It is the finale, of a long Michelin Pilot Challenge season, in the red clay hills of northern Georgia, just outside of the metropolis of Atlanta at Road Atlanta, for the 2022 Michelin Pilot Challenge Championship. Championship day, is here. There are a handful of wildcards in this motor race probably testing the waters for full season campaigns in Pilot Challege in 2023. On the pole, the #95 Turner Motorsports BMW M4 GT4 in Grand Sport with Bill Auberlen and Dillon Machavern driving. Your TCR polesitter is Mat Pombo with a new Road Atlanta track record in the class, sharing the #73 L.A. Honda World Honda Civic FK7 TCR with Ryan Eversley. This ought to be a highly competitive motor race in both classes, and championships are on the line. Right after this race will be Petit Le Mans qualifying, and you can bet we will have a report on how that went in the Friday news roundup later this evening. Stay tuned for that.
This is Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. Two classes and four cars. Trent Hindman and Alan Byrnjolfsson, are under pressure from Brent Mosing and Eric Foss. Taylor Hagler and Michael Lewis will scrap with the Alfa Romeo of Tim Lewis Jr. and Roy Block. We welcome Dave Burns, Calvin Fish, and Brian Till in the booth. Volt Racing have been really consistent. They have a 160 point margin after massive trouble at Virginia International Raceway. Eric Foss, at his home track, also looking for a title. Hyundai #1 with Taylor Hagler and Michael Lewis, they have a 100 point lead and six podium finishes as well as two top fives.
It has been feast or famine for the #5 team at Alfa Romeo. Hagler and Lewis, they have been eating lots of victory cake this year and might get another slice today. Matt Yocum and Dillon Welch will take care of things from pit lane. Volt Racing must finish 11th or better to win the title today. They had electrical woes at Virginia International Raceway. Again, #1 and Hyundai are going for their second straight title. They have to race for it here at Road Atlanta. This is going to be a hot one, ladies and gentlemen. We are ready to go at Road Atlanta.
39 cars in the field around this two and a half mile track. This place is an hour north of Atlanta. Just over two and a half miles with bucketloads of elevation change, high speed sweepers, low speed corners, and the chicane. Into turn one, carry the momentum up the hill and then, turn three is blind as you crest the hill before the esses and then plunge down to turns six and seven. Seven is a passing zone, the slowest corner. Watch the long straightaway to make a move in turn ten as well. Okie dokie then. We are seto to go racing.
Just one GS class Toyota Supra today carrying one of the several onboard cameras The safety car will peal off and we are ready to go. 25 GS cars and 14 TCR cars. Qualifying had a red flag. Here we go. Down the hill they come. Green flag! Racing is on! Dillon Machavern leads. Do not change columns. Tom Dyer wants to send it around the outside and here come the TCR cars. Mat Pombo vs. Harry Gottsacker. Dyer has the lead and now, Alan Brynjolfsson is pushing. Dyer and Machavern both want to win.
Mosing is now right behind that bright yellow Aston Martin. Side by side stuff between Trevor Andrusko and Jeff Mosing. FCP Euro vs. Murillo Racing. Mosing was all over the shop there. He sat out a lot of the beginning of the year with injuries. He has been having to get his race craft back after his recovery. Alan Brynjolfsson in fourth spot now. Take it easy and back up corner entry. On the grid, Mosing and Brynjolfsson hugged and want a clean, fair race. That is a class act. Jeff Mosing, good onya' mate. Trevor Andrusko wants by Brynjolfsson.
No dice. Trevor has no skin in the game. How much does Brynjolfsson want to fight? Alan, just settle in and let Trevor go if he gets antsy. Everyone also looking for jobs for next year. Mat Pombo is rocketing away from everyone else. He was faster in quali than 2/3rd of Grand Sport cars. Pombo though will be pinged with a penalty because he changed columns at the start and the stewards will give him a drive through penalty. Ugh. Ryan Eversley and Mat Pombo, both Atlanta natives. He swung over to the left column before the start. You cannot do that, mate. He was doing the squeeze play right off the bat.
