DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