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Fans Welcomed to KONI Challenge Paddock at VIR |
DANVILLE, VA -: If fans of racing are interested in seeing the cars and
teams up close, then the October 3-5 Bosch Engineering Twin Six Hour
Grand-Am KONI Challenge and BF Goodrich Tires GT Live weekend of road
racing and more at VIRginia International Raceway is the place to do
it. The paddock or garage area is always open to spectators, with cars
and teams available nearly all the time.
The Bosch Engineering Twin Six-Hours will decide the season championships in both KONI Challenge classes! The weekend also will present the season finale for Formula Drift Pro-Am competitors where fans can see top level drifting.
Only one point separates the top pair of teams and drivers in the weekend’s feature race for the KONI Challenge Grand Sport championship. In the manufacturers’ standings, BMW, Porsche and Ford are separated by only six points and each could still capture the manufacturer’s crown. In the Street Tuner category, Chevrolet’s Cobalt SS has only a six-point gap over Acura, putting the final manufacturer championships up for grabs in both classes.
In the drivers’ standings, any of the top ten drivers might be able to capture the GS crown, with the top four drivers within one point of each other and the next three all sharing the same score. In the Street Tuner class, for smaller cars such as Chevy Cobalts, Acura TSXs, Mazda Miatas, Hondas, BMW 330s, MINIs and Subarus, it will take a major problem for Jamie Holtom to lose the crown to Kristian Skavnes or Kuno Wittmer, but stranger things have happened in racing.
The combination of racing, drifting, free autocrossing, free karting, plus rides in race cars and drifting cars makes the GT Live East weekend one of those special events that almost any race fan can enjoy. Combine these attractions with the ability to walk around the track to watch the action from many different vantage points and visitors have the
VIRginia International Raceway is a multi-purpose road racing facility, located on the Dan River between Danville and South Boston, Virginia. Reopened in 2000, VIR hosts a wide range professional and amateur auto and motorcycle racing and track events, and is well established as “America’s Motorsport Resort.” In addition to its historic 3.27 mile natural-terrain road racing circuit, VIR is the cornerstone of VIR Club, America's first motorsports country club; the VIR Raceplex Industrial Park and Motorsports Technology Park, which includes the Virginia Institute for Performance Engineering and Research (“VIPER”); the Plantation Valley Kart Track, a 5/8 mile paved natural terrain karting circuit; an expanding variety of on-site lodging (including 45 hotel rooms and the trackside Villas which are for sale); Camp Motorsport for enthusiasts of all ages; and the Oak Tree Tavern, a full-service restaurant located within the circa-1840 Plantation Clubhouse.
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