Muscle Milk Pickett Racing with drivers Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr wrote a piece of history today by becoming the first to post overall victories in consecutive years at Long Beach with an impressive win in the second round of the American Le Mans Series. The team also added to its history by scoring its first double podium finish in the American Le Mans Series with an impressive second place by Memo Gidley and Mike Guasch in the PC class.
Mother Nature played a major role today in Long Beach with heavy rain cancelling the American Le Mans Series qualifying session. Due to the cancellation, the starting grid has been determined by the points standings, meaning the Muscle Milk Pickett Racing P1 squad of Lucas Luhr and Klaus Graf will start second overall with the PC team of Memo Gidley and Mike Guasch starting fifth in the PC class.
Muscle Milk Pickett Racing is hoping to make history this weekend on the streets of Long Beach, as it looks to bounce back from what was a bittersweet season opening race last month at Sebring. The team’s HPD ARX-03a P1 car did end up second in class at the 12-hour event, but had it not been for an issue with the fuel-receiving valve on their final pit stop – that consequently forced them to retire with minutes to go after …Continue reading
April 7, 2012 (Novato, CA) Last Saturday, Muscle Milk/Molecule MEGA athlete, Memo Gidley, added another chapter to his vast and varied racing career by finishing 7th in class in the Single Handed Sailing Society Corinthian fourteen mile sailboat race on the San Francisco Bay. This was Gidley’s first race as skipper of the New Zealand built Elliott 35ft “Basic Instinct” sailboat from Sausalito, CA. Because this is a double handed race, Gidley had only one crew member, Jan Borjeson from …Continue reading
Muscle Milk Pickett Racing’s PC team of Mike Guasch, Memo Gidley and Roger Wills had a strong showing in their debut by placing fifth in class in the 12 Hours of Sebring race this past weekend. At the beginning of this grueling race, the trio was running well and moving up from their sixth place starting spot. Starting driver, Guasch, did a great job on his opening stints managing the traffic of this 64 car field and keeping the car …Continue reading
Muscle Milk Pickett Racing will be starting what is gearing up to be a year of firsts when it kicks off the season at this weekend’s 60th Anniversary Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh from Florida. It will mark the first time that the Greg Pickett-led team fields two cars in the American Le Mans Series. The team has added a PC car for drivers Mike Guasch and Memo Gidley to its P1 entry piloted by Germans …Continue reading