Rookie opens championship run in convincing fashion; team-mate Thomson ends up sixth

BIRMINGHAM, AL — Michael DiMeo started his Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car season in style, taking pole position in Friday qualifying, and running a smart race for the season opener on Saturday, bringing his #71 Compass360 Racing Formcrete / ENJ Excavating / HPD Honda Civic Si home in first place after a spirited battle throughout the event.

Honda/HPD's video recap of the opening round of the Pirelli World Challenge Touring Car race in Birmingham, Alabama.

Cheer on Ryan Eversley in the #70 Children's Tumor Foundation / Touge Tuning / Racing4Research.org GTS-class Subaru, and our two TC-class Hondas featuring Michael DiMeo in the #71 ENJ Excavating / Formcrete/ HPD Civic and Karl Thomson in the Children's Tumor Foundation / HPD / Racing4Research.org car. All three cars are on track for the Pirelli World Challenge round at Birmingham, Alabama this weekend.

Racing4Research Builds on Daytona and Sebring Momentum with Full-season World Challenge Effort

(New York, NY) — The Children’s Tumor Foundation (CTF) Racing4Research (R4R) program will extend its highly successful "Art Car" effort with a full-season in the Pirelli World Challenge. Building on momentum begun at Daytona and Sebring earlier this year, the charity has partnered with Compass360 Racing, which fields cars in both GTS and TC classes.

(Toronto, Canada) -- James Vance will join forces with Compass360 Racing to continue his rookie season in the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge in 2014.

Our first visit to Sebring showed much promise, but for the second race in a row our Hondas and Subaru fell victim to various incidents, some of our own making. The good news is we got a good amount of coverage... the bad is that we're going to have to come out swinging for round three of the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge to make up for lost time...

John Miller's 2014 CTSCC Update 1

Daytona and Sebring are behind us and the anticipation and pre-season excitement has long faded. Next, we are gearing up for the rest of what will be a busy summer season. Some teams are hoping to use their strong early finishes to build momentum, knowing they have emerged as championship contenders. Others, like us at Compass360 Racing, hope we can drag ourselves out of a deep and dark hole that we dug for ourselves after the first two opening rounds.

While Daytona is traditionally a good track for our Hondas, this year's race was not, with all four of our ST-class Civics being in the wars. Our new GS-class Subaru performed remarkably well at a track it doesn't really suit, which was the high point of the weekend. Enjoy watching the carnage!

Team brings four Street Tuner Hondas and one Grand Sport Subaru to historic IMSA event.

(Daytona Beach, FL) -- The rigs have arrived and disgorged their cargo, the crew and drivers are ready, and the paddock is abuzz with anticipation of a new race season about to begin. And this year, the excitement is increased as this will be the first weekend of racing under the new, combined sanctioning body formed by the merging of Grand-Am and the American Le Mans Series. Now named IMSA, a name that reflects decades of sportscar history in North America, it oversees a diverse collection of racing series, including the new TUDOR United Sportscar Championship (TUSC), the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge (CTSCC), and a number of development series, including the Ferrari Challenge, all of which are on the cards at Daytona.