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Munroe Falls, Ohio – The Trans Am Championship Presented by Pirelli season started off right with a beautiful sunny and hot Florida March weekend at Sebring International Raceway. The sixty-one competitors put on two great races. Amy Ruman dusted off the cobwebs from being out of the car the last few months, and immediately went to work posting solid lap times in testing and practice. Qualifying wasn’t until 5:30pm Saturday night, introducing a nice glare from the setting sun as the drivers battled for the pole. Ruman qualified the No. 23 McNichols Co. Corvette 8th on the tight grid for Sunday’s race. When Sunday’s green flag flew, cars shuffled and traded spots going almost five wide into turn one. Ruman swapped some positions in the first few laps, ultimately settling in behind the No. 0 driven by Jordan Bupp. The two had a great battle going for the entire race, seemingly driving equally matched race cars. The pair moved up after a few mid-race restarts and some attrition along the way, with Ruman taking home is solid 5th place finish despite a tight race for third in the last few laps. “Even though we didn’t make the podium this weekend, Read more →

Munroe Falls, Ohio – Another winter break has come to an end for the Ruman Racing team. Amy Ruman will be back in action starting the 2019 Trans Am Championship Presented by Pirelli season off at the traditional season opener this weekend at Sebring International Raceway in Florida. Ruman and team closed out the 2018 year with a podium third place finish at Daytona International Speedway in the season finale of the Trans Am Championship. The two-time TA class Champion placed fifth overall in the chase for the Trigon trophy. In her quest for her third Trans Am title in 2019, Ruman will once again be backed by faithful longtime sponsor McNICHOLS CO., an Industrial and Architectural Hole Product Solutions company. The agreement will mark a seventeen-year consecutive run of partnership between the two entities. “We are delighted to be back again with Amy and the team for another year of electrifying Trans Am competition. Trans Am makes for some of the best racing in the business and we are proud and excited to watch Amy go after the TA title carrying the McNichols banner on the red No. 23 McNichols Co. Corvette! We are looking forward to a great Read more →

Daytona Beach, FL – Amy Ruman completed her 100th Trans Am start this past weekend in her No. 23 McNichols Co. Corvette at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Texas and took fourth place for the second year in a row. Official qualifying was canceled on Saturday evening for the TA/3/4 classes. Officials for the Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli opted to change the qualifying sessions to a single unofficial practice for all classes following a near hour-long delay in the event’s schedule due to track cleanup from other sessions. Trans Am cited the inability to provide a fair and appropriate period of time for all competitors to qualify, safety concerns due to impending sunset, and an uncertain session start time as factors in their decision. The grid for the multi-class Trans Am 100 was set by times from the weekend’s one official practice session held earlier on Saturday per the Trans Am Rule Book, TARB Article 6.2.8 Ruman and the team had some mechanical struggles throughout the weekend which gave her limited track time and laps to work on set up and times. She had issues during the only official practice session which placed her ninth on Read more →

Munroe Falls, Ohio – Ruman kicks off her 100th Trans Am start as the 2018 season of the Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli comes to a close at Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Texas and Daytona International Speedway. Amy Ruman and her No. 23 McNichols Co. Corvette will head South the next two weekends to round out the final two races of a very long season. Ruman currently sits fifth in the Championship points standings – with first and second places out of reach, the former two-time Champion can still grasp a third or fourth place overall finish. Ruman has had wins and podium finishes at both tracks and is optimistic heading into the final rounds. “Right now, it comes down to these two races for us, a lot is up for grabs yet and I intend to do my best and finish up strongly. We have utilized this month off to re-focus on a few things that should help us be quick. While the Championship title is out of our reach, we can make up a few more spots if all goes well. The gloves are off so I’m going for it!” exclaimed Ruman. This is Trans Read more →

Munroe Falls, Ohio – Amy Ruman will set another milestone in her Trans Am Series career this weekend, as she is set to make her 100th Trans Am start at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Texas. Following in her father’s footsteps, Trans Am veteran driver Bob Ruman, Trans Am has been home to the family-run Ruman Racing team for over twenty years during their combined racing careers. Ruman first drove the No. 23 McNichols Company Chevrolet Corvette thirteen years ago, making her 2005 Trans Am debut at the Cleveland Grand Prix in her home state of Ohio. Since then, Ruman has been making history throughout her iconic road racing career. With her breakthrough run to victory at Road Atlanta in 2011, Amy Ruman became the first woman to win a Trans Am race in the 45-year history of the Series. She then went on to become the first woman to win a professional automobile race as a solo driver at Daytona International Speedway, in 2014. Building on those victories, Ruman captured more wins along with her first Trans Am Championship title in 2015, becoming the first woman to win a North American professional road racing Championship. In 2016, she won Read more →