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Successful Daytona 24hr race, First Podium finish for Dempsey Racing in Homestead, Continental Tire Sportscar Challenge Rolex Series Dempsey Racing/ Team Seattle News: Race #1 Daytona 24 Hours:After a grueling 24 hours of racing, co-drivers James Gué, Leh Keen, Dave Lacey and Don Kitch Jr. came away from the 48th Rolex 24 At Daytona with a 14th place finish in the No. 41 Global Diving & Salvage Dempsey Racing/Team Seattle Mazda RX-8 GT. In qualifying Leh Keen posted the 9th quic
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14.03.2010
Successful Daytona 24hr race, First Podium finish for Dempsey Racing in Homestead, Continental Tire Sportscar Challenge Rolex Series Dempsey Racing/ Team Seattle News: Race #1 Daytona 24 Hours:Af
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12.03.2010
While a victory in the April 10 Porsche 250 at Barber Motorsports Park will not guarantee the Daytona Prototype championship, the winners of the next event on the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 certainly have history on their side.The last five winners at the Birmingham, Ala., road circuit have gone on to capture the Daytona Prototype tit
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09.03.2010
British drivers Ryan Dalziel (Glasgow) and Robin Liddell (Newbury) were among the top finishers in their classes of the Grand Prix of Miami. The 2010 GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series second round of the season took place at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Florida. Dalziel finished fifth overall in his Daytona Prototype, driving for the new Starworks Motorsports tea
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09.03.2010
Darren Law set a record pace during the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 race at Homestead-Miami Speedway on March 6. The Phoenix driver set a record pole position time in the No. 59 Brumos Racing Porsche-powered Daytona Prototype, led much of the race and finished a close second.
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07.03.2010
Miller Barrett Racing didn't get to see the checkered flag at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Saturday night. The team was running 10th in the GT class when a gearbox failure zapped its No. 48 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup out of the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series race presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16.
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07.03.2010
Round 2 of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series at Homestead-Miami Speedway didn’t produce the strong results for which the Krohn Racing team had hoped. The No. 75 Krohn Racing Ford Proto-Auto Lola finished 13th overall on the 2.3-mile South Florida superspeedway. Tracy W. Krohn, car owner/driver, qualified the car 15th and drove 99 laps before turning over the 530-horsepower Prototype ca
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07.03.2010
Scott Pruett held off a late charge by David Donohue and held on to win Saturday's Grand Prix of Miami, Round 2 of the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16.
Pruett and Memo Rojas scored their second vi
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07.03.2010
Grand Prix of Miami ResultsMarch 5 - 6, 2010Grand Prix of Miami Homestead, FL1 01 DP 1 Pruett / Rojas Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates / BMW Riley 129 1:12.868 40 107.
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06.03.2010
DATE: TodayTIME: 5 p.m. ETNETWORK: SPEED EVENT: Grand Prix of Miami Tune in to the Grand Prix of Miami at 5 p.m. ET. Both pole-winning teams - Brumos Racing and Banner Racing - look to earn consecutive wins at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Darren Law captured the overall pole in the No. 59 Brumos Racing P
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06.03.2010
Grand Prix of Miami ResultsMarch 5 - 6, 2010 Grand Prix of MiamiHomestead, FL1 01 DP 1 Pruett / Rojas Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates / BMW Riley 1:12.395 114.372 TELMEX2 &n
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06.03.2010
The No. 94 Turner Motorsport BMW M6 will start from the back of the GT grid in today's Grand Prix of Miami after struggling with mechanical problems all weekend. But the team is optimistic entering the race."We've had only three flying laps all weekend," car owner Will Turner said. "We had no problems with our power steering unit during the whole Rolex 24 At Daytona. But it doesn't
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06.03.2010
Craig Stanton cut a tire in turn four of the oval and tagged the wall entering the front stretch during Saturday morning's final practice, badly damaging the No. 44 Magnus Racing Porsche GT3."You can say I hit it NASCAR style," Stanton said. "Fortunately, I hit the SAFER Barrier and it really worked out. It really absorbed the impact. If I hit concrete, I'd be going to the care cent
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06.03.2010
Autohaus Motorsports repaired damaged sustained by its No. 46 Porsche GT3 and will start the Grand Prix of Miami from the back of the grid. Richard Zahn hit the wall in Friday practice. While he was unhurt, the car was not ready in time for qualifying.The team raced a Pontiac GXP at the Rolex 24. That car is being refreshed by Pratt and Miller, and the team is mulling the possabilit
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06.03.2010
