José Meléndez
A race for the IMSA GT in Mid-Ohio, 1991. The IMSA GT Championship was a speed motorsport competition for large passenger cars and sport prototypes, organized by the International Motor Sports Association between 1971 and 1998. The dates were played on mixed circuits in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
The event was created by John Bishop, former leader of the Sports Car Club of America, and Bill France Sr., owner of NASCAR. Initially the same technical regulation was adopted as the World Cup of Resistance. The IMSA GT Championship in 1973 incorporated the 12 Hours of Sebring, which had been part of the World Championship of Resistance for two decades. In 1975 was added the 24 Hours of Daytona, which continued in the World Resistance Championship until 1991.
The regulations were modified many times, either to reduce costs, encourage the diversity of the automotive fleet or to counteract the dominance of a certain model. In 1989, the Bishop family sold the IMSA, which changed ownership repeatedly throughout the 1990s. In 1999 it was replaced by the American Le Mans Series, while in 1998 an alternative series emerged that would later become in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.
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