CTSCC - APR Motorsport victory in ST!

APR Motorsport's Ian Bass and Ryan Ellis earned their second victory in as many races, piloting their Mk6 VW GTI (sponsored by Driver's Gear, Motul, BBS) to the winner's circle in this weekend's Kia 200 at Homestead Miami. With APR edging out the iMoto Mazdaspeed 3 and RSR Motorsport's MINI Cooper S for the win, and locking down fourth position with the #181 GTI of the Gleason brothers, APR and Volkswagen are now in firm command of the championships, both with 70 points over nearest competitor Kia who has 56. Likewise Baas and Ellis are tied for first place in the driver's championship, at 70 points each, with Kinetic Motorsports / Kia driver Nic Jonsson in third with 56 points.



Round three will see the GS and ST class cars running at APR's home track of Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama on April 7-9th.

For more see grand-am.com / goapr.com

_WRS

CTSCC - Round 2 from Homestead Miami (today at 4:15pm)

The second round of the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge takes off today at Homestead Miami Speedway at 4:15pm eastern. APR Motorsport is there ready to continue the success they had in the ST class, and hoping to improve on their results in GS. GHary Gibson landed the big B8 S4 landed pretty much square in the middle of the GS field, 16th out of 29 cars. The 3.0 TFSI V6 showed supreme flashes of speed last season, but so far hasn't quite found the groove that the ST GTIs have.



Speaking of which, the two 2.0t Mk6 GTIs are toward the sharp end of a very competitive field. While not able to pull out a class poll-position, the 171 of Ian Baas and Ryan Ellis sits 6th out of 34 cars, and the 181 of the Gleason brothers earned 8th position.



Check out live timing and scoring at Grand-am.com or check out APR's Twitter feed for live updates.

Results: Homestead 200 CTSCC

Today saw a fair performance from APR in today's Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Homestead 200. After putting the supercharged direct-injected S4 into the third spot, a ride height infraction saw the car moved to the back of the pack and it did not start when the green flag dropped at 1pm. Whether or not APR chose not to start in protest, had problems, or were completely disqualified remains to be seen. The pole-winning #20 Roush Performance Ford Mustang GT was also penalized for an illegal part, but ended up going on to win today's event.

In ST the two APR Mk5 GTIs started towards the back of the field, and slowly but surely moved up. The#181 Stadtlander/ Hurley car managed a solid 5th place as the checkered flag waved, with the #171 in 18th position.

I'll try and find out more info this week, but so far 2010 continues to be a tough year for APR's efforts in Grand Am.

_WRS