So, he trundles down pit lane. OK. Take your medicine, mate, and then get on it. Meanwhile, three Hyundai's, look, squabbling for position. Two of the GS Porsche Cayman's ahead. TGM vs.CarBahn, I think. Not too sure. They are slicing and dicing through this Hyundai battle with a whole flock of Elantra's and Veloster's to try and split up and here comes the #99 VCMG Honda Civic as well. It is a massive scrum in TCR early doors. Mark Wilkins vs. Rory van der Steur, Harry Gottsacker, Mason Filippi, and Taylor Hagler. Oh boy. Pit stop time for the second Murillo Mercedes, the #65 of Tim Probert and Brent Mosing as Travor Andrusko goes by one of the Plumb brothers in the #46 TGM Porsche.
That is Hugh Plumb starting this motor race. Mosing right on Brynjolfsson's six now. Championship battle afoot in Grand Sport indeed. Mark Wilkins has started the #33 Hyundai and will hand Robert Wickens the wheel later on. He wants to have a plan beyond Michelin Pilot Challenge. He wants to drive bigger and faster cars and we want to see if he can do something with hand controls in other race cars like GT cars or even IndyCars again. Now then, Eric Rockwell is reeling in Taylor Hagler. Oh. #99 off in the dust. Kenny Murillo has just served a drive through penalty as we said and Murillo sends it into turn ten.
Mat Pombo qualified eighth and it shows how quick these TCR cars are but they make their lap time entirely differently than a GT4 car. Next year, Road Shagger Racing will want to go for a title. Jon Morley and Gavin Ernstone and Morley has helped Ernstone with his racecraft, his driving. He is very introspective about his driving. He is pushing to be better and that is what you do as a racing driver, as an athlete. Tom Dyer, meanwhile, he is still pushing. Trevor Andrusko, third alongside Mike Skeen. Skeen will also be racing in the Petit Le Mans tomorrow. FCP Euro have had a trial run this year in 2022 and they are going to give it a full effort for 2023.
They want to go full-time for the GS championship. Jeff Ricca and Ricca Autosport have run the team. Nate Vincent and Mike Hurczyn have been on hiatus and running their company. They get a lifetime guarantee for their customers. Meanwhile, Rory van der Steur wants to ake a move and... boom. He gets off into the barriers. Too little too late and he is on the whirligig. In replay at full speed, to the inside, crunch. That was a racing incident I believe. Oh no! Damage for Harry Gottsacker in the #98 Elantra! Deary me. What is this? The bonnet is bowed upward and sideways. That's a strange deal. Poor old van der Steur is still stuck in the mud.
Now, he is back to racing and should be fine. To the pit lane, the #98? It is. Poor van der Steur has front end damage that will drag and scrape on the pavement. #1 Taylor Hagler in the lane. Are they in a strategy game? Is this trouble? She missed the pit lane! Oh man! She cannot reverse back down pit lane. Did they try going yellow? That was a strange kettle of fish. So, Roy Block in the Alfa Romeo is fourth in class and Block and Lewis Jr. are now only ten points down on the leading Hyundai. Hagler could very well go a lap down. Stay cool. Don't panic. Don't flip out.
The #98 car is having the bonnet taped up. Racer's tape, Bear Bond, is a race team's best friend. Mason Filippi is now up to second as Jeff Mosing is not letting Alan Brynjolfsson get away. Oh Alan, I know where you are, mate. You are not getting away from me. Yours truly was on a short break and is now back to continue talking more about this motor race. We are seeing the battle heat up in GS but it appears Dillon Machavern is stretching his lead over Tom Dyer. He is now 1.6 seconds ahead as the sister Turner Motorsports BMW M4 GT4 is in the pit lane. That is Vinny Barletta and Robby Foley's car.
