TPC Racing and team driver Alan Grossberg double up on their competition program with the new TPC Racing with Dream Racing No. 102 McLaren Artura GT4 with both GT America and Pirelli GT4 America series entries at this weekend's SRO America event at Barber Motorsports Park, September 6 - 8.
Grossberg is set for his second race in the Artura GT4 after a solid debut in the new McLaren two weeks ago at Road America in the single-driver GT America sprint race series. This time around, however, Grossberg and the TPC with Dream team add the two-driver Pirelli GT4 series to their on-track effort at Barber to learn as much as they can about the new McLaren in preparation for the 2025 racing season.
Joining Grossberg and the No. 102 team in Pirelli GT4 will be experienced international GT driver Dario Capitanio, a previous race winner with Dream Racing who has competed in a variety of top-tier GT and Prototype machinery around the world. The 29-year-old Italian talent won a Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America Pro-Am class race with Dream at Watkins Glen in 2021 and has driven everything from the Huracan Super Trofeo to LMP3 cars in the European Le Mans Series (ELMS) to, more recently, a Ferrari 488 GT3 in the GT Winter Series in Europe.
Grossberg and Capitanio are more than familiar teammates through Dream Racing and have been working together at the track for years. Capitanio, who worked with the team at Road America in the McLaren's debut, is Grossberg's competition driving coach. They have also raced together with some success in the past, co-driving to a third-place Lamborghini Super Trofeo Pro-Am finish at NOLA Motorsports Park in 2022.
Both TPC Racing and Grossberg left Road America with a great deal of knowledge and new-found familiarity with the car, and that valuable haul of information should more than double at Barber with the addition of Capitanio and the twin 60-minute Pirelli GT4 races.
A three-day event weekend, the Barber scheduled begins Friday with a pair of practice sessions for both GT America and Pirelli GT4. Qualifying for GT America at 8:05 a.m. CDT and Pirelli GT4 at 10:25 a.m. CDT sets the stage Saturday for the first of the weekend's two races in both series. The first 40-minute GT America race starts at 1 p.m. CDT with the opening one-hour Pirelli GT4 race wrapping up Saturday's schedule with a 5 p.m. CDT green flag.
Sunday's final day of competition begins with the second GT America sprint at 8:40 a.m. CDT with the final Pirelli GT4 race slated to start at 10:45 a.m. CDT.
All of the races and some additional on-track sessions from the Barber weekend can be viewed live on the GT World YouTube Channel.
Harris Levitas, TPC Racing Director of Race Operations: "The TPC Racing with Dream Racing Team is really excited to be headed to Barber Motorsports Park with our McLaren Artura GT4. We have had a lot of success at Barber in both GT3 and GT4 cars and have a great engineering staff behind us with the McLaren Artura program, so I feel we should be right on pace as we were at Road America. For this event we are switching things up and running GT America as well as Pirelli GT4 America with Alan Grossberg driving in both series. We will have Dario Capitanio joining Alan in the No. 102 McLaren Artura in the two-driver Pirelli GT4 series, and we are really excited to see how things shake out. We have experienced this pit stop format before in some single-make series racing that we do, and we know how to gain competitive edges in those situations. It is great to be part of both the GT America and Pirelli GT4 fields, and we look forward to seeing how Alan and Dario can do as a driving pair."
Alan Grossberg, Driver, No. 102 TPC Racing with Dream Racing McLaren Artura GT4: "I love the McLaren, I am just getting used to how it drives, understanding what its limit is, and also learning how to drive more of a momentum car rather than the powerful Lamborghini Super Trofeo we started the season with in GT2. The decision to do double up with both series was based around just trying to get as much track time as possible in the car. It will help me get up to speed on the car's capabilities quicker. I left Road America feeling like I left an awful lot on track and that there is a lot more to still be gained. I want to be as competitive as possible against the other GT4 drivers. Barber is going to be a completely new track for me. I have never been there, and I am looking for as much video as I can find as I don't know the circuit at all. Dario and I have been together for about five years, we are very comfortable with each other, and actually co-drove in a couple of races in Super Trofeo. I later helped him get into his own car so we could both get more seat time, but I am really looking forward to co-driving with him again. He is always really solid, is my primary driving coach and always a great co-driver."