- 3rd in
SCCA SPEED World Challenge GT
at Monterey - - Finishes 5th in Championship
-
October 11, 2009
Monterey,
CA
Eric Curran slipped his #30
Whelen Engineering/Coca-Cola Chevrolet Corvette past Brandon Davis' Mustang on
the final lap of the race to slot into third place, and with that move, raced to
his sixth podium finish of the 2009 SCCA World Challenge GT Championship
season.
Curran finishes 2nd for 5th time in '09 at Road Atlanta SPEED World Challenge
September 25, 2009
Braselton, GA
If Eric Curran's string of 2009 runner-up finishes in the SCCA SPEED World Challenge GT Championship are getting to be a habit, at least there could be worse habits.
Today at what seemed to be Road "Hot-Lanta," instead of Road Atlanta, Eric and the #30 Whelen Engineering Chevrolet Corvette finished 6.467 seconds behind Andy Pilgrim, who gave the Volvo S-60 its third win in its maiden season of World Challenge competition.
"As a Volvo dealer in real life, I'm tickled to see the built-for-racing version of the new S-60 doing so well, but I race a Corvette, and that's where my allegiances are on race weekends," he said.
Curran finishes 2nd at Road America in SPEED World Challenge
August 16, 2009
Elkhart Lake, Wis.
“It has been enough to make a person paranoid, but today’s second place finish erases all my memories of the last two races. Ok, it only erases some of them, but this is good! Maybe it is the clear Wisconsin air. Whatever it is, I ready for more positive results!”
Eric Curran was more than just pleased with his second place finish in today’s SCCA SPEED World Challenge GT race on the 4.048-mile Road America circuit in the #30 Whelen Engineering Chevrolet Corvette. “I have been itching for a win all season but the fourth 2nd place finish isn’t terrible.” Eric commented.
Eric took the green flag sixth on the series Driver Championship point’s chart, and closed the gap on a number of drivers with this second place finish.
Another Unfortunate Finish, But There’s Light at the End of the Tunnel
August 9, 2009
Lexington, Ohio
“Two races in a row now that
I’ve become a frustrated spectator instead of a participant with a chance to
win, but that happens in racing. You take a deep breath and focus on the next
one. It’ll happen in SCCA SPEED World Challenge GT racing, it’ll happen in
NASCAR, and any other racing series.”
The seventh race in the SCCA SPEED World Challenge GT series, two weeks from now at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, can’t come quick enough for Eric Curran and his #30 Whelen Engineering Chevrolet Corvette.
“I’ve raced at Mid-Ohio 14 times since 1999, won an SCCA National Championship and two professional races there,” he said. “It is a track I know and love – slow turns, hold-on-tight fast turns, and a 3,000-foot straightaway. You can get racy there and not get in too much trouble.”
Today the two World Challenge classes held their first race at a new track, Autobahn Country Club, near Joliet, IL. The 3.56-mile, 18-turn circuit is, literally, part of a private country club complex, except it is a country club for racers, not golfers.
“I’ll remember Autobahn as a very pretty place, and one where the World Challenge teams were made to feel very welcome by the track’s owners, but not the best racetrack we’ve been too” he said.
Eric Curran slipped his #30
Whelen Engineering/Coca-Cola Chevrolet Corvette past Brandon Davis' Mustang on
the final lap of the race to slot into third place, and with that move, raced to
his sixth podium finish of the 2009 SCCA World Challenge GT Championship
season.
Curran finishes 2nd at Road America in SPEED World Challenge
- Looking Toward Sanity at Mid-Ohio -