That was a stop and go penalty for something. I cannot say what, and now, the team car will lap past it. Aye yaye yaye. That's embarrassing. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, it was tight quarters and argy bargy between Machavern and Dyer. Tom Dyer got in the way. The more you defend, the more responsible you are for an incident. Dyer used a slow car as a pick. Barletta was tipped into a spin by another one of the GS cars. Criminy! That was uncalled for. Team boss Will Turner says that they wanted #96 to be clear. Vinny Barletta had other drivers tag him. The Mercedes was too aggressive with his driving. #95 fighting for the lead in lapped traffic hit the Porsche Cayman. Turner says "I shall consider than a racing incident, but it sucks that the #96 car got spun."
They wanted a third-place finish for Vinny Barletta and they want to do more next year with the new BMW M4 GT4 for next year. We are just half an hour into this race. Turner Motorsports has "the ice man" Don Salama, as their race strategist and he is a former driver himself. Mark Wilkins, Hyundai Elantra #33 is leading TCR. With the #1, it wa smiscommunication and bad timing. They had contact with their rivals at Alfa Romeo, the #5 KMW TMR entry. So, the BHA team did not know which car had more damage. The team said, "stay out because the damage is not so bad." Roy Block is fourth in class with Hagler in 12th place.
A car is stalled, the #83 Porsche Cayman GT4. He is now back in the race. But he had to do a Control, Alt, Delete like your computer at home if it goes on the fritz. Communication is key between IMSA and the teams, with the Race Director. Now, the #33 is in the lane early with no yellow. They will change front tires and get a full load of petrol. Two front Michelin Pilot tires. Watch the 40-minute minimum drive time. #1 ran afoul of that at Watkins Glen back in June. That put them behind the eight ball. There is a timing beacon at pit in and pit out to stop and start drive times. What about red flags? There is a fine line you have to tread.
So, Mason Filippi has now taken the TCR lead understeering through the turns. Do not burn off the front tires with the front wheel drive car. Eric Rockwell in second. Dillon Machavern continues to lead, and he will turn the car over to Bill Auberlen. They were in championship contention last year but everything went pear shaped. This motor race is still young. We are not anywhere close to being done and dusted yet ladies and gents. Ah. A flat left rear tire for the #99 VCMG Honda in TCR. Trouble for Victor Gonzalez and Karl Wittmer. Now then, Alan Brynjolfsson is still working his way through traffic as the #5 Alfa is off the road! Mercy, mercy, mercy, to quote the great jazz musician, Joe Zawinul's song. This is quite the pickle and he just spins off the road, look.
Now, he is back underway. How much time has this cost Tim Lewis Jr. Does he have square tires on that automobile? In replay, we can see he was stuck ye olde mud there. Well, gravel anyway. He has a fender damaged, but all the tires are up. So, he can continue with no dramas. More replay action as we see it all again in slow motion. Jiminy Cricket! This is a sizzler of a motor race so far! Another replay and he jsut got squeezed by that Porsche Cayman. That was one of the Porsche's. I can't tell which. So, he is trundling slowly to the lane on square tires.
Flat right rear. Square tires. The pit crew will be scrambling. He's coming in! Be ready! So this is the second TCR title contender in strife. The suspension is OK. Check everything. Roy Block at the controls says the wheel was straight but the right rear is broken! That thing was hopping up and down like a pogo stick. Crunch! He just got biffed by a late pass with the Porsche. Block got the worst of it. The tire totally fell off the rim and he was along for the ride. Oh no. Game over perhaps. They dropped the car off the jack and that made the suspension damage worse. Criminy! So now, the Alfa team are 120 points behind.
This does not look good for the #5. GS cars to the lane. Time to swap to the professional drivers. Robin Liddell in the #71 Rebel Rock Racing Camaro. Trent Hindman in the #7 Volt Racing Aston. Eric Foss in the #56 Murillo Racing Mercedes. Bill Auberlen in the #95 Turner Motorsports BMW M4 GT4. #56 is in the lane for service and Eric Foss will be pushing like mad at his home track. The Honda and the BMW, this is the last time these versions of the cars will be racing and they will have new generation cars in January at Daytona. Aston Martin #7 in the pit lane. Team boss Alan Brynjolfsson wants a title after six years of trying.
