2013 Rolex Sports Car Series

The 2013 Rolex Sports Car Series season was the fourteenth and final season of the Grand American Road Racing Association's premier series, before merging up with the American Le Mans Series in 2014. It began on January 26, with the 51st running of the 24 Hours of Daytona.
As the NASCAR Holdings acquisition of Panoz Motor Sports, and IMSA, had already taken place, this season is technically one of two series that formed the 43rd season of the IMSA GT Championship that dates to 1971.

Schedule

The schedule was released on September 28, 2012 and featured the addition of three new circuits for the series; Circuit of the Americas, Kansas Speedway, and Road Atlanta. Also, the August 10 event at Road America was a combined weekend with the American Le Mans Series, showcasing the organizations' recent merger. Previous races at Homestead-Miami Speedway, New Jersey Motorsports Park, Watkins Glen Short Course and Circuit Gilles Villeneuve did not return.

Rnd	Date	Race	Duration	Circuit	Location
1	January 26–27	Rolex 24 At Daytona	24 hours	Daytona International Speedway	Daytona Beach, Florida
2	March 2	Grand-Am of The Americas presented by GAINSCO and TOTAL	2 hours 45 minutes	Circuit of the Americas	Austin, Texas
3	April 6	Porsche 250	2 hours	Barber Motorsports Park	Birmingham, Alabama
4	April 20	Visual Studio Ultimate Grand Prix of Atlanta	2 hours 45 minutes	Road Atlanta	Braselton, Georgia
5	June 1	Chevrolet Grand-Am Detroit 200	2 hours	The Raceway on Belle Isle	Detroit, Michigan
6	June 15	Diamond Cellar Classic	2 hours 45 minutes	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
7	June 30	Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen	6 hours	Watkins Glen International	Watkins Glen, New York
8	July 26	Brickyard Grand Prix	3 hours	Indianapolis Motor Speedway (road course)	Speedway, Indiana
9	August 10	VisitFlorida.com Sports Car 250	2 hours 45 minutes	Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
10	August 17	SFP Grand Prix	2 hours 45 minutes	Kansas Speedway	Kansas City, Kansas
11	September 8	Continental Tire Sports Car Festival	2 hours 45 minutes	Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca	Monterey, California
12	September 28	Championship Weekend presented by BMW	2 hours 45 minutes	Lime Rock Park	Lakeville, Connecticut

News

Lotus announced that they are developing a new Evora for the 2013 Rolex season.
The series introduced a new alternative fueled "GX" class for the 2013 season. The vehicles also utilized new technologies not otherwise used in the series. Mazda announced that it would offer its SkyActiv-D diesel engine to teams for this new class. 2013 also marked the first season since 2004 to feature three classes.
In September 2012, Grand Am tested Kansas Speedway in hopes of adding it to the 2013 schedule. The tests proved successful.

Results

Overall winners in bold.

Rnd

Circuit

DP Winning Team

GT Winning Team

GX Winning Team

Report

Rnd

Circuit

DP Winning Drivers

GT Winning Drivers

GX Winning Drivers

Report

Daytona

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Championship standings

Championship points are awarded based on finishing positions as shown below. The exception is at the 24 Hours of Daytona, where a minimum of 15th place points are awarded so as not to excessively penalize a low finish when there are generally more entrants.

Position	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Race	35	32	30	28	26	25	24	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

2013 Rolex Sports Car Series

Schedule

News

Results

Championship standings

Daytona Prototypes

Drivers (Top 20)