Area Car Dealer Wins Class in Chevrolet Sports Car Classic

Things were 'booming' over the weekend for Crossroads area car dealer Ben Keating, who won his class in the Chevrolet Sports Car Classic in Detroit.

According to a report in the Victoria Advocate, Racing in the GT Daytona class at Belle Isle near Detroit on Saturday, Keating and his team finished first in their class in the team's Dodge Viper GT3 with a time of one hour, forty minutes, besting a team racing a Porsche 911 by just under two and a half seconds. While Keating's team finished ahead in their class, they came in tenth overall in the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship. Keating's Riley Motorsports teammate is co-driver Jeroen Bleekemolen.