#Trackmap cota series#
"The series is so competitive you can't really afford to drop a race. "After my heart-breaking near win at Long Beach I really need a set of good finishes this weekend," he said. O'Connell needs a solid result this weekend. Without the walls like the street courses, sometimes that makes a lot of guys to do some things that they would not do on a street course." Add 50 cars on the short course and that can be chaos. I am not sure where we are at on the long straights, compared with the competition, as this is our first natural terrain race of the year.
"We are not running the long straights, which would have been nice to draft down. "We are running the shorter course," added O'Connell. The Georgia resident has mixed feelings on running the National Course with the biggest field of the year. It is great that the World Challenge Series is running at COTA." "I am really looking forward to racing there this weekend. "I went to COTA on Bondurant Racing School business back in November," O'Connell said. O'Connell also has a few parade laps around COTA. "t's listed as three apexes, but in reality, its one double apex turn I like it as it's really quick." "No doubt my favorite turn is the double apex fast right hander turns 16, 17 and 18 on the track map," he said. Pilgrim already has developed an affinity for the new track. The complex layout of the multi-apex turns and multi-turn complexes demand that you are inch perfect." There is plenty of run off on this track compared to the street courses, but I really think a fast lap is going to be a smooth lap, I don't think you can attack this place too much and be quick. "These cars were developed on Europe's billiard table smooth tracks just like COTA, but I think we will not be far off and I'm looking forward to the race weekend. "We expect the Audi and Mercedes will be very quick at COTA," he continued. The COTA circuit mirrors those in Europe.
I think the shorter track should be good for us." "I also did some rounds in the race car to give some demonstration laps which was really useful. "I have driven COTA during one of our Cadillac V-Series Performance events last December," Pilgrim said. Pilgrim has had some laps around the new track located just 15 miles south of Austin. The CTS-V crew will run a double race weekend with 50-minute races on Saturday and Sunday. The series will run the COTA short version, National Course, which measures 2.3-miles and 17 turns. The facility was just completed less than a year ago and hosted Formula One in its inaugural event.
#Trackmap cota drivers#
DETROIT - Team Cadillac drivers Andy Pilgrim and Johnny O'Connell are ready to put their CTS-V Coupes on the new track in Austin, Texas for this weekend's Pirelli World Challenge Series Cadillac Sports Car Challenge at the new Circuit of the America's (COTA).Ĭoming off of mixed results at Long Beach with Pilgrim (Boca Raton, Fla.) finishing second and O'Connell (Flowery Branch, Ga.) missing the win by five turns, finishing eighth, the duo is beaming with excitement to run the COTA track.
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