2016 Continental Tire Road Race Showcase

[1] The race was held at the fourteen-turn 4.048 mi (6.515 km) Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin on August 7, 2016.

[3] In GTLM, Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner led the Drivers' Championship with 228 points, 10 ahead of Ryan Briscoe and Richard Westbrook.

[3] In GTD, the Drivers' Championship was led by Alessandro Balzan and Christina Nielsen with 212 points; the duo held a thirteen-point advantage over Andy Lally and John Potter.

[3] Forty-one cars were officially entered for the Continental Tire Road Race Showcase, with most of the entries in the Prototype Challenge (PC), Grand Touring Le Mans (GTLM) and Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) categories.

Mazda Motorsports had two Lola B12/80 cars and Michael Shank Racing (MSR) entered one Ligier JS P2 chassis with a Honda HR35TT twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter V6 engine.

Panoz brought the DeltaWing car to Road America for the fourth successive year.

Cars in GTD were sent out first before those grouped in GTLM, PC, and Prototype had three separate identically timed sessions.

Regulations stipulated teams to nominate one qualifying driver, with the fastest laps determining each classes starting order.

IMSA would arranged the grid to put all Prototypes ahead of the PC, GTLM, and GTD cars.

[18] Popow and van der Zande's sixth-place finish kept them atop the PC Drivers' Championship, but their advantage was reduced to 7 points over race winners Alon and Kimber-Smith.

[18] Balzan and Nielsen's third-place finish allowed them to increase their advantage in the GTD Drivers' Championship to 15 points over Lally and Potter.

[18] Chevrolet and Audi continued to top their respective Manufactures' Championships while Action Express Racing, Starworks Motorsport, Corvette Racing, and Scuderia Corsa kept their respective advantages in their of Teams' Championships with three rounds left in the season.