Shift Up Now Athlete Sabré Cook continued her top-ten streak in race one of a double-header round five weekend in Porsche Carrera Cup North America presented by Solairus Aviation at Road America on July 31 - August 3, 2025.
Fellow Shift Up Now Athlete Ashley Freiberg was also at the historic Wisconsin track for an activation event with the Girl Scouts. However her season has been paused due to a lack of funding, so the No. 22 “Be Your Own Hero” car was not on track for competition.
Cook, driving the No. 37 PenFed / privé entry for JDX Racing, is a Hagerty-sponsored athlete. Her first outing of the weekend was a practice session where she quickly got up to speed and ran inside the top ten.
The following afternoon, her speed continued with one of her best qualifying sessions to date, running on Yokohama tires on the 4.048-mile, 14-turn road course. She would start race one in 11th and race two in 12th.
The first of the two 40-minute races began on Saturday morning at 10:55am CST under sunny skies with pleasant track temperatures. Cook was lined up on the inside of row six and fighting through an illness that started earlier in the week.
After one pace lap, the pole-sitter brought the field to green under an unusually-slow pace, causing several cars in the front of the pack to drop wheels in the dirt. The field ran side-by- side through the first few corners and Cook had a good start, surviving a nudge to her rear bumper in turn five. By the end of the first lap, she had advanced to ninth.
At the start of lap two, she moved to make a pass into turn one and again had contact to her rear bumper. This time, she lost momentum and got shuffled back to 14th. Undeterred, she focused forward and picked off other cars methodically until she had moved back into the top ten to cross the finish line with a 10th-place finish.
On Sunday, race two began at 10:35am CST. This time, Cook was starting on the outside of row six. After one pace lap, a mix-up with some of the cars ahead moved her out of position at the start, dropping her back one place to 13th.
For most of the 40-minute race, the field played “follow the leader” with an aero-wash from the Carrera Cup cars on Road America’s fast corners, making it tough to follow closely enough to complete a pass.
With just a few laps remaining in the race, the right rear corner of Cook’s car was tagged by a competitor attempting to pass her into turn one, sending her into the gravel trap. The safety crew was able to pull her out so she could limp the car to the checkered flag in 23rd and salvage some valuable championship points.
Next up, Cook heads to the Racing Capital of the World for round six of the Porsche Carrera Cup North America championship, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on September 19-21, 2025.
