The 2018 Trans-Am Series season was the fiftieth running of the Sports Car Club of America's Trans-Am Series. It began on March 2 at Sebring International Raceway and ran for twelve rounds.

Schedule edit

National Championship edit

Round Event Circuit Location Date Classes
1 Sebring 100   Sebring International Raceway Sebring, Florida 2–4 March All
2 Georgia Speedfest   Road Atlanta Braselton, Georgia 29–31 March All
3 South Florida SportsCar Challenge   Homestead-Miami Speedway road course Homestead, Florida 13–15 April All
4 Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix   Belle Isle Park Detroit, Michigan 1–3 June TA2
5 Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational   Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course Speedway, Indiana 15–17 June All
6 Keystone Speedfest   Pittsburgh International Race Complex Wampum, Pennsylvania 3–5 August TA/TA3/TA4
7 First Energy Mid-Ohio 100   Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio 9–11 August TBA
8 Ryan Companies Road America Classic   Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin 23–25 August TBA
9 TBA   Watkins Glen International Watkins Glen, New York 7–9 September TBA
10 TBA   Virginia International Raceway Alton, Virginia 21 September TBA
11 TBA   Circuit of the Americas Elroy, Texas 1–3 November TBA
12 TBA   Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Florida 9–11 November TBA
Sources:[1][2]
  Races are part of the Northern Cup
  Races are part of the Southern Cup

West Coast Championship edit

Round Event Circuit Location Date Classes
1   Auto Club Speedway sports car course Fontana, California April 27–29 All
2   Sonoma Raceway Sonoma, California June 1–3 All
3 Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational   Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course Speedway, Indiana June 15–17 All
4   Portland International Raceway Portland, Oregon July 27–29 All
5   Circuit of the Americas Elroy, Texas November 1–3 All
  Race is combined with Trans-Am National Series.

Changes edit

Race results edit

National Championship edit

TA, TA3, TA4 competed together at all events except Pittsburgh, where TA ran a dedicated race and a separate race was held for TA3 and TA4, and at Daytona, where all classes competed together. TA2 competed in a dedicated race at all events except Daytona. Overall winners in bold.

Round Circuit TA Winning driver TA2 Winning driver TA3 Winning driver TA4 Winning driver
1 Sebring International Raceway   Ernie Francis Jr.   Marc Miller   Mark Boden   Andrew Aquilante
2 Road Atlanta   Chris Dyson   Rafa Matos   Randy Kinsland None entered
3 Homestead-Miami Speedway road course   Ernie Francis Jr.   Rafa Matos   Shane Lewis   Steven Davison
4 Streets of Belle Isle TA2 only R1:   Tony Buffomante
R2:   Rafa Matos
TA2 only TA2 only
5 Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course   Ernie Francis Jr.[a]   Jordan Bupp[b]   Tim Kezman[c]   Warren Dexter[d]
6 Pittsburgh International Race Complex   Lawrence Loshak Not on TA2 schedule   Cindi Lux[e]   Warren Dexter
7 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course   Ernie Francis Jr.   Rafa Matos   Mark Boden   Warren Dexter
8 Road America   Boris Said   Ty Majeski   Jason Daskalos   Warren Dexter
9 Watkins Glen International   Tomy Drissi   Rafa Matos   Mark Boden   Warren Dexter
10 Virginia International Raceway   Lawrence Loshak   Scott Lagasse Jr.   Mark Boden None entered
11 Circuit of the Americas   Ernie Francis Jr.[f]   Gar Robinson[g]   Ryan Dexter[h]   Warren Dexter[i]
12 Daytona International Speedway road course   David Pintaric   Tony Buffomante   Tim Kezman   Steven Davison
Sources:[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]

West Coast Championship edit

All classes raced together on track, except in the meetings shared with the National Championship. Bold indicates overall winner.

Round Circuit TA Winning driver TA2 Winning driver TA3 Winning driver TA4 Winning driver
1 Auto Club Speedway   Tim Adolphson   Thomas Merrill   Oli Thordarson   Dane Jorgenson-Smith
2 Sonoma Raceway   Greg Pickett   Thomas Merrill   Oli Thordarson None entered
3 Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course   Tomy Drissi[j]   Thomas Merrill[k] None entered   Dane Jorgenson-Smith[l]
4 Portland International Raceway   Greg Pickett   Thomas Merrill   Oli Thordarson None started
5 Circuit of the Americas None entered[m]   Brad McAllister[n] None entered None entered
Sources:[27][28][29][30][31][32][33]

Entries edit

TA edit

Team Car No. Drivers Rounds
  ACP Motorsports Cadillac CTS-V 19   Kerry Hitt 1
  American V8 Road Racing Dodge Challenger 9   Jeff Hinkle 1
  Baucom Motorsports Ford Mustang 86   John Baucom 1
  BC Race Cars Chevrolet Corvette 15   Blaise Csaida 1
  Breathless Racing Ford Mustang 98   Ernie Francis, Jr. 1
  Bupp Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro 81   Kenny Bupp 1

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ The National and West Coast series raced together at Indianapolis but scored points separately. Francis won overall.
  2. ^ The National and West Coast series raced together at Indianapolis but scored points separately. Bupp finished 2nd in the TA2 race and 1st of the National TA2 entries.
  3. ^ The National and West Coast series raced together at Indianapolis but scored points separately. Kezman finished 1st of the TA3 entries.
  4. ^ The National and West Coast series raced together at Indianapolis but scored points separately. Dexter finished 1st of the TA4 entries.
  5. ^ TA3 and TA4 competed in a separate race to TA at Pittsburgh. Lux won overall.
  6. ^ The National and West Coast series raced together at COTA but scored points separately. Francis won overall.
  7. ^ The National and West Coast series raced together at COTA but scored points separately. Robinson won the TA2 race overall.
  8. ^ The National and West Coast series raced together at COTA but scored points separately. Ryan Dexter finished 1st of the TA3 entries.
  9. ^ The National and West Coast series raced together at COTA but scored points separately. Warren Dexter finished 1st of the TA4 entries.
  10. ^ The National and West Coast series raced together at Indianapolis but scored points separately. Drissi finished 3rd of the TA entries and 1st of the West Coast TA entries.
  11. ^ The National and West Coast series raced together at Indianapolis but scored points separately. Merrill won overall.
  12. ^ The National and West Coast series raced together at Indianapolis but scored points separately. Jorgenson-Smith finished 13th overall, 2nd of the TA4 entries and 1st of the West Coast TA4 entries.
  13. ^ Tomy Drissi finished 3rd overall, but it appears that he did not score points in the West Coast Championship for this event.
  14. ^ McAllister finished 8th overall and 1st of the West Coast TA2 entries.

References edit

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