Ah Shucks, it's already time to close out
another Sports Cars season this weekend with the annual Petit Le Mans season
finale on Saturday, October 7th, which Y'all can catch upon FOX's TV Channels FS1
starting at 7:30AM Pacific, followed by later stints on the unavailable in
Seattle (Fox Sports) FS2 channel.
As typical, in this final endurance race of
the calendar, many teams have drafted-in various "superstars" from
various racing series, including Indy Cars, with Ryan Hunter-Reay co-driving the
championship leading Caddy DPi WTR #10 Prototype alongside the Brothers Taylor.
Brendan Hartley, rumoured to soon be a Chip
Ganassi Racing (CGR) IndyCar driver alongside fellow Kiwi' Dixon in 2018, and
Bruno Senna will Moonlight once again for Scotty Sharp's Extreme Speed
Motorsports (ESM) Nissan Onroak DPi squad.
Scott Dixon and Sebastian Bourdais will share
seat-time aboard the two CGR GT Le Mans (GT LM) Ford GT's, with Dixon in the
No. 67, with one of his co-drivers being Aussie Ryan Briscoe. While le
Hamburgular', nee SeaBass' returns to his winning No. 66 ride.
(Townsend) T-Bell' and faithful partner Bill
Sweedler return to the Alex Job Racing's Audi R8 LMS GT3 entry in the 17-car
GTD (Daytona) class, with Frankie Montecalvo as their co-driver.
While Sage Karam and Jack Hawksworth will
co-drive their respective Lexus F GT3's for Paul MEATHEADZ' Gentilozzi's 3GT
Racing team, although I doubt he'll be exchanging any pleasantry's with Ryan
"the Dude!" Hunter-Reay, Eh?