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Competitors in the KONI Challenge on a pre-grid at New Jersey Motorsports Park in 2008

The Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge is a racing series run by the Grand American Road Racing Association. Originating from the Canadian Motorola Cup, the series was taken over by Grand-Am in 2001 to become the Grand-Am Cup following the demise of rival IMSA's Firehawk series of similar rules in the US. KONI became series sponsor for the start of the 2007 season when the series became known as the KONI Challenge Series, before renaming once more prior to the start of the 2009 season as the KONI Sports Car Challenge. The series name was once again changed for the 2010 season.

The Continental Challenge is the support series for Grand-Am's premier offering, the Rolex Sports Car Series. The Grand-Am sanctioning body was purchased by NASCAR in late 2008, very nearly to the day of Grand-Am's inception a decade prior.

Races

In traditional sports car racing format, the races are often run with both GS and ST classes on track simultaneously, which is known as a "combined" race. Occasionally, races will be run in "split classes", with separate races for both classes.

Telecasts

  • Speed Channel currently broadcasts the series exclusively. However, Speed will only cover races that occur on the same weekend as a Rolex Series race.

Vehicles

The series uses two classes in each race:

  • The Grand Sport (GS) class features large-displacement 6-cylinder or 8-cylinder rear-wheel drive sports cars.
  • The Street Tuner (ST) class is for smaller 4-cylinder or 6-cylinder compact sedans, coupes, or roadsters.

All vehicles have fewer modifications than most series, using a "showroom stock" format.[1]

Grand Sport

Sourced from:[2]

Street Tuner

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.grand-am.com/assets/KONIRules.pdf
  2. ^ http://www.grand-am.com/schedule/entrylist.cfm?series=k&eid=1502
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