BMW competitors emerged from the 2 ½-hour Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge race at Sebring with the lead in both the Grand Sport and Street Tuner classes.
Fall-Line Motorsport’s Trent Hindman and John Edwards in the #46 Fall-Line Motorsports E92 M3 finished second overall and second in Grand Sport behind the winning Stevenson Motorsports Camaro of Robin Liddell and Andrew Davis. The Fall-Line duo’s second was a reprise of their second place finish at Daytona; it left them first in GS points going into the next CTSCC race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in May.
Eric Foss and Jeff Mosing, coming off a Street Tuner win in Daytona, finished third at Sebring in the #56 Murillo Racing E90 328i, leaving them with the class lead going into Laguna. They finished behind a pair of Mazda MX-5s piloted by race winners Andrew Carbonell and Randy Pobst and second-place finishers Steven McAleer and Chad McCumbee.
The race ended under yellow after Marc Miller in an MX-5 was hit and sent head on into a barrier. The impact took the front end off of the Mazda and scattered debris across the track. Miller was awake and alert, but he was transported to a hospital for examination. There was not enough time left for cleanup and track repair, so the race ended under yellow.
The next best BMW Grand Sport finishers after Hindman and Edwards were Ken Wilden and D.J. Randall in sixth in another Fall-Line M3. There were three BMWs in addition to the Foss/Mosing car in the top ten in Street Tuner. Terry Borcheller and Mike LaMarra finished seventh in the #23 Burton Racing 128i, Greg Liefooghe and Tyler Cooke finished eighth in the #81 BimmerWorld 328i, and Greg Strelzoff and Connor Bloum finished tenth in the #22 Burton 128i. Tyler and Liefooghe are second in points behind Foss and Mosing.
CTSCC competition resumes at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on May 2-3.—Brian S. Morgan
