Based in Ormond Beach, FL, the "Birthplace of Speed" and organized racing in North America, BGB Motorsports has fielded the highest finishing Porsche entries in the Continental Tire Series Team and Manufacturers' championships. The team's facility is located less than 20 miles away from the world famous Daytona International Speedway and the headquarters for the Grand American Road Racing Association. Since 2004 the team has carried the flag for Porsche Cars North America. Without any financial or technical support from the factory, the group operates as a customer oriented business building, developing and supporting cars under the Grand Am, Sports Car Club of America and Porsche Club of America sanctioning bodies.
BGB owned Porsche entries have won 4 Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Series races overall, visited the podium 11 times and have finished in the top-10 over 60 times since their first year of competition in 2004. Supporting 2 and sometimes 3 vehicles during a race season, BGB has 139 starts in the GS class and has finished in the top-10 43% of the time across 8 seasons.
This string of consistent top finishes and lack of failed attempts to finish comes as a result of great preparation and dedication over the years. Since the 2005 season BGB owned cars have been finishing races, and typically failing to do so only when crash damage among drivers occurs. Over the last 107 entries, only one time has a BGB owned car failed to finish a race for mechanical reasons, an impressive record when considering the level of competition and large field sizes in the Continental Tire series.
EARLY HISTORY: The team’s involvement with the Porsche chassis began prior to the 2004 season when the Grand-Am series chose to reduce the format from four classes down to two. From 2004 thru 2006, the existing Grand-Am Continental Tire spec Porsche offering from the dealership was the 996 Carrera 2 chassis. When Porsche improved their platform, BGB followed suit and in the end of 2006 the team purchased the current generation 911, or 997, which they’ve run since then. It was then that the team's Porsche program gained momentum as Tim Traver and Mikel Miller won the 6-hour season finale at Virginia International Raceway, securing the manufacturers trophy for Porsche Cars North America, around a rain soaked and very dark VIR race track.
2007 Season: During 2007, BGB Motorsports finished 3rd in the Continental Tire Series Team Championship, fourteen points shy of 1st place. BGB Porsche driver Craig Stanton finished 3rd in the Driver’s Championship with mid-season arrival Hugh Plumb finishing in 5th. Plumb and Stanton joined together to finish in the top-10 seven consecutive times in seven attempts. The pair visited the podium during all 3 final races in 2007.
2008 Season: In 2008 the #83 Porsche sponsored by Weeden Consultants finished 4th in the Team Championship with BGB drivers Craig Stanton and Jon Miller taking 4th place and 5th places in the Driver’s Championships. While the team was unable to improve on last year’s 3rd place championship finish , they were a threat during every single race, producing multiple wins, podiums and top-10 finishes. During that season BGB Porsches won 3 races , more than any other single team in competition.
2009 Season: Due to concerns during the economic downturn of 2008 and 2009 and the team's inability to find sponsor or driver commitments interested in supporting the Porsche 911, BGB made the difficult decision to cease operations and restructure. Some late-season interest returned the team to the paddock for the final 4 races of competition with their supporting a pair of 911s. Kris Wilson of Golden, Colorado and David Riddle of Vancouver, BC, Canada ran together under C-Max Racing sponsorship. Motorcyle road racing veteran and 5 time Daytona 200 winner Scott Russell of Conyers, GA joined Guy Cosmo of West Palm Beach, FL, as the two ran the familiar orange BGB Porsche 911.
2010 Season: In 2010 the team returned to full-time Grand-Am competition with a pair of race prepared Porsche Cayman S cars that they completed in 2 months at the end of 2009. As the first team ever to professionally campaign the Cayman in North American competition, Daytona showed promised when Steve Jenkins was the highest qualifying Porsche to spotlight the Cayman's debut. Teammates Keith Carroll and Duncan Ende finished just outside the top-10 in the team's other Cayman to complete the car's first race. At the 2nd, 3rd and 4th rounds the Cayman began to show improvements. Craig Stanton showed chances of hope at Homestead and VIR, when the Cayman found its way to the top-5 in the later stages of those two races. Finishing positions were improving but some rules changes were required to make the car more suitable for racing and improve driver sentiment. All the while, Stewart Tetreault and Guy Cosmo proved that they could be a threat in the familiar orange BGB 997 during its final season before retirement, when the two occupied a top-10 spot in the 2010 Team Championship for the first half of the season. Teammates Keith Carroll and Duncan Ende were enjoying conistent finishes in the blue #23 Racer's Roast Porsche Cayman, as they too were in the top-10 in the championship for most of the season. Determined to put bad luck behind him, Steve Jenkins gave life to the Cayman mid-season by qualifying the car 13th, 7th and it's best of 5th, at Lime Rock Park, Watkins Glen and Mid Ohio, becoming more competitive every round. Strong drives in the opening stints of those races by Jenkins gave new hope but again, impatient competitors would remove Jenkins' chances to vindicate himself. For Tetreault, Cosmo and the orange 997, a late race mixup among drivers and teammates dashed any hopes the 997 had of finishing further up in the championship. The car's last intended race was New Jersey Motorsports Park in July, and is now retired. Since the strong qualifying by Jenkins and finish by Ende at Mid Ohio, the Cayman hadn't showed promise until it got to the streets of Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada. Running in 2nd place at the control of Guy Cosmo, behind the factory Roush mustang , local favorite Jean Francois Dumoulin got in after 30 minutes and led the race only to experience heartbreak when his Cayman ran out of gas on the last lap, pushing Dumoulin from 3rd to running on fumes as the checkered flag fell. With one last chance at Utah, the Cayman was out front again at the hands of Guy Cosmo, after a strong first stint by Duncan Ende; the team's charge was short lived though, as they would have to wait until 2010 to show what they had learned after their first year with their new Cayman race car.
2011 Season: Running only 6 races during the 2011 season, the team campaigned the Porsche Cayman S at the hands of Stewart Tetreault and Guy Cosmo with an impressive string of top-10 finishes. In nearly every race during the 2011 season, with the exception of Lime Rock where a nail on track broke the streak, a BGB Cayman ran in the top-10 and finished with an impressive string of top-10s and strong results considering how outmatched and outgunned the little Porsche Cayman S was in the field of angry V8 muscle.
2012 Season:BGB recently announced plans to return to their winning 997 roots and field two Porsche 997s complete with the new Porsche Direct Fuel Injection powered GTS 3.8 liter X51 engines.
