TPC Racing and David Williams Return to USAC Porsche Sprint Challenge Podium at COTA

Williams Secures Third Masters-Class Podium Finish of The Season with Third Sunday at Circuit of The Americas in the No. 237 Quality Brand Group/TPC Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup
Tom Kerr Takes a Top-10 Porsche Sprint Challenge Masters Finish Saturday Morning in the No. 74 Got Veins?/TPC Racing Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport

AUSTIN, Texas (May 18, 2025) – TPC Racing and USAC Porsche Sprint Challenge North America by Yokohama team driver David Williams scored their third Masters Class podium finish of the season Sunday with a third-place showing in the No. 237 Quality Brand Group/TPC Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup at Circuit of The Americas (COTA).

The weekend-best Sunday result followed a similarly strong fourth-place Masters finish in Saturday’s opening sprint at COTA. The results keep both Williams and the No. 237 Porsche team in the thick of this year’s Porsche Sprint Challenge Masters championship battle.

Starting 12th overall and sixth in Masters on Saturday, Williams improved two class positions for the class finish and cracked the top-10 overall before the checkered flag.

Picking up right where he and the TPC Racing team left off on Saturday, Williams grabbed one position to move into the top-10 overall and fourth in Masters right at the start of Sunday’s final 35 minute plus one-lap sprint race.

Williams then spent the next 30 minutes turning solid lap times in the Texas heat while tracking the rest of the leaders in the top 10. His opportunity to pass for the final Masters podium spot came just over five minutes from the finish when the class-competitor in front of him tangled with another Porsche in the tricky left-turn at the end of COTA’s backstraight.

Williams passed both to move into third in Masters and eighth overall and took the checkered flag a few laps later just over 30 seconds behind the overall and Pro-Am class winner. The top-three Masters finish follows a win in the first race of the year at Sebring International Raceway in March and a third-place Masters podium showing the next day by Williams in the No. 237.

Tom Kerr carried the TPC Racing flag at COTA in the competitive Porsche Sprint Challenge Cayman class and recorded a weekend-best top-10 Masters finished on Saturday. He was determined to improve on the performance in Sunday’s finale but unfortunately was eliminated in a contact incident just after the start in the uphill run into COTA’s challenging and notoriously tight Turn 1. Kerr was uninjured in the incident.

Harris Levitas, TPC Racing Director of Race Operations: “The TPC racing team did a great job. It was probably the hottest race we will most likely do this year. The team performed really well in the heat and under pressure, and David drove great. He wasn’t able to do any testing coming into this weekend, so it was a bit tough for him, but he came up to speed very quickly and did a really great job with it. He drove the car really well, and was able to conserve the tires to the end in both races. That gave him something to work with there at the end when the others were struggling. It really showed with the last five minutest to go, and on Sunday he was able to make the pass for the final podium spot. It tightened up the Masters class championship standings as we go into the halfway point of the year. Tom had a lot of fun and some good track time, and it was good to see him out here with his son and close friends. We are looking forward to the rest of the year and some good results.”

David Williams, Driver, No. 237 Quality Brand Group/TPC Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup: “I know the COTA track, but putting 20 corners together is not easy. And it is really about optimizing track limits here. That’s like a moving target, and then you have the technical nature of the track and the scale of it. It just takes some time, and I was doing my fastest times of the weekend the last three laps of the race. I just couldn’t get a qualifying lap, and I am still not 100% sure what happened, but I just need more time on this track. All of the tracks, it is a very competitive field and two-hundredths of a seconds is four positions or so. Sunday morning’s race was OK, but on Saturday the heat was terrible. It’s a real factor here in Texas, this place will wear you out, and it was almost 100 degrees ambient on Saturday. I got a position at the race start Saturday from the outside of a row and got a position from the inside at the start in Sunday’s race. I just need more time in the seat. I am hoping I can run up a bunch of podiums for the rest of the season. That’s the goal.”

Tom Kerr, Driver, No. 74 Got Veins?/TPC Racing Porsche Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport: “Definitely some positives from the weekend. I got even more comfortable in the car in my first race since March, and it was great. The balance and the brakes are very good. We had three or four practice sessions, so the track time was great. Saturday’s race one went fine. I did have a little incident where I got separated from the main group, but overall it went well. Race two on Sunday I was expecting to be better, but I was on the inside at the start going into Turn 1 and had nowhere to go. You can see going into the first turn, but it’s blind on the way out. We will fix the car back up and head on to Virginia.”

Next up for TPC Racing in USAC Porsche Sprint Challenge is another all-series weekend of competition at VIRginia International Raceway, July 18 – 20.

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.