Porsche sweeps Continental Tire Challenge at VIR - Motorsport.com
For the final few minutes, it looked like nobody wanted to win the Oak Tree Grand Prix Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge race at Virginia International Raceway. A brutal battle in the Grand Sport class between the No. 99 Automatic Racing Aston Martin Vantage driven by Brett Sandberg, and B. J. Zacharias in the No. 14 Doran Racing Nissan 370Z, which was the fastest car in the race, looked to go down to the... But with less than three minutes left in the two hour, 30-minute race, Zacharias coasted to a stop in the Nissan, out of gas. This left Sandberg unchallenged as he drove toward the finish line, an advantage he enjoyed for one minute and 25 seconds, until his Aston Martin ran out of gas. This left an unlikely winner: The No. 13 Rum Bum Racing Porsche 911 driven by brothers Hugh and Matt Plumb. The win wasn’t such an unlikely one on the surface – the car was the fourth-fastest qualifier, behind the two Nissan 370Zs and a Ford Shelby Mustang GT350-R, and the Plumb brothers were the winners of the last Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge... Power steering fluid was leaking onto the engine, making the smoke, and quickly making the power steering fail. Which may not sound that bad, but steering a Porsche 911 without power assist is tough, and Matt Plumb did it for his entire last stint of nearly an hour. Source: www.motorsport.com
