Youngest Winner in Rose Cup History!

PORTLAND, Ore. (July 19, 2018) – The Rose Cup Races concluded its 58th year running this past weekend at Portland International Raceway (PIR). The Pacific Northwest’s premier amateur road racing event featured racing competitors from both the Oregon Region Sports Car Club of America and the Cascade Sports Car Club, competing in four amateur race groups: Spec Racer Ford, Great American Stock Car Series, Spec Miata, and a Vintage race group.

This year’s event also highlighted the return of professional sports car racing to PIR for the first time since 2009. The Pirelli World Challenge, considered North America’s top GT production-based road racing sports car series, brought more than 20 different manufacturers and 40 separate models to the Rose Cup Races, with four race groups and seven classes. The weekend marked the first time Pirelli World Challenge has raced in Portland since 2005.

The official winner of Sunday’s 58th Rose Cup race was the team of teenager Parker Chase and veteran Ryan Dalziel, who drove their Audi R8 LMS to victory in the GT SprintX feature. Chase, a 17-year-old from New Braunfels, Tex., scored his first GT Overall win. Dalziel, a multi-time GT race winner, started the race in the No. 19 Audi and was running third when he passed off the car to the teenager. Chase is the youngest driver in the history of the event to win the Rose Cup.

“It was terrific to work with PIR, the local sports car clubs and the Pirelli World Challenge folks to bring professional sports car racing back to Portland,” said Gary Bockman, President of Friends of PIR (FOPIR), the organizer of the event. “The hot weather matched the hot action on the race track, that’s for sure. We thank the many volunteers that made this event possible and we are already looking forward to the 59th Rose Cup Races in 2019.”

Final Race Results from the Pirelli World Challenge races held on Sunday, July 16, 2018:
Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car R/TCR Top 3 Overall
1st: Ryan Eversley (USA), Honda Civic Type-R
2nd: Michael Lewis (USA), Hyundai I30 N
3rd: Michael Cooper (USA), Honda Civic Type-R


Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car A/TCA
1st: Jeff Sexton (USA), Subaru BRZ
2nd: Spencer Patterson (USA), Subaru BRZ
3rd: Tom O’Gorman (USA), Honda Civic Si


Pirelli World Challenge GTS SprintX
1st: Harry Gottsacker (USA), Sin R1
2nd: Matt Keegan (USA)/Ian James (USA), Panoz Avezanno GT4
3rd: Scott Maxwell (CAN)/Jade Buford (USA), Ford Mustang GT4


Pirelli World Challenge GT SprintX and sub-classes
1st: Parker Chase (USA)/Ryan Dalziel (USA), Audi R8 LMS
2nd: Rodrigo Baptista (BRA)/Maxime Soulet (BEL), Bentley Continental GT2
3rd: Wolf Henzler (DEU)/Scott HARGROVE (CAN)  Porsche 911 GT3


Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car/TCR Top 3 Overall
1st: Vesko Kozarov (USA), Nissan 370z TC Spec
2nd: Johan Schwartz (DEN), BMW M235iR Cup
3rd: Karl Wittmer (CAN), BMW M235iR Cup

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