Goodyear-equipped teams won half of the classes in the SCCA club event at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio. The results are important, as the Valvoline Runoffs, Americas amateur racing national championship event, will be held at the same track in September.
Stevan Davis, won in Formula Vee, leading the Goodyear charge in the open wheel classes. Three other open-wheel classes fell to Goodyear cars as John LaRue won in Formula Ford, Mike Anderson took Formula Continental and James Goughary captured the Formula Mazda win.
Goodyear cars, traditionally strong in the GT classes, won five of those six classes. David Finch (GT2), Pete Peterson (GT3), Warren Montegue (GT4) and Jim Rauck (GT5) were the Goodyear-shod winners.
Peter Morton used Goodyear tires to win in F Production, Kristian Smith did the same in American Sedan, John Heinricy won in T-1 and Jordan Sandridge won in T-2.
In an SCCA national event at Heartland Park Topeka, Stephen Dreizler won the Formula Vee race on Goodyears newest construction for that class.
During a two-day, open test for the upcoming series race at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia, Dyson Racings James Weaver broke the track record for LMP 675 cars with a lap clocked at 1 minute, 11.711 seconds.
The Dyson Racings Lola EX257-MG cars race exclusively on Goodyear tires.
Weavers lap this weekend will not count as the official track record, as it did not come during an official event. No matter for Weaver, as he is the official track record holder anyway, having set it in October.
Chris Dyson, driving another team car, had the fastest lap on the first day of testing at the 2.54-mile road racing facility and was second-fastest overall.
Pedro Lamy won his second victory of the season when he captured the Galeria Kaufhof 100 in front of a reported crowd of 180,000 at the legendary Nurburgring in Germany.
The 31-year-old Lamy also recorded the fastest lap of the race and now leads the championship points standings.
Roland Asch finished second in the race and Michael Bartels finished third. Bartels is now second in the standings, six points behind Lamy.
Robert Lechner and Dirk Adorf finished fourth and fifth, respectively.
Tony Schumacher beat Larry Dixon to win the Top Fuel final, highlighting four Goodyear winners during the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, Ill. It was a record-setting weekend for Goodyear-equipped teams.
John Force set the national elapsed time record in Funny Car, 4.721 seconds, and Gary Scelzi posted the highest speed in Funny Car history, 328.06 mph.
Jeff Perrella, racing on Goodyear tires, captured his first career victory in a national event when he won the Competition Eliminator final. Whit Bazemore took his second win of the season when he won in Funny Car and Kurt Johnson recaptured the lead in the Pro Stock class when he won that final.
Schumacher captured his eighth career victory and his first of the 2003 season. He also had the lowest elapsed time of the event, 4.512 seconds. Doug Kalitta had the fastest lap, 329.26 mph.
Goodyear-shod drag racers have won 57 times in NHRA national competition this season, best in the tiremaking industry.
Mike Duncan led the final 149 laps and earned his first Series victory in the NAPA 150 at Madera Speedway in Madera, Calif.
The racy confines of Maderas 1/3-mile, banked oval made the event a test of patience as much as a contest of speed. Mike David, who led the first lap, finished second.
There were no scheduled pit stops during the race. That forced the teams to go the distance on the fuel and tires they started with. The Goodyear tires each team used passed the test.
Our tires were still good, David said. Maybe we should have started pressuring (Duncan) a little sooner.
Johnny Borneman finished third, Scott Lynch survived a position-swapping battle with Jim Inglebright to finish fourth and Eric Holmes took fifth.
For the second straight weekend, the Budweiser 150 at Seekonk Speedway was rained out. The race has been rescheduled for Aug. 2, 2003.
Shane Huffman simply dominated the Lucas Oil 250 at USA International Speedway in Lakeland, Fla. It was Huffmans second victory of the season.
Huffman won the Advance Auto Parts Pole Award, led 241 of the 250 laps around the ¾-mile oval and beat second place finisher Mardy Lindley by 11.100 seconds.
Clay Rogers, rookie Benny Gordon and Bobby Gill rounded out the top five.
Huffman now leads the Southern Division standings with an 856-736 advantage over second place driver Joe Gaita.
Lee Tissot won his third race this season and his second straight in the Anderson 150 at Anderson Speedway in Anderson, SC. It was Tissots third straight victory at the 3/8-mile, high banked oval.
Jay White finished second, Stephen Gahagan was third, Brandon McCarson took fourth and Carl Comier was fifth.
