{"id":6866,"date":"2010-07-08T18:43:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T22:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=6866"},"modified":"2010-07-08T20:50:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T00:50:16","slug":"five-things-to-look-as-the-2010-season-cranks-up-again-utah-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/alms\/five-things-to-look-as-the-2010-season-cranks-up-again-utah-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"Five things to look as the 2010 season cranks up again-Utah GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planning to keep up with the Larry H. Miller Dealerships Utah Grand Prix next week? GREAT! To get you ready for the fourth round of the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patr\u00f3n, here are some fun facts you can use to impress your friends!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" style=\"border: black 1px solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/posts-alms\/Utah-GP.jpg\" alt=\"Utah-GP\" width=\"448\" height=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"border: black 1px solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/posts-alms\/J-Bergmeister.jpg\" alt=\"J-Bergmeister\" width=\"223\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1. Eleven drivers entered for this year\u2019s race have competed in all four prior Utah GP rounds: J\u00f6rg Bergmeister, David Brabham, Chris Dyson, Clint Field, Wolf Henzler, Butch Leitzinger, Jaime Melo, Tom Milner, Seth Neiman, Guy Smith and Johannes van Overbeek.<\/p>\n<p>Of those Bergmeister, Henzler and Melo each have at least one Series victory to their credit at Miller Motorsports Park.<\/p>\n<p>Other previous Utah GP race-winners entered for this weekend include Olivier Beretta, Luis Diaz, Oliver Gavin, Patrick Long, Jan Magnussen, Johnny O\u2019Connell and Simon Pagenaud.<\/p>\n<p>2. Of the 10 former race-winners entered, only J\u00f6rg Bergmeister has multiple wins \u2013 2008 and 2009 in GT2 for Porsche and Flying Lizard Motorsports.<\/p>\n<p>3. Risi Competizione came from ninth on the GT2 grid to win in class during the Series\u2019 first race at the venue in 2006. Jaime Melo, who drove with Mika Salo that season, will drive this year with Gimmi Bruni in one of the team\u2019s two Ferrari F430 GTs that will run on E85 for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The subsequent three GT2 winners have come from pole position.<\/p>\n<p>4. Porsche and Ferrari both have two GT2 victories in Utah. Ferrari won in 2006 and 2007 while Porsche triumphed in 2008 and 2009. This year they are joined in GT by Corvette (GT1 winner in 2007 and 2008), BMW, Ford and Jaguar, which is making its debut at the circuit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" style=\"border: black 1px solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/posts-alms\/Porsche-Ferrari.jpg\" alt=\"Porsche-Ferrari\" width=\"448\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>5. All four Miller Motorsports Park races have featured multiple lead-lap finishers; three races have been won from the overall pole, one from second overall.<\/p>\n<p>The American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patr\u00f3n field is ready to kick off the summer stint with the Larry H. Miller Dealerships Utah Grand Prix at Miller Motorsports Park. The two-hour, 45-minute race will begin at 2:35 p.m. MT on Sunday, July 11, with coverage beginning on SPEED at 4:30 p.m. ET. Live radio coverage will be available on American Le Mans Radio presented by Porsche \u2013 a production of Radio Show Limited \u2013 as well as Sirius Channel 127 and XM Channel 242. Visit the Series\u2019 schedule page for ticket and accommodation information. Live Timing and Scoring, track schedule, entry list and much, much more will be available on Racehub at americanlemans.com.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | ALMS<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planning to keep up with the Larry H. Miller Dealerships Utah Grand Prix next week? GREAT! To get you ready for the fourth round of the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patr\u00f3n, here are some fun facts you can use to impress your friends! \u00a0 1. Eleven drivers entered for this year\u2019s race &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[5264,5334,197,5288,162,40,5275,5295,103,64,201,1911,5281,5278,1913,1912,191,5321],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6868,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866\/revisions\/6868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}