{"id":4823,"date":"2022-06-23T15:50:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T19:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=4823"},"modified":"2023-05-03T16:00:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T20:00:26","slug":"rebel-rock-racing-rested-and-tested-for-return-to-watkins-glen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/23\/rebel-rock-racing-rested-and-tested-for-return-to-watkins-glen\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebel Rock Racing Rested and Tested for Return to Watkins Glen"},"content":{"rendered":"

WATKINS GLEN, NY (23\u00a0June 2022)<\/strong> \u2013 Rebel Rock Racing is rested and tested heading to Saturday\u2019s Tioga Downs Casino Resort 120, Round 5 of the 2022 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge.<\/p>\n

Frank DePew and Robin Liddell will co-drive the No. 71 Urban Grid Chevrolet Camaro GT4.R as the season reaches its halfway point with a visit to the historic 3.4-mile, 11-turn circuit.<\/p>\n

After competing at several challenging circuits which historically did not favor the Camaro, the series now shifts to venues that play to the Camaro\u2019s strengths \u2013 beginning with Watkins Glen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Camaro goes quite well at Watkins Glen,\u201d Liddell said. \u201cOur biggest concern is top speed. If the performance of the car in terms of top speed is there, we\u2019ll have a good race car. I think the car should do quite well at the next three races in particular \u2013 Watkins Glen, Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (July 2) and Lime Rock Park (July 16). I\u2019m looking forward to having a competitive car during those three weekends.\u201d<\/p>\n

While resting up during the six-week break since the most recent race at Mid-Ohio, the team managed to slip in a two-day test at the circuit located in the Upstate New York Finger Lakes Region.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything went pretty well at the test,\u201d Liddell said. \u201cFrank did a great job \u2013 he was actually a second quicker than he was in last year\u2019s qualifying. Frank\u2019s driving has really come on a lot this year. Hopefully he can continue to make progress in qualifying as well, as he typically races better than he qualifies. He\u2019s having a good run of races where he\u2019s made good decisions and gained places, so I\u2019m excited to see how he will do at The Glen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liddell is a three-time winner of the Sahlen\u2019s Six Hours, in 2006 (Tafel Porsche) and 2012-13 (Stevenson Camaro). He also won twice in the Continental Tire 150 in a Chevrolet Camaro.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the track at Watkins Glen,\u201d Liddell said. \u201cI first raced there in the Six Hours in 2005 (finished fourth), and loved it from the moment I first drove there. I like everything about it, and it\u2019s one of my favorite places to visit. We\u2019ll have a few extra days there to turn the car around for the following weekend\u2019s race in Canada, so that gives us the opportunity to spend some time in the area, which is nice. It\u2019s a lovely part of the world.”<\/p>\n

The team is looking for better luck than last year\u2019s extended visit to The Glen, which featured races on back-to-back weekends. The team finished a competitive fifth in its previous visit to WGI in 2019. Rebel Rock is coming off an uneventful ninth-place finish at Mid-Ohio, with Liddell gaining three positions on the final lap.<\/p>\n

GS qualifying for the Tioga Downs Casino Resort 120 will be held on Friday at 3:55 p.m. (all times ET). The two-hour race will take the green flag at 3:40 p.m. on Saturday, and will be streamed live on Peacock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WATKINS GLEN, NY (23\u00a0June 2022) \u2013 Rebel Rock Racing is rested and tested heading to Saturday\u2019s Tioga Downs Casino Resort 120, Round 5 of the 2022 [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823","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=4823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4826,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions\/4826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}