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GRAND-AM: Starworks Set For Big Weekend
Peter Baron-led team set for assault on two continents, with three Daytona Prototypes in Detroit and its LMP2 car at the Le Mans Test Day...
Starworks drivers Ryan Dalziel, Enzo Potolicchio and team owner Peter Baron will take a 4,000-mile journey to Le Mans following Saturday's Rolex Series race in Detroit to participate in the official LM24 Test Day. (Photo: Brian Cleary/GRAND-AM)
With an expanded Daytona Prototype effort for Detroit and its debut at Le Mans, Starworks Motorsport is set for its biggest weekend yet. The Peter Baron-led organization will not only field three Riley-Fords in Saturday’s GRAND-AM Chevrolet Detroit 200 at Belle Isle, but will also take part in official Le Mans Test Day less than 12 hours later in France.
What appears to be a logistical nightmare, or a recipe for disaster, isn’t as daunting as it looks on paper, according to team owner Baron, who along with current DP championship leaders Ryan Dalziel and Enzo Potolicchio will be jetting between both events. The key comes with having two separate operations to handle each series.
In addition to its home base in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Starworks recently opened an European workshop in Cardiff, Wales, where FIA WEC team manager Brian Colangelo and his wife, Fanny, run the team’s LMP2 operations and logistics. It has made a busy weekend like this doable, according to Baron.
"There's a super group of people with each program heading up each continent, so to say," Baron said. "One has been all plug and play and I have all the confidence in the world that the guys in the U.S. will run well and everything has been running like clockwork with the WEC program. It's a whole different group of guys and almost seamless there. I'm not expecting any dramas."
In fact, only Baron, Dalziel and Potolicchio will be pulling double duty, as they plan to catch an Air France flight Saturday evening from Detroit that will lands in Paris at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday. A helicopter ride from the airport to the circuit should then get the globe-trotting trio to Le Mans in time for the afternoon test session, which runs from 2-6 p.m.
"It works out OK,” Dalziel said. “We're going to have [third driver] Tom Kimber-Smith there all morning. He's got a lot of experience there in the prototypes. We'll have him run the morning and make sure the car is good.
“The priority at the afternoon session will be to get Enzo his ten laps and we'll go from there. I think it's important for me to get in shortly after that since we're making the trip all the way over.”
While the goal will be to get Le Mans rookie Potolicchio his ten required laps in the team’s HPD ARX-03b and for all three drivers to gain as much experience of the legendary Circuit de la Sarthe, a day earlier, the ever-improving Venezuelan driver and Dalziel will be at the wheel of their Riley-Ford, looking for their first Rolex Series victory of the season.
The duo are fresh off a season-best second place finish in New Jersey and hold a four-point lead in the championship over rivals SunTrust Racing, which claimed its second win of the year following an end-of-race battle between Dalziel and Max Angelelli.
What appears to be a logistical nightmare, or a recipe for disaster, isn’t as daunting as it looks on paper, according to team owner Baron, who along with current DP championship leaders Ryan Dalziel and Enzo Potolicchio will be jetting between both events. The key comes with having two separate operations to handle each series.
In addition to its home base in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Starworks recently opened an European workshop in Cardiff, Wales, where FIA WEC team manager Brian Colangelo and his wife, Fanny, run the team’s LMP2 operations and logistics. It has made a busy weekend like this doable, according to Baron.
"There's a super group of people with each program heading up each continent, so to say," Baron said. "One has been all plug and play and I have all the confidence in the world that the guys in the U.S. will run well and everything has been running like clockwork with the WEC program. It's a whole different group of guys and almost seamless there. I'm not expecting any dramas."
In fact, only Baron, Dalziel and Potolicchio will be pulling double duty, as they plan to catch an Air France flight Saturday evening from Detroit that will lands in Paris at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday. A helicopter ride from the airport to the circuit should then get the globe-trotting trio to Le Mans in time for the afternoon test session, which runs from 2-6 p.m.
"It works out OK,” Dalziel said. “We're going to have [third driver] Tom Kimber-Smith there all morning. He's got a lot of experience there in the prototypes. We'll have him run the morning and make sure the car is good.
“The priority at the afternoon session will be to get Enzo his ten laps and we'll go from there. I think it's important for me to get in shortly after that since we're making the trip all the way over.”
While the goal will be to get Le Mans rookie Potolicchio his ten required laps in the team’s HPD ARX-03b and for all three drivers to gain as much experience of the legendary Circuit de la Sarthe, a day earlier, the ever-improving Venezuelan driver and Dalziel will be at the wheel of their Riley-Ford, looking for their first Rolex Series victory of the season.
The duo are fresh off a season-best second place finish in New Jersey and hold a four-point lead in the championship over rivals SunTrust Racing, which claimed its second win of the year following an end-of-race battle between Dalziel and Max Angelelli.
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