Rearden Racing makes a major move into the Fanatec GT World Challenge America powered by AWS with three Lamborghini Huracan GT3 sports cars for the 2021 road racing series beginning with SRO America season opener on March 5-7 at Sonoma Raceway. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nAfter winning numerous GT4 SprintX races as well as the 2019 Pirelli GT4 America SprintX West Am series championship, Rearden Racing, led by team owner Lara Tallman, will campaign three Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo machines in the GT3 SprintX and Sprint competition with drivers Jeff Burton, Vesko Kozarov and Dmitri Novikov. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Burton and Kozarov, the 2019 GT4 West Am champions from Salt Lake City, will team up in the No. 91 Burton Lumber\/Rearden Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo for the Fanatec GT World Challenge America two-driver, 90-minute contests. Novikov will compete in the No. 29 Rearden Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 in the one-driver, 50-minute GT America Sprint races.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition, Rearden Racing will field the No. 888 Audi R8 LMS GT4 car for Utah veteran Kris McCoy in the GT America Sprint action which features GT2, GT3 and GT4 machinery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new Lamborghini cars for Rearden Racing should feel similar for Burton, who raced in the Lamborghini Super Troefo series, and Novikov, who competed with the Lamborghini Huracan in club competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have run several of the Lambo cars in the past four or five years,\u201d said Tallman, a part-time racer when time allows from her team ownership role. \u201cWe have been very pleased with these cars. That has been the number one reason for the switch this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a good process working with the Lamborghini people. So, we are optimistic about the change. We know it is a process though. We will learn more about these cars as we go down the path. We have enjoyed running the Lamborghini machinery in different club races.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tallman is pleased with the drivers\u2019 feedback with the new Lamborghini cars after their past experience with similar race cars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cJeff started his career racing in Lamborghini Super Trofeo, so he is familiar and comfortable with the cars and he likes the new cars,\u201d Lara said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a good fit for him to go back to the Lambo now. Dmitri has loved the Lamborghini. This is his second Huracan GT3. He also had one early in his driving career in events at The Thermal Club (in Southern California).\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tallman admits that preparing for the Fanatec GT World Challenge America has had its challenges over the winter, but her Rearden Racing operation have experience and knowledge with pit stops and the extended race time of 90 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe had equipment from our IMSA days but, of course, none of it was the right equipment for now,\u201d said Tallman. \u201cWe invested quite a bit to update everything and prepare it. The fuel rig, tire warmers, tire carts, telemetry and other equipment was needed. It\u2019s a long list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been big chore for the Rearden Racing guys but it\u2019s been a good reason to update and go through all of our equipment for the 2021 season. We are certainly doing our homework to make sure we are ready.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tallman and the Rearden Racing team has been busy in the winter as well with weekly club events at The Thermal Club and other West Coast racing facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have added some personnel this year as well,\u201d Lara explained. \u201cA lot of our staff has been with us for many years because we\u2019ve run other series. And we had different staff in different parts of the country as well. But we needed to add some new people also. Everyone has done a great job working together and we\u2019re excited for the 2021 racing season.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rearden Racing will debut its new racing lineup in the Sonoma Raceway opener on March 5-7. Practice rounds are set for 10:30 a.m. PST and 3:00 p.m. PST on Friday, March 5, followed by qualifying sessions at 9:40 a.m. PST and 10:00 a.m. PST on Saturday, March 6. Saturday\u2019s GT3 Race 1 is scheduled for 2:45 p.m. PST. Sunday\u2019s GT3 Race 2 will get underway at 1:15 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Fanatec GT World Challenge America powered by AWS GT3 highlights from Sonoma Raceway will be televised through the CBS Sports Network on March 7 at 4 p.m. EDT with an encore showing on March 8 at 1 a.m. EST.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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ABOUT REARDEN RACING:<\/strong> Owned and operated by Lara Tallman and driver Vesko Kozarov, Rearden Racing\u2019s roots date back to the 2000s when Tallman drove in the IMSA ST class. The Utah-based operation consists of several aspects with design, build and service racing cars; offering \u201carrive and drive\u201d programs in both professional and club racing clients and manufacture and distribute a variety of racing-related parts. On the track, Rearden Racing has been a winner, taking the 2019 Pirelli GT4 America SprintX West Am championship (Jeff Burton\/Kosarov), 2018 Touring Car Championship (Kozarov) as well as the prestigious 2017 and 2018 SRO Intercontinental GT Challenge for the GT4 category at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. The Rearden name comes from the popular Ayn Rand book, \u201cAtlas Shrugged,\u201d a novel about advocacy of reason, individualism, self-made, independent thinkers, inventors, business owners and risktakers. <\/p>\n\n\n\nContact: Tom Blattler, TB Communications, tomblattler@earthlink.net<\/a>, 317.525.5692<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rearden Racing Moves to 2021 Fanatec GT World Challenge America \u2014 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 cars \u25cf Three new Lamborghini machines for GTWC America Pro-Am\/Am divisions set for Sonoma \u25cf Kris McCoy to campaign the No. 888 Rearden Racing Audi R8 LMS GT4 in Sprint action SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (Feb. 25, 2021) \u2013 Rearden Racing makes a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[88,5,34,8,7,87],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gt3-race-car","tag-rearden","tag-rearden-racing","tag-sports-car-racing","tag-sro-america","tag-sro-gt3-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"http:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}