SCCA event draws top open-wheel racers to WGI - Elmira Star-Gazette
A showdown of two of the top small-bore, open-wheel racers in the nation will be part of the action during the Sports Car Club of America Majors Tour event this weekend at Watkins Glen International. Osborne and Alex Mayer are far apart both geographically and in racing experience, yet the two Formula 1000 class competitors enter the 68th running of the Glen event with three wins apiece while competing head-to-head in six races races so far... It was his eighth appearance in the past nine years in the season-ending event that crowns the top amateur road racers in 28 separate classes. Mayer, of Harleysville, Pa. , finished more than five seconds behind Osborne for a career-best second-place finish in last year's Runoffs. The 20-year-old up-and-comer, who earned the 2014 Formula 1000 national season points title, will have the home-track advantage over Osborne this weekend. Mayer has scored five Majors victories in 2015. The Independence Day weekend event features some of the best amateur road racers in the country competing for class victories in a variety of race cars, from open-wheel to production and sports racer... More than 270 cars are entered in the double Majors event, whose roots date back to the first sports car Grand Prix held on the public roads in and around the village of Watkins Glen in 1948. It is the oldest continuous-running road race in the... Drivers will compete in seven 30-minute group races on the 3. 4-mile Watkins Glen Grand Prix layout Saturday. Source: www.stargazette.com
