GT3 Racing at the Indy 8HR!
We travel to America’s capital of speed – Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Intercontinental GT Challenge season finale.
The Community Garage is most grateful to our friends working with many of the race teams competing in the GT World Challenge and Pirelli GT4 America. This provided a special treat as we got SUPER close to the action.
A very special treat was meeting Michai Stephens, racing with JMF Motorsports in their GT3 Mercedes-AMG. A native of Evanston, Michai made a great impact on our kids, most of whom call Evanston home.
Racing at this level requires huge support crews, including specialized engineers like our friend Reese Fokine. Reese introduced us to some great professionals working behind the scenes as well as more drivers and teams.
The kids even got a sneak peak in the attic of the Oreca super-stash of bespoke race parts (they offer their race teams on-site support). This has to be the craziest racecar superstore you never get to see. Yes, that’s the same Oreca who are the French race car constructor dominating the world in LMP2 racing for the last decade.
We were not allowed pictures (I mean – it’s SUPER bespoke parts), but you don’t get this kind of access to the attic without Community:
The action on track was amazing, and for many of the kids this was their…
First time at a racetrack
First time at an endurance race
First time at nighttime racing
First time sitting in a GT3 racecar!
First time at Indianapolis Motor Speedway!!
All in all - it was a darn good trip...
We set the hook well in The Community.
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