Backstretch Motorsports

ALTON, Va. - Catching Scott Pruett is one thing. Passing him is another.

Pruett and Memo Rojas culminated an eventful weekend by leading the final 20 laps today in their #01 Telmex Lexus on the way to winning the Grand-American Rolex Sports Car Series’ Bosch Engineering 250 at the Virginia International Raceway.

The weekend started off on a high note with Rojas apparently winning his second consecutive pole, only for the car to fail technical inspection and be forced to start from the rear of the field. With a thought toward saving fuel and making up track position, the car started from the pit lane and then made an early pit-stop to top off their fuel tank. The move proved to be the correct one as a full-course yellow came out shortly after and put Rojas into the top-five.

Pruett held off a stiff challenge from Ryan Dalziel to win by.548 seconds. It was the third victory in four 2008 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 races for Pruett and Rojas in the No. 01 SAMAX Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates Lexus Riley.

Dalziel, running in the No. 2 SAMAX BMW Riley started by Henri Zogaib, ran down Pruett in the closing laps, closing to within one second with several laps remaining.

Pruett took the white flag with a .0268-second lead, and held off two late runs to take the checkered flag by .548 seconds.

Marc Goossens, the only other 2008 Daytona Prototype winner after winning last weekend in Mexico City, joined Jim Matthews in finishing third in the No. 91 Riley-Matthews Motorsports Pontiac Riley.

Andrew Davis and Robin Liddell teamed to give Stevenson Motorsports its second consecutive victory in the No. 57 Pontiac GXP.R. Spencer Pumpelly and Tim George Jr. finished second in the No. 66 TRG Porsche GT3, followed by Leh Keen and Eric Lux in the No. 86 Farnbacher Loles Racing Porsche GT3.

April 26 - 27, 2008
Bosch Engineering 250 at VIR
Virginia International Raceway
Alton, VA