Brynjolfsson will hand over to Trent Hindman. He said I am still playing it safe. Do not speed on entry to the lane. Everything seems peachy for the #7, no pun intended. Georgia peaches for #7? Well, we'll find out. They had to wait on the full fuel load at 48 seconds. It was a long stop on the left front tire but they are keeping things put together. Wright Motorsports has really helped to calm the team down and look at the big picture. Tom Dyer brings the #93 CarBahn Porsche Cayman to the lane and hand the car to Tyler McQuarrie who is the 2019 champion with this team with Jeff Westphal when they raced an Audi R8 LMS GT4. Steve Dinan is one of the folks involved with this team.
Alan Brynjolfsson's mental approach has really improved and Trent Hindman's outlap, he has some hip and shoulder with Andrew Davis in the #8 McCann Racing Porsche Cayman scrapping with the #14 Toyota Supra from Riley Motorsports. That car is being shared by Alfredo Najri and Thiago Camillo. Ford, AMG Mercedes, Toyota, Porsche, Aston Martin. TCR is Hyundai, Alfa, Honda, and Audi. Pit stop time for FCP Euro, and it looks like this is tires and fuel. No driver change yet? Andrusko should have handed to Skeen by now, or maybe it is the other way.
The TCR scrum is hot, look. Rory van der Steur, Mat Pombo, and more. KOHR Motorsport with the Ford Mustang in. Billy Johnson and Luca Mars sharing that car as now we see the GS fight heating up mid-pack. Alan Brynjolfsson, the man on a mission. Billy Johnson is the erstwhile leader ahead of Ramin Abdolvahabi in the #09 Aston Martin Vantage GT4 for Automatic Racing. A cloudy afternoon here in Atlanta, an effect of Hurricane Ian which will not affect the races, but you can bet we are praying for those affected by the storms. Stay safe and God Bless. Eric Foss is now moving forward trying to keep the pressure on Trent Hindman. Hindman only needs a finish in the top 11 to win the title.
Brynjolfsson says he had an easy job in his stint. Brynjolfsson says Trent Hindman is so hardworking, dedicated and mature as a racing driver. A special relationship at Volt Racing. He has won the GS title in Michelin Pilot Challenge. He and Trent Hindman (Brynjolfsson), they are going to be in the WeatherTech Championship next year. Brynjolfsson's family is OK in the hurricane. How do you not think about it when you are racing? It is a tough thing. Meanwhile, Thiago Camillo is flying past Andrew Davis. Jeepers creepers. This is hot. Camilo will want to make his move to turn ten. Look at this. Actually, Camillo is right on McCann's six. Trent Hindman, too, is doing all he can and now Eric Foss is coming in a hurry!
This is going to be a wild one. Pit stop time for Taylor Hagler in the #1 Hyundai as we are getting close to the halfway mark in the finale of the 2022 MPC season. Michael Lewis climbing aboard the #1 Hyundai Elantra. The sister #77 Elantra have had antilock braking issues and Mason Filippi hands over to Tyler Maxson. Finish the tire change and the driver change is complete. #1 seems low on the right front but we got the wrong replay when they showed the penalty from earlier. Tough to say on a rough pit lane that isn't billiard table smooth. Good point, Calvin.
Replay of scrapping between Skeen and McQuarrie, look. The GS championship very much still to play for. Glad to have you with us in Atlanta on this Friday afternoon. Oh no. One of the Turner BMW's has gone to the garage! Oh man oh man. Let's see what develops on that end of things, folks. Well, well, well. The plot doth thicken. FCP Euro wants a bite of the cherry over TGM. Mercedes vs. Porsche. This is hot stuff. Mike Skeen vs. Matty Plumb. Skeen ducks inside. Plumb slams the door. Gently, boys. Will that flat six Porsche have the legs on the V8 Benz? Hard to say.
