The Skip Barber Racing College has introduced it’ll enter a number of vehicles within the inaugural season of McLaren Trophy America. The collection, which options McLaren Trophy EVO vehicles, has confirmed in style in Europe and can now increase to the US.
The McLaren Trophy America season will start in March of 2025 from Sonoma Raceway and comply with the SRO America calendar throughout the nation with stops at Circuit of The Americas, Skip Barber’s dwelling observe of VIRginia Worldwide Raceway, Highway America, and Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
“This new program is necessary for us for 2 key causes,” stated Skip Barber Racing crew supervisor Joe Monitto. “First, it supplies our shoppers with one other glorious choice for the place they want to compete, because the McLaren Trophy EVO is an particularly engaging platform. Along with that, the Skip Barber Racing College has been working with McLaren to offer coaching to drivers looking for to compete within the collection. This raises the driving requirements, and with it, the standard of the competitors within the collection.”
All through the crew’s historical past, Skip Barber Racing has provided arrive-and-drive packages at a number of ranges of racing together with Touring Automotive, GT4, and different one-make collection. The addition of the McLaren Trophy EVO platform creates a extra numerous growth arc for the crew’s drivers.
“We’re actually happy that Skip Barber will probably be on the 2025 McLaren Trophy America grid,” stated Darioush Gheissari, supervisor of One-Make Racing for – McLaren Automotive Ltd. “To have such a legendary title in American motorsport be part of the McLaren household, particularly as a few of its alumni have gone on to race for McLaren, is a testomony to our manner of racing. We stay up for seeing how they get on after we hit the observe for the primary race of the yr at Sonoma in March.”
“Anytime we will welcome a prestigious model equivalent to McLaren into the Skip Barber Racing College household is an incredible testomony to our vary of talents,” Skip Barber Racing College Chief Advertising Officer Dan DeMonte stated. “With the growth of our championship-winning race crew comes elevated visibility and alternatives for our consumer-facing colleges, the Skip Barber Race Sequence, and our wide selection of choices within the company occasion house. I’m eagerly awaiting subsequent March and seeing the crew on observe.”