Official Race Results

POS NO. CLASS CLASS POS. DRIVER TEAM/CAR LAPS BEST LAP (#) AVG MPH SPONSORS
1 01 DP 1 Pruett / Rojas Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates / Lexus Riley 77 1:45.344 66 96.669 TELMEX
2 2 DP 2 Dalziel / Zogaib SAMAX / BMW Riley 77 1:44.658 66 96.664
3 91 DP 3 Goossens / Matthews Bob Stallings/ Riley-Matthews / Pontiac Riley 77 1:45.911 36 96.573 Riley-Matthews Motorsports
4 6 DP 4 James / Pew Michael Shank Racing / Ford Riley 77 1:45.325 36 96.422
5 7 DP 5 Plumb / Sigal Rum Bum Racing / BMW Riley 77 1:46.864 64 96.334 RumBum.com, Big Vision Miami
6 61 DP 6 Frisselle / Wilkins AIM Autosport / Ford Riley 77 1:45.501 36 96.283 Exchange Traded Gold, Mike Direct Connect
7 23 DP 7 Auberlen / Hand Alex Job Racing / Porsche Crawford 77 1:46.043 36 96.216 Ruby Tuesday
8 47 DP 8 Frisselle / Gardel Doran Racing / Ford Dallara 77 1:46.454 52 96.206 BSI, CDOC, Anasten Plus
9 60 DP 9 Negri / Patterson Michael Shank Racing / Ford Riley 77 1:46.077 35 96.164
10 3 DP 10 Lester / Lewis Southard Motorsports / Lexus Riley 77 1:47.350 77 96.149
11 19 DP 11 Beyer / Taylor / Wallace Beyer Racing / Ford Crawford 76 1:46.181 4 95.331
12 75 DP 12 Krohn / van de Poele Krohn Racing / Pontiac Lola 76 1:47.548 74 94.844
13 59 DP 13 Barbosa / France Brumos Racing / Porsche Riley 76 1:46.911 68 94.740 Brumos Porsche, Kendall
14 99 DP 14 Fogarty / Gurney GAINSCO/ Bob Stallings Racing / Pontiac Riley 76 1:44.967 42 94.685 GAINSCO Auto Insurance
15 16 DP 15 Bobbi / Kimber-Smith Cheever Racing / Pontiac Coyote 76 1:46.863 36 94.668 Crown Royal Cask No. 16
16 57 GT 1 Davis / Liddell Stevenson Motorsports / Pontiac GXP.R 74 1:55.006 3 92.178 StevensonAuto.com, Bryan Mark Financial
17 76 DP 16 Jonsson / Zonta Krohn Racing / Pontiac Lola 74 1:46.328 64 92.176
18 67 GT 2 George Jr / Pumpelly TRG / Porsche GT3 Cup 74 1:54.739 64 92.118 Gleukos
19 86 GT 3 Keen / Lux Farnbacher Loles / Porsche GT3 Cup 74 1:55.625 37 92.072
20 07 GT 4 Collins / Edwards Banner Racing / Pontiac GXP.R 74 1:53.944 36 92.066 Banner Engineering
21 40 GT 5 Dempsey / Foster Hyper Sport / Mazda RX-8 74 1:55.825 37 91.759
22 06 GT 6 Bunting / Reese Banner Racing / Pontiac GXP.R 74 1:56.473 35 91.759 Banner Engineering
23 10 DP 17 Angelelli / Valiante SunTrust Racing / Pontiac Dallara 73 1:46.003 16 95.576 Sun Trust
24 42 GT 7 Nonnamaker / Sahlen Team Sahlen / Corvette 73 1:57.213 34 91.523 HRPworld.com
25 69 GT 8 Assentato / Segal SpeedSource / Mazda RX-8 73 1:54.771 38 91.464 FXDD
26 72 GT 9 Aschenbach / Lewis Jr Autohaus Motorsports / Pontiac GXP.R 73 1:55.575 61 91.382 Autohaus Motorsports
27 32 GT 10 Barrett / Forest PR1 Motorsports / Pontiac GXP.R 73 1:57.333 7 91.304
28 70 GT 11 Ham / Tremblay SpeedSource / Mazda RX-8 73 1:54.862 35 91.120 Castrol Syntec, Mazda
29 97 GT 12 Gue / Stevenson Stevenson Motorsports / Corvette 73 1:55.248 62 91.071 StevensonAuto.com
30 64 GT 13 Lowe / Pace TRG / Porsche GT3 Cup 72 1:57.186 60 90.357 SRS, Globus, Adopt A Pig
31 80 GT 14 Long / Murry Synergy Racing / Porsche GT3 Cup 72 1:54.782 67 90.169 Oil Heat America.com
32 43 GT 15 Nonnamaker / Nonnamaker Team Sahlen / Corvette 72 1:58.780 60 89.972 HRPworld.com
33 29 GT 16 Gabel / Garcia Alegra Motorsports / Porsche GT3 Cup 72 1:57.400 34 89.913 Gatorade, TodayMD
34 30 GT 17 Riley / Stone Racers Edge Motorsports / Mazda RX-8 71 1:56.592 34 89.054 ITEMITSU
35 14 GT 18 Friedman / McGehee Autometrics Motorsports / Porsche GT3 Cup 71 1:57.717 66 88.926 Mac Papers
36 66 GT 19 Ballou / Miller TRG / Porsche GT3 Cup 71 1:55.701 67 88.776 Mitchell Rubber, Marquis Jet, Elf Oils, IPC
37 21 GT 20 Alessi / Seyffarth Matt Connolly Motorsports / Pontiac GTO.R 71 1:55.600 46 88.426 P1 Groupe, Black Flag Gear, Pacific Teaze, Lucy Plast S.P.A., Barbetti, Davide Cenci, ERREMME
38 68 GT 21 Sellers / Valentine TRG / Porsche GT3 Cup 70 1:55.439 39 87.818 CGR, Maxter, Rotax, MBA Group, F1 Air
39 71 GT 22 Grant / Grant / Grant Synergy Racing / Porsche GT3 Cup 66 2:00.684 36 85.168 Courtyard by Marriott
40 15 GT 23 Dumoulin / Nastasi Blackforest Motorsports / Ford Mustang 64 1:56.937 3 89.431 USG, Guardian, DeWalt
41 77 DP 18 Gidley / Jaeger Doran Racing / Ford Dallara 56 1:46.180 44 69.935 Kodak
42 87 GT 24 Farnbacher / Werner Farnbacher Loles / Porsche GT3 Cup 51 1:54.552 2 63.547
43 22 GT 25 Stanton / de Quesada Alegra Motorsports / Porsche GT3 Cup 47 1:56.463 35 87.156 Gatorade, TodayMD
44 58 DP 19 Donohue / Law Brumos Racing / Porsche Riley 43 1:45.335 41 53.661 Brumos Porsche, Kendall
45 88 GT 26 Lacey / Wilkins Farnbacher Loles / Porsche GT3 Cup