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Pobst, Cunningham and Buras Win Saturday World Challenge in St. Pete
Randy
Pobst, of Gainesville, Ga., opened up the 2010 World Challenge GT
season with a flag-to-flag win at the Acura Sports Car Challenge of St.
Petersburg. Peter Cunningham, of Milwaukee, Wis., and Todd Buras, of
Daytona Beach, Fla., won in the GTS and Touring Car classes,
respectively.
Starting from the overall pole in the first
combined-class World Challenge race since 1999, Pobst received a
pre-race gift when second-qualifying Dino Crescentini’s No. 4 Centric
Parts/Stoptech/GMG Porsche 911 GT3 headed to the pits on the formation
lap with an electrical issue. With his No. 6 K-Pax Racing Volvo alone on
the front row, Pobst rocketed away from the standing start and never
looked back, taking a 1.189-second win over teammate Andy Pilgrim, of
Boca Raton, Fla. James Sofronas, of Newport Beach, Calif., finished
third.
Pobst averaged 72.367 mph over the 33-lap, 59.4-mile race
that was slowed by one caution to retrieve a disabled car. It was
Pobst’s 23rd-career World Challenge win, tying him for third all-time
with Michael Galati.
“It was all about the K-Pax racing team and
the work they did all winter on our Volvo S60s,” Pobst said of the run.
“We had very little test time, because they worked their butts off all
winter. We just got the cars together a week or two ago. We’re just
thrilled, this was really just our test session today. The St.
Petersburg Grand Prix circuit suits our car really well, because the
Volvo is all-wheel drive. The straights are short, the corners are
tight, and we’re just monsters through the back sections. The Porsches
gave us a real battle, and St. Petersburg is my kind of place. I’ve won
the last three races I’ve run here in hot World Challenge action.”
Unlike
previous years where traffic was not a major factor in the racing, the
multi-class format never quite allowed anyone to break away from the
pack, and Pobst had his mirror filled for...
