Mid-Season Brings Aggressive Pirelli World Challenge New Car Models, Great Sports Car Racing in 2017 GT, GTS & TC Action

Pirelli World Challenge visits the street course at the Toyota Grand Prix Of Long Beach. Last year's PWC champion and eventual winner of the PWC Grand Prix of Long Beach presented by Optima Batteries, Alvaro Parente takes on Turn 9 on a hot lap in the concrete canyons of Long Beach. Image Credit: Edmund Jenks (2017)

Mid-Season Brings Aggressive Pirelli World Challenge New Car Models, Great Sports Car Racing in 2017 GT, GTS & TC Action

The Pirelli World Challenge Championships has utilized aggressive thinking by its Competition officials to help produce some of the best sports car racing during the 2017 road racing campaign.

But this year’s PWC on-track product actually dates back to advanced programming set up some five years ago when the series’ officials took the advice of its teams and participating auto manufacturers to be the first racing organization in North America to bring in GT3, GT4 and TC International cars.