Dallara
   
   

 

Doran Racing Nissans to Start Third and Ninth
After Qualifying Is Rained Out at Road Atlanta

BRASELTON, Ga., Oct. 1 — The Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge qualifying session slated for Thursday afternoon at Road Atlanta was canceled due to heavy rain, and the starting line-up for Friday's season finale will be set by the current point standings. That will put the #14 Doran Racing Nissan 370Z in the third starting position and its sister car, the similar #41, in ninth when the green flag drops Friday at 12:15 p.m. Eastern time for the 2.5-hour race.

The time allotted for qualifying was turned into a third practice session, but neither of the Doran Racing cars participated in order to eliminate any chance of damage due to the slippery conditions on the 2.54-mile, 12-turn road course.

Brad Jaeger of Charlottesville, Va., will drive the opening stint in the #14 and then turn it over to B.J. Zacharias of Cincinnati.

Meanwhile, Nic Hammann of Elkhart Lake, Wis., will have the controls of the #41 first before turning it over to his co-driver, Steven Doherty of Plainfield, Ill. Both Hammann and Doherty are champions of the Nissan GT Academy.

Both Nissans were fast out right out of the transporter. The #14 set its fastest lap of the first practice session on Wednesday on its first lap of 17 run in that session with a 1:32.616 (98.730 miler per hour). It was sixth in the second practice session Thursday morning with a 1:32.118 (99.264 mph) halfway through the session, in which it completed 14 laps.

The #41 was the model of consistency during practice, as it ranked ninth in both sessions. Its fastest time in the first practice session was a 1:33.135 (98.180 mph) on lap four of 18. It knocked 0.519 of a second off that time in the second practice session with a 1:32.616 (98.730 mph) on lap 13 of 16, which was ironically the same time as the #14 ran in the first practice session.

The weather forecast for Friday afternoon indicates a 70 percent to 80 percent chance of rain and a high of 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

Live streaming of the race and live timing and scoring are slated for imsa.com on Friday. The race will also be broadcast on Fox Sports 1 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Eastern time on Sunday, Oct. 18.

Additional information is available on DoranRacing.com and the team's Facebook page.

For more information about the series, see imsa.com.
For more information on Doran Racing, see DoranRacing.com.
The team also has a Facebook page.

 
powered by cyberspeed