TPC Racing Brings Four Entries to Porsche Sprint Challenge Season-Opening Race Weekend at Sebring International Raceway

– TPC Racing Enters Three Type 992 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Cars in Top Tier Porsche Sprint Challenge Class

– Returning 2023 Type 992 Am Champion David Williams and Shaun McKaigue Compete in 992 Masters in 2025 in the No. 237 Quality Brand Group Porsche 911 GT3 Cup and No. 234 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Cars Respectively

– Tillman Schmid and Evan Hinkle Set for First Season Sharing the No. 277 Monoflo International Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Stepping Up to 992 Pro-Am

– Tom Kerr Returns for Second Consecutive Masters Class Campaign in the No. 74 TPC Racing Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport

SEBRING, Florida (February 27, 2025) – Championship-winning team TPC Racing brings a four strong entry of Porsches in three different classes across a pair of USAC Porsche Sprint Challenge North America by Yokohama series for this weekend’s season-opening event at Sebring International Raceway, February 27 – March 1.

The stout TPC Racing lineup is highlighted by three Type 992 entries in the top tier Sprint Challenge Porsche 911 GT3 Cup series. David Williams, the 2023 “Am” Porsche Sprint Challenge 992 Champion, returns after taking a year off following his title winning campaign. Williams competes alongside TPC Racing teammate Shaun McKaigue in the 992 Masters Class this season.

Williams is set for the full season in his No. 237 Quality Brand Group Porsche 911 GT3 Cup while McKaigue wheels the No. 234 TPC Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup in at least the Sebring and Sonoma Raceway opening rounds of the year.

The third Type 992 entry will be shared by Tillman Schmid and Evan Hinkle throughout the year as the duo moves up to the top Porsche Sprint Challenge division in the Pro-Am class. Schmid, Hinkle and Chloe Chambers traded off driving duties in Porsche Caymans the last two seasons in preparation for the move up to 992 competition in the No. 277 Monoflo International Porsche 911 GT3 Cup. Schmid drives this weekend at Sebring as he has for the previous two season-opening races on the legendary airport circuit, finishing third in the Cayman Pro-Am class in three of the four races run in 2023 and ’24.

Carrying the TPC Racing flag in the Cayman class is returning team driver Tom Kerr in his No. 74 TPC Racing Porsche Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport. Kerr shook off a string of mechanical issues at Sebring last year to record several strong finishes later in 2024. In just his fourth race weekend in his new Cayman GT4 RS, Kerr broke through for a pair of season-best Masters class finishes at Road America last August. After recording a single top-10 finish in his first six races, Kerr delivered a pair of top-10 finishes in the stacked Masters class of ninth on Saturday and seventh in the Sunday finale.

After a pair of test sessions earlier in the day, the Porsche Sprint Challenge official schedule begins with opening GT3 Cup and Cayman practice sessions Thursday afternoon. Final practice and qualifying Friday set the stage for the weekend’s first races, which are all 34 minutes plus 1 lap in length, at 3:05 p.m. EST for the Caymans and 4:45 p.m. EST for GT3 Cup.

Saturday’s final sprints of the race weekend are Saturday at 9:30 a.m. for the Caymans and 12:05 p.m. for the GT3 Cup closer.

All four of the weekend’s Porsche Sprint Challenge races can be viewed live on the Porsche Motorsport North America YouTube channel.

Harris Levitas, TPC Racing Director of Race Operations: “It’s great to start the 2025 Porsche Sprint Challenge North America with a four-car entry at Sebring. Three are the top-tier Porsche 911 Type 992s and the other is a Porsche Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport that will combine to run in three different classes across both the 992 and Cayman divisions at Sebring. We are really excited to be back in the paddock, as we have every season since Porsche Sprint Challenge was introduced, and we have a great group of guys under the tent this year. David Williams makes his return in the Masters category and had great pace in recent testing, and it looks like he will be a contender again for another championship. Shaun McKaigue really came to grips with his new 992 in testing so far this year and will be a strong contender in the Masters division. Tillman Schmid and Evan Hinkle also had some really good seat time in the new Monoflo International 992 in recent testing at Sebring and will share the car again this year. We think they will challenge well in the Pro-Am category this year and be up at the front of the field. In the GT4 category, Tom Kerr is going to really have something to show in the Cayman Masters class with some improvement this year. He had all last season in the GT4 RS Clubsport, has all of the information and knows the feel of the car and will be much more familiar in year two in the Cayman. He will be much more comfortable and find even more pace at every track that we go to this year.”

Tillman Schmid, Driver, No. 277 Monoflo International Porsche 911 GT3 Cup: “We are pretty happy to be stepping up to the 992 class after running Caymans the last two years. It just felt like it was time to mix it up a little bit, and we want to continue to develop the Monoflo International program with Evan and I back as MI Racing drivers on the crew to build on some of the success we had in the Cayman. Any time you move to a new platform, there are a lot of changes you have to make, and you have to adapt to see what the new car likes. The Cayman was a very narrow performance window car, but it sounds like the 992 is a bigger window car performance wise, and it definitely felt like that when we were testing at Sebring last week. The braking is amazing, and the confidence the car gives you when you are really pushing it to the limit is a whole lot better than the Cayman. It is fantastic the TPC Racing guys were able to get down here last week that allowed us to get some good laps in our new car. Knowing the track is one less thing we have to worry about as we have been to Sebring a few times now. We know the track pretty well.”

Shaun McKaigue, Driver, No. 234 TPC Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup: “I am really excited for the season, and we have already done a couple of days now testing the 992 platform. It is just so nice to get back into a Cup car. The GT4 was a fun car, but this Porsche’s latest Cup car and brings with it everything that entails. It is going to take a lot of work to get me to where I can learn how to extract the most of this car. It’s going to be a real challenge, and I am looking forward to it. It means I am going to have to get out of my comfort zone as always, but this is just a spectacular platform, and it is great to have the TPC Racing guys around me to help and to run in Porsche Sprint Challenge, which is such a great organization.”

Tom Kerr, Driver, No. 74 TPC Racing Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport: “We lost a lot of time at the beginning of last year when some new car mechanical issues cost us five days of testing at the start of the season. TPC Racing kept the pressure to make sure our Cayman was ultimately sorted out, but we started the season on the slow side because of the delays. We had no testing, and the first time we had a green I was in the back for qualifying after having no practice at all. Moving forward, we have a good car now. I got some good seat time last year. I am familiar with the car now, we are going to mainly all of the same tracks, and I have had some good testing this year already. I am really looking forward to a solid season with some good results and just good racing. The goals are to have fun and be safe and do the best I can for a better season this year than last year.”

About TPC Racing: TPC Racing is the Mid-Atlantic’s premier maintenance, service, tuning and modification center dedicated solely to Porsche sports cars. TPC Racing specializes in R&D and sales of high-performance modifications for Porsche sports cars and race cars, offering a wide range of vehicle upgrades. Best known for a line of forced induction solutions for the Porsche 911, Cayman and Boxster, a long-time focus on only one make, Porsche, has enabled TPC Racing to become experts in Porsche service, tuning, and racing. In 2000, TPC Racing began entering races under its own banner, scoring an SGS-class Championship in 2004 in the Grand-American Rolex Series and was a class winner in the 2006 Rolex 24 At Daytona, and captured the 2013 and 2016 IMSA Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA Gold Cup Championships. More information can be found at http://www.TPCRacing.com.

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