Backstretch Motorsports

BOWMANVILLE, Ontario – After a brief two-week break, Automatic Racing’s Jep Thornton and Jeff Segal hope to repeat their victorious result from Lime Rock at this weekend’s 200-mile KONI Challenge race at Mosport International Raceway.

Lime Rock marked the first time that Automatic Racing has scored a win, and they aren’t ready to give up the taste of victory. The team had a promising run last year at Mosport: Segal and Thornton drove to a finish of second in the No. 09 BMW M3 despite fighting setup issues all weekend. And the No. 99 M3 qualified on the front row and held down second for the first half of the race.

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Maxwell Looks to Defend Grand-Am KONI Challenge Series Grand Sport Race Saturday at Mosport

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Scott Maxwell gave his hometown crowd at Mosport International Raceway something to cheer about in 2007 when he and co-driver Joe Foster took the No. 55 Hyper Sport Ford Mustang GT to the team’s only Grand-Am KONI Challenge Series Grand Sport victory of the season.

And the Toronto native Maxwell is looking to make it two straight for him and Foster and three consecutive for Mustangs in Saturday’s two-and-a-half hour race, which begins at 1 p.m., at the 2.459-mile, 10-turn track in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, the third round on the 2008 KONI Challenge schedule. The pair currently has 35 points - 28 points behind leaders Craig Stanton, Jep Thornton and Jeff Segal - after competing at Daytona International Speedway and Lime Rock Park.

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