The 2011 Trans-Am Series was the 43rd season of the Sports Car Club of America's Trans-Am Series, a class of racing that straddles the line between sports car and stock car auto racing.
The 2011 schedule consisted of races on 8 road courses and one temporary street circuit. It was the first season that utilized the new multi-class format. The TA1 class is for the previous spec of Trans-Am cars. The TA2 class was added for cars that meet SCCA GT2-class specifications. These cars were primarily stock cars, some of which have been rebodied with pony car bodywork. A third class, TA3, for cars meeting SCCA GT3-class specifications was announced, which mainly consisted of smaller and lower-powered sports cars than TA1. However, there were no TA3 entries in 2011. For the final race of the season, a new class, Global GT (GGT) was introduced for production-based sports cars.
2010 champ Tony Ave won 6 of the 9 races to repeat as champion. Bob Stretch won the TA2 class in 5 of the 7 races he contested to win the inaugural TA2 championship.
Although she was not the first woman to compete in the Trans-Am Series (Janet Guthrie, 1978[1]), Amy Ruman became the first one in the series' 45-year history to win a race, accomplishing the feat in the season finale at Road Atlanta.[2]
The event at Miller is thus far the only post-hiatus Trans Am event in the Western United States.
Pos | Driver | Starts | Points | |
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1 | Tony Ave | 9 | 1122 | |
2 | Simon Gregg | 9 | 893 | |
3 | Amy Ruman | 8 | 763 | |
4 | David Jans | 9 | 738 | |
5 | Doug Harrington | 8 | 712 | |
6 | Daniel Ramoutarsingh | 7 | 671 | |
7 | Cliff Ebben | 5 | 546 | |
8 | John Baucom | 6 | 470 | |
9 | Carlos de Quesada | 6 | 386 | |
10 | Denny Lamers | 4 | 302 | |
11 | Doug Peterson | 5 | 298 | |
12 | R. J. Lopez | 3 | 295 | |
13 | Blaise Csida | 2 | 208 | |
14 | Glen Jung | 3 | 180 | |
15 | Kenny Bupp | 2 | 160 | |
16 | Bob Monette | 2 | 160 |
Pos | Driver | Starts | Points | |
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1 | Bob Stretch | 7 | 893 | |
2 | Bill Prietzel | 7 | 695 | |
3 | Ricky Sanders | 6 | 642 | |
4 | Greg Rodgers | 4 | 465 | |
5 | Tom Sheehan | 3 | 304 | |
6 | J. Thomas Graham | 2 | 184 | |
7 | Mel Shaw | 2 | 176 | |
8 | Mike Skeen | 1 | 137 | |
9 | J. Kurt Roehrig | 1 | 116 | |
10 | Tony Amico | 1 | 110 |