They look evenly matched. Now, in TCR, Tyler Gonzalez went way off the road and now, #33 is in the lane for tires, fuel, and a driver change. Robert Wickens should be in the car and we have explained his process as his trainer helps him from his wheelchair into the car. Three wide look down to ten and Foss passing both McCann and Hindman! Wowzers! The championship fight is alive now! Hindman will want a disappear button. Oil slick? Smokescreen? This is racing lads, not a spy movie. In replay he was side by side with McCann and Foss had a wicked head of steam! The aerodynamic buffetting off the front of the Benz on the Porsche and that big yellow dot of the Aston Martin also in the mirrors. Whoa Nelly!
Meantime, the #65 Murillo Racing Mercedes of Brent Mosing is being monstered by Thiago Camillo in the Mercedes. Hindman and Brynjolfsson 140 points to the good over Eric Foss with less than an hour to go. There is just no holding back here. Throw caution to the wind. Foss always does it with a smile. He is a nice guy but is an assassin behind the wheel. A Jekyll & Hyde if you will. Joey Hand at the wheel now of the #40 PF Racing Mustang and the Mustang's galloped away at VIR last time out in late August. The PF Racing car have had to adjust their braking system, but they look to be a contender going into next year. Ford will also be debuting a GT3 Mustang in a couple of years. Watch this space. Hand says he has a lot of front brake, but the rear brake needs more.
We are going to see a renaissance in sports car racing. There are so many cars at Porsche, they cannot keep it updated. The supply chain woes are not necessarily the issue. Pit stop time for another of the Porsche Cayman's. Could not tell which one just by the paint scheme. Did not catch the number. Hindman still monstering McCann, clattering over the curbs. He is inside through turn six to the climbing esses. Neither driver is going to give this one up. Down the backs traightaway they are side by side. To the braking zone but McCann dives for the lane. That battle is on hiatus for a wee while.
We have now just seen a pit stop for the #7 and now one of the Turner BMW's is in the pit lane. This is the #95 of Auberlen and Machavern. Slow stop and he is down and away. Bill Auberlen should resume in the lead with Billy Johnson second. CarBahn and Murillo in the lane. #93 and #56. Mustang #59 in and so is one of the other Mercedes cars. Is that FCP Euro? It could be. Fuel and tires in the Murillo camp. CarBahn in and out. The pit stops shuffling and scrambling all over. Frantic action at Road Atlanta. The sister #65 Murillo Benz is in now, the Probert/Mosing entry.
Your top ten is Justin Piscitell, Auberlen, Robin Liddell, Kyle Marcelli, Johnson, Gregf Liefooghe, Skeen, McQuarrie and Foss, and now Thiago Camillo has entered the conversation moving to eighth spot in the Toyota Supra. Auberlen has the second Aston Martin behind him. That is not the Volt Racing car. That is the #39 Accelerating Performance Aston of Justin Piscitell sharing with Moisey Uretsky. These two we have seen in a different series all year, in SRO racing. Warnings to Tyler Maxson for blocking along with Karl Wittmer leading TCR. Big accidents down in turn one! Off the road it is the #33! Robert Wickens! Oh no!
Porshce to the inside, and... boom! Wickens went for the apex and probably did not even see the Porsche! Full Course Yellow. Wickens will be filthy! He will be beside himself! Jason Hart in the #47 Nolasport Cayman was on the other side and he did not do anything wrong I don't think. Game over for the #33. Mark Wilkins will not drive. Two back-to-back wins in 2022 but not this race. Just a tad over half an hour to go in the season as we are under yellow. Turner Motorsports lead overall and in GS. Wickens' Hyundai being backed out of the gravel with heavy damage to the rear bumper. Their race has gone totally pear shaped and they will be looking to regroup for 2022. Will Robert Wickens move up? Will he be in the WeatherTech Championship? Will he return to IndyCar with hand controls in an open wheel racer? Will he be in the WeatherTech Championship? We will have to find out.
