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Comprent up for the Challenge. |
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009 |
The highly successful IMSA Prototype Lites outfit Comprent Motor Sports is prepared to take up the challenge for anyone wanting to run in the American Le Mans Series’ new Le Mans Prototype Challenge category in 2010.
“I think it’s time we ran a big car again,” said team owner Kevin Kloepfer, who ran a successful Camel Light GTP car in 1993. “We understand ‘spec’ categories and know what it takes to win them. We will be treating any LMP Challenge program with the same methodical and thorough approach. It will compliment our IMSA Prototype Lites program perfectly.”
Comprent opened its doors in 1988 and since its inception has fielded championship winning open-wheelers and sports cars in both SCCA and IMSA competition, and in 2006 focused its competition arm on IMSA Prototype Lites, the feeder category to the American Le Mans Series.
As well as being the customer service representative for Élan Motorsport Technologies’ DP-02 Lites One chassis and providing trackside spares and support for the series, Comprent has been a dominant force on the circuit. In 2008 Comprent won both the IMSA Prototype Lites 1 Teams’ Championship and Drivers’ Championship with Jonathan Goring, winning ten races from twelve and setting multiple track records. This year Comprent backed up its Championship winning performance by running five cars. Three of those drivers Tom Drewer, Jonathan Gore and Charlie Shears, all finished on the podium, gaining another five podium positions and two qualifying pole positions for Comprent. |
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Comprent finishes IMSA Lites season spraying champagne. |
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Friday, 02 October 2009 |
Drewer and Shears claim two more Petit Le Mans podiums for Comprent Motor Sports at season finale.
Comprent Motor Sports has finished its 2009 IMSA Lites 1 campaign in style with drivers Tom Drewer and Charlie Shears taking a podium a piece in the final two championship races at the 12th Annual Petit Le Mans event.
It is the second year in a row Comprent drivers have taken to the podium at Road Atlanta after Jonathan Goring won both races last year, on his way to winning the 2008 drivers’ title.
With their workshop only an hour away from the Braselton circuit in Athens, Georgia the reigning 2008 IMSA Lites Team Champions were hoping to be hometown heroes and they didn’t disappoint.
All five Comprent cars showed pace throughout the Petit Le Mans week and while adversity took its toll, Comprent cars were consistently up near the top of the timesheets and took home two trophies.
Australian Tom Drewer (Adelaide, AUS) began his Road Atlanta campaign extremely strong on the fast undulating 2.54 mile circuit with his Ubantu Resort sponsored car second fastest until the dying seconds of qualifying, when he was bumped to fourth. |
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Elan DP-02 is the future of C-Sports. |
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Thursday, 01 October 2009 |
In the hands of Matt Miller Élan’s IMSA Lites derived DP-02 chassis won the C Sports Racing title at the 2009 SCCA Runoffs at Road America.
The Élan DP-02 single seat prototype sports car is accustomed to the winner’s circle. Since its inception it has been the premier car in the IMSA Lites Pro Series, the feeder category to the American Le Mans Series.
Perhaps that comes as no surprise as IMSA Lites is a ‘spec-series’ and the Élan is the sole chassis in the fastest class, Lites 1. However, it does make this win, in the open regulations of the SCCA’s CSR category, even more remarkable.
The spec-series derived Élan has broken the back of the more exotic and expensive Ralt and Swift Atlantic derived sports racers. Always considered a well-sorted, sophisticated yet straightforward car the DP-02 can now be considered the benchmark in CSR.
Matt Miller (Orland Park, Ill) in his No. 82 HarryMillerAppliances.com sponsored car qualified on the front row of the grid, only .797 seconds off pole, and after leaping to the lead in turn one defended an onslaught of attacks to take the victory.
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