BackSeptember 25th, 2011 – By winning his fifth race of the season, Drive Motorsports International client and Tiger Racing’s Paul Brown has secured his first SCCA Pro Racing Pirelli World Challenge GTS Championship title. With one race left on the schedule, Brown has matched Parnelli Jones’ 1970 record setting SCCA Trans-Am Championship season also in a production based Boss 302 and looks to beat it by winning the final race of the year at Road Atlanta. Brown started his racing career in 1992 in SCCA Club Racing. He made his first SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge start in 1993 at Des Moines, and would run another 41 races through the 2000 season before taking a hiatus from the series. After a handful of starts in 2008-’09, Brown returned for a full slate in with his Tiger Racing/Paul Brown Racing Ford Mustang Boss 302S in 2011.
At the season-opening round at St. Petersburg, Brown earned his first-career pole position and followed that with an emotional win at Long Beach. Brown would win four more times in 2011 en route to a dominating Drivers’ Championship.
Paul has been a major influence in the development of the Pirelli World Challenge GTS class, in which he is now the champion of.
