Calvert Fourth for Phoenix at Long Beach
April 22, 2015 / Written by Phoenix American Motorsports
Long Beach, CA – Long Beach, CA – Preston Calvert drove a heads-
Building upon a fifth place run on Saturday in St. Petersburg in March, Calvert improved to fourth on Sunday, and tied his best result of the season with another fourth place run in California. Another strong result adds to Calvert’s season-
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"The GT Cup race within the Long Beach Grand Prix was again a challenging street fight,” said Calvert. “The first order of business was to avoid damage to the car with all the congestion and crashes among other competitors. I was again fortunate to be able to navigate through this obstacle course and run a clean race. This allowed me to finish fourth, as some other GT Cup competitors were unfortunate to become involved in contact and other mishaps.”
A new standing start procedure in place from St. Petersburg was set to give the GT Cup field their own light sequence following the GT field departing from the front straight. With a GT car stalled on the grid, the GT Cup field faced an aborted start, assembling under a yellow flag until the race restarted a few moments later.
From there, it was a hectic episode of close concrete walls with numerous caution periods, and even a blocked track in front of the GT Cup competitors in Long Beach’s iconic hairpin turn at one point.
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“The team enjoyed the great organization and hospitality of the Long Beach Grand Prix event, as well as the enthusiasm of the many fans of sports car racing who attended,” added Calvert. “We are now headed to Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama for the next round of the Pirelli World Challenge season, where we will rejoin our GTS cars and the rest of our team. We look forward to another successful week of competition."
Watch the action from Long Beach on CBS Sports Network, Sunday April 26 at 3:30pm Eastern.
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