2015 SportsCar Grand Prix

The 2015 Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix presented by Hawk Performance is a scheduled professional sports car racing event to be held at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park near Bowmanville, Ontario on July 12, 2015.[1] The race is the seventh round of the 2015 United SportsCar Championship season and the event will mark the 30th IMSA sanctioned sports car race held at the facility.

Race background

For 2015, the Tudor Championship race will feature the Prototype (P) and GT Le Mans (GTLM) classes alongside the Prototype Challenge (PC) class which replaces the GT Daytona (GTD) class which competed at the 2014 edition of the Grand Prix.[2]

The weekend will also include races for the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge, Cooper Tires Prototype Lites, Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA, and the Mazda MX-5 Cup.[3]

Media

Television

The race will be broadcast live by Fox Sports on Fox Sports 1 in the United States and on Fox Sports Racing in Canada, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.[4] The event will be televised internationally by Motors TV in Europe and Network Ten in Australia.

Radio

The race will be broadcast by IMSA Radio with announcers John Hindhaugh, Greg Creamer, and Jeremy Shaw calling the race on IMSA.tv and radiolemans.com, which will be simulcast on Sirius channel 117 satellite radio and on 90.7 FM at the track.

References

  1. "IMSA announces 2015 Tudor United SportsCar Championship schedule". Autoweek.com. August 12, 2014. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
  2. Pruett, Marshall (August 10, 2014). "IMSA: 2015 TUDOR Championship schedule revealed". Racer.com. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
  3. Nesbitt, Wally (November 19, 2014). "CTMP unveils 2015 major events schedule". Inside Track Motorsport News. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
  4. "IMSA Finalizes TUSC, CTSC TV Schedules". sportscar365.com. February 6, 2015. Retrieved March 19, 2015.

External links

IMSA.com Canadian Tire Motorsport Park event page

United SportsCar Championship
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6 Hours of Watkins Glen
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Northeast Grand Prix