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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Five drivers will end their battle for the Rolex Series GT title Saturday at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah, and three of them drive for SpeedSource.

Co-drivers Jeff Segal and Emil Assentato (No. 69 FXDD Mazda RX-8), points leaders since April, hold an eight-point advantage over SpeedSource teammate Sylvain Tremblay (No. 70 Castrol Syntec Mazda RX-8). Segal andread more

MONTREAL - "I was awesome."

To say that Scott Pruett was ready to celebrate his victory with his Chip Ganassi partner Memo Rojas Saturday at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve would be an understatement.

The pair had every reason to let loose with the emotions, as their record-setting eighth triumphant performance of the season, which was their first on the Isle Notre Dame circuit, ensured them of theirread more

TROIS-RIVIÈRES, Quebec - Owen Trinkler said he felt like a Grand Prix de Trois-Rivières victory got away from him last season. On Saturday, however, he made sure what happened a year ago did not happen again.

Trinkler and Randy Smalley earned their second-consecutive Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Street Tuner victory as Trinkler took the lead from Tom Long in turn eight and led the final 40read more

TROIS-RIVIERES, Quebec - Matt Plumb made Friday the 13th his lucky day by dominating the second half of the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Grand Sport event to post the victory with co-driver Nick Longhi during the Grand Prix de Trois-Rivieres.

Longhi exited the No. 13 RumBum.com BMW M3 on the third lap, only five minutes into the two-hour race. Plumb weaved through the field on theread more

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. - The Daytona Prototype portion of the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series season can be summed up in these few words: Different day, different place, same results.

The return of the Rolex tour to Watkins Glen Int'l Saturday evening for the short sprint format Crown Royal 200 was more proof of the stranglehold Chip Ganassi Racing has over the championship. Scott Pruett andread more

MILLVILLE, N.J. - Alex Gurney caught and passed Scott Pruett with less than two laps remaining and won Sunday at New Jersey Motorsports Park, giving the defending Daytona Prototype champions Gurney and Jon Fogarty their first Grand Am Rolex Series victory of the season in the NJMP 250.

Pruett beat Gurney out of the pits following his final pit stop and led 45 laps in his quest for a record fourthread more

CHARLOTTE, N.C.
The NASCAR-owned Grand American Road Racing Ass'n prides itself on tightly controlling its headlining Rolex Sports Car Series as part of its efforts to keep the competition close and the costs of the participants in check. It is a formula, which, while going against the grain in the road-racing world, has produced some of the most exciting finishes in the history of the sport.

Inderead more

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas just keep on clicking off the victories in Grand Am Rolex Series competition, winning Saturday's Brumos Porsche 250 at Daytona Int'l Speedway.

As it was the Grand Am Daytona Prototype division's 100th race, it was a milestone for the Telmex Ganassi team.

"It's quite an honor to win the 100th race," Pruett said. "It's a special mark for us as a team.read more

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Grand Am Rolex Series officials have penalized the No. 01 Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates team after discovering an issue with the car during post-race inspection June 19 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

The team, which won the event with drivers Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas sharing driving duties, was found to be in violation of Daytona Prototype Regulations 4-1.1read more

 LEXINGTON, Ohio - Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas collected their fifth victory of the season in dominant fashion Saturday as the second half of the Grand Am Rolex Series opened with the Emco Gears Classic at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

Rojas led the first 15 laps of the race and later handed off to Pruett, who took the lead back on lap 70 and led to the checkered flag at the end of the 2-hour andread more

LEXINGTON, Ohio - The second half of the Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series season begins Saturday with the EMCO Gears Classic at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

Defending race winners Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas return, and hold an 18-point lead in the Daytona Prototype standings. Leh Keen, who will co-drive with James Gue, is seeking his third-consecutive Mid-Ohio GT victory. Keen won with Eric Luxread more

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. - What a difference five days can make.

On Memorial Day, Ganassi Racing had its worst weekend of the Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series season following a first-lap accident at Lime Rock Park that tore off much of the front end from the team's Telmex BMW Riley.

Now fast forward to Saturday and the annual Sahlen's Six-Hour of the Glen where no one could touch Pruett and Rojas inread more

LAKEVILLE, Conn. - They say that the cream always comes to the top. Here Monday afternoon, the cream of the Grand Am's Rolex Sports Car Series' Daytona Prototype set was the SunTrust Ford-Dallara of Max Angelelli and Ricky Taylor, which claimed the victory on the tight 1.54-mile Lime Rock Park circuit.

Although there were numerous lead changes in the two-and-three- quarter-hour affair, it wasread more

LAKEVILLE, Conn. - Joey Hand, driving the Turner Motorsports BMW M3, took the lead from Turner teammate Bill Auberlen with 15 laps to go, and held off the challenge of Billy Johnson (Roush Performance Products Mustang) to win Saturday's Lime Rock round of the Continental Tire Challenge Grand Sports race.

Run to a two-and-a-half-hour time limit, the race covered 147 laps around the 1.53-mileread more

CONCORD, N.C. - Jimmie Johnson will make his return to the Grand Am Rolex Series in two weeks at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) Int'l.

Johnson will again team with the Gainsco/Bob Stallings Racing team as a co-driver alongside Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty June 5 for the Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen.

"It's going to be a bit of a challenge time-wise, but I'm very excited to have this opportunity," Johnson saidread more

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Tom Bledsoe has been named President of Grand Am Road Racing, it was announced today by the sports car sanctioning body.

