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Rolex Sports Car Series
Country
North America
Inaugural season
2000
Folded
2013
Prototype Classes
DP
GT Classes
GT, GX
Tyre suppliers
Continental
Last Drivers' champion
DP: Max Angelelli, Jordan Taylor GT: Alessandro Balzan GX: Jim Norman
Last Makes' champion
DP: Chevrolet/Riley GT: Ferrari GX: Mazda
Last Teams' champion
DP: Chip Ganassi Racing GT: Scuderia Corsa GX: BGB Motorsports
Official website
http://www.grand-am.com
The Rolex Sports Car Series was the premier series run by the Grand American Road Racing Association. It was a North American-based sports car series founded in 2000 under the name Grand American Road Racing Championship to replace the failed United States Road Racing Championship. Rolex took over as series sponsor in 2002.
It ran a mixture of classes of sports prototypes and Grand Touring-style cars. In 2003, the series debuted their custom prototype chassis, known as Daytona Prototypes, named after their premiere event, the Rolex 24 at Daytona.
The series staged the North American Endurance Championship, featuring three of its premier races at Daytona, Watkins Glen, and Indianapolis.[1]
On September 5, 2012, Grand-Am announced that it would be merging the Rolex Sports Car Series with the American Le Mans Series to form a unified road racing championship[2] to be known as United SportsCar Racing,[3] later retitled as the TUDOR United Sports Car Championship. The final Rolex Sports Car Series race was held on September 28, 2013 at Lime Rock Park.[4]
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^"Welcome to the Future of Sports Car Racing!". American Le Mans Series. Archived from the original on 2013-03-21. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
^"Grand-Am, ALMS to become 'United SportsCar Racing' series in 2014". Autoweek. Archived from the original on 2013-05-24. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
^"Angelelli, Taylor storm Lime Rock to wrap up the Grand-Am Rolex Series - Racer.com". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-11-28.
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