The TPC Racing Team with Dream Racing remains podium perfect in the 2024 GT America powered by AWS GT2-class season after team driver Aaron Farhadi dove the No. 127 TPC Racing Team with Dream Racing Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 to a pair of second-place finishes in last weekend's Saturday and Sunday doubleheader at the Grand Prix of Long Beach.
Combined with Farhadi's pair of GT2 victories earlier this month in the season-opening doubleheader at Sonoma Raceway, the TPC Racing/Dream team and Farhadi maintain their early-season championship points lead in the GT2 category after the first four rounds of the 16 race season.
Farhadi pressured the race winner to the end in both 40-mnute sprints on the fast and unforgiving Long Beach street circuit. The closest finish was Saturday when Farhadi frequently lapped right on the tail of the eventual winner and took the checkered flag just 2.26 seconds back.
The No. 127's pace was even quicker on Sunday, and Farhadi scored the CrowdStrike Fast Lap award for setting the top GT2 lap time of the race chasing down the eventual winner seven laps from the finish.
Farhadi raced alongside his teammate and Long Beach area native Alan Grossberg who made his long overdue debut on his "home track" in the No. 102 TPC Racing Team with Dream Racing Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2. Grossberg's best result of the weekend was fourth in GT2 in Saturday's opening race.
Grossberg and Farhadi are back with TPC Racing this year following successful late-season runs with the team in 2023 in partnership with Dream Racing that brings both of the race-winning and high-end motorsports entities together on track. The Sonoma sweep marked the first victories for the TPC/Dream collaboration in just their third race weekend together while this past weekend at Long Beach marked their respective debuts at America's premier street race, which will have its 50th Anniversary celebrated next year.
With the first quarter of the season remarkably already in the books, next up for the TPC Racing Team with Dream Racing in GT America GT2 is Rounds 5 and 6 of the championship in two weeks at Sebring International Raceway, May 3 - 5.
The TPC Racing Porsche Sprint Challenge team returns to action even sooner for a Cayman-class doubleheader this Saturday and Sunday at Barber Motorsports Park .
Harris Levitas, TPC Racing Director of Race Operations: "It was a really great race weekend with great points coming out of the event. Consistency is what counts in a championship, and Aaron has really proved he can do that, so we’ll take the two podium finishes and move onto Sebring. The Grand Prix of Long Beach is a really great event. We’ve competed in quite a few street races, but never Long Beach before this weekend, and the drivers really enjoyed it. Aaron and Allen both did a really great job, and each set their fastest laps of the weekend in Sunday's final race. That was a really great thing for them to end on such a high note, and Aaron's quick time was the fastest lap of Sunday's GT2 race. We kept everything out of trouble and now we move on to Sebring."
Aaron Farhadi, Driver, No. 127 Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo: "This was my first street circuit. It’s spectacular. You feel like you’re a Formula 1 driver seeing all those people in the stands. It’s all pretty cool, it’s just the coolest atmosphere. People love the Lamborghini. Our car has been getting a lot of attention, people stopping by and they love how mean and aggressive the EVO2 looks. It’s just such a privilege to even be able to race here in the first place. The team gave me the car to be able to perform. The speed difference favored the winner on the straights, but then we would make it up in the corners. It was a constant increase and decrease in the gap, but it’s cool. It’s fun. I enjoyed it. I’ve got to thank everybody, so massive thanks to Harris Levitas, huge thanks to Dream Racing, everyone at TPC Racing, my TPC chief mechanic Trevor Griffin, my Dad and Grandma who were here, and Jaden Conwright for helping me out with the coaching."