2010-14 have come from the pole. In GTS, the nine-race average race winner’s starting position is 2.777.
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