Napleton Racing earned a few GTS class wins and numerous podium finishes with two different Cayman Islands this year, Pirelli World Challenge competition and is one of these cars in the Rolex Watches 24 to give the new Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series GX range.
The Napleton team is currently updating to GX specifications of its Cayman S, which was victorious in its first weekend of the Pirelli World Challenge competition at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course last August.
The Napleton Cayman S won Sunday's final race at Mid-Ohio weekend double header After. Third place on the day before the debut race for both car and driver Kevin Gleason
Moreover Napleton Porsche Napleton Racing also owns and operates the Westmont Pirelli Cayman International Endurance Cup Series Championship, which concluded its third full season of competition last month at Daytona.
"We have some success on the track with our Cayman Islands and the challenge of a 24-hour race is very exciting to see," said Ed Napleton, owner of Ed Napleton Automotive Group and Inter Series driver.
"Racing is still relatively new to me, but I have heard about the unique natural and formidable challenge 24 hour race from the start. This is a fun experience."
Napleton not run in the Rolex 24, but Napleton Porsche Westmont General Manager Ron Barnaba as team manager to come in the new effort. Barnaba is also the founder of Pirelli Cayman Inter Series.
"I've gone the Rolex 24 At Daytona, as long as I can remember and the new GX-Class has given us the opportunity to enter the race for the first time," Barnaba said.
"Although this is our debut, the victory of our experience in this year's Pirelli World Challenge, and in the past few seasons in the ALMS and IMSA GT3 Cup competition will be for a good cause.
Cayman S is a good match for the new GX-class and our team is ready for the challenge. "
Veteran sports car racing talent Shane Lewis has been signed as the team lead driver. Additional Team development and the complete driver lineup will be announced in the coming weeks.
"I had the pleasure of racing one Napleton Cayman prepared in Inter Series as well as coaching and teaching some of their new driver in the series," said Lewis. "They are first-class people with a first class product.
I'm really looking for a guiding force in their Rolex Replica Watches 24 debut and help the team to the top of the podium to get.
There are some very serious competitors who come to the new GX-class at Daytona, both manufacturers and team performance, but I think Cayman platform with the knowledge and passion for the Napleton organization combined to win us a real chance. "
In addition to the Mid-Ohio Pirelli World Challenge success, even Napleton Racing built and then kept the No. 68 Team Hot Wheels ™ Cayman S that Jack Baldwin Pirelli World Challenge GTS victory went in April in Long Beach.
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