Thursday, 3rd July 2008

VICI Racing to sit out Lime Rock round of the American Le Mans Series.

VICI Racing has announced that it will skip next weekend's Northeast Grand Prix at Lime Rock, the fifth round in the 2008 American Le Mans Series and instead will return for the Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid Ohio one week later.

VICI Racing, which made its debut in the ALMS this season, with a year-long racing programme which is centred on developing Kumho Tyres for the GT2 category, has been busy during the six week break in the ALMS schedule.

"The team has been working hard to continue to push forward in all areas and conducted a tyre test at Sebring recently which provided valuable feedback," read a statement from the outfit. "New development compounds will now be available at Mid Ohio.

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"Alongside this the team is making technical progress too and the results of this on-going development will be implemented at Mid Ohio during the 2 hour 45 minute race which takes place on one of America's classic race tracks.

"The team has also been expanding in all areas as it gears up to an ALMS future and this includes the arrival of new bespoke transporters in recent days."

"While we're disappointed to not be running in front of our supporters at Lime Rock, we have made a lot of progress during the summer break and it makes the most sense for us to concentrate full on these improvements and look to raise our game further at Mid Ohio when they will be fully in place," explained VICI Racing team president Ron Meixner.

"The tyre test went very well and as a result Kumho are working on new compounds for us. We have always regarded this year as being primarily focused on development and so we expect to be closer to the GT2 pace at Mid Ohio."

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