Porsche Deluxe Carrera Cup North America entered the second half of its third season with round nine of the 16 race championship at Road America on July 28. Thirty four cars started the first of the twin 40-minute rounds scheduled to race as support for the NASCAR Xfinity Series at the Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin race track. A three-lap shootout in each of the three classes punctuated the race on the 4-mile road course after an extended red flag stopped the event.
The finish broke a longstanding anomaly on the resume of two-time series championship winning Kellymoss. Until Friday, the Madison, Wisconsin-based program had only one win in Carrera Cup at its home track. Riley Dickinson (New Braunfels, Texas) corrected that with a pull-away victory in the Pro class driving the No. 53 Racing for Children’s Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race car. Teammate Efrin Castro (Dominican Republic) took the Pro-Am class win with the No. 65 Kellymoss Porsche. MDK Motorsports’ Scott Noble (Dallas, Texas) captured his second Am class win in the No. 10 Porsche.
Highlights
Hometown heroes. Kellymoss, based less than two hours from Road America in Madison, Wisconsin, has won both previous Carrera Cup North America championships but had not won in the one-make championship at their home track since the inaugural race here in 2021 (Kay van Berlo). Making the day sweeter for the Andy Kilcoyne and Victoria Thomas-owned operation, they also won the Pro-Am class with Castro.
Riley Dickinson (No. 53 Kellymoss) captured his sixth race win of the season, his ninth podium result of the nine races held thus far. The performance adds another 25 points for the victory plus two points for pole position and one point for the fastest race lap bring him to 225 points for the season. An additional two points will be awarded for Saturday’s pole position.
The race was paused under a red flag with 32 of the 40 minutes remaining. The stoppage came following heavy contact in the track’s famous “Kink” by multi-time class winner Jeff Mosing (Austin, Texas). Mosing, who h ad won both Pro-Am class races in the most recent Carrera Cup weekend at Watkins Glen International, struck both the inside and the outside walls of the circuit. The incident totaled the No. 56 Topp Racing Porsche but Mosing was evaluated and released from the Infield Care Center following the incident. P.J. Hyett (Chicago, Illinois) was also involved in the incident. The driver of the No. 23 Kellymoss-prepared Pro-Am class Porsche was also evaluated and released. Neither car will start Saturday’s race.
“First and foremost, I want to wish Jeff (Mosing) the best,” Dickinson said after the race. “That was obviously a huge hit for him.
“Overall, it was a good race. The car’s balance was completely shifted from what we experienced in practice and qualifying. Every time we have been on track the balance has been completely different because of the various cars that are out there running. We learned a lot and it was obviously a good points day for us.”