Backstretch Motorsports

GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing Ready for Late-Season Rally and a Return to Winning Ways in Friday’s Crown Royal 200 at The Glen

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (August 6, 2008) — Undeterred by an uncanny run of bad luck and equally determined to end the 2008 season on a high note, defending Crown Royal 200 race winners and reigning Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Champions GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing, and drivers Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty, return to Watkins Glen International this Friday ready to mount a late-season rally in the final four races of the year.

The Crown Royal 200 sprint is scheduled for 82 laps with a two-hour time limit and joins last week’s Montreal 200 as one of the two shortest races of the season. The green flag is scheduled to drop at 6:30 p.m. ET and the race, which will be run on 8-8-08, is appropriately schedule to air on SPEED in same-day coverage at 8 p.m. ET.

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In what can only be described as a classic Daytona NASCAR move, Scott Pruett took his No. 01 TELMEX Chip Ganassi Lexus-powered Riley to the top of the Daytona Speedway and used momentum to pass Alex Gurney in the No. 99 GAINSCO/ Bob Stallings Racing Pontiac Riley and win by the closest margin in Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 history.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Hot on the heels of their first 2008 victory two weeks ago, reigning Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 Champions Alex Gurney, Jon Fogarty and GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing will be looking for consecutive victories in both the Rolex Series and the Brumos Porsche 250 when the second half of the 2008 season begins Thursday night under the lights at Daytona International Speedway.

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MONTEREY, Calif. - GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing will for the first time field two Daytona Prototype race cars in Saturday’s RumBum.com 250 (SPEED, May 18 at Noon ET) at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in a history-making Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 race that will see champion driver Cristiano da Matta make his first professional race start since recovering from life-threatening injuries in an August 2006 testing accident.

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