Woodcliff Lake, N.J. – October 6, 2023 –MINI USA and the MINI John Cooper Works Team
head into the last race weekend of the 2023 SRO TC America season at the
famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway with the potential to bring home
championships in all three categories – Driver, Manufacturer’s and
Team Championhips. This comes following a successful weekend at
Sebring International Raceway where the team took home three podiums
in a final race weekend before the series championship.
Clay Williams will drive the #60 MINI JCW PRO and can secure this
season’s Driver Championship by finishing better than P4 in each of
the races this weekend. Williams’ teammate Cristian Perocarpi will
drive the #37 MINI JCW PRO, looking to finish ahead of Jeff Ricca in
the #78 Genracer/Ricca Autosport Hyundai Elantra N in both races in
order to help secure the Manufacturer’s Championship for MINI USA and
also the Team Championship for the MINI JCW Race Team and LAP
Motorsports. Williams can also help secure these two championship
categories by finishing ahead of Ricca in both races. P.J. Groenke
will join Williams and Perocarpi this weekend driving the #62 MINI JCW
alongside Bruce Myrehn in the #63 MINI JCW, both in the Touring Car A
(TCA) class.
“The team has done a great job this season racing hard every weekend
to put us in a position to sweep the championship categories at our
home track and bring home a few championship trophies,” said Luis
Perocarpi, team owner, LAP Motorsports. “It will truly be a battle to
the finish that our team is ready to fight all the way to the
checkered flag.”
The Brownsburg, Ind. -based LAP Motorsports team,
which operates the MINI JCW Team, will be supported this weekend by
three qualified MINI Dealer technicians, working alongside the team
during practice, qualifying and race days as part of the MINI
Technician Race Crew Program. The three technicians are from dealers
across the U.S., including Century MINI and MINI of Buffalo. The
technicians support the team for the entire weekend at Indianapolis
Motor Speedway. The race team relies on the skill and knowledge of the
technicians that work, day to day on MINI, to bring that expertise to
the track.
The team finished last season as the runner up for the Manufacturer’s
Championship in both the Touring Car (TC) and Touring Car A (TCA)
classes. Clay Williams, driver of the #60 MINI JCW Pro, also finished
the 2022 season in 2nd place in the Driver’s Championship
in the TC class.
2023 SRO TC America
- March 30 – April 2: Sonoma Raceway - COMPLETE
- April 28 - 30: NOLA Motorsports Park - COMPLETE
- May 19 – 21: Circuit of the Americas - COMPLETE
- June 16 – 18: Virginia International Raceway - COMPLETE
- August 18 – 20: Road America - COMPLETE
- September 22 – 24: Sebring International Raceway - COMPLETE
- October 5 – 8: Indianapolis Motor Speedway
About the MINI JCW Team
The MINI JCW Team, operated by LAP Motorsports, drives
MINI’s most powerful Hardtop ever in the two-door MINI John Cooper
Works Hardtop. The team competes in the fiercely competitive SRO TC
America Series. For additional information please visit minijcwteam.com or email luis@minijcwteam.com.
About MINI in the US
MINI is an independent brand of the BMW Group. In the United States,
MINI USA operates as a business unit of BMW of North America, LLC,
located in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey and includes the marketing and
sales organizations for the MINI brand. The authorized MINI USA dealer
organization is represented by a network of 104 MINI full passenger
car sales and service dealers located throughout the US. MINI USA
began selling vehicles in the U.S. in 2002 with the introduction of
the MINI Cooper and MINI Cooper S Hardtops. Since then, the MINI brand
in the U.S. has grown to encompass a model range of five unique vehicles.
Journalist notes: Media information about MINI and its products is
available to journalists on-line at MINIUSANEWS.com.
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