Mouser-Sponsored Vasser Sullivan Lexus Racing Team Celebrates Double Podium at IMSA Long Beach

April 12, 2022 – The Mouser Electronics-sponsored Vasser Sullivan Lexus Racing team is celebrating a spectacular double-podium finish at the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach (California) this past weekend. Jack Hawksworth and Ben Barnicoat piloted the No. 14 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3 to a second-place finish in GTD PRO Class, while Frankie Montecalvo and Aaron Telitz in the No. 12 car finished third in the GTD Class.

“Congratulations to the Vasser Sullivan Lexus team on their double-podium wins at Long Beach. From the pit to the drivers’ seats, the team came together to deliver an exciting race with awesome results!” said Todd McAtee, Mouser’s Vice President of Americas Business Development. “This season gets more exciting with every race, and Mouser and Molex are proud to support the Vasser Sullivan Lexus team’s first-class program.”

Mouser, the industry’s leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components™, is teaming up with Molex LLC to sponsor both the No. 14 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3 GTD PRO Class and the No. 12 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3 GTD Class entries for the 2022 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. Team drivers for the season include Jack Hawksworth, Kyle Kirkwood and Ben Barnicoat in the No. 14 car and Townsend Bell, Richard Heistand, Frank Montecalvo and Aaron Telitz in the No. 12 car.

Mouser previously sponsored the Vasser Sullivan IndyCar team, seeing the opportunity as an inventive way to communicate its performance-driven business model and promote the newest technologies; since then, the Mouser and Molex relationship with Vasser Sullivan has bred success, having won the Indianapolis 500 and producing multiple wins and podiums with Vasser Sullivan IndyCar.

The 2022 season will mark the fourth season Lexus and Vasser Sullivan have partnered together. During that time, the Lexus RC F GT3 has earned seven GTD class wins, 18 podiums and nine pole positions.

The season continues April 29 at the Hyundai Monterey Sports Car Championship at Laguna Seca, California, followed by seven more races before the finale at Motul Petit Le Mans, September 28–October 1 in Atlanta.

For more about the Mouser-sponsored Vasser Sullivan Lexus Racing team, visit https://www.mouser.com/imsa-racing/.