• Three CrowdStrike Racing entries in three categories of SRO America
• CrowdStrike to welcome employees, families for fun-filled day at Sonoma Raceway
• CXO Summit to lead CrowdStrike activation programs

 
AUSTIN, Texas (March 29, 2023) – Following a “soft launch” of the 2023 SRO Motorsports America season last month in St. Petersburg, CrowdStrike Racing heads to Sonoma Raceway for a full program of competition this weekend with entries in each of SRO America’s premier GT racing series.

The opening of the SRO America weekend is part of the GT Challenge of Sonoma protected by CrowdStrike. A stunning field of 140 cars are entered across five race series that will test their mettle around the 1.99-mile, 12-turn Sonoma Raceway circuit.

CrowdStrike Racing will be present in three categories at Sonoma:

• Fanatec GT World Challenge America: No. 04 CrowdStrike Mercedes-AMG GT3 from CrowdStrike Racing by Riley for George Kurtz and Colin Braun
• GT America Powered by AWS: No. 04 CrowdStrike Mercedes-AMG GT3 from CrowdStrike Racing by Riley for George Kurtz
• Pirelli GT4 America: No. 92 CrowdStrike/AWS BMW M4 GT4 from Random Vandals Racing for Kevin Boehm and Kenton Koch
• GT World Challenge and GT4 America each will contest their first rounds of the season while GT America holds its third and fourth races.

In their first race of the season together, Kurtz and Braun will look to win at Sonoma for the third – and possibly fourth – time. There are two 90-minute races in GT World Challenge, and the pairing were victorious once in each of the last two seasons at Sonoma in their CrowdStrike Mercedes-AMG.

In addition, Kurtz swept the opening weekend of GT America in 2021 at Sonoma and captured one of the two 40-minute races a year ago in another CrowdStrike by Riley Mercedes-AMG. He will look for his first GT America victory of 2023 this weekend.

New to the CrowdStrike Racing program is Pirelli GT4 America. After claiming championships in two of SRO America’s Touring Car categories in 2020 and 2022, Boehm is “graduating” to production-based GT racing with the CrowdStrike/AWS BMW M4 GT4 from Random Vandals Racing alongside new teammate Koch. Read more.

• 2022 TC America champion Kevin Boehm will partner with Kenton Koch in the RVR CrowdStrike AWS BMW M4 GT4 for the 2023 Pirelli GT4 America season 

CONCORD, NC (Mar. 22, 2023) – Random Vandals Racing (RVR) and CrowdStrike/AWS driver and engineer Kevin Boehm are excited to announce a new team partnership: Boehm will race with Kenton Koch in a new 2023 BMW M4 GT4 for the 2023 Pirelli GT4 America season.

Random Vandals Racing is a BMW customer racing team based in Concord, NC and Bridgewater, NJ. The team is leading a full-season two-car effort in Pirelli GT4 America.
“We are thrilled to welcome Kevin to the team. Combining Kevin’s talents with Kenton’s skilled experience will strengthen the competitiveness of Random Vandals Racing as we aim for the championship,” said Paul Sparta, Team Principal for Random Vandals. “Moving to a two-car program provides us with a much stronger structure to make additional gains as the season progresses. It’s a real privilege to have CrowdStrike and AWS with us as partners along with Vbrick. It’s our job to deliver now.” 

A two-time touring car champion and four-time SCCA national champion known for both his skills as a driver and a motorsports engineer, Boehm is looking forward to his first season in GT4.

“For over a decade, I’ve raced touring cars with the goal of making it into a GT series,” Boehm said. “I couldn’t be happier to take that next step with the support of CrowdStrike and AWS and I am looking forward to joining the RVR team. GT4 will be a new challenge and I am thrilled to accelerate my learning by driving with Kenton and tapping into his experience as we fight for a championship.” 

“Looking forward to driving with Kevin and having Crowdstrike as a partner,” said Koch. “The Random Vandals team is well-prepared and we’re all aiming for a championship!”