{"id":294,"date":"2021-09-28T10:31:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T10:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/?p=294"},"modified":"2022-08-23T20:32:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T20:32:16","slug":"jeff-burton-makes-his-debut-at-legendary-sebring-int-raceway-this-weekend-in-sro-america-action-with-rearden-lamborghini-gt3-sports-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/race-updates\/jeff-burton-makes-his-debut-at-legendary-sebring-int-raceway-this-weekend-in-sro-america-action-with-rearden-lamborghini-gt3-sports-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Rearden Racing at Legendary Sebring Int\u2019 Raceway This Weekend in SRO America Action with Lamborghini GT3 Sports Car"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SEBRING, FL (Sept. 28, 2021)<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013<a>&nbsp;Utah\u2019s Jeff Burton comes to the historic Sebring International Raceway this weekend (Oct. 1-3) in search of another GT America sports car victory with his sleek Burton Lumber\/Rearden Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 machine in the SRO America doubleheader road racing weekend.<\/a>&nbsp;The businessman\/racer from Salt Lake City captured his first overall race win two weeks ago at another famed road circuit, Watkins Glen International in New York, with a sensational performance at the 3.4-mile racing facility. The victory was also Burton\u2019s third of the 2021 season in the SRO Masters\u2019 class.&nbsp;&nbsp;Now, Burton makes his first appearance at the legendary Sebring circuit which first introduced professional road racing to the airport track in 1950. Now, 71 years later, the Florida racing plant brings some of the fastest GT sports cars to the unique 3.74-mile, 17-turn course.&nbsp;&nbsp;Renowned for its rough track surface, the Rearden Racing team will be working hard to get the proper settings on the No. 191 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 car for Burton in the two GT America 40-minute sprint races set for this Saturday and Sunday.&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThis will be my first time racing at Sebring,\u201d said Burton. &nbsp;\u201cIn my first time being on the track last week, I spent two days of testing at Sebring.&nbsp; Wow, it\u2019s really, really bouncy. Bumps everywhere.&nbsp;The challenge for us at Sebring will be the cars\u2019 ability to handle the bounciness of the track.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Burton admits he learned quite a bit in his first runs at the Sebring circuit and he\u2019ll have to adjust some his driving lines this weekend.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cIt\u2019s almost like being on a wet track and you go offline to find the grip level,\u201d he said.&nbsp;\u201cAt Sebring, you almost need to go off the racing line to get away from the bounce in the car. It\u2019s so much different that other tracks. I know the team is working hard to get the proper car setup. But I\u2019m anxious to race on a legendary track like Sebring.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Burton currently ranks second in the SRO GT America GT3 class point standings as well as second in the Masters\u2019 division entering the Sebring doubleheader. Those races are scheduled for Saturday (Oct. 2) at 4:05 p.m. EDT and Sunday (Oct. 3) at 8:30 a.m. EDT.&nbsp;Rearden Racing team owner Lara Tallman has her team working on a variety of equipment and chassis adjustments for the Sebring weekend.&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cWe learned a lot from our Sebring test,\u201d said Tallman. \u201cThe track is new to Jeff and Vesko (Kosarov, Burton\u2019s co-driver in the GT World Challenge America races) is working with him on the racing lines. Sebring is so different than other track with the racing surface. We are hoping to return to victory lane again this weekend after Jeff\u2019s great win at Watkins Glen.\u201d&nbsp;Burton and Kozarov will compete in the Fanatec GT World Challenge America two-driver competition on Saturday (1:15 p.m. EDT) and Sunday (1:15 p.m. EDT) in the No. 91 Burton Lumber\/Rearden Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 machine. They have scored fourth and fifth in 2021 ProAm action this year.&nbsp;The Fanatec GT World Challenge America event will be televised on Sunday, Oct. 3, at 6 p.m. EDT on the CBS Sports Network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ABOUT REARDEN RACING:<\/strong>&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact: Tom Blattler, TB Communications,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:tomblattler@earthlink.net\" target=\"_blank\">tomblattler@earthlink.net<\/a>, 317.525.5692<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEBRING, FL (Sept. 28, 2021)&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Utah\u2019s Jeff Burton comes to the historic Sebring International Raceway this weekend (Oct. 1-3) in search of another GT America sports car victory with his sleek Burton Lumber\/Rearden Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 machine in the SRO America doubleheader road racing weekend.&nbsp;The businessman\/racer from Salt Lake City captured his first overall race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,51,50],"tags":[118,105,20,97,91,93,109,94,103,5,34,117,115,7,87,119,81],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lamborghini","category-press","category-race-updates","tag-driver-interview","tag-fanatec-gt-world-challenge","tag-jeff-burton","tag-lambo","tag-lamborghini","tag-lamborghini-gt3","tag-lamborghini-huracan","tag-lamborghini-race-car","tag-motorsports","tag-rearden","tag-rearden-racing","tag-sebring","tag-sebring-florida","tag-sro-america","tag-sro-gt3-racing","tag-sro-race-group","tag-vesko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}