{"id":4712,"date":"2022-07-25T19:00:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T19:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=4712"},"modified":"2022-07-25T19:00:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T19:00:53","slug":"cosmo-cagnazzi-rebound-from-disappointing-qualifying-to-strong-runs-at-watkins-glen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/25\/cosmo-cagnazzi-rebound-from-disappointing-qualifying-to-strong-runs-at-watkins-glen\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmo, Cagnazzi rebound from disappointing qualifying to strong runs at Watkins Glen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"WATKINS GLEN, NY (25\u00a0July 2022)<\/strong> \u2013 Falling behind the eight-ball early in the weekend with a disappointing showing in qualifying, Steve Cameron Racing\u2019s Guy Cosmo and Chris Cagnazzi fought back to take a pair of competitive finishes in Pirelli GT4 America action at Watkins Glen International.<\/p>\n

The pair finished fifth in the Pro-Am class in Saturday\u2019s race driving the No. 39 Presidio \/ Hero Life Mercedes-AMG GT4, and placed seventh in Sunday\u2019s contest \u2013 an impressive turnaround after Cagnazzi qualified eighth in the Pro-Am class and 17th overall for Saturday\u2019s one-hour race, while Cosmo was 10th fastest in class and 17th overall in time trials for the Sunday event.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know why, but we just tanked it in qualifying,\u201d Cosmo said. \u201cThe car was not good. We started to struggle at the end of the first day. We were really quick in practice one and we were doing well, but then we lost our way set-up wise. That was all we had in qualifying for both Chris and I. We made a ton of changes to the car, and we were really good come race time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cagnazzi got up to seventh by the end of his stint on Saturday. Cosmo was 11th in class at pit stops midway through the event, and fought his way up to fifth with 12:35 remaining. Battling his way in a tight-battle among the second- through fifth-place cars, Cosmo placed fifth in class and eighth overall in the 33-car field.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cWe drove through the field and got to the top five,\u201d Cosmo said. \u201cWe were really pleased with our performance. Our turnaround is a huge testament to these guys. I keep raving about Steve Cameron and his crew. On a weekend with limited track time, you rarely get a chance to turn your weekend around if it isn\u2019t going well, and we were able to race great and be competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cosmo led off in the Sunday race. Starting 17th overall and 10th in Pro-Am, Cosmo only had 10 minutes of racing time as a pair of yellows kept the Presidio Mercedes behind the safety car for much of his stint.<\/p>\n

Cosmo was up to seventh before pit stops. Cagnazzi retained seventh when he took over with 18 minutes remaining. He held that position, and was fighting for sixth at the waving of the checkered flag, missing the position by 0.030-seconds.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday was the same as Saturday,\u201d Cosmo said. \u201cI started even further back and was able to pick up nine or 10 spots, and wound up with a pretty decent finish. On that last lap, Chris was short by just a few feet of getting sixth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re coming out of here with smiles,\u201d Cosmo summed up. \u201cThe racing was clean and respectable. It was even more rewarding than our fourth-place finishes this season, because this weekend, we were in the mix. We were strong enough to be there. Now, we\u2019ll get the car prepped up for Chris\u2019 race at Nashville in GT America.<\/p>\n

\"\"Cagnazzi also raced the No. 39 Cameron Racing Presidio \/Hero Life Mercedes-AMG GT4 in a pair of GT America powered by AWS sprint races. He finished ninth in the Saturday race, while failing to finish the Sunday event, placing 16th.<\/p>\n

The two drivers will be competing in Nashville in two different series in two weeks. Cosmo will be making his second start on Saturday, August 6, in the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix, featuring the Trans Am by Pirelli TA2 competitors. He will drive the No. 89. 3-Dimensional Services Group Ford Mustang. Cagnazzi will race in two rounds of the GT America series, on Saturday evening and Sunday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WATKINS GLEN, NY (25\u00a0July 2022) \u2013 Falling behind the eight-ball early in the weekend with a disappointing showing in qualifying, Steve Cameron Racing\u2019s Guy Cosmo and [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712","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=4712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4714,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712\/revisions\/4714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}