The 2015 Chevrolet Sports Car Classic was a sports car race sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA). The race was held at the Raceway on Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan on May 30, 2015. The race was the fifth round of the 2015 United SportsCar Championship.
International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) president Scott Atherton confirmed the race was part of the schedule for the 2015 IMSA Tudor United SportsCar Championship (IMSA TUSC) in August 2014. [1] [2] It was the second consecutive year the event was held as part of the Tudor United SportsCar Championship, and the sixth annual running of the race, counting the period between 2007 and 2013 when it was a round of the Rolex Sports Car Series and the American Le Mans Series respectively. [2] The 2015 Chevrolet Sports Car Classic was the fourth of twelve scheduled sports car races of 2015 by IMSA, the shortest in terms of time, and was the third round not held on the held as part of the North American Endurance Cup. [2] The event was held at the fourteen-turn 2.350 mi (3.782 km) Belle Isle Park on May 30, 2015. [2] The PC category would participate in the event for the first time. [3]
Twenty-three cars were officially entered for the Chevrolet Sports Car Classic, with the bulk of the entries in the Prototype (P) and Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) categories. [4] Action Express Racing (AER) fielded two Chevrolet Corvette DP cars while VisitFlorida Racing (VFR) and Wayne Taylor Racing (WTR) fielded one. Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR) entered one Ford-powered Riley MkXXVI. Mazda Motorsports had one Lola B12/80, and Michael Shank Racing (MSR) entered one Ligier JS P2 chasis with Honda HR28TT twin-turbocharged 2.8-liter V6 engine. [5] [6] The DeltaWing skipped to undergo further testing. [7] The Prototype Challenge (PC) class was composed of six Oreca FLM09 cars. CORE Autosport, JDC-Miller MotorSports, Performance Tech PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports, RSR Racing, and Starworks Motorsport entered one car each. In the list of GTD entrants, ten GT-specification vehicles were represented by six different manufacturers. With the absence of the Grand Touring Le Mans (GTLM) class from the field, only three racing classes were represented in Belle Isle. [2] [3]
Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold and by ‡. P stands for Prototype, PC (Prototype Challenge), and GTD (Grand Touring Daytona).
| Pos. | Class | No. | Team | Driver | Time | Gap | Grid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | P | 5 |  Action Express Racing |  Christian Fittipaldi | 1:24.746 | _ | 1‡ |
| 2 | P | 10 | Wayne Taylor Racing | Ricky Taylor | 1:24.796 | +0.050 | 2 |
| 3 | P | 90 | VisitFlorida.com Racing |  Michael Valiante | 1:25.156 | +0.410 | 3 |
| 4 | P | 01 | Chip Ganassi Racing | Scott Pruett | 1:25.987 | +1.241 | 4 |
| 5 | P | 31 | Action Express Racing | Eric Curran | 1:26.009 | +1.263 | 5 |
| 6 | P | 60 | Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian | John Pew | 1:26.889 | +2.143 | 6 |
| 7 | PC | 38 | Performance Tech Motorsports | James French | 1:29.317 | +4.571 | 7‡ |
| 8 | PC | 11 | RSR Racing | Chris Cumming | 1:29.321 | +4.575 | 8 |
| 9 | PC | 8 | Starworks Motorsport |  Mirco Schultis | 1:30.687 | +5.941 | 9 |
| 10 | PC | 52 | PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports | Mike Guasch | 1:30.780 | +6.034 | 10 |
| 11 | PC | 54 | CORE Autosport | Jon Bennett | 1:31.180 | +6.434 | 11 |
| 12 | P | 07 | SpeedSource | Tom Long | 1:31.308 | +6.562 | 12 |
| 13 | PC | 85 | JDC-Miller MotorSports | Misha Goikhberg | 1:31.741 | +6.995 | 13 |
| 14 | GTD | 48 | Paul Miller Racing |  Dion von Moltke | 1:33.546 | +8.800 | 14‡ |
| 15 | GTD | 33 | Riley Motorsports | Ben Keating | 1:34.261 | +9.515 | 15 |
| 16 | GTD | 007 | TRG-AMR North America |  Christina Nielsen | 1:34.338 | +9.592 | 16 |
| 17 | GTD | 73 | Park Place Motorsports | Patrick Lindsey | 1:34.656 | +9.910 | 17 |
| 18 | GTD | 23 | Team Seattle / Alex Job Racing |  Ian James | 1:34.821 | +10.075 | 18 |
| 19 | GTD | 58 | Wright Motorsports | Madison Snow | 1:35.031 | +10.267 | 19 |
| 20 | GTD | 63 | Scuderia Corsa | Bill Sweedler | 1:35.632 | +10.886 | 20 |
| 21 | GTD | 44 | Magnus Racing | John Potter | 1:35.801 | +11.055 | 21 |
| 22 | GTD | 22 | Alex Job Racing | Cooper MacNeil | 1:37.080 | +12.334 | 22 |
| 23 | GTD | 97 | Turner Motorsport | Michael Marsal | 1:37.218 | +12.472 | 23 |
| Source: [8] | |||||||
Class winners are denoted in bold and ‡. P stands for Prototype, PC (Prototype Challenge), and GTD (Grand Touring Daytona).
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