Back-To-Back Wins For Ian James and Team Panoz Racing - Speedway Digest

Team Panoz Racing returned to Road America aiming to re-claim the back-to-back wins enjoyed last year. Driver Ian James secured the mission in today’s sixth round of the GTS Championship at the challenging 4.048-mile, 14-turn road circuit.

Following yesterday’s win, James started third on today’s grid whilst teammate Preston Calvert started in twelfth. From start to finish it was a hard-fight for both James and Calvert but when the yellow flag appeared for the one-and-only major incident, both drivers had progressed up the field, James in second and Calvert in tenth overall, sixth in class.

When the green flag returned with 18-minutes to go, James hunted down Gottsacker, and with ten-minutes to go, took the lead in the GTS class. Calvert put on a strong performance, keeping pace with the faster amateur drivers and by the chequered flag, had secured himself a ninth-place finish overall, fifth in class.

Next up for Team Panoz Racing are PWC GTS Sprint-X Championship rounds seven and eight at the 58th Rose Cup Races, July 13-14, 2018, Portland International Raceway (PIR), Portland, Oregon. This will be the penultimate race weekend of the GTS Sprint-X Championship, the final two rounds scheduled at Utah Motorsports Campus, Aug 10-12, 2018. Please visit world-challenge.com for the most up to date PWC information, live streaming, and CBS Sports Network broadcast details. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat for as-it-happens updates.

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