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(Ed. Note: This story is from yesterday but with the race being shown one day later on tape delay on SPEEDTV, backstretchmotorsports decided not to run results as a spoiler)

Dalziel and Zogaib Scored First for SAMAX at Laguna Seca

MONTEREY, Calif. - Henri Zogaib and Ryan Dalziel delivered the best birthday present possible for SAMAX Motorsport team owner Peter Baron as the two combined for a convincing race win with the No. 2 Dinan BMW-Riley in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16Rumbum.com 250 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on Saturday. After racing back to the front from a lap down from the leaders, Dalziel led the final 23 laps to take the win.

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SALINAS, Calif. - David Donohue saved his best for last Friday, running his fastest lap near the end of the session to win the pole for the RumBum.com 250 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

Donohue ran a lap of 1:19.843, 100.908 mph, on his eighth of nine qualifying laps to win his second pole of the season in Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 competition, driving the No. 58 Brumos Racing Porsche Riley.

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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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Memo Gidley, co-driver of the No. 77 Doran Racing Ford-Dallara Daytona Prototype, has run numerous laps throughout his racing career at Mazda Raceway in Laguna Seca, the site of this weekend’s Grand-Am Rolex Series race. He has driven several cars at the track and stood on the podium there after a second place finish in a Champ Car race. Gidley, who came away from the track with a 10th-place performance in last season’s Rolex Series race, talks about his experience on the track and the upgrades that have been made to his car this year.

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Orlando, Fla. (May 13, 2008) - California’s Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca hasn’t always been the happiest of hunting grounds for Scotland’s Ryan Dalziel but the 26-year-old aims to rectify that this weekend as he again partners with Orlando’s Henri Zogaib in the No. 2 SAMAX Motorsport BMW-Riley Daytona Prototype for Round five of the 2008 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Presented by Crown Royal Cask No.16, Friday 16th - Saturday 17th May.

Dalziel heads into Saturday’s ‘Rum Bum.com 250′ at the 2.238-mile road course eager to maintain the momentum built up from his first podium of the season last time out at Virginia International Raceway. Denied his maiden Grand-Am victory by a mere half a second, Ryan’s form looked ominous as he hounded former champion and series veteran Scott Pruett in the No. 01 Chip Ganassi Racing Lexus-Riley through to the checkered flag last month, team-mate Zogaib then accompanying Dalziel onto the second step of the podium for the traditional champagne shower.

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TRG Looks to Defend 1-2 Finish at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca And Home Turf with Five-Car Entry in RumBum.com 250

PETALUMA, Calif. In the GT class, there is no Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 race closer to home for TRG than next weekend’s RumBum.com 250 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

There is also no facility on the 2008 schedule for which TRG owner Kevin Buckler - and many others in the Grand-Am paddock - has as much passion as the picturesque, 2.238-mile, 11-turn permanent road course in Monterey, Calif.

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