{"id":7526,"date":"2010-08-03T23:25:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T03:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=7526"},"modified":"2010-08-03T23:25:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T03:25:55","slug":"a-winner-three-times-at-mid-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/alms\/a-winner-three-times-at-mid-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"A winner three times at Mid-Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johannes van Overbeek is in rare company at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. The California pilot is one of only two drivers entered for this weekend\u2019s Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge have won more than twice at the scenic Midwestern road course. A three-time winner in five career Mid-Ohio starts in the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patr\u00f3n, van Overbeek is hoping to add a fourth win there as well as the first for Extreme Speed Motorsports.<\/p>\n

\"J-van-Overbeek\"\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe recipe for success at Mid-Ohio is the same everywhere: be fast, have a smart strategy, stay out of trouble and flawless execution in the pits,\u201d said van Overbeek, who will drive one of ESM\u2019s Ferrari F430 GTs with team owner Scott Sharp.\u00a0 I’m hoping that my past success, combined with ESM\u2019s continued hard work and progress, will result in a break through performance for Scott, me, Patr\u00f3n and the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

All three of van Overbeek\u2019s previous Mid-Ohio victories came with Flying Lizard Motorsports and Porsche. He had different winning teammates each year: Darren Law (2004), Wolf Henzler (2006) and J\u00f6rg Bergmeister (2007). He has made his mark already this year behind the wheel of the Ferrari with the fastest GT race laps at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and Miller Motorsports Park. That current streak and his past success at Mid-Ohio may be the perfect combination this weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very similar to the track I learned to drive on – Sears Point in Sonoma,\u201d said van Overbeek, who also was second in GT2 in 2008. \u201cThe blind corners and elevation changes make me feel immediately comfortable. I can\u2019t wait to get back to Mid-Ohio.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JVO-ESM\"<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge \u2013 Round 6 of the 2010 championship \u2013 is set for 3 p.m. ET on Saturday, August 7. Live race and qualifying video will be streamed online at americanlemans.com \u2013 race coverage will start at 2:30 p.m. ET on Saturday and qualifying at 1:45 p.m. ET on Friday. 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. The race will be broadcast at 12:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, August 15 on CBS Sports. 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 RIF | ALMS<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Johannes van Overbeek is in rare company at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. The California pilot is one of only two drivers entered for this weekend\u2019s Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge have won more than twice at the scenic Midwestern road course. A three-time winner in five career Mid-Ohio starts in the American Le Mans Series presented …<\/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":[5264,5334,5289,99,5275,64,206],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526"}],"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=7526"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7531,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526\/revisions\/7531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}