RSR Motorsports: Lime Rock is made for MINIs

The GRAND-AM season continues this weekend at Lime Rock in Connecticut and RSR Motorsports has high hopes to get back on the podium.  The team is confident and thinks the MINIs have an advantage there.  Says driver Sarah Canttaneo:

“Lime Rock is probably the best track on the schedule for us. It’s all about cornering and [...]

Barber Motorsports Park next up for RSR Motorsports

Hoping to carry their momentum into the next race in the GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge, RSR Motorsports and Automatic Racing head to Barber Motorsports Park.  The next race is on April 10, 2010 at 5:00pm.  See the GRAND-AM Event Information.

GoRacingTV.com has a race preview featuring driver Sarah Cattaneo:

However, that won’t be exactly the [...]

PaddockTalk: A Pole and a Podium at Homestead

PaddockTalk has a review of Automatic Racing and RSR Motorsports’s results at Homestead-Miami Speedway:

The second round of the GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge season was a memorable one for Automatic Racing and RSR Motorsports. Sarah Cattaneo earned the Street Tuner pole in the Automatic-prepared No. 197 RSR Mini Cooper S, while teammates BJ Zacharias [...]

MINI makes the podium at Homestead-Miami

While it wasn’t the 197 MINI that started on the pole, RSR Motorsports and Automatic Racing did reach the podium for the Homestead 200.  The 198 MINI co-driven by BJ Zacharias and Craig Conway took third place in the Street Tuner (ST) class.  Randy Smalley and Owen Trinkler in the 196 MINI took 23rd place [...]

MINI captures pole for GRAND-AM race at Homestead-Miami

A MINI Cooper S has captured the pole for today’s GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

From PaddockTalk:

In the Street Tuner (ST) class, Sarah Cattaneo led an abbreviated session and will lead 33 cars to the green flag for that race.

Cattaneo drove the No. 197 Cruise America/Four Winds RV Mini Cooper [...]

GRAND-AM Homestead-Miami race preview

PaddockTalk has a preview of the Automatic Racing and RSR Motorsports teams’ upcoming GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.  The race takes place on Saturday, March 6th, at 1:05pm.

RSR Motorsports is back with their MINI 196 driven by Randy Smalley and Owen Trinkler and MINI 197 driven by Sarah Cattaneo [...]

RSR Motorsports at the Fresh from Florida 200

The Daytona racing season began yesterday with the Fresh from Florida 200, the initial race of the 2010 GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge (formerly the KONI Challenge).  RSR Motorsports, along with Automatic Racing, are very optimistic about the coming season.  They have prepared three MINIs, two of which were entered into the race yesterday.  [...]

Automatic Racing, RSR preview

I wrote a few weeks ago about RSR Motorsports and Automatic Racing joining forces to build and race MINIs in the 2010 GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge (formerly the KONI Challenge).  The first race is the Fresh from Florida 200 at Daytona International Speedway on Friday, January 29th.

The combined teams will be fielding two [...]