Colin Braun Breaks PC Class Record on Continental Tires at Sebring
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Colin Braun qualifies on the pole in the Prototype Challenge presented by Continental Tire at Sebring with a lap time of 1:53:404.
Sebring, FL – March 15, 2013. Continental Tire debuted in American LeMans Series (ALMS) competition this week, at the famed 12 Hours of Sebring, in a big way. Rolling on Continental tires for the first time in class history, CORE Autosport’s Colin Braun set a new Prototype Challenge (PC) Class record during Friday’s qualifying session with a fast lap time of 1:53:404 during his final lap of the 15 minute session. Braun methodically moved his way through the 17-turn road course in the No. 05 ORECA FLM09, knocking RSR Racing’s Bruno Junqueira off the pole.
“We really worked hard figuring out the new Continental tires which are great,” said Braun following his qualifying session. “They should make for a great race. The new tire seems to hold up pretty darn good. We could go out in practice and do simulated qualifying runs. It’s hard to get a sense of it with all the traffic we had in practice, but I was surprised to put in that lap at the end. We didn’t get to do a lot of simulation to know the drop-off and the optimal temperature, but the tires are holding up really well.”
Junqueira’s time was a mere 0.270 seconds off Braun’s record-setting lap while Pierre Kaffer qualified third in the DragonSpeed Mishumotors No. 81 ORECA FLM09 with a lap time of 1:53:838. The performance of the Continental tires was evident as the top four cars qualified under last year’s record-setting time.
Just last week, Continental Tire was chosen as the exclusive tire supplier and title sponsor of the PC Class. With just one week of testing, practice, and now qualifying, under their belts, all the PC teams seem pleased with the performance of the tires.
“We have received great feedback from all the PC teams on the performance of the Continental tires,” said Travis Roffler, director of marketing for Continental Tire. “It’s hard when the team’s don’t have a lot of time to work with the tire but we are extremely pleased with the performance over the last week at Sebring and are ecstatic that four teams were under last year’s record mark. Congratulations to CORE and Colin Braun on the pole.”
Tomorrow, tune in for LIVE coverage of the 12 Hours of Sebring beginning at 10:30 a.m. ET on Speed.
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About Continental Tire the Americas
Based in Fort Mill, S.C., Continental Tire the Americas, LLC manufactures and distributes a complete premium line of passenger, light truck and commercial tires for original equipment and replacement markets. Our ultra-high performance tires include award-winning technologies that focus on safety, help save money and reduce CO2 emissions. The ProContact with EcoPlus Technology and CrossContact LX20 with were also awarded a Consumer’s Digest Best Buy award in 2012. Continental’s premium products are available at leading independent tire dealers, car dealers, and mass retail companies across North America. Continental Tire is a proud supporter of the GRAND-AM Road Racing Series, Major League Soccer (MLS), West Coast Customs, the Las Vegas Invitational and Las Vegas Classic, Wendy’s 3 Tour Challenge, Chris Rado, Lingenfelter Performance Engineering, NSCAA, Petty’s Garage, UNC Athletics, and Duke Athletics.
About Continental Tire
With preliminary sales of €32.7 billion in 2012, Continental is among the leading automotive suppliers worldwide. As a supplier of brake systems, systems and components for powertrains and chassis, instrumentation, infotainment solutions, vehicle electronics, tires, and technical elastomers, Continental contributes to enhanced driving safety and global climate protection. Continental is also an expert partner in networked automobile communication. Continental currently has more than 170,000 employees in 46 countries.
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