PAUL FIX TO DEBUT IN IMSA PROTOYPE CHALLENGE PRESENTED BY MAZDA

Monday, March 13, 2017 Veteran sports car driver Paul Fix will compete in the IMSA Prototype Challenge presented by Mazda in 2017, as driver of the #44 Ave-Riley AR-2 LMP3 car. The series will participate in select events in conjunction with the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship series. The series will feature a 13-round calendar, starting at Sebring in mid-March and finishing in early October. Nine of these rounds will take place during WeatherTech Championship weekends. Most rounds will have two races of 45 minutes each, in a single-driver format over two days. For team owner Tony Ave, the decision to acquire Fix as a driver was an easy one. Said Ave, "Paul drove our works Trans Am cars for the past three seasons and played a large part in helping develop the car to its current point of success in that series and I expect him to lead us in this endeavor in the same fashion." Fix and Ave have collaborated for three highly successful seasons in the SCCA Trans Am series where the ...