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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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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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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.

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