2019 IMSA Prototype Challenge
The 2019 IMSA Prototype Challenge is the fourteenth season of the IMSA Lites series and its successors and the third season as the IMSA Prototype Challenge. It began on 5 January at Daytona International Speedway, and concluded on 11 October at Road Atlanta. The IMSA Prototype Challenge series is for future IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship drivers and veteran drivers alike. Entering its 14th season, IMSA Prototype Challenge shifts to a single-class, endurance race format in 2019 with six races held on North America’s most premier road courses. The series will continue to feature the global-spec LMP3 prototypes. The endurance format pairs two-drivers per car in a six race season.
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The 2019 IMSA Prototype Challenge is the fourteenth season of the IMSA Lites series and its successors and the third season as the IMSA Prototype Challenge. It began on 5 January at Daytona International Speedway, and concluded on 11 October at Road Atlanta. The IMSA Prototype Challenge series is for future IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship drivers and veteran drivers alike. Entering its 14th season, IMSA Prototype Challenge shifts to a single-class, endurance race format in 2019 with six races held on North America’s most premier road courses. The series will continue to feature the global-spec LMP3 prototypes. The endurance format pairs two-drivers per car in a six race season.
- NBC Sports Group took over from Fox Sports as the series' official broadcaster.
- Michelin became the new official tire supplier of the series, following the departure of Continental Tire at the end of 2018.
- The Mazda Prototype Challenge (MPC) class was discontinued at the end of 2018.
The 2019 schedule was released on 2 August 2018 and features six rounds.
| .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Rnd | Circuit | Location | Date | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daytona International Speedway | Daytona Beach, Florida | 5 January | 3 hours | |
| Sebring International Raceway | Sebring, Florida | 14 March | 1 hour 45 mins | |
| Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course | Lexington, Ohio | 5 May | 1 hour 45 mins | |
| Canadian Tire Motorsport Park | Bowmanville, Ontario | 6 July | 3 hours | |
| Virginia International Raceway | Alton, Virginia | 24 August | 1 hour 45 mins | |
| Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta | Braselton, Georgia | 11 October | 1 hour 45 mins |
- The round at Barber Motorsports Park was replaced with a round at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
- The rounds at Daytona International Speedway and Canadian Tire Motorsport Park had their race lengths increased from 1 hour 45 minutes to 3 hours.
All teams use the Nissan VK50VE 5.0L V8 engines.
| Rnd | Circuit | Pole position | Race winners |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daytona | No. 51 K2R Motorsports | No. 4 ANSA Motorsports | |
| Garett Grist Rob Hodes | Neil Alberico Leo Lamelas | ||
| Sebring | No. 47 Forty 7 Motorsports | No. 43 Robillard Racing | |
| Austin McCuscker Rodrigo Pflucker | Stevan McAleer | ||
| Mid-Ohio | No. 23 Gilbert/Korthoff MotorSports | No. 54 MLT Motorsports | |
| Anthony Simone Mike Skeen | Dylan Murry Dakota Dickerson | ||
| Mosport | No. 10 Robillard Racing | No. 47 Forty 7 Motorsports | |
| Stevan McAleer Joe Robillard | Austin McCusker Rodrigo Pflucker | ||
| Virginia | No. 43 Robillard Racing | No. 43 Robillard Racing | |
| Stevan McAleer | Stevan McAleer | ||
| Road Atlanta | No. 43 Robillard Racing | No. 23 Gilbert/Korthoff MotorSports | |
| Stevan McAleer | Mike Skeen |
| Pos. | Driver(s) | DAY | SEB | MOH | MOS | VIR | ATL | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joel Janco Jonathan Jorge | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | ||
| Lance Willsey | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | ||
| Dave House Paul LaHaye | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | ||
| Jon Brownson | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |||
| Joe Robillard | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | ||||
| Michal Chlumecky | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||||
| Kris Wilson | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Nigel Greensall | 2 | 4 | ||||||
| Tim Moser Kevin Woods | 4 | 5 | ||||||
| Bradley Baker Dean Baker | 6 | |||||||
| Tim George | 7 |
| Pos. | Team | DAY | SEB | MOH | MOS | VIR | ATL | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #47 Forty 7 Motorsports | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 6 | ||
| #4 ANSA Motorsports | 1 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 5 | ||
| #60 Wulver Racing | 3 | 17 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 7 | ||
| #54 MLT Motorsports | 5 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 18 | |||
| #75 Performance Tech Motorsports | 5 | 6 | 23 | 6 | 6 | 10 | ||
| #7 Performance Tech Motorsports | 14 | 4 | 9 | 17 | 7 | 9 | ||
| #40 Polestar Motor Racing Inc. | 19 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 11 | ||
| #64 K2R Motorsports | 6 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 23 | 2 | ||
| #43 Robillard Racing | 1 | 15 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| #23 Gilbert/Korthoff Motorsports | 15 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 1 | |||
| #19 Performance Tech Motorsports | 7 | 20 | 12 | 13 | 3 | 21 | ||
| #70 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports | 8 | 11 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 15 | ||
| #10 Robillard Racing | 17 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 17 | 13 | ||
| #33 Sean Creech Motorsports | 11 | 12 | 21 | 19 | 16 | 14 | ||
| #9 JDC MotorSports | 21 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 19 | |||
| #2 ANSA Motorsports | 18 | 23 | 19 | 9 | 13 | 16 | ||
| #55 Forty 7 Motorsports | 10 | 25 | 22 | 12 | 20 | 12 | ||
| #86 ONE Motorsports | 16 | 16 | 18 | 15 | 19 | 17 | ||
| #52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports | 22 | 11 | 2 | 11 | ||||
| #11 Simraceway Motorsports | 4 | 24 | 10 | 18 | ||||
| #51 K2R Motorsports | 12 | 19 | 17 | 7 | ||||
| #25 Forty 7 Motorsports | 9 | 14 | 12 | 22 | ||||
| #74 Forty 7 Motorsports | 13 | 9 | 15 | 20 | ||||
| #3 Jr III Racing | 9 | 8 | ||||||
| #26 K2R Motorsports | 3 | |||||||
| #30 Sean Creech Motorsports | 3 | |||||||
| #12 Simraceway Motorsports | 15 | 20 | ||||||
| #13 ANSA Motorsports | 6 | |||||||
| #66 ONE Motorsports | 14 |
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- Prototype Challenge Website Archived 2019-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
- IMSA Website