Reno, NV: Gidley and the TKO Motorsports team took over the track the weekend of April 29-30, at NOLA Motorsports Park with the teams’ #101 Mercedes AMG GT3 during the 3rd race weekend of the 2023 SRO GT America series bringing home two more 1st place finishes as well as earning Crowdstrike’s Fastest Lap in both races! The trophies are stacking up for Gidley and the TKO team as the winning weekend made it four wins and six podiums in the six races of the season thus far.
Qualifiers took place Saturday morning and were a nail-biter with just 6/10ths of a second separating Gidley taking pole 1 and pole 2 sitter, Adam Adelson, in the Wright Motorsports Porsche 911.
Even with a pole 1 starting position for Race 1, Gidley did not hold back on the gas when the green flag was waved and was all out from start to finish, taking off from the starting line leaving the competition behind early on. With an incredible run, and the rain holding off until the end, Gidley and the TKO Motorsports team took 1st place by an incredible 13.339 second lead! Jason Daskalos followed in the CRP Racing Mercedes AMG GT3 with Wright Motorsports’, Adam Adelson, coming in third.
“It’s a surprise,” Gidley stated during his post-race interview with SRO America’s Amanda Busick. “We worked really hard on the TKO Motorsports #101 Mercedes. We did a couple of days of testing here and I never really felt that we were quite right. It wasn’t until qualifying that I felt that we had nailed it.”
In addition to a 1st place win on Saturday, Gidley also earned Crowdstrike’s Fastest Lap in the TKO Mercedes AMG GT3 with a Best Lap time of 1.36.885 placing him, once again, as pole 1 sitter for Race 2 Sunday morning. Gidley didn’t hold back, getting out to a fast start again and held first place from start to finish and never looked back holding a 16 second lead at one point. Gidley flew through the checkered flag in 1st place with a 9.377 lead ahead of George Kurtz in the Crowdstrike Mercedes AMG GT3 by Riley Motorsports.
“I am so incredibly proud of our entire TKO Motorsports team/crew!” said TKO Motorsports Owner & CEO, Dave Traitel. “With the hard work and long, sometimes frustrating hours put in by both TKO Motorsports and Flying Lizard Motorsports, Memo was able to bring home not just one, but TWO more 1st Place Wins in our #101 Mercedes AMG GT3 with, what paid off to be, a perfect set-up! Congrats Memo! Thank you to everyone for all the hard work, dedication, and commitment to the team. We couldn’t ask for a better group of people that make up our TKO Family. I can’t wait to be back at the track with everyone for our next race in Texas at Circuit of The Americas!”
TKO Motorsports will be back on the track participating in SRO GT America’s 4th race weekend of the series at Circuit of The Americas this weekend, May 19 – 21. Don’t forget to watch this season’s races live at https://www.gtamerica.us/live and view our race weekend photos and videos on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram! For all things TKO, visit www.tkomotorsports.com.
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