The top 21 cars are all Grand Sport with Ryan Eversley I believe, the leading TCR in 22nd place. Pit stop time for Accelerating Performance for Rebel Rock Racing in the #71 Chevrolet Camaro GT4.R for Robin Liddell and Frank DePew. Automatic Racing also in the lane. No real changes at the top of the shop to speak of. Mercedes #65 also making a scheduled stop for fuel and tires. The #33 Hyundai is now being loaded onto the rollback. Game over and season over for that Bryan Herta Autosport Elantra. We will see what the plan for them is in 2023. The clock is ticking. Half an hour to go in the season or just a tad more. TCR cars to the lane for final pit stops of the season. L.A. Honda World, in. This is the leader and it was squeaky, squeaky time on petrol.
Just a top up for Ryan Eversley and new boots on the car. Michael Lewis in Hyundai #1 in recovery mode. Taylor Hagler wants to join Christina Nielsen as the second female back-to-back champion in IMSA. Alfa Romeo #5 back on track but they are laps and laps behind and so the championship should soon be in the hands of the #1 Hyundai team. Alan Brynjolfsson and Trent Hindman both raced motorcycles. Their parents did not like it after their sons got hurt and they went to go karts. Oh man! It is a dusty mess off turn 12. Hindman almost got chopped by the Toyota of Thiago Camillo. From the pit stops, Volt Racing has the track position over Eric Foss.
The sand in the hourglass is running out for strategy calls. It won't be like the Petit Le Mans and ten hours tomorrow. Crew chiefs must also be a mediator and a counselor for the driver... a psychiatrist. Karl Wittmer leads the TCR race and he is being harried by Tyler Maxson. Oh no! Contact betqween Ryan Eversley and the #15 Audi and now Eversley's front grill is caked with grass! That Honda will overheat! Eversley was clipped by Dennis Dupont in the Audi. I think Dennis Dupont was minding the shop and then got biffed. He was not aware Eversley was there. Bill Auberlen leads Billy Johnson and Mike Skeen followed by Camillo, Hindman, and McQuarrie. The winningest driver in all of IMSA vs. the all-time winner in Billy Johnson in MPC racing.
A penalty for the #77 Tyler Maxson and Mason Filippi Hyundai who had a flat right front tire under Full Course Yellow too, with Maxson at the wheel of it. Alfa Romeo #5 in the penalty box for something and now, their championship hopes have evaporated. The #15 Audi is in the lane for grass removal. Where on earth is poor old Ryan Eversley? His radiator might overheat, and he fell down to sixth place down behind Jon Morley. Trent Hindman in fifth, he has more than enough to bring home the cup. He won a title with John Edwards in 2014 but I think Hindman was the sole champion that year. Hindman will be back in GT3 in the WeatherTech Championship next year.
The radio at Wright Motorsports/Volt Racing is eerily quiet but Alan Brynjolfsson just came over the radio and told Trent to keep going for it and just stay calm. Luca Mars handed the #59 Ford Mustang GT4 to Billy Johnson and they have raced very well. What can Billy Johnson do to chase down Bill Auberlen? Johnson was a factory Ford driver in the Ford GT program not in IMSA but in the FIA World Endurance Championship in many classic races. Will he be a name in the hat for the 2024 Mustang GT3 program we have heard a boatload about? I would say so.
Eversley is all over Lewis in TCR like a cheap suit. Foss is right on Hindman's six again, look. This is for the title! Goodness me! I need my heartburn medicine for this one! Ducking, darting, check this out. Fifth in Grand Sport is the #7 and #56 of Eric Foss wants by Hindman with a 160-point gap. This is going to be a hard one. Pass on the right side. Right this way, Sir. Foss has the pace. Stay clean. 15 minutes to go. Let him go and take the fight to the others. Where did this race go? It has flown by! The Mercedes manages it's tires well and we see that with Mike Skeen who is scrapping behind Billy Johnson. He was a nervous Nelly about tire degradation. But it seems OK but not great.
We know Eric Foss wants to push. Last year, Auberlen got into a pickle over Jan Heylen and Eric Foss. Foss did not want to give it to him. Turner Motorsports were gutted. Now then, Foss is going to send it on Trent Hindman ASAP. Karl Wittmer now leads Ryan Norman and Stephen Simpson in TCR. A battle for second as Ryan Norman passes by Stephen Simpson, #2 and #54, more BHA Hyundai Elantra's. Simpson is with Michael Johnson's team under the BHA umbrella. Karl Wittmer is the TCR leader and had power steering and fuel pump woes in FP1. They cut fastest lap in FP2 and want the win, swinging for the fences. They won Sebring way back in March but they want to hold off the steaming charge of Ryan Norman. Norman does have a head of steam.
