{"id":2048,"date":"2020-03-26T21:16:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T01:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2024-06-15T12:45:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T16:45:01","slug":"jr-iii-racing-temporarily-closes-shop-due-to-covid-19-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/26\/jr-iii-racing-temporarily-closes-shop-due-to-covid-19-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"JR III Racing Temporarily Closes Shop Due to COVID-19 Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Mooresville, NC (26 March 2020) &#8211; Due to the rapid developments concerning the spread of the\u00a0coronavirus, JR III (&#8220;Junior Three&#8221;) Racing\u00a0has made the decision to close\u00a0shop operations\u00a0effective March 26, 2020 in correlation with the\u00a0\u201cStay at Home\u201d order placed by\u00a0Mecklenburg County\u00a0government officials in North Carolina.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Competing in its first full season of the IMSA Prototype Challenge this year, JR III Racing kicked off the season with a top ten finish in the team\u2019s debut at Daytona International Speedway. Father-son co-driving duo, Greg (father) and Eric (son) Palmer, impressed in theri series debut as they brought the No. 3 Copps Industries LMP3 home tenth in a field of 17.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Daytona outing kicked off a busy schedule of outings for JR III Racing, as the team launched the 2020 season for its long-running vintage competition operation in February with a successful outing supporting a\u00a0fleet of\u00a0vintage BMWs and stock cars in SVRA competition at Sebring International Raceway.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The team anticipates an April\u00a0return to operations for the recently enlarged shop, with preparations for the\u00a0remainder\u00a0of the 2020\u00a0IMSA\u00a0racing season as well as vintage competition operations set to resume when the team is safely able to do so.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe health and safety of our staff is at the utmost importance,\u201d said\u00a0Team Owner,\u00a0Billy\u00a0Glavin. \u201cWhile we do still have projects in progress, we will get back to working as soon as it is safe to do so. Thank you to our clients for their support and understanding. We wish\u00a0everyone\u00a0health and safety during this unprecedented time and look forward to getting back to the shop and back to the track.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After IMSA\u2019s recent announcement with alterations to the current event timeline, the 2020 IMSA Prototype Challenge season will now be as follows:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mobil 1 Sports Car Grand Prix\/CTMP. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0July 3-5<\/div>\n<div>Road America \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0July 21-Aug. 2<\/div>\n<div>Acura Sports Car Challenge\/Mid-Ohio \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0September 25-27*<\/div>\n<div>Motul Petit Le Mans\/Road Atlanta \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 October 14-17<\/div>\n<div>Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Nov. 11-14<\/div>\n<div>\n<em>*to be confirmed<\/em><\/div>\n<div>JR III Racing looks forward to returning to normal operations and racing when state and national government officials deem it safe to do so.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mooresville, NC (26 March 2020) &#8211; Due to the rapid developments concerning the spread of the\u00a0coronavirus, JR III (&#8220;Junior Three&#8221;) Racing\u00a0has made the decision to close\u00a0shop<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-feature","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}