Drewer dominates IMSA Lites L2. (Wheels)

Young South Australian driver, Tom Drewer has stormed to both his first IMSA Lites crown and class victory in the season's end enduro at Laguna Seca.

Young Aussie driver, Tom Drewer has finished his first year of US racing with both the 2008 IMSA Lites L2 Championship and the season finale under is belt.

Adelaide-born Drewer dominated this year’s championship, winning 10 of his 12 starts and impressing the US racing fraternity in the process.

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Like most of the circuits he raced on this year, Drewer had never driven at California's Laguna Seca Raceway. Yet he won both Saturday’s race and the Lites L2 Class in Sunday’s 1hr 15mins endurance event.

Drewer also set a new qualifying class record of 1:24.182 for L2 Class pole on Friday, and against the more potent L1 Class cars finished Saturday’s half-hour race 10th outright and set a new class race lap record. He now holds five lap records in the US.

He’s also won IMSA Lites races outright, holding off the L1 Class cars in his Daily Planet West car.

By winning this year’s L2 Championship, Drewer now holds back-to-back championships across the Pacific, after dominating the Australian AMRS Thundersports Sportscar Series last year.

You probably won’t be surprised to hear that 23-year-old Drewer’s now in demand. “We are currently in discussion with teams in a few different categories. I’m excited by some of the opportunities and I hope that I can gain the necessary corporate support to further my career here in America next year. As they say, ‘watch this space," he said.