Andy back on track at Road America!
WRDA member Andy Meyrick confirmed his status as one of the
worlds top endurance racers & a brave man, as he, along with
teammate Katherine Legge, took the quirky, and revolutionary, DeltaWing coupe into
6th place in the prototype class (8th overall) in the latest
round of the
TUDOR United SportsCar Championship at Road America. Only a
few weeks ago Andy narrowly escaped a chassis wrecking fire,
with only a minor burn and some blisters! (below on track and in
the garage, the DeltaWing looks fantastic!)
In a race punctuated
regularly by accidents, and 6 safety car periods Andy confirmed
' The team did a great job to help Katherine and me to finish in
P6 . The number of yellows didn't help us today but it was still
a strong result'.
Update
Just four weeks on from a cockpit fire at Mosport
which saw the 28 year-old’s race cut short, the team had
worked tirelessly on a full re-build of the chassis before
returning to the circuit which produced the DeltaWing
roadster’s best ever finish, a fifth place in 2013.
Established in 1955 with it’s legendary four-mile, 14-turn
circuit, Andy was looking to showcase the DeltaWing coupe’s
straight-line speed on the challenging track.
With Andy qualifying the car on Saturday in ninth position
the team planned a two-stop strategy with team-mate
Katherine Legge starting the two-hour 45-minute race on
Sunday, the British duo aiming to manage the coupe’s fuel
consumption and take advantage of its straight-line speed,
Legge handed the car over to Andy on lap 23 in fifth place.
The team then kept him on-track for as long as possible but
despite setting a quick lap time of 1:59.718 a total of six
yellow flags meant Andy only came in for a final stop for
fuel and tires with just 39 minutes remaining. The yellow
flags meant that other teams were also able to two-stop
diminishing the coupe’s fuel consumption advantage. Back
on-track in 24th position overall, Andy utilised the
DeltaWing’s speed to make his way back through the field
battling with Scott Pruett in the Riley-Ford and finally
bringing the car over the line in sixth place, eighth
overall.
“It’s great to get a good finish here,” said Andy. “The team
has done a really great job to re-build the car and to go on
and get a sixth place finish. The car’s straight-line speed
again showed that we have a quick car, we were just so
unlucky with the yellows and everyone else was able to save
fuel, our technical advantage was lost.
“I enjoyed the race and had a great battle in the last few
laps with Pruett. We could have had a better finish if it
wasn’t for the yellows, but to finish where we did and to be
up running with cars on the same strategy means we know we
have a good car. We’ll be looking to build on the momentum
at Petit Le Mans.”
The next race in the Tudor series is at the Virginia
International Raceway near Danville, Virginia on Aug 23-24, 2014
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