ELKHART LAKE, Wisconsin (August 10, 2015) – With hopes of erasing several past memories of the historic circuit, Magnus Racing enjoyed a fairly quiet run during Sunday’s Continental Tire Road Race Showcase to take fifth place in the GTD category at Road America. In spite of this, the team remains only 13 points out of the championship lead, part of a remarkably tight GTD championship battle among seven teams.
“Just make up whatever quote you want,” stated Magnus Racing team owner and co-driver John Potter. “We finished fifth, not really sure what I’m supposed to say, it was fine. I do hope everyone at The Private Client Reserve of U.S. Bank enjoyed their experience with us, and certainly we would have hoped to have had a better result, but there wasn’t anything that really went wrong during the race, we were simply fifth.”
Starting the No. 44 Flex-Box Porsche 911 GT America from the fourth row, Potter would take the reigns of his machine with a goal of simply running clean through his one-hour stint. With an early yellow mixing up the race strategy for the entire field, the team elected to stay out with Potter coming into the pits after his mandatory 50-minute drive time had finished.
Following another faultless stop from the team, it was now time for Andy Lally to take to action with a firm aim of moving to the front. While the team would demonstrate some of the fastest laps in the field, and yet another excellent team pit stop, an extended series of green flag runs until the end would give Lally an insurmountable gap to make up to the field in front of him, eventually gaining positions between attrition, altering strategies and a few late on-track passes to take fifth.
“We finished fifth,” stated Lally. “Yup.”
Achieving success off the track, the team was proud to host over a dozen guests from The Private Client Reserve of U.S. Bank, a special division of the bank catering to the needs of their high net worth clientele. With Magnus Racing handling their every need over the weekend, the team was proud to immerse their guests in everything that sportscar racing has to offer, presenting a behind-the-scenes experience like no other.
The team will return to action in just two weeks’ time, competing in the Oak Tree Grand Prix at VIR, a very unique GT-only race taking place at the historic VIRginia International Raceway. Practice begins on Friday, August 21, with the race taking place on Sunday, August 23.