The Wisconsin Track Hosts the Final Round in North America ahead of Novembers Finali Mondiali in Italy
The Ferrari Challenge North America championship will make its final stop in North America for the 2021 season at the famed Road America circuit in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, this weekend. Forty-five Ferrari 488 Challenge Evo cars will take the green flag as the season races toward its conclusion.
Here’s a breakdown of what to expect this weekend:
Trofeo Pirelli: Cooper MacNeil (Ferrari of Westlake) missed the Indianapolis weekend due to a conflict with his IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship schedule but makes his return at Road America as the sole entrant in the Trofeo Pirelli category and with a certainly insurmountable points haul to date.
Things are a bit tighter in the Trofeo Pirelli AM1 category, where Jason McCarthy (Wide World Ferrari) took an important 15-point advantage over Martin Burrowes (Ferrari of Ft. Lauderdale) at the Indianapolis weekend with back-to-back wins. But should Martin accomplish the same feat this weekend, the championship will be impossibly tight heading into the Finali Mondiali. In AM2 meanwhile, things could not be any closer as Brian Davis (Ferrari of Palm Beach) leads Keysin Chen (Ferrari of Beverly Hills) by a single point, with two race weekends yet to run. A good weekend at Road America could make their lives significantly easier at the final round in Mugello, Italy.
Coppa Shell: Dave Musial Jr. (Ferrari of Lake Forest) will only need to cleanly navigate the weekend to earn his first Ferrari Challenge championship. He leads Todd Coleman (Ferrari of Denver) by 31 points, meaning Coleman would need an almighty closing in the final rounds and Musial would need some tremendously bad luck to change the standings. In Coppa Shell AM, Lance Cawley (Ferrari of Atlanta) is at the head of the pack by eight points over John Cervini (Ferrari of Ontario) after a season marked by Cawley’s unerring consistency. While he has yet to win a race, Cawley’s constant presence on the podium has earned him the top spot to date.
Schedule: Ferrari Challenge drivers will enjoy two test days on Wednesday and Thursday before the official practice sessions on Friday. Qualifying and Race 1 will take place on Saturday, while Sunday’s schedule will offer the same for Race 2 and mark the conclusion of the North American portion of the 2021 season. Teams will then head to the final round at the Mugello circuit for the Finali Mondiali from Nov. 4-7.