This Victory Is Solid as a (Lime) Rock SunTrust’s Angelelli, Taylor Dominate Memorial Day Classic for Second Year in a Row

by | May 31, 2011 | Connecticut, Lime Rock Park, New England

This Victory Is Solid as a (Lime) Rock SunTrust’s Angelelli, Taylor Dominate Memorial Day Classic for Second Year in a Row
Lime Rock Park

Date: May 30, 2011
Event: Memorial Day Classic (Round 5 of 12)
Series: Daytona Prototype division of the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series
Location: Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Conn. (1.5-mile, seven-turn road course)
Start/Finish: 1st / 1st (Running, completed 183 of 183 laps)
Winners: Max Angelelli and Ricky Taylor of SunTrust Racing (Chevrolet)

Is it possible time has stood still in the lush, green hills of northwest Connecticut since Memorial Day 2010? That was when the SunTrust Racing driving duo of Max Angelelli and Ricky Taylor previously visited Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Conn., and scored their first GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series victory of the season in dominating fashion by leading three times for a race-high 95 of 174 laps.

Monday, it was déjà vu all over again, in the words of the immortal Yogi Berra, as Angelelli and Taylor made it look easy, once again, in scoring their second consecutive Memorial Day Classic victory at Lime Rock in even more convincing fashion, starting from the pole and leading three times for 153 of 183 race laps.
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Hudson race report for May 29th

by | May 31, 2011 | Hudson, New England, New Hampshire

Hudson NH –The Outlaws made their first appearance of the 2011 racing season with defending Outlaws Champion Geoff Rollins picking up the first feature win. Ricky Woodside Jr. held the top spot early in the race before relinquishing it to Ron Lord. Lord held on for a few laps until Rollins chased him down. Rollins spent a lap or two on the high side of Lord, slipped past and wasn’t challenged from that point on.

Fourteen year old Derek Griffith from Hudson N.H. had a fantastic run going until trouble found him. Griffith started last in the field in his first ever Outlaw feature and made his way all the way up to second before a cut tire put him into the wall bringing out the only caution of the race in the closing laps.
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NSCS Race Recap: Harvick wins 600 when Earnhardt runs out of gas

by | May 30, 2011 | NASCAR

CONCORD, N.C—You didn’t have to open a Superman comic to find Bizarro World—Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway had all the strangeness a fan of cosmic weirdness could hope to find.

Kevin Harvick, a driver who wasn’t a factor for 600 miles, won the race when Dale Earnhardt Jr. ran out of gas a half-mile from the finish line after the event went to overtime for the first time in its history.

And despite the victory, Harvick still can’t stand racing at Charlotte.
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