This car is called Yaya, meaning mother-in-law in Spanish. #2 was way off the road with splitter damage and I think that car is busted at the bottom of the esses. Game over for Norman. Mike Skeen, Billy Johnson, they are hammering each other with the lapped car of Christian Szymczak. Murillo Racing have had a real pear shaped weekend for the #72 but they are fast. Bill Auberlen 3.5 seconds to the good over Mike Skeen who has passed by Billy Johnson. Chopping and changing positions with a handful of minutes on the board before this race and season are in the history books.
Auberlen leads Skeen now by nearly four and a half seconds. Skeen is running half a second quicker than Auberlen but you know Auberlen will be pushing hard. Rory van der Steur got together with Mark Wilkins earlier in the game and admits it is the worst mistake of his life, apologizing to the team, and to Mark Wilkins saying "I made a mistake. I didn't mean it. I apologize." Respect is key in racing. You cannot be a ruthless madman as a racing driver even though you want to win. Joey Hand has been struggling with ABS on the Mustang today but he and James Pesek could be back next year in MPC racing. We shall see. Joey Hand will be racing NASCAR at the Roval with the Next Gen Cup car. Drivers will be friends but maybe not after hard racing.
The clock is winding down. Alan and Trish Brynjolfsson have four kids, two boys and two girls, and consider Trent Hindman, too, as part of their extended family. Trent Hindman's parents also focused on helping their son on getting into the racing game. The team wants to be back in the WeatherTech Championshop and Volt Lighting is Brynjolfsson's business. Next year will be their time to get into the WeatherTech Championship. Brynjolfsson knows he needs to listen to the advice of his co-driver. Now then, Lewis and Hagler are going to be winning their second consecutive championship. Lewis is fast all the time and so is Taylor Hagler.
They have won a title but maybe without a win. A championship is still a win. Hagler and Lewis have only won one race at VIR last time out. This is a team sport indeed. Mark Wilkins tutored and mentored Michael Lewis and he has done the same now with Taylor Hagler as Karl Wittmer leads Stephen Simpson, Michael Lewis, and Ryan Eversley. Bill Auberlen on a Friday drive, gapping Mike Skeen by half a second. White flag. One lap to go. One lap in the season left. Skeen is running out of time and will have to settle for second. Auberlen is a machine. He knows how to drive a race car. Believe me.
Stephen Simpson and Michael Johnson will get a good finish for their team at Hyundai which will be a feather in both of their hats. Wittmer wants to go for it but Simpson too, he is being pressed hard by Lewis. Bill Auberlen is going to win with Dillon Machavern! Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Trent Hindman and Alan Brynjolfsson are the champions in Grand Sport! TCR now, who will win? Third place will take the title. Simpson sends it on the Honda which has the legs. Wittmer vs. Simpson vs. Lewis. Simpson holds off Lewis. Hyundai are champions! Winning TCR is Honda and VCMG! Victor Gonzalez and Karl Wittmer!
Overall/Grand Sport: #95 Auberlen/Machavern Turner Motorsports BMW M4 GT4
TCR: #99 Wittmer/Gonzalez Victor Gonzalez Racing Team - VGRT
Honda Civic FK7 TCR
Champions:
Grand Sport: #7 Hindman/Brynjolfsson Volt Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT4
TCR: #1 Hagler/Lewis Bryan Herta Autosport with Curb Agajanian
Hyundai Elantra N TCR
That is a wrap for Michelin Pilot Challenge 2022. Thanks so much for being with us every step of the way, and we will see you in 2023! So long, everybody. WeatherTech Championship finale tomorrow. Cannot wait to bring that one to you. It is going to be epic!
TCR: #1 Hagler/Lewis
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