Pirelli World Challenge and Royals Car Show at Lime Rock Park Memorial Day Weekend

Lime Rock's traditional Memorial Day Weekend is featuring the Pirelli World Challenge in all Six Divisions & the Sunday Royals Car Show Friday, Saturday & Sunday, May 27-29, 2016 that promises to be one of the highlights of the season. New this year is that kids 16 and under get in free with one adult paying general admission! 

 The SCCA Pirelli World Challenge has been a long time favorite of Lime Rock Park fans and  after a three year absence, the PWC is roaring back!  There are multiple races because all the classes want to shine from  GT/GTS-A/GT Cup/TC/TCA/TCB !  They are all stars with power and this will be a veritable hotbed of production and production based classes.

The  GT's are big bad and mean; the CTS series are closer to street spec while the GT Cup class is comprised of all Porshe 911s in the popular Porsche CT3 Cup series that supports many Formula 1 races around the globe. In TC it's about Mustangs and BMW128s and many other cars while the TCA class is have everything from Honda Civics and Fits to Mini Coopers.  In the TCB class you'll see Chevy Sonics, Fiat 500s, Mazda 2s and many other models. For a complete schedule check the website. 

Sunday is the seventh annual Sunday Royals Car Show, Connecticut's best "workingman's" show, the anti-concours concours; great cars of every kind, from hot rods to sports cars and everything in between.  Tickets are just $5 for this show.   If you want to enter your car, just show up at the gate on May 29 there is no pre-registration.  If it's cool, it's at Lime Rock Park located on Rte. 112 in Lime Rock Connecticut.  For more information, tickets  and a complete schedule of events visit http://www.limerock.com.

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Lime Rock Starts Summer Racing Season May 24-26

Lime Rock Park located on Rte. 112 in Lime Rock CT kicks off the summer racing season with several exciting events. The Memorial Day Race weekend Friday, May 24, Saturday, May 25 and Sunday, May 26 (no Monday event) will be jam-packed with top rank sports car series races topped off by a fabulous car show.

New this year, the sports car race series will feature the newly revitalized SCCA Pro Racing Trans-Am Series.  This is Detroit’s big “iron” that includes Mustangs, Camaros and Corvettes going head to head with each other while fending off advances of some of Europe’s best sports cars.  In addition to this, there will be the added excitement of heart pounding Formula F and F2000 races.

On Sunday, May 26 one of the most popular events, the 4^th annual Royals Car Show will return to the historic Lime Rock track again this year from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.  It is exciting to be able to get out on the track to view all the fantastic cars that will be showing off.  Participating vehicles include muscle cars, tuners and imports, street rods, motorcycles, classic cars, antiques, antique trucks, race cars, exceptional contemporary cars and fire trucks – the list is endless.   The car show entry fees is $10 for adults, $5 for military, and kids 12 and under are free. Proceeds raised from the car show at Lime Rock Park benefits the Wounded Warrior Project.

For tickets for the Trans-Am Races and Royals Car Show visit  http://tickets.limerock.com.  For general information on Lime Rock Park http://www.limerock.comhttp://www.limerock.com.  For area information www.litchfieldhills.comwww.litchfieldhills.com.

About Lime Rock Park

Dreamed up in 1956 by Jim Vaill and with the help of John Fitch and Cornnell Aeronautical Labs, Lime Rock is 1.50 miles of up hill and down dale, a track that looks deceivingly simple but is immensely challenging to drive at high speeds. Its setting is in a village in the heart of the Litchfield Hills renowned for its great natural beauty and cultural heritage.

In its 55 year existence, almost all of the sport’s greats have raced here: Andretti, Moss, Gurney, Posey, Rodriguez, Hobbs, Hill, Donohue, Ward, Fitch…the list of great drivers who’ve raced here is endless.

Lime Rock has also seen virtually every kind of racecar grace its corners and straights…from ground-pounding NASCAR stock cars to Can-Am, Camel GTP, F5000, Trans-Am and Atlantic, this list also goes on and on.

Today, Lime Rock is the leading edge of American LeMans Series and Grand-Am with their own stars and cars that are writing history.