by Jay | Apr 5, 2013 | NHMS, Road Racing
Exotic Driving Experience opens doors at NHMS for 2013 season
LOUDON, N.H. (April 2, 2013) – New Hampshire Motor Speedway officials are happy to see the snow melting and the track drying in time for a unique event that will drop the green flag on the 2013 season at the Magic Mile. The Exotic Driving Experience, featuring super-fast supercars such as Ferrari, Lamborghini and Aston Martin, will scream into the Granite State April 5-7 in the first of several planned stops through the spring, summer and fall.
The Orlando-based driving class will use the Magic Mile’s 1.6-mile, winding road course, allowing serious thrill-seekers an opportunity to push the limits and feel the acceleration, speed and precise handling of some of the coolest high-performance vehicles in the world.
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by Jay | Jan 28, 2013 | Photos, Road Racing
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CHEVY GRAND-AM AT ROLEX 24: Max Angelelli, Jordan Taylor & Ryan Hunter-Reay Post-Race Press Conf. Transcript
Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates Scores Fifth Rolex 24 At Daytona Win
by Jay | Jan 7, 2012 | Road Racing
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., — The Roar Before The Rolex 24, the three-day test session for the historic 50th Anniversary of the Rolex 24 At Daytona on Jan. 28-29, kicked off on Friday at Daytona International Speedway.
Between GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series and Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge, 112 cars are tackling the twists and turns of Daytona’s road course preparing for the Rolex 24 At Daytona Weekend. As the cars hit the track on the first day of the Roar Before The Rolex 24, it was clear that teams are taking this weekend’s test as seriously as any event on their 2012 schedules. (more…)
by Jay | Jun 27, 2011 | NASCAR, Road Racing
SONOMA, Calif. (June 26, 2011) — Sonoma County is famous for wineries, not woodsheds, but Kurt Busch found the latter Sunday at Infineon Raceway, administering a good old-fashioned whipping to his NASCAR Sprint Cup competition in the Toyota/Save Mart 350.
Busch led 76 of 110 laps and beat runner-up Jeff Gordon to the finish line by 2.685 seconds to win his first race of the season and the 23rd of his career, tying him with Ricky Rudd for 26th on the career win list. The victory, which broke a 38-race drought, was Busch’s first on a road course.
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by Jay | Jun 26, 2011 | NASCAR, Road Racing
ELKHART LAKE, Wis.—Call it what you will, but the finish of Saturday’s Bucyrus 200 Nationwide Series race was certainly interesting—and drawn out.
The scheduled 50-lap race on Road America’s 4.048-mile road course needed three green-white-checkered-flag attempts to determine a winner, and even on Lap 57, it was difficult to see that Reed Sorenson had won his first race since 2007.
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by Jay | Jun 5, 2011 | New England, New York, Road Racing
SunTrust Racing Takes the Win in the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen; GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing Finishes Third in DP; Autohaus Motorsports Continues Strong Performance in GT with Runner-up Finish
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (June 4, 2011) – For the second consecutive week in Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series competition, the No. 10 SunTrust Racing team of Max Angelelli and Ricky Taylor stood a-top the podium as the race winners. It was Taylor who piloted the beautiful Chevrolet-powered Daytona Prototype (DP) Dallara race car of the Wayne Taylor-owned team to the checkered flag in the famed Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen.
The weekend got off to a fast start on Friday when Ricky and his brother Jordan Taylor led their respective classes in qualifying becoming the first brothers to win pole positions for both DP and Grand Touring (GT) classes at the same GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series event. Jordan was behind the wheel of No. 88 Autohaus Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro GT.R.
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