Bledsoe has served as Grand Am's chief operating officer and vice president since December 2007, and has been acting president since Roger Edmondson took a leave of absence earlier this year due to health reasons.

The board of directors promoted Bledsoe toread more

LAKEVILLE, Conn. - The Grand Am Rolex Series Daytona Prototypes made their first appearance at Lime Rock Park Tuesday, taking part in an unofficial test in preparation for the Grand Am event scheduled May 31 at the track.

Nineteen cars - including 11 Daytona Prototypes - tackled changing weather conditions throughout the six-hour session.

Competitors gave favorable reviews to the new 1.5-mileread more

ALTON, Va. - Despite a near miss on the final lap, Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas drove their Chip Ganassi-owned BMW Riley to their third-straight Grand Am Rolex Series triumph of the season Saturday at Virginia Int'l Raceway.

Pruett was at the wheel when tragedy nearly struck during the Bosch Engineering 250 at the 3.27-mile road course.

"It was a knife edge," said Scott Pruett. "On that last lap, Iread more

ALTON, Va. - Turner Motorsport's pit strategy worked to perfection in Saturday's Bosch Engineering VIR 200 at Virginia Int'l Raceway, while other teams were forced to make late-race pit stops and give up track position.

Joey Hand took the lead with 12 minutes remaining in the two-and-a-half hour race, the fourth round of the Grand Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge season, and earned theread more

ALTON, Va. - Joey Hand, driving the No. 97 Turner Motorsports BMW M3 Coupe, led the last six laps en route to victory in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge GT class Saturday afternoon at Virginia Int'l Raceway.

Hand and co-driver Michael Marsal earned their first victory of the season after Hand overtook Matt Plumb's No. 13 Rum Bum Racing BMW M3 on lap 61.

Plumb inherited the lead after Jeffread more

DANVILLE, Va. - Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas won their third Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series race Saturday in the Bosch Engineering 250 at Virginia Int'l Raceway, extending their point lead.

Pruett led the final 22 laps in the No. 01 Telmex BMW Riley despite losing his rear spoiler after contact with a GT car. He survived a pair of late restarts to beat Burt Frisselle by .293 second.

"We always seemread more

LEEDS, Ala. - If you liked the Grand Prix of Miami but missed the finish of the Grand American's Rolex affair at Homestead that ran into the darkness, don't worry. Here Saturday at Barber Motorsports Park, the NASCAR-owned championship staged a repeat in the Porsche 250.

Once more, just as they had at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas celebrated the victory in the Daytonaread more

LEEDS, Ala. - The Porsche 250 at Barber Motorsports Park has produced six different Daytona Prototype winners in seven years of competition at the 2.3-mile, 17-turn natural road course.

A number of teams will look to join that list when the Grand Am Rolex Series takes the green flag at 1:30 p.m. ET Saturday.

Michael Shank Racing and Starworks Motorsport each have entered two cars in search of theirread more

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Now that Scott Pruett has turned 50, his fellow competitors in the Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 may be hoping that the 23-time overall race winner and two-time Daytona Prototype champion may be ready to cut back his racing schedule and spend more time working in his new winery.

Fat chance. Coming off a victory in the Grand Prix of Miamiread more

HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Sometimes statistics lie. Sometimes they don't.

Saturday at Homestead-Miami Speedway, statistics reflected a well-deserved victory for Chip Ganassi Racing's duo of Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas.

With a 5 p.m. start time for the Grand Am Rolex Series' Grand Prix of Miami, the event finished in darkness on the 2.3-mile road course, which utilized a portion of the track's 1.5-mileread more

HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Scott Pruett held off a furious late-race challenge from David Donohue to win Saturday evening's Grand Prix of Miami Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series event at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Pruett, who shared the Chip Ganassi Racing BMW-powered Riley with Memo Rojas, took control of the race during the final portion of the two and one-half-hour event, which started in the daylight andread more

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - The fastest car won the Fresh From Florida 200 Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge race Friday at Daytona Int'l Raceway, but the victory wasn't easy for its drivers Gianluis Bacardi and Matt Plumb.

Making his pro debut in the series' biggest race of the year, Barcadi survived a 19th-place starting spot in the 77-car field and stayed out of trouble in order to turn the Rumread more

Action Express Claims Back-To-Back Rolex Triumphs For Porsche

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - The 48th annual Rolex 24 At Daytona will go down in the books as a race won by what amounted to a mechanical version of a "nobody" fielded by a "nobody" underdog team that had been given little chance of success by the experts.

Yet the triumph posted Sunday at Daytona Int'l Speedway by the Action Express Racingread more

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Some teams have tried for years to win the Rolex 24 At Daytona and never made it victory lane at Daytona Int'l Speedway.

But the first time was certainly the charm for the Action Express Racing team headed by former Brumos Racing affiliate Bob Johnson. Drivers Joao Barbosa, Terry Borcheller, Mike Rockenfeller and Ryan Dalziel celebrated victory in the 48th annual enduranceread more

By Linda Mansfield

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Friday morning Continental Tire announced that it will become the official tire of the Rolex Series starting in 2011 and continuing at least through the 2014 season, replacing Pirelli.

Continental's research and development team will partner with Hoosier Racing Tire to develop new rubber for the Daytona Prototype and GT classes in order to service all ofread more