{"id":7385,"date":"2024-08-05T11:50:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T15:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=7385"},"modified":"2024-08-06T11:52:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T15:52:34","slug":"realtime-brings-legendary-world-challenge-cars-to-lime-rock-park-historic-festival-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/05\/realtime-brings-legendary-world-challenge-cars-to-lime-rock-park-historic-festival-42\/","title":{"rendered":"RealTime Brings Legendary World Challenge Cars to Lime Rock Park Historic Festival 42"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAUKVILLE, Wis. (August 5, 2024)<\/strong>\u00a0– RealTime Racing, winners of 15 World Challenge Drivers\u2019 Championships, will bring four of its turn-of-the-century World Challenge race cars to Lime Rock Park for the 42nd running the Historic Festival, August 30 \u2013 September 2. The cars are part of the Toyo Tires Turn-of-the-Century World Challenge Group created specifically for this year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n

RealTime owner Peter Cunningham will drive the team\u2019s first-generation Acura TSX, which the team won three World Challenge Touring Car Championships; in 2005 and 2008 with Cunningham and in 2006 with Pierre Kleinubing. Historic World Challenge co-founder John Whitaker will drive a second-generation RealTime Acura TSX, a model Kleinubing won the 2009 Touring Car title and Cunningham drove to two World Challenge GTS championships.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seemed only fitting that RealTime would bring a collection of its No. 42 race cars to Lime Rock\u2019s 42 Historic Festival,\u201d Cunningham said. \u201cI was thrilled when the track announced it would include a class specifically for World Challenge cars in this year\u2019s festival. We started racing in World Challenge back in 1993, so RealTime\u2019s history is very much intertwined with the series\u2019 history.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the TSXs, RealTime will bring two more iconic cars for display; an Acura Integra Type R which won Touring Car category championships in 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2002, and the Honda Prelude Si chassis in which Cunningham won his first ever Touring Car Championship in 1995. Michael Galati won the TC Championship and Rookie of the Year in the same car the following year. Cunningham and Galati went on to become the two drivers with the most World Challenge championships.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had a lot of good trips to Lime Rock Park and won nine World Challenge races there, more than any other track,\u201d Cunningham added. \u201cWe are all looking forward to reconnecting and racing with a lot of our former competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n

All the World Challenge cars will be outfitted in Toyo Tires, the original spec tire of the series from 2001 \u2013 2010.<\/p>\n

Historic Festival 42 at Lime Rock Park takes place August 30 \u2013 September 2. Visit\u00a0https:\/\/limerock.com\/events\/historic-festival-42\/<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n

Photos by Nick Sweek and Jessica Johnk<\/em><\/p>\n

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