Extreme Speed Motorsports (ESM) was an American

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team based out of Riviera Beach,

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. Founded by

Scott Sharp Scott Sharp (born February 14, 1968) is an American professional racing driver in the United SportsCar Championship. He is the son of six-time SCCA champion Bob Sharp. Sharp is best known for his years as a competitor in the Indy Racing Leagu ...

and

Patrón Patrón is a brand of tequila products founded by John Paul Dejoria and Martin Crowley. Patrón Tequilas, like all tequilas, are produced in Mexico from the "corazón" (heart or core) of the Agave tequilana, blue agave plant. Everything inc ...

CEO Ed Brown, the team competed in the

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, Tudor

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, and

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since 2010 until 2018 when the team sold its equipment and race cars and shut down following an exhaustive sponsor search after the withdrawal of Patrón. ESM Ferrari LBGP 2012

American Le Mans Series

The Extreme Speed Motorsports team first entered the

with two

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GTCs in 2010. The pair of

and

Johannes van Overbeek Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as " John" in English language contexts. It is a variant of the Greek and Classical Latin variants (Ιωάννης, '' Ioannes''), itself derived from the Hebrew name '' Y ...

managed a second-place finish at the season ending

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, finishing tenth in the Drivers' Championship with teammates Ed Brown and

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finishing thirteenth and landing fifth in the GT class Teams' Championship. The team received two new

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GTEs for their second year of ALMS competition. 2011 season would prove to be a difficult season for the team with the #02 car failing to finish at several races. The team's best result came at penultimate race at

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with a third-place finish for the #01 car. Sharp and Van Overbeek would finish the season seventh in the GT Drivers' Championship with the team landing sixth in the Teams' Championship. 2012 would be the most successful season yet for the team and its Ferraris. The #01 car of Sharp and van Overbeek was awarded a victory after a post race technical inspection disqualified the #45

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and earned another hard-fought win at the season finale

and

finished second in the GT Drivers' Championship with Ed Brown and

fifteen and sixteen respectively. They would finish third in the GT Teams' Championship behind the factory efforts of

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and

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. 2013 saw the team move up to the LMP2 class with two

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bs. 2013 would be the final season before the

would merge with the

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to form the Tudor

. Although 2013 was to be a preparation and development year for the team's new prototype machinery, the team fared well against their main rivals

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, claiming a win and second-place finish at

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. The team finished the season second in the Teams' Championship with

second in the Drivers' Championship.

United SportsCar Championship

The Extreme Speed Motorsports team entered the inaugural season of the Tudor

with a two car

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effort in the premier prototype class.

and

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would pilot the #1 HPD with

and Ed Brown sharing the #2 car.

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's balance of performance left the LMP2 teams with a substantial gap in top speed to the much higher powered

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s throughout the entirety of the season, preventing the team from consistently competing for overall victories. Brown and Overbeek would claim a win victory at

, a track that favored the LMP2 cars' cornering speeds. The team withdrew the #1 car from the eleventh round to compete in the

race at the

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, later deciding to withdraw both cars from the season ending

to enter the Shanghai FIA WEC race in preparation for a 2015 campaign in the series For the 2015 season, the ESM team originally committed to run the North American Endurance Championship rounds as a supplement to their FIA WEC campaign. However, after unsuccessful results at Daytona and Sebring, the team would not return to complete the rest of the North American season, choosing to focus its resources on the remainder of the WEC season. In 2016, Tequila Patron ESM run a

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in four North American Endurance Cup races of the United Sportscar Championship, winning both the

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and the

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, with the JS P2 becoming the first car to defeat a

at the 24 hours, as well as the team becoming the first to win the so-called "36 Hours of Florida" since 1998. In 2017, Tequila Patron ESM switched to Nissan engines, fielding two Nissan Onroak DPi units for Dalziel/Sharp and Van Overbeek/Brown. The pairing of Dalziel/Sharp would ultimately secure 5th in the drivers championship, while Brown would depart the team mid-season, and be replaced by Pipo Derani. The season was highlighted with 1 Pole Position at Watkins Glen, as well as 2 wins, at Road America, and at the season-ending Petit Le Mans. In 2018, Tequila Patron ESM continued to run 2 Nissan-Onroak DPis, for Dalziel/Sharp , as well as Derani/Van Overbeek. The Season would be highlighted by 2 poles at Belle Isle, and at Road Atlanta, as well as winning the 12 Hours Of Sebring, and at Laguna Seca. However, due to the loss of title sponsor Patron, the team sold all its equipment and assets, and would ultimately close in December 2018.

WeatherTech SportsCar Championship wins

World Endurance Championship

The team first entered the

with a single car at the 2014

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, earning a 3rd-place finish. The team then entered two cars in the

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claiming 2nd and 5th-place finishes. The two events would serve as preparation for a full season entry in 2015. For the 2015 season, Extreme Speed Motorsports would commit to a full season FIA WEC effort. While originally planning to run the new

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, testing issues meant HPD would delay the car's debut until the following season. ESM would instead use their ARX-03bs for the opening round at

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, before switching to the

platform for the rest of the season.Dagys, John (March 10, 2015
ESM Reverts to HPD ARX-03b, Plans Switch to Ligier JS P2 Honda
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24 Hours of Le Mans

References

External links

{{Commons category, Extreme Speed Motorsports
Official Website

Patron Official Website
American Le Mans Series teams American auto racing teams FIA World Endurance Championship teams Auto racing teams disestablished in 2018 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship teams 24 Hours of Le Mans teams Auto racing teams established in 2010