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Pirelli World challenge is over and a 4 in a row champ.
10 years ago
It happened a week ago but I just finished watching the race on CBS sports.
Johnny O'Connell, the winningest driver for GM has sealed his 4th Pirelli world challenge title in as many years. The first three years were driving a Cadillac CTS-VR this year was driving the ATS-VR. The new car had its issues at the start of the season even burning to the ground. But it was a mechanical problem by the chasing Ferrari 458 driven by Olivier Beretta that locked it in for O'Connell. Maybe it was a bit of Karma for Olivier's car to break with 5 minutes to go but after an overly aggressive move on the corkscrew at Laguna Seca taking both his car and the Caddy out, he was set to win the championship when O'Connell couldn't get restarted as fast as Beretta.
So Caddy keeps its dominance in the American equivalent of the European FIA GT series of course now the Blancpain GT series, for another year.
Johnny O'Connell, the winningest driver for GM has sealed his 4th Pirelli world challenge title in as many years. The first three years were driving a Cadillac CTS-VR this year was driving the ATS-VR. The new car had its issues at the start of the season even burning to the ground. But it was a mechanical problem by the chasing Ferrari 458 driven by Olivier Beretta that locked it in for O'Connell. Maybe it was a bit of Karma for Olivier's car to break with 5 minutes to go but after an overly aggressive move on the corkscrew at Laguna Seca taking both his car and the Caddy out, he was set to win the championship when O'Connell couldn't get restarted as fast as Beretta.
So Caddy keeps its dominance in the American equivalent of the European FIA GT series of course now the Blancpain GT series, for another year.
I only managed to see one race I'm always missing it