Bryan Sellers Leaves the Corkscrew at Home, Picks a Six-Pack Instead

Falken Tire Driver Instructs You Through the TUDOR Championship’s Best Corners

Monterey, California, April 29, 2015 – Mention Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca (MRLS) anywhere in the world of racing and the word “Corkscrew” will soon follow. However, Bryan Sellers is more of a six-pack guy. ** Sunday, May 3, the Braselton, Georgia-resident returns to the state of California for the Monterey Grand Prix where the key corner to MRLS is Turn Six. The last two seasons, Sellers and teammate Wolf Henzler (Germany) have driven the No. 17 Team Falken Tire Porsche 911 RSR to a podium (2013) and a fourth-place (2014) finish at the 2.238-mile, 11-turn circuit on the Monterey Peninsula raising hopes for another top-five performance this weekend. Sunday’s event – Round Four of the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship – is a two-hour and forty-minute “sprint” race for the endurance sports car series. It is also the last GT Le Mans (GTLM) class event scheduled until after the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June. What happens here can leave a happy feeling until the teams return for the Sahlen’s Six Hours At The Glen on June 28 or it can leave a nasty hangover that takes time to recover from. Getting Turn Six right can make all the difference in the morning.

Drive Through the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca’s Turn Six with Bryan Sellers: “We’ve all heard about ‘The Corkscrew’ and its reputation among fans and photographers is well justified. But, for a driver, it is actually a pretty straightforward corner. For me, Turn Six is where it’s at! Turn Six is one of those corners that really catches your attention. It is a high-speed, fourth-gear turn with a very difficult entry. It has a slightly up-hill approach that is also partially blind making it difficult to get the brake and turn-in points correct. Here, it is all about carrying speed through the middle of the corner to help with your momentum heading up to ‘The Corkscrew’. Along with the difficult entry, there is also a big compression [where the weight of the car comes down fully on the shocks] at the apex. That can really upset the car if you don’t have the shocks tuned right. If you are a little off line or a little too fast, the compression can throw you half a car width to the outside of the road. To make matters worse, and make the corner even more difficult, the exit is also challenging. There is exit curbing that is very usable as you begin to leave Six and setup for Turn Seven. The issue is that the more of the curbing you use the more difficult it becomes because it is very off camber here and really pulls the car off the edge of the road towards the sand. Turn Six is my favorite in Monterey because it requires you to get all elements of it correct to be fast. If you mess it up you have to work to save the lap. If you get it right, it makes ‘The Corkscrew’ more of a twist top.”

Sunday’s Round Four of the TUDOR GTLM Championship will take the green flag at 1:05 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST)/ 4:05 p.m. EST. Fox Sports 1 will broadcast The Monterey Grand Prix live on May 3. IMSA.com will provide audio coverage of every on-track lap, including practice and qualifying while video streaming of qualifying will be available on the IMSA web site beginning at 4:15 p.m. Pacific, Saturday, May 2.

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Learn more about the TUDOR SportsCar Championship, please visit www.IMSA.com .

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