May 9, 2008 6:54 AM
LINE-UP CHANGE FOR MONZA
CR Scuderia
Round two of the 2008 FIA GT Championship takes place next week at Monza, the place where Italians go to worship motorsport. The ‘Pista Magica’, as Monza is known locally, is the fastest track on the FIA GT calendar, and it is one that every Ferrari team relishes. To win at Monza in a Ferrari is a special feeling for a racing driver so the CR Scuderia boys will be going all out to hit the top spot next weekend.
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May 8, 2008 8:06 PM
Stevenson Motorsports On A Roll With Pontiac GXP.R
Wins at Mexico City and VIR have Stevenson in Contention
Detroit, Mich., May 8, 2008
Stevenson Motorsport is on a roll with their new Pontiac GXP.R. Drivers Andrew Davis and Robin Liddell have posted impressive wins at Mexico City and Virginia International Raceway (VIR). The team will try to make it a hat-trick in round five of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 to be run at Laguna Seca Raceway May 17.
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May 6, 2008 6:09 PM
Setup II Winner To Race Banner Pontiac At Laguna Seca Chris Prey to team with Leighton Reese in Banner Racing GXP.R
Detroit, Mich., May 6, 2008
Banner Racing will field Setup II winner Chris Prey in round five of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 to be run at Laguna Seca Raceway May 17. Prey was the winner of the $100,000 grand prize and has been awarded an even bigger prize by Pontiac, GM Racing and Banner Racing, the opportunity to make his pro racing debut behind the wheel of the No. 06 Banner Racing Pontiac GXP.R
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May 5, 2008 8:58 PM
Series Champion and Porsche Veteran Join TRG For Next Round at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
Petaluma, CA
In a season that’s featured a team driving line-up that’s included everything from Daytona 24 Hours winners to series champions to stand-outs from the open-wheel and prototype ranks, TRG has added two more veterans to the team, including former series champion Craig Stanton and experienced Porsche driver Hima Maher.
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May 2, 2008 6:11 AM
With TDI power and GTL diesel fuel in the Ardennes
Ingolstadt
- Third round of the Le Mans Series at Spa-Francorchamps
- Audi R10 TDI runs with synthetic diesel fuel
- Motorsport accelerates diesel development
On the Whitsun weekend, the Audi R10 TDI will make its racing début at Spa-Francorchamps, on one of the world’s most demanding race tracks. For Audi, the race in the Belgian Ardennes is more than just the third round of the Le Mans Series: with every racing kilometre, valuable know-how is being collected, which is fed into the next generation of Audi TDI engines. The same applies to the diesel fuel used in the V12 TDI engine of the Audi R10 TDI: Shell V-Power Diesel is a extremely clean diesel fuel delivering a very high performance, which is subjected to continuous development by means of motorsport.
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April 30, 2008 8:13 PM
Alex Figge Joins Tafel Racing
Open Wheel and Sports Car Racer to Share No. 73 Ferrari with Jim Tafel for Rest of '08
CUMMING, Ga. April 30, 2008
Tafel Racing announced today the addition of American Alex Figge to its 2008 driver lineup. The former Champ Car driver will share the No. 73 Tafel Racing Ferrari F430 GTC with owner/driver Jim Tafel (Alpharetta, Ga.) for the remainder of the American Le Mans Series season. Figge, who has seven career Series starts in the GT1 class, will make his GT2 debut with the Cumming, Ga.-based organization at the Utah Grand Prix on May 18. To date, the resident of Denver, CO. has an American Le Mans Series career- best finish of third (Portland, 2005).
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April 28, 2008 9:22 PM
TRG's Pumpelly and George finish second in Bosch Engineering 250 at VIR
ALTON, Va.
Spencer Pumpelly and Tim George led TRG's four-car effort with a second place finish in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Bosch Engineering 250 at Virginia International Raceway.
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April 27, 2008 11:00 PM
Southard Motorsports Keeps Momentum Strong with Top-10 Finish in Virginia DP Feature
No. 3 Lexus-Riley Starts Ninth, Finishes Tenth in VIR 250
ALTON, Vir., April 27, 2008
Southard Motorsports kept on a roll scoring another top-10 finish in today's fourth round of the 2008 Grand- Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 season. Bill Lester (Atlanta, Ga.) and Shane Lewis (Jupiter, Fla.) started ninth in the Bosch Engineering 250 at Virginia International Raceway in the No. 3 Southard Motorsports Lexus- Riley and took the checkered flag in tenth. Today's finish again proved the strength of the small but focused team and kept the momentum on the side of the No. 3. It was the second top-10 finish for the Steve and Martha Southard (Powell, Ohio) owned team in 2008 and the fourth time that car ran consistently in or near the top-five.
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Ruby Tuesday Championship Racing Team finishes seventh in Bosch Engineering 250 at VIR
ALTON, Va.
Drivers Joey Hand and Bill Auberlen drove the No. 23 Ruby Tuesday Championship Racing Team Porsche Crawford Daytona Prototype to a seventh place finish in today's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Bosch Engineering 250 at Virginia International Raceway.
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Stevenson Motorsports Wins Second GT Race In A Row
Riley-Matthews Third In DP
Andrew Davis, left, and Robin Liddell celebrate victory at VIR.
The Riley-Matthews Pontiac of Goossens and Matthews finish third at VIR
Alton, Va., April 27, 2008
Stevenson Motorsports posted their second straight GT class win today in round four of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 run at Virginia International Raceway (VIR). Riley-Matthews were the top finishing Pontiac Daytona Prototype (DP) team coming in third.
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Audi youngsters take lead in LMS
Ingolstadt/Monza
- Prémat/Rockenfeller second at Monza
- Controversial collision costs possible victory
- Capello/McNish in the points despite accident
With a second-place finish at the 1000-kilometre race at Monza (Italy), the two Audi drivers Mike Rockenfeller (24) and Alexandre Prémat (26) took the lead in the drivers’ standings of the European Le Mans Series. Shortly before the end of the turbulent endurance race they were even leading the field with their Audi R10 TDI before being deprived of their chance for victory by a controversial collision.
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