The 2019 IMSA Prototype Challenge is the fourteenth season of the IMSA Lites series and its successors and the third season as the IMSA Prototype Challenge . It began on 5 January at Daytona International Speedway , and concluded on 11 October at Road Atlanta . The IMSA Prototype Challenge series is for future IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship drivers and veteran drivers alike. Entering its 14th season, IMSA Prototype Challenge shifts to a single-class, endurance race format in 2019 with six races held on North America’s most premier road courses. The series will continue to feature the global-spec LMP3 prototypes. The endurance format pairs two-drivers per car in a six race season.
NBC Sports Group took over from Fox Sports as the series' official broadcaster.[ 1] Michelin became the new official tire supplier of the series, following the departure of Continental Tire at the end of 2018.The Mazda Prototype Challenge (MPC) class was discontinued at the end of 2018. The 2019 schedule was released on 2 August 2018 and features six rounds.[ 2]
All teams use the Nissan VK50VE 5.0L V8 engines.
Team Car Drivers Rounds Ligier JS P3 2 All 1, 3–6 Dakota Dickerson 1 2 4 All Neil Alberico All 13 3 3 Ligier JS P3 3 5–6 [ 3] Ligier JS P3 7 [ 3] All Júlio Campos 1 2–6 19 All 1–2, 4 Kyle Masson 1, 3–6 75 All James French All JDC Motorsports Norma M30 9 Scott Andrews 2–6 2–6 [ 4] Norma M30 10 [ 4] 2–6 Kenton Koch 1 Stevan McAleer [ 4] 1, 4 43 Stevan McAleer [ 4] 2–3, 5–6 Ligier JS P3 11 Maurice Smith 1–3, 5 Nicolas Rondet 1–3, 5 12 2–3 2–3 [ 5] Norma M30 23 [ 5] 1–3 [ 5] 1 Mike Skeen 3, 5–6 Conquest Racing [ 6] Ligier JS P3 25 [ 6] 1–2, 5 [ 6] 1–2, 5 Ligier JS P3 25 [ 6] 6 [ 6] 6 Norma M30 47 All All 55 All 1–3 4–6 74 1–2 1 2 Garett Grist 5–6 5–6 Ligier JS P3 26 2 2 51 1–4 Garett Grist 1–4 64 1–5 1–3 4–6 Ligier JS P3 30 6 6 33 All 1, 4 Ligier JS P3 40 All All Kenton Koch 4 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports [ 7] Ligier JS P3 52 Scott Huffaker [ 7] 2–5 [ 7] 2 3–5 Ligier JS P3 54 2–6 2 Dakota Dickerson 3–4, 6 5 Ligier JS P3 60 All Tonis Kasemets All Scott Maxwell 1 4 Ligier JS P3 66 4 4 4 86 All All Ligier JS P3 70 All All Entry Lists:[ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11] [ 12] [ 13]
Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Race 35 32 30 28 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
[ edit ] Driver(s) DAY SEB MOH MOS VIR ATL Points 1 1 1 2 3 3 4 190 2 2 2 6 4 4 3 175 3 3 5 3 2 6 6 168 4 7 4 1 2 5 145 5 3 1 5 2 123 6 4 1 2 5 121 7 1 1 70 8 2 4 32 9 4 5 54 10 6 25 11 7 24 Driver(s) DAY SEB MOH MOS VIR ATL Points
[ edit ] Team DAY SEB MOH MOS VIR ATL Points 1 #47 Forty 7 Motorsports 2 2 4 1 8 6 175 2 #4 ANSA Motorsports 1 10 2 5 22 5 149 3 #60 Wulver Racing 3 17 3 11 10 7 139 4 #54 MLT Motorsports 5 1 6 4 18 130 5 #75 Performance Tech Motorsports 5 6 23 6 6 10 130 6 #7 Performance Tech Motorsports 14 4 9 17 7 9 127 7 #40 Polestar Motor Racing Inc. 19 8 8 8 5 11 127 8 #64 K2R Motorsports 6 7 7 18 23 2 126 9 #43 Robillard Racing 1 15 1 4 114 10 #23 Gilbert/Korthoff Motorsports 15 18 14 2 1 113 11 #19 Performance Tech Motorsports 7 20 12 13 3 21 112 12 #70 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports 8 11 16 16 14 15 106 13 #10 Robillard Racing 17 13 13 10 17 13 103 14 #33 Sean Creech Motorsports 11 12 21 19 16 14 93 15 #9 JDC MotorSports 21 5 3 21 19 88 16 #2 ANSA Motorsports 18 23 19 9 13 16 88 17 #55 Forty 7 Motorsports 10 25 22 12 20 12 85 18 #86 ONE Motorsports 16 16 18 15 19 17 85 19 #52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports 22 11 2 11 81 20 #11 Simraceway Motorsports 4 24 10 18 69 21 #51 K2R Motorsports 12 19 17 7 69 22 #25 Forty 7 Motorsports 9 14 12 22 67 23 #74 Forty 7 Motorsports 13 9 15 20 67 24 #3 Jr III Racing 9 8 45 25 #26 K2R Motorsports 3 30 26 #30 Sean Creech Motorsports 3 30 27 #12 Simraceway Motorsports 15 20 27 28 #13 ANSA Motorsports 6 25 29 #66 ONE Motorsports 14 17 Team DAY SEB MOH MOS VIR ATL Points
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