Davy Jones announced today that Edge Eyewear, a manufacturer of designer quality safety rated sunglasses, will join him and his team as their official supplier of protective eyewear for the Homestead 200, the second round of the 2010 Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge which will take place this weekend at the Miami-Homestead Speedway. Edge Eyewear will provide Jones and the Momen
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06.03.2010
Miller Barrett Racing will start the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 race at Homestead-Miami Speedway from eighth on the GT-class grid. The team's No. 48 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup was the fastest Porsche qualifier in the 19-car class, behind five Mazda and two Chevrolet entries.Luke Hines of Essex, England, qualified for Miller Barrett Racing, lapping
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06.03.2010
Daytona Prototype Qualifying Darren Law: It was great. We always run well at Homestead, and the Brumos car was very, very good as the tires came up. We had a real good run. I'm proud of everybody. This is the way we need to start the rest of the season after Daytona. We're going to be pushing hard at every race and make some points up. T
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06.03.2010
Grand Prix of Miami ResultsMarch 5 - 6, 2010 Grand Prix of MiamiHomestead, FL1 59 DP 1 Donohue / Law Brumos Racing / Porsche Riley 1:11.806 115.310 Brumos.com2 99 &nbs
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05.03.2010
Grand Prix of Miami ResultsMarch 5 - 6, 2010 Grand Prix of MiamiHomestead, FL1 77 DP 1 Gidley / von Moltke Doran Racing / Ford Dallara 1:13.197 113.119 McDonalds, South African Airways2
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05.03.2010
Grand Prix of Miami ResultsMarch 5 - 6, 2010 Grand Prix of Miami1 59 DP 1 Donohue / Law Brumos Racing / Porsche Riley 1:12.665 113.947 Brumos.com2 60 DP &
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05.03.2010
Grand Prix of Miami ResultsMarch 5 - 6, 2010 Grand Prix of MiamiHomestead Miami Speedway1 99 DP 1 Fogarty / Gurney GAINSCO/ Bob Stallings Racing / Chevrolet Riley 1:11.844 115.249 GAINSCO Auto
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05.03.2010
A related transmission issue struck both of Stevenson Motorsports' new Camaros past the midway point of the recent Rolex 24 At Daytona. An investigation proved that a sensor was malfunctioning, causing the gears to grind before the shift was fulling completed."It just seemed that it was hard to shift," said Gunter Schaldach, driver of the No. 97 Camaro."It should feel li
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05.03.2010
Spencer Pumpelly ran a lap of 1:18.303 to lead the opening GT practice session, moments before turning the No. 67 TRG Porsche GT3 over to new co-driver Enrique Saravia. The lap unofficially broke Sylvain Tremblay's five-month-old track record."The car was real good when we unloaded off the truck," Pumpelly said. "In the fall race, we unloaded with a similar setup and were pretty hap
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05.03.2010
Alex Gurney waited until the closing minutes of the opening Rolex Series practice session to run a 1:11.848 (115.250 mph), after the GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing team put a fresh set of Pirellis on the No. 99 Chevrolet Riley. The lap was a second quicker than co-driver Jon Fogarty's track record, set in 2009."It was a good session," Gurney said. "We improved the car with every chang
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05.03.2010
The No. 28 LG Motorsports Corvette made its first appearance at a GRAND-AM Rolex Series event in Friday's opening practice. Eric Lux and Kelly Collins were 15th in both Friday sessions."The car rolled wheels for the first time," said team owner Lou Gigliotti. "We're fairly happy with that. We had a little bit of an axle boot problem, but we should have that solved b
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05.03.2010
Scott Russell will be a busy man this weekend. Friday evening he will call the Daytona 200 By Honda - America's premier motorcycle race - for SPEED's live broadcast.Then he will hop in his truck, drive to Miami, and will practice and race Leighton Reece's No. 07 Mobil 1 Corvette in the Grand Prix of Miami at Homestead-Miami Speedway.Russell is uniquely qualified to call
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05.03.2010
For most of the competitors in the Rolex Series paddock, the Grand Prix of Miami John Edwards will be a sprint race compared to the season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona in January.For John Edwards, though, the two-hour, 45-minute race is much longer than what he's used to. Edwards, the 2009 Formula Atlantic champion, will co-drive the No. 68 SpeedSource/Newman Sachs Racing Clean Air E
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05.03.2010
AIM Autosport makes its 2010 Rolex Series debut with a brand new paint scheme on the original Riley Daytona Prototype, chassis 001. The car driven by Mark Wilkins and Burt Frisselle is painted light blue, with sponsorship from Pacific Mobile."It's pretty fancy, isn't is?" said team principal Ian Willis. "We're running this paint scheme for the first two races, and maybe more after t
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05.03.2010
Jonathan Bomarito will running his first race at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Saturday's Grand Prix of Miami. However, the speedway has played a role in the career of the GT winner of the season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona."I had six laps here years ago in a Daytona Prototype," said Bomarito, who will co-drive with Sylvain Tremblay in the SpeedSource No. 70 Castrol Syntec Mazda RX-8.
