The Tequila Patrón Sports Car Showcase marks the first sprint race on the inaugural TUDOR United Sports Car Championship schedule. The Prototype (P) and GT Le Mans (GTLM) classes will roar around the 1.968-mile Long Beach street circuit which utilizes roads along the coastline of southern California.
The 100-minute race can be seen LIVE on FOX Sports 1 on Saturday, April 12 at 6 p.m. ET with a pre-race show available on IMSA.com beginning at 5:40 p.m. ET. Through its improved Race Central hub, IMSA.com will also feature live on-board cameras, live timing and scoring, up to the minute updates from IMSA’s @IMSALive Twitter handle, and Facebook integration.
International viewers will be able to watch the full broadcast stream on IMSA.com.
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The Essentials
Long Beach Entry List
Long Beach IMSA Viewing Guide
Long Beach Fan Schedule
#PatronShowcase Twitter Cheatsheet
TUDOR Championship Class Markings And Specifications
Videos To Get You In The Know
Race Preview
TUDOR Championship Preview
TUDOR Championship Classes Explained
Key Components to Debut in The TUDOR Championship
Television:
Saturday, April 12
5:40 p.m. ET pre-race show on IMSA.com
6 p.m. ET on FOX Sports 1
* Live streaming of the Tequila Patrón Sports Car Showcase also will be available on the FOX Sports GO mobile application for iOS devices.
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MRN Radio will air live flag-to-flag radio coverage of the race. The race broadcast can be found on:
www.IMSA.com
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Social Media:
These are the main social media accounts providing live updates from the Tequila Patrón Sports Car Showcase.
@UnitedSportsCar: The official Twitter account for the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship
@IMSA: The official Twitter account of IMSA, the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge and IMSA’s development series.
@IMSALive: Live minute-by-minute updates of the entire #Sebring12.
Official hashtags: #PatronShowcase, #TUDORwatch, #IMSA
Facebook
TUDOR United SportsCar Championship official page
IMSA official page
Instagram
TUDOR United SportsCar Championship official page
Five Things To Watch For
The only driver entered in the Tequila Patrón Sports Car Showcase with an overall victory at Long Beach is Scott Pruett, who won the 2006 GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series event for Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates. Pruett won co-driving with Luis Diaz; he returns in the No. 01 Ford EcoBoost/Riley with Memo Rojas.
Honda chassis and engines will be seeking their fourth consecutive overall victory at Long Beach. Driving for Extreme Speed Motorsports, Scott Sharp will be joined this weekend by Ryan Dalziel in the team’s No. 1 Tequila Patrón HPD ARX-03c/Honda entry, with last year’s second-place finishers Ed Brown and Johannes van Overbeek returning in the No. 2 entry.
In the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship’s new GT Le Mans class, Porsche North America will be looking for its third consecutive class victory. Nick Tandy and Richard Lietz won the season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona, joined by Patrick Pilet in the No. 911 Porsche 911 RSR. Patrick Long and Michael Christensen took the No. 912 to the winner’s circle in the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh From Florida, joined by Joerg Bergmeister.
Watch for Chevrolet to be fast with its new Corvette C7.R. Corvette Racing won the G GT class four times in the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón. Gavin and Milner return in the No. 4 Corvette C7.R, while Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia co-drive the No. 3 entry. Gavin also took the GT1 class victory at Long Beach with Olivier Beretta in both 2007 and 2009, while Magnussen won with Johnny O’Connell in 2008.
Bill Auberlen – who won the ALMS GT class at Long Beach last year – and Andy Priaulx share the lead in the GTLM point standings with Joey Hand, who co-drove the No. 55 BMW Team RLL BMW Z4 to second place in the Rolex 24 and third at Sebring. The BMW teammates have 64 points, five more than a nine-way tie among Porsche North America drivers Tandy, Lietz, Pilet, Long Christensen and Bergmeister, along with Rob Bell, Jonathan Bomarito and Kuno Wittmer, drivers of the No. 93 SRT Motorsports SRT Viper GTS-R.
