After a one-year hiatus, the future stars of the BFGoodrich/Skip Barber National return to Road Americain support of the American Le Mans Series and the Time Warner Cable Road Racing Showcase. Thisweekend, twenty-two drivers will be taking the field at the historic track in Rounds 11 and 12 of the 2010championship.
Coming into the penultimate weekend of the 2010 season, MAZDASPEED MotorsportsDevelopment driver Spencer Pigot leads the points. With four poles, two wins and nine top-fivefinishes in ten races, the Windermere, Fla. driver holds a 21-point advantage over second placeIsaac Lyons. Pigot also leads the rookie standings by 46 points over fellow MAZDASPEEDMotorsports Development driver Felix Serralles.
Second in points, Isaac Lyons looks to bounce back after a controversial penalty in the last raceof the series. After taking the Round 10 victory at New Jersey Motorsports Park, race seriesofficials assessed a 25-second time penalty on the Northern Ireland driver for blocking, takingthe win and dropping him to ninth in the official results. With three wins and two poles and eighttop-ten finishes, not to mention a victory on this track last year in the Skip Barber Summer RaceSeries, look for Lyons to be a factor all weekend.
Two drivers who will have fonder memories of The Garden State are Haines City, Florida driverFelix Serralles and Homer Glen, Illinois native Ashley Freiberg, who both scored their firstcareer Skip Barber National victories at New Jersey Motorsports Park. After being the firstfemale driver to win a Skip Barber Race Series overall championship this past winter, Freibergbecame the first woman to win a BFGoodrich/Skip Barber National Race at NJMP. The wins atNew Jersey put both Freiberg in Serralles into a three-way tie for third in the championship withCape Coral, Fla. driver Dennis Trebing, who picked up wins earlier in the season at Homestead-Miami Speedway and Sebring International Raceway.
Skip Barber Racing School recently welcomed California Scents and Parathyroid.com on boardas contingency award sponsors for the BFGoodrich/Skip Barber National. National driver willnow compete for the $500 California Scents California Scents Pole Award and $500 CaliforniaScents Most Progressive Driver Award. Parathyroid.com stepped up at the beginning of theseason with the “Parathyroid.com Winner’s Circle Award”, for the top three points earners ateach race weekend; $500 going to the top points earner, $300 and $200 to second and thirdrespectively.
Since 2006, Skip Barber National Champions have continued their racing careers through theMAZDASPEED Motorsports Development Ladder. 2009 Skip Barber National ChampionConnor De Phillippi will race for JDC Motorsports in this year’s Star Mazda Championshipcourtesy MAZDASPEED Motorsports Development. Other drivers with Skip Barber RacingSchool ties include current USF2000 championship leader Sage Karam, current Star Mazdachampionship leader Conor Daly, 2007 Atlantic champion and IZOD Indycar driver RaphaelMatos and 2009 Atlantic champion and Rolex Sports Car Series driver John Edwards.
2010 Skip Barber National points standings after 10 of 14 rounds, top 10 drivers:1. Spencer Pigot, Windermere, Fla., 317 pts2. Isaac Lyons, Northern Ireland, 2963. Dennis Trebing, Cape Coral, Fla., 271-. Felix Serralles, Haines City, Fla., 271- Ashley Freiberg, Homer Glen, Ill., 2716. Nick Andries, Pinellas Park, Fla., 2657. Scott Anderson, Fort Collins, Colo., 2348. Brandon Newey, Indianapolis, Ind., 2159. Mukul Sud, India, 21010. Luis Michael Dörrbecker, Mexico, 150
Entry list, Rounds 11 and 12, 2010 BFGoodrich/Skip Barber National Presented by MazdaScott Anderson, 21, Fort Collins, Colo.Nicholas Andries, 19, Pinellas Park, Fla.Luigi Biangardi, 14, Rolling Meadows, Ill.Pat Daly, 57, New York, NYAshley Freiberg, 18, Homer Glen, Ill.Revere Greist, 36, Madison, WIPeter Ludwig, 44, New Paltz, NYIsaac Lyons, 20, Northern IrelandJohn Mayes, 47, Austin, TXBrandon Newey, 17, Carmel, Ind.Jim Norman, 51, Tampa, FLScott Panzer, 52, New York, NYSpencer Pigot, 16, Windermere, Fla.PJ Rashidi, 36, Venice, ItalyFelix Serralles, 17, Haines City, Fla.Bill Skinner, 60, Bear, DEBrian Skiner, 33, New York, NY’Mukul Sud, 24, IndiaMatthew Thill, 35, Sheboygan, WIDennis Trebing, 17, Cape Coral, Fla.Quentin Wahl, 64, Santa Barbara, CAChris Wilcox, 59, Bridgewater, NJ
