Acura NSX GT3 RealTime Racing Team Ready For Lime Rock

Acura NSX GT3 RealTime Racing Team Ready For Lime Rock
• Team campaigns in third consecutive event with SprintX format
• Acura squad looking to reprise top-six finishes from a year ago at Lime Rock Park
• Acura NSX GT3 tested at LRP to prep for this week’s races

TORRANCE, Calif, (May 25, 2017) – The Acura NSX GT3 was built to run on some of the world’s most demanding road courses, many with sprawling layouts featuring long straights that allow the supercar to stretch its legs.

This weekend’s event at Lime Rock Park is the antithesis of this concept however, as the tight 1.5-mile layout of Lime Rock Park offers an entirely different type of challenge for the drivers of the RealTime Racing Acura NSX GT3.

“Lime Rock will present its own new challenges, as it is what you might call a ‘bull ring’ track, but it was good to us last year when we came in there on the back foot after CTMP [Canadian Tire Motorsports Park],” said NSX GT3 Project Leader Lee Niffenegger. “Though it is much shorter in length, the characteristics are very similar to CTMP. We will certainly be able to apply what we learned last weekend, as the NSX GT3 program keeps gathering strength.”

For the third straight event, the Pirelli World Challenge will run its new SprintX format, which requires teams to execute a driver change during the 60-minute event. Ryan Eversley will partner with Tom Dyer in the #43 machine, while Mark Wilkins joins Peter Kox in the #93 Acura NSX GT3, after the duo posted the team’s first top-10 SprintX finish last weekend at CTMP.

Driver changes have proven to be problematic for some teams this season, and the veteran Kox anticipates that combining the challenge of swapping out drivers with the shorter track could create intrigue on race day.

“It will be very interesting to see how strategy will affect the race at Lime Rock,” Kox reported. “This track will be a challenge for all the competitors, as it is so short, and with the Sprint X driver change format you will lose a lap quite easily!”

Eversley is looking forward to a return to the picturesque track nestled in the Berkshires where he earned sixth- and fourth-place finishes in his Acura TLX GT in last year’s PWC GT event.

“We had a very strong test here on Tuesday and found a good setup for the weekend, so I think our Acuras will be strong come race time,” Eversley said. “Lime Rock Park is a gorgeous race track. The fans here are second to none and always aplenty, so that makes racing here that much better.”