The 2011 Trans-Am Series was the 43rd season of the Sports Car Club of America's Trans-Am Series, a class of racing that straddles the line between sports car and stock car auto racing.
The 2011 schedule consisted of races on 8 road courses and one temporary street circuit. It was the first season that utilized the new multi-class format. The TA1 class is for the previous spec of Trans-Am cars. The TA2 class was added for cars that meet SCCA GT2-class specifications. These cars were primarily stock cars, some of which have been rebodied with pony car bodywork. A third class, TA3, for cars meeting SCCA GT3-class specifications was announced, which mainly consisted of smaller and lower-powered sports cars than TA1. However, there were no TA3 entries in 2011. For the final race of the season, a new class, Global GT (GGT) was introduced for production-based sports cars.
2010 champ Tony Ave won 6 of the 9 races to repeat as champion. Bob Stretch won the TA2 class in 5 of the 7 races he contested to win the inaugural TA2 championship.
Although she was not the first woman to compete in the Trans-Am Series (Janet Guthrie, 1978), Amy Ruman became the first one in the series' 45-year history to win a race, accomplishing the feat in the season finale at Road Atlanta.
The event at Miller is thus far the only post-hiatus Trans Am event in the Western United States.
Schedule Rnd Date Circuit Distance TA1 Winning Car TA2 Winning Car GGT Winning Car TA1 Winning Driver(s) TA2 Winning Driver(s) GGT Winning Driver(s) 1 March 18 Sebring International Raceway, Sebring, Florida Chevrolet Corvette Chevrolet Camaro R. J. López Gregg Rodgers 2 May 1 Miller Motorsports Park, Tooele, Utah Chevrolet Corvette Chevrolet Camaro Tony Ave Gregg Rodgers 3 May 15 Virginia International Raceway, Danville, Virginia Chevrolet Corvette Chevrolet Camaro Tony Ave Bob Stretch 4 May 22 Mosport International Raceway, Bowmanville, Ontario Chevrolet Corvette Chevrolet Camaro Tony Ave Bob Stretch 5 August 7 Circuit Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Quebec Chevrolet Corvette Chevrolet Camaro Tony Ave Bob Stretch 6 August 20 Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin Ford Mustang Porsche 997 Cliff Ebben Scott Tucker 7 September 3 Brainerd International Raceway, Brainerd, Minnesota Chevrolet Corvette Chevrolet Camaro Tony Ave Bob Stretch 8 September 4 Chevrolet Corvette Chevrolet Camaro Tony Ave Bob Stretch 9 September 30 Road Atlanta, Braselton, GeorgiaChevrolet CorvetteChevrolet CamaroFerrari F430 Amy Ruman Mike Skeen Scott Tucker
Driver standings
TA1 PosDriverStartsPoints1 Tony Ave911222 Simon Gregg98933 Amy Ruman87634 David Jans97385 Doug Harrington87126 Daniel Ramoutarsingh76717 Cliff Ebben55468 John Baucom64709 Carlos de Quesada638610 Denny Lamers430211 Doug Peterson529812 R. J. Lopez329513 Blaise Csida220814 Glen Jung318015 Kenny Bupp216016 Bob Monette2160
TA2 PosDriverStartsPoints1 Bob Stretch78932 Bill Prietzel76953 Ricky Sanders66424 Greg Rodgers44655 Tom Sheehan33046 J. Thomas Graham21847 Mel Shaw21768 Mike Skeen11379 J. Kurt Roehrig111610 Tony Amico1110
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