SPECTACULAR PASS AT MID OHIO

Bill Auberlen and Robin Liddell held a seminar on proper side by side racing.

Photos: Turner Motorsport

Grand Am has seen its share of asshattery lately  mostly at the hands of Colombian driver Gustavo Yacaman,  the Baghdad Bob of racing ( "Not my fault, Rojas gave me no room"!).  

Here are a couple of real pros showing you can race side by side at the limit and not ball it up.

Turner Motorsport's Bill Auberlen is catching the Stevenson Motorsport Camaro of Robin Liddell at Mid Ohio, a very technical track with slippery off camber corners.   Auberlen sets the Camaro up for the "Esses" on the outside of turn 6 and makes a great lunge into 7,  a tricky left with a blind exit. Beautiful.

Auberlen, with co-driver Paul Dalla Lana won the race after the Corvette of Eric Curran was penalized for blatantly punting the Turner M3 in the final lap.

2013 Grand Am of the Americas

Photos: Danny Sullivan for Axis of Oversteer

Grand Am made its debut at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas this past week end. Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty in the Gainsco Red Dragon Corvette took the DP win and Turner Motorsport's Bill Auberlen and Paul Dalla Lana the GT win in two races very much conditioned by flags and penalties.

Penalties changed the out come of GT especially, the Scuderia Corse Ferrari of Alessandro Balzan and Alessandro Pier Guidi had been dominating the race when it was penalized for a very minor contact with the Magnus Porsche of Andy Lally. Lally went wide and allowed the BMW through to P2. Pier Guidi was given a Drive though plus a time penalty on the final lap giving Turner the win.



More pictures by Danny Sullivan who was shooting for us at CotA and video highlights after the break

Hey Joey.......SLAP!

This made us laugh. No mere love tap either, our man Styles on the scene says you could clearly hear it over screaming race cars!
(nice one VelozMedia!)
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Turner Time Lapse

Who doesn't love time lapse build videos?
Five weeks of filming condensed in about 90 seconds showing the Turner Motorsport BMW M3 Grand Am car being readied for the 24 hours of Daytona next week end.





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Best Suspension Cam video ever!

Sometimes you run across something executed so well, you can't help but go..WOW.
Look at the clarity of this clip, by Veloz Media, giving you a ride on the front left corner of Bill Auberlen's Turner Motorsports Rolex GT BMW M3.

Don't miss other clips from Daytona testing and Team Turner after the jump

A Hot Lap with Bill

...in Will's car

The great Bill Auberlen on a practice lap for the this year's Daytona 24 hour race in the Turner Motorsport BMW Riley M6 (the car is a tube chassis silhouette with a Fletcher built BMW S62 V8.)
The Freep points out a cool read about Auberlen and the second Rolex race at Homestead-Miami. Check it out HERE



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Dipstick.

Lo-Buck tells us:

"The talk of the GTS3 crowd at Pocono this past weekend: part because this epic baller has a brand new M3 built by Turner for GTS, part because no one could find the dip stick ;)"

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Hard Fighting at the Glen.

A great in car video from Joey Hand's Turner Motorsport BMW M3 from the June 7 2009 Grand-Am Koni Challenge race at Watkins Glen.

As the video starts, there is a restart after a yellow flag, it's mayhem! If there was ever a better illustration that there is no such thing as a "racing line", this is it. Don't miss what happens between Bill Auberlen and Andy Lally in turn 7 (the Toe).

As a bonus, after the jump, you can see the race side by side from Auberlen's and Hand's cars.