{"id":636,"date":"2014-06-26T12:38:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T20:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laptopscreen.com\/blog\/?p=636"},"modified":"2014-06-30T14:44:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T22:44:33","slug":"yet-again-we-are-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laptopscreen.com\/blog\/yet-again-we-are-1\/","title":{"rendered":"We are #1!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday, June 21st a Mini Cooper piloted by Glenn NIXON and sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/laptopscreen.com\/\">LaptopScreen.com<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/racing.ca\">Racing.ca &#8211; free Canadian racing classifieds<\/a> has finished first in the Round 8 of the Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car B-Spec season, the Cadillac Grand Prix at Road America (full release\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.world-challenge.com\/news\/series-news\/item\/2562-poland-wolfe-nixon-on-top-in-road-america-round-8-of-tc-tca-tcb.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This was an important win not only for Glenn, but for ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was quite the race for sure. Holding off [the competition] was difficult, but it worked out pretty good,\u201d said Nixon. \u201cIt was fun; I\u2019d been here almost 20 years ago in a formula car. It\u2019s a great result, and I want to thank Andrei (Kisel) for this opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The race took place on the Road America course, which is a road course located near Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin on Wisconsin Highway 67, which an open-wheel racing journalist Robin Miller calls &#8220;the best test of road racing in North America&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>You can view the race (and our triumph) below, and congratulate Glenn and us in the comment section.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-641\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;line-height: 1\" alt=\"PastedGraphic-17\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laptopscreen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PastedGraphic-17-1024x686.png\" width=\"625\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.laptopscreen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PastedGraphic-17-1024x686.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.laptopscreen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PastedGraphic-17-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/www.laptopscreen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PastedGraphic-17-624x418.png 624w, https:\/\/www.laptopscreen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PastedGraphic-17.png 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ThnIzgZOZG4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color:grey\" href=\"#\" itemprop=\"author\">Copyright (&copy;) LaptopScreen.com <\/a><\/p>    <div class=\"likes-block sd-sharing-enabled\">\n        <div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\">\n            <h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n            <div class=\"sd-content\">\n            <iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https:\/\/www.laptopscreen.com\/blog\/yet-again-we-are-1\/&amp;send=false&amp;layout=button_count&amp;width=90&amp;show_faces=false&amp;font&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;action=like&amp;height=21\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:90px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday, June 21st a Mini Cooper piloted by Glenn NIXON and sponsored by LaptopScreen.com\u00a0and Racing.ca &#8211; free Canadian racing classifieds has finished first in the Round 8 of the Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car B-Spec season, the Cadillac Grand Prix at Road America (full release\u00a0here). 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