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05.03.2010
Enrique Saravia is used to springtime in South Florida. He was in Dodgertown in Vero Beach several times prior to catching for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1992-93.Since then, he's been busy racing GT cars in Central America, winning the Guatemalan Athlete of the Year in 2008 and 2009 and won the 2010 FIA America's Award. Saravia will make his U.S. racing debut this w
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05.03.2010
Luke Hines has only two starts in the United States, running the recent Rolex 24 At Daytona and the 2008 Petit Le Mans. This weekend, he's looking forward to his new role co-driving Miller Barrett Racing's No. 48 Marquis Jet/Grand Prix Racewear/IPC/Total Porsche GT3 with Bryce Miller.Hines, a resident of Sedge Green in Essex, England, has raced for Saleen, Corvette and Aston-M
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05.03.2010
Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona winner Ryan Dalziel, rookie Adam Christodoulou among those competing Ryan Dalziel (Glasgow) has had over a month to celebrate the biggest victory of his career – the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona in January at Daytona International Speedway. This week, though, it’s back to business.The Scottish native, now living i
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03.03.2010
The Krohn Racing heads to the 2.3-mile, 11-turn Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida for the second round of the Grand-Am Rolex Series on March 5-6, 2010.Owner/driver Tracy W. Krohn and Nic Jönsson will suit up in the No. 75 Krohn Racing Ford Proto-Auto Lola for the first sprint race of the season for the two-and-three-quarter hour South Florida race. Fifteen Prototyp
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02.03.2010
Debut race for new partner, Pacific Mobile™
This weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway, AIM Autosport will launch its 2010 racing season in the No. 61 Ford Riley at the Grand Prix of Miami with drivers Burt Frisselle and Mark Wilkins.&nb
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02.03.2010
Miller Barrett Racing will take advantage of its 2009 test program this week, returning to Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla., for a race in the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16. Luke Hines of Essex, England, and Bryce Miller of Summit, N.J., will drive the No. 48 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car, carrying the colors of team sponsors Marquis Jet, Grand Prix
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18.02.2010
Miller Barrett Racing will have two young, fast drivers behind the wheel of the No. 48 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car this season. Luke Hines of Essex, England, will join Bryce Miller of Summit, N.J., to contest the 11 upcoming races i
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11.02.2010
Sports car fans have until Feb. 19 to take advantage of a special $20 all-inclusive ticket package for the Grand Prix of Miami on March 5-6, an action-packed weekend including Round 2 of both the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 and the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge.Saturday race tickets are priced at $20, and include Friday's $5 practice
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09.02.2010
With the excitement of the recent Rolex 24 At Daytona still fresh in all minds, the race is on for the 2011 challenge champion.
Derek Johnston won the 2010 Sunoco Challenge and with it a seat in a Daytona Prototype (DP) at Daytona Internation
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07.02.2010
GrandAm: Erfolgreicher Saisonstart für Audi-Werksfahrer Mike Rockenfeller: Der 26-Jährige erhielt von Audi Sport die Freigabe, das 24-Stunden-Rennen in Daytona Beach (USA) mit einem Porsche-Riley zu bestreiten und gewann den amerikanischen Langstrecken-Klassiker gemeins
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04.02.2010
Darren Law had a strong start to the 2010 Rolex 24 At Daytona, but a broken axle and engine failure stopped the Phoenix driver's charge to repeat his 2009 overall win.
Law qualified the No. 59 Brumos Racing Porsche-powered Daytona Prototype seventh on t
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03.02.2010
...at the Rolex 24Despite an early end to the Godstone Ranch Motorsports team´s effort at the Rolex 24 this weekend, the Texas Heart Institute was still a big winner. It was overall a positive weekend that introduced the Grand-Am communi
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