Team PNR/37signals IMSA Porsche GT3 Cup Car 
The car will be driven by David Heinemeier Hansson in the IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge. While the PNR team is new to IMSA GT3 Cup, the personnel running the operation have decades of successful sports car racing experience. The effort is led by PNR Team Principal Ron Barnaba, winning Team Manager and Crew Chief Tim Olsen, and accomplished Race Engineer Marc Manning. Hansson is also working with top American Porsche driver Patrick Long as his driver coach for the second consecutive year.
The IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge by Yokohama features semi-professional and emerging drivers racing head to head in Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race cars. The series is broken into two classes, with the Platinum Cup class featuring newer and more powerful Porsche GT3s and the Gold Cup class for 2005½ to 2009 specification GT3s.
Following test and practice sessions today and Wednesday, Thursday features IMSA GT3 Cup qualifying at 12:15 p.m. and the first of the week’s two 45-minute sprints at 5:05 p.m. The second sprint race will close the IMSA GT3 Cup’s opening race week at 4:20 p.m. on Friday.
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ABOUT PORSCHE NAPLETON RACING (PNR): Porsche Napleton Racing (PNR) is the performance and competition division of the Chicago-area auto dealership Napleton Porsche of Westmont. Although the team joins driver David Heinemeier Hansson in their first full season in the IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge by Yokohama in 2011, PNR is an established and full-service racing division and prep shop specializing in amateur and beginner-level competition, on up to entry-level professional racing series. The PNR group is also one of the top teams in the Cayman Interseries, winning several races with Hansson in that championship last year. The performance-focused PNR operation is just one division within Napleton Porsche of Westmont, which is the Ed Napleton Automotive Group’s flagship Porsche dealership.
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jeremycliff on 2011-03-16 15:11:05
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