Dawson Competing’s D3+ Transformers Primed for WeatherTech 240 at Watkins Glen.

Watkins Glen, N.Y., June 30– The Dawson Competing Team debuted their No. 84 D3+ Transformers LMP3 race automobile finally weekend break’s Sahlen’s Six Hrs of Watkins Glen race to a sixth-place class coating. Vehicle drivers included Theodor Olsen (qualifier), Dominic Cicero and Ben Devlin at the 3.4-mile, 11-turn Watkins Glen International circuit in Watkins Glen, N.Y

. This Friday night Olsen and Cicero will certainly be the motorists of the D3+ Transformers access for the WeatherTech 240, a two-hour as well as forty minute race for the back-to-back International Automobile racing Organization (IMSA) WeatherTech SportsCar Championship collection.

” The drivers and also staff did a great task at our inaugural race this previous Sunday,” claimed Ian Dawson, CEO of Dawson Competing. “For our very first time being back after a few years away, it was excellent to complete our goal of ending up the six-hour race. Our drivers really bound as well as showed excellent collaboration. Now we have actually obtained our sights set on the sprint race Friday night. We really did not really have any type of damages from the previous race, so we have actually been able to concentrate on prep and also tweaking a couple of things on the car this week leading up to the race. Our partners of Hasbro and also Chevron were delighted with the group launch and elated to see us on course.”.

Theodor Olsen, a 21-year-old motorist from Norway, revealed the promise the Dawsons saw in him years ago when they brought him right into the family members racing team fold and started testing him in different Radical and also LMP3 cars and trucks.

” It was so terrific to lastly contend in my initial IMSA race for the 6 hrs,” said Olsen, of Moelv, Norway. “Racing among many skilled chauffeurs in the many classes was absolutely difficult however I delighted in the challenge. It will certainly be a different type of race this time with just Dominic as well as me so the approach will certainly be transformed for the sprint layout. I’m anticipating it as well as see if we can obtain a platform finish.”.

Cicero, of La Quinta, Calif., A veteran IMSA competitor, competing trainer and Type 1 Diabetes mellitus athlete joins the team off a successful 2020 period in IMSA Prototype Difficulty competitor lately and has actually jumped right in. With his history in chauffeur growth, he has actually begun mentoring young Olsen about the ins and outs of IMSA racing, along with Ben Devlin, the group’s endurance vehicle driver.

” It’s so great to be back at Watkins Glen, one of my favored tracks,” claimed Cicero of La Quinta, Calif. “Although I just came on board at Dawson Competing, I currently really feel so comfortable with every person. It’s a family group with good family principles as well as I have actually never seen people work so tough with such unity to pull together to obtain a small non-factory group off and also running with confidence. I’m truly thankful for this possibility– to work with the Dawson, with Theodor as well as Ben and the staff on the Dawson Racing team. It was a very respectable launching and I assume our main companions Hasbro, Chevron and also Gnarly premium jerky for these two races more than happy as well as fired up about the future. So currently we intend to go out there and surpass that.