Costa Mesa, Calif. (27 August 2015) – Sloan Urry will be back racing his No. 02 SecurityNational Porsche this weekend at Sonoma Raceway. The Pirelli World Challenge GT Cup presented by MOMO double-header will be held as part of the Verizon IndyCar Series season-finale weekend and the entire TruSpeed Autosport organization is racing with heavy hearts after the loss of IndyCar driver Justin Wilson, who was a friend of the team.
“After such a big weekend with our guests at SecurityNational at Miller, it was a terrible shock to find out about what happened in the IndyCar race,” said Urry. “I enjoy racing at Sonoma, but we'll be doing so with heavy hearts. We continue to think of Justin Wilson's family and keep them in our prayers.”
Urry finished third in both races at Miller Motorsports Park last weekend and will look for continued progress at Sonoma this weekend.
The 2.52-mile northern California road course is a scenic yet challenging one with elevation changes and tight, twisting corners.
“Justin Wilson truly was the nicest and most well-liked competitor in our industry,” said TruSpeed Autosport Team Owner Tyler Tadevic. “I've personally known him since his early days in Champ Car when I owned Pacific Coast Motorsports and competed against him. The entire TruSpeed organization expresses their most sincere condolences to Justin's entire family. It's a huge loss for anyone who knew him.”
The Sonoma Raceway weekend begins on Fridaywith two 30-minute practice sessions. Qualifying and Race 1 will take place on Saturday with Race 2 set forSunday. Both races can be viewed LIVE at www.world-challengetv.com
SONOMA SCHEDULE:
Friday: Practice → 9:20 AM – 9:50 AM PST
Friday: Practice → 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM PST
Saturday: Qualifying → 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM PST
Saturday: Race 1 → 4:50 PM – 5:50 PM PST
Sunday: Race 2 → 10:55 AM – 11:55 AM PST
The Sonoma Raceway rounds will be televised on CBS Sports Network on Sunday, September 6 at 2:00 PM ET.
Double podium for Sloan Urry in No. 02 SecurityNational Porsche
Tooele, Utah (24 August 2015) – Racing at Sloan Urry's home track, SecurityNational Mortgage had a big weekend at Miller Motorsports Park with a significant marketing activation as well as strength on track. Contending the MOMO GT Cup class of Pirelli World Challenge competition, Urry scored a double podium finish with a run to third on Saturday and then returning to the podium again on Sunday with an encore third place result.
The strong finishes marked Urry's ninth and 10th podium results of the year in his first season of Pirelli World Challenge MOMO GT Cup competition after showing himself as a race winner in IMSA last year.
The Pirelli World Challenge staged a double header at Miller over the weekend and after qualifying third on the grid for Race 1, Urry converted that into a run to third place with a quickest lap time of 1:55.596-seconds.
“It's hard to be unhappy with a podium finish, and I think we put on a good show for the hometown crowd and all of our sponsors,” said Urry following Race 1. “The support I've had this weekend is unbeatable. SecurityNational Mortgage, Alder and Tweed, Metro National Title and so many others have really stepped up to come and bring a large contingent of guests and make it quite the event so hats off to them. I really appreciate everything they do for me and the team and hopefully tomorrow I can give them a little bit more of what we're expecting.”
Once again racing in front of a packed house of SecurityNational Mortgage guests, Urry took to the challenging road course for Race 2 on Sunday. The race saw a standing start and though Urry didn't get the best start off of the line, he made up for it with his experienced driving at the track to once again drive to a podium finish.
“The car was good – it was pretty similar to yesterday,” said Urry. “The TruSpeed guys put a good car under me. I didn't get the start I wanted, I just bogged down the motor off the line. I had traffic I had to work through after that and it separated me a bit from the leaders. I was really hoping for a yellow to give me a shot to step a little higher on the podium but considering the start I got, I'm pleased to have finished on the podium. Hats off once again to SecurityNational Mortgage, Alder and Tweed, and Metro National Title for just showing me a great amount of support this weekend. I think everyone was very pleased this weekend.”
Urry and SecurityNational will be back in action when the Pirelli World Challenge stages the penultimate rounds of the 2015 championship at Sonoma Raceway next weekend.
Costa Mesa, Calif. (18 August 2015) – When the Pirelli World Challenge visits Miller Motorsports Park this weekend, it'll be a bit of a homecoming for Sloan Urry, who drives the No. 02 SecurityNational Porsche in GT Cup presented by MOMO competition. The Salt Lake City native will not only have scores of family and friends on hand for the Supercar Grand Prix of Utah event, but there will also be a large contingent of SecurityNational guests hosted by Urry's TruSpeed Autosport team.
The double-header event at Miller Motorsports Park is one that Urry has been looking forward to as he returns to the site of where his racing career first began. He was first introduced to the world of racing when he participated in the track's Performance Driving School in 2010 and from that moment on, Urry was hooked.
“Miller Motorsports Park feels like home to me, it's where my career started,” reflected Urry. “It's a bit nostalgic for me. I started at the track's school and now I instruct at the school. I know the track pretty well because I've been around there a lot. I'm excited to come back home and put on a good show for the hometown crowd.”
Though Urry has a vast amount of experience at the 4.5-mile, 24-turn road course, it's been several years since Urry last competed at Miller. He's currently second in the Pirelli World Challenge GT Cup standings and is eager to add to his podium tally at the track that he is very familiar with.
Urry has already scored eight podium finishes this year which includes six runner-up results
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“We've had a pretty solid season so far,” said Urry. “It's great to be on the podium and to consistently give SecurityNational positive results. I'm still chasing that first victory of the year and I can't think of any better place to achieve that, than at my home track. I'm really looking forward to it. We'll have hundreds of people from SecurityNational at the track so hopefully we can give them a good show!”
The hometown favorite has been tabbed to help promote the big event in his local market and has done several media interviews around Salt Lake City in the run up to the race weekend. Check out a couple of his interviews here:
KSL-5 NBC: http://www.ksl.com/?sid=35999687&nid=148&title=slc-native-among-top-racers-at-super-car-grand-prix
KUTV-2 CBS: http://kutv.com/sports/talkin-sports/sloan-urry-on-talkin-sports
Urry will also appear on the “Mountain Morning Show” on Park City TV this Wednesday, August 19.
The Supercar Grand Prix of Utah race weekend begins with official practice on Friday at Miller Motorsports Park. Qualifying will take place on Saturday prior to Race 1 at 12:45 PM local time. Race 2 is set for 12:00 PM local time on Sunday.
Be sure to catch all the race action LIVE on world-challengetv.com. CBS Sports Network will broadcast the event on Sunday, August 30 at 2:00 PM ET.
Lexington, Ohio (2 August 2015) – Sloan Urry earned his eighth podium result of the year at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course over the weekend as the Pirelli World Challenge staged Rounds 12 and 13 of the 2015
championship. Driving the No. 02 SecurityNational Porsche, Urry delivered a third place finish in Race 1 and followed that effort up with a fourth place result in Race 2 on Sunday.
The standing start for Race 1 was waved off and so the race went green with a single-file restart. Urry took advantage of some shuffling at the drop of the green and moved up from his third place starting spot. As the race settled into a rhythm, he ceded the second place position to his TruSpeed/Kelly Moss teammate Colin Thompson and ran third in line until the finish.
“It was a crazy start – Colin (Thompson) had an issue on the start and everybody spread out so I got a little caught off guard by that,” said Urry. “Brett (Sandberg, TruSpeed teammate) and I were just running nose to tail trying to catch the leaders. After the last restart, our tires were covered in a lot of debris / pick up and all of us were just fighting to stay on the track. We wanted to be pushing up further to the front, but you have to take the podium when you get it.”
Sunday's race was more of an uphill battle for Urry, as he struggled a bit in the early running with the handling of his SecurityNational Porsche. He ran fifth for the majority of the race as he stayed right on the bumper of Lorenzo Trefethen who ran in fourth.
After a full course caution late in the race, the field was reordered and the first and second place GT Cup cars
were put on the lead lap while the remaining GT Cup field was scored a lap down. At that point, the highest position Urry could finish was third and after fighting for fourth lap after lap, he finally got by Trefethen to take the position in the race's final moments.
“The race didn't go as planned,” said Urry. “At the start I had a little bit of front end issues with pushing outside the last two corners. Brett (Sandberg) got by me in Turn 1 and Lorenzo (Trefethen) in Turn 2. The rest of the race I was all over Lorenzo and he was chopping me all over. I was much quicker than he was, so I was a little frustrated with that. I ended up getting by him and finishing fourth which is a respectable finish, but not where I wanted to be today.”
Urry will next be in Pirelli World Challenge action at his home track of Miller Motorsports Park in Salt Lake City, Utah on August 21-23.
“All in all it was a good weekend and we'll look forward to getting to the next event,” said TruSpeed Autosport Team Owner Tyler Tadevic. “We'll take our fourth place points and go on home and get ready for Miller. I'm a little disappointed in the officiating with the race. After the restart they reordered the field and gave first and second an additional lap. So the best we could go for at that point was third. A big shout out to all of our guests at SecurityNational Mortgage who came out to Mid-Ohio this weekend. I really appreciate everyone coming out and supporting the team. We look forward to some more support from them at our next event in Salt Lake City.”
The Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course rounds will be televised on CBS Sports Network on Sunday, August 9 at 4:00 PM ET.
