Audi Sport customer racing can look back on a list of outstanding successes at the end of a highly compressed season with its customers. Even though the number of races worldwide in the 2020 pandemic year was down by around 37 percent, the Audi Sport customer racing models were similarly successful in their categories as in the previous year.
The Audi R8 LMS GT4 was even more successful than a year ago. Its win rate increased from 18.5 to 22 percent. The success in GT4 France, contested by around 30 participants, is particularly remarkable. In this most fiercely contested national GT4 racing series, Audi is strongly represented by its private teams with up to seven R8 LMS GT4 cars. Long-time customer Saintloc Racing secured the Pro-Am classification for the third time in a row with Gregory Guilvert/Fabien Michal. It was the first time in the 24-year history of the FFSA GT Championship that a driver pairing managed such an uninterrupted run of success.
Successes in two intra-brand competitions round off the tally. Australian Daniel Bilski was the best of 41 drivers competing in the new Audi Sport Asia Trophy for drivers with FIA Bronze rating in the Asian region. In the third season of the Audi Sport Seyffarth R8 LMS Cup held in the European region, Tim Reiter prevailed for the first time in the sporting competition with 23 other drivers.
One of the longest standing competitive and sportsman drag racing events in Georgia, the Import Showdown has been running for 20 years. Early on it was purely a sportsman event to give amateur drivers an opportunity to make drag strip passes. Over time it has grown into a highly competitive event that primarily focuses on class based racing. Another recent addition was bracket racing.
If you are looking to maximize test and tune time a regular friday night series may be a better option. However, if you want to get a few passes in for fun while taking in a lot of the scene, this is a great event.
The Import Showdown Drag Day events are held at Silver Dollar Motorsports Park in Reynolds, GA. Silver Dollar Motorsports Park is a full NHRA sanctioned 1/4 mile track. SDMP features covered grandstands, concessions, race fuel, scales, a souvenir shop, water and compressed air, waste oil dump, and an RV dump. Campers with RVs can take advantage of RV hookups as well. Camping overnight is allowed at SDMP during weekend events.
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