Stevenson Motorsports at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park earlier this month became the first team to win both an IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race at the same racetrack on the same event weekend.

The feat was accomplished on July 8-9, when the team’s new No. 57 Chevrolet Camaro GT4.R in the hands of co-drivers Robin Liddell and Matt Bell took the overall and Grand Sport (GS) class victory in Saturday’s Continental Tire Challenge race, followed by Andrew Davis and Lawson Aschenbach winning the GT Daytona (GTD) class in Sunday’s WeatherTech Championship race aboard the No. 57 Audi R8 LMS GT3.

Stevenson also was the last team to accomplish a similar feat, winning both the Continental Tire Challenge and Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series races at Road Atlanta in 2013. Turner Motorsport also has the Continental Tire Challenge-Rolex Series double on its racing résumé.

“Obviously, you’ve got to run two cars to win one in each class, which we haven’t done in a while,” states Stevenson Motorsports Team Manager Mike Johnson. “With the Audi, it’s amazing how many times we’ve just been so close.

“[With the Camaro] it was absolutely great. We always joked, saying, ‘As soon as we win one with the Camaro, the Audi’s going to win one right afterwards.’ We just didn’t know it was going to be 24 hours later.”

Robin Liddell and Matt Bell gave Stevenson Motorsports the GS class win in the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge race in Canada. LAT PHOTOGRAPHIC

Johnson and the Stevenson team feel like they’ve got a strong opportunity to play a starring role in both races and have another great weekend at Lime Rock.

“From a GS standpoint, Pratt & Miller and Chevrolet have always built a great car for Lime Rock,” Johnson said. ”It makes a lot of downforce, it’s got good power coming off (turns) and excellent braking.

“Then, an Audi won (the Lime Rock GTD race) last year and we had a very fast Audi last year. In GTD, I think we feel really strong with the car. It can make a lot of downforce.”

“It has all the potential to happen again. But just like anybody that does this, there’s a hundred things you’ve got to do on a weekend and you’ve got to do all hundred of them right if you want a chance at winning any of these races.”

Johnson pointed out a few occasions recently -- and over the past couple of years since the team’s 2015 Continental Tire Challenge GS-championship winning season and subsequent hiatus from the series until the introduction of the new Camaro GT4.R in May at Circuit of The Americas -- where one or more of those hundred things didn’t go exactly right.

“You’ve got to remember that Mosport came a week after we had a double DNF (at Watkins Glen International),” he said. “We had the motor fail with 20 minutes to go in one car and we had a tire problem with three minutes to go in the Audi.

“When you keep having these weekends just fall apart at the last minute on you, it’s just so devastating. At Detroit, again we were leading, got a 20-second lead, full-course yellow, come out of the pits in fourth and have an axle fail with 20 to go.

“It’s amazing how strong our team is and how (owners) John and Susan Stevenson, they don’t ever lose faith. When you have those double DNFs, you’re like, ‘What else can we do? We just can’t get anything to work.’ Then, bam-bam, right out of nowhere, two wins. It brings you right back to, ‘OK, we knew we could still do this.’”

The Continental Tire Challenge two-hour race begins at 10:25 a.m. ET, followed by the two-hour, 40-minute WeatherTech Championship Northeast Grand Prix at 3 p.m. ET. There’s also a 45-minute IMSA Prototype Challenge presented by Mazda race sandwiched in between, starting at 12:50 p.m. ET. The Continental Tire Challenge race will be streamed live on IMSA.com and will be televised on FS1 at 11:30 a.m. ET on Sunday, July 30.

TV: The WeatherTech Championship race will be televised live at 3 p.m. on FS2, along with IMSA Radio audio and in-car cameras on IMSA.com. There will be live IMSA Radio coverage on RadioLeMans.com and SiriusXM Radio.

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