Posts Tagged ‘Cristiano da Matta’

Grand-Am DP Team Focus — GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing Brings Two-Car Effort to Laguna Seca

By Bram • May 16th, 2008 • Category: Grand American Rolex, News, Notes

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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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Good days happen when you least expect it…

By Bram • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: From The Backstretch, Racer

(Ed. note: this one is a little more personal, Cristiano is a great driver and a great person to know)

Sunday at VIR held one the most pleasant surprises I ‘ve had in a while. Walking through the garage area I saw Cristiano da Matta standing near the Bob Stallings/GAINSCO Racing hauler with headset on, watching as Jon Fogarty and Alex Gurney made final prep to compete in the Bosch 250 Grand-Am race.

He had a huge smile on his face. Being around racing has been the best therapy.

I immediately went to talk to the young Brazillian. “The accident is like a blur to me, many things I don’t remember about it” he said, “it was an unfortunate thing, but it is behind me. Now its time to race.”

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