STRONG CHALLENGE FOR BENTLEY TEAM ABSOLUTE AT LIME ROCK

Bentley Team Absolute's Adderly Fong and factory 'Bentley Boy' Vince Abril continued their strong form in the Pirelli World Challenge SprintX Championship at Connecticut's Lime Rock Park last weekend. The duo equalled their best result of the championship with a fourth place finish in Saturday's 60-minute race, repeating the same result they scored the previous weekend at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.

Hong Kong-based Fong and Monaco's Abril had also looked set for a strong result in the opening race on Friday before being spun by another car that was actually two laps down. Fong and Abril fought back to score a ninth place finished in the opening race on Friday

In the Pro/Am class, Yufeng Luo and Bentley newcomer Andre Couto finished sixth and fifth in the two races at Lime Rock aboard the No. 78 entry.

Luo was looking set for his third podium finish in three race weekends before being handed a penalty for contact while running second in Saturday's race. Luo currently sites in third place in the Pro/Am points with five races remaining. 

2017 RACE SCHEDULE

March 9-12: Streets of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Florida

April 7-9: Grand Prix of Long Beach, Long Beach, CaliforniaApril 28-30: Virginia International Raceway, Alton, VirginiaMay 19-21: Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Bowmanville, OntarioMay 26-27: Lime Rock Park, Lakeville, ConnecticutJune 23-25: Road America, Elkhart Lake, WisconsinJuly 28-30: Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, OhioAugust 11-13: Utah Motorsports Campus, Tooele, UtahSeptember 1-3: Circuit of the Americas, Austin, TexasSeptember 15-17: Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, California

PODIUM FINISH FOR BENTLEY TEAM ABSOLUTE AT VIR

The Bentley Team Absolute scored its first podium result of the season at Virginia International Raceway last weekend with Yufeng Luo and Swiss-racer Alex Imperatori. 

The duo scored second place in the PRO/AM class in the opening SprintX round of the 2017 Pirelli World Challenge Championship.

The SprintX rounds differ from the standard World Challenge weekends with the race time extended from 50 to 60 minutes and each team must perform a compulsory driver change.

Luo and Imperatori finished eighth overall aboard the No.78 Bentley Continental GT3 and second in the PRO/AM class and backed that up with a sixth place PRO/AM finish on Sunday.

Adderly Fong joined forces with 'Bentley Boy' – factory racer Vince Abril – for the VIR weekend, finishing eighth in the PRO class on both Saturday and Sunday.

“All in all, I would say we had a very positive weekend here at VIR. It was a great opportunity to get to know the team, and I think all the guys at Bentley Team Absolute did a fantastic job getting the car in perfect condition for us," Pirelli World Challenge debutante, Alex Imperatori, said.

My teammate, Yufeng Luo, also did a fantastic job this weekend and I'm really happy to be racing with him. The second place in race one was the highlight of the weekend and it really shows the potential we have for the rest of the championship.”

This was Luo’s first race in the series.

Imperatori added, “For this first SprintX event overall, we scored really good points and the team is in a great championship position, so we really want to keep this momentum going for Canadian Tire Motorsports Park, where the team should be strong again."