Ashley Freiberg and Trent Hindman in the #46 Fall-Line M3 finished a strong second overall and second in Grand Sport in the rain-soaked 2 ½ hour Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Series race at Watkins Glen on June 27.
Freiberg started the race from eighth on the grid and soon moved into the top five. She ran in the lead group throughout her stint on a very wet circuit, handing off to Hindman just past the halfway point in the race. Hindman stayed with the leaders, running in third behind Matt Plumb in the #13 Rum Bum Porsche and Robin Liddell in the #6 Stevenson Camaro Z28. Plumb dropped to sixth when he took a brief off-course excursion, promoting Hindman to second.
Hindman held on to the position, running just behind Liddell and ahead of Nissan 370Z racer B.J. Zacharias when deteriorating conditions led to a red flag with about 30 minutes remaining. The cars returned to the track with about 13 minutes left, but the rest of the race was run behind the pace car. Liddell and his co-driver Andrew Davis won, with Freiberg and Hindman in second, scoring their best result of the season. Zacharias and his co-driver Brad Jaeger finished third. It was the third consecutive win for Davis and Liddell.
The best BMW finisher in the Street Tuner class was the eighth place #23 Burton Racing 128i driven by Terry Borcheller and Mike LaMarra. Chad McCumbee and Stevan McAleer won the class in the #5 CJ Wilson Racing Mazda MX-5.
The Glen race was rough for the ST points leaders. The Ted Giovanis/David Murry Team TGM 328i was rear-ended; it spent time in the pits and the garage for repairs and returned to finish 26th in class. Points co-leaders Eric Zimmerman and Greg Liefooghe finished eighteenth in class in the #83 Porsche Cayman, recovering from Zimmerman’s early-race off-course excursion.
CTSCC runs again in two weeks at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.—Brian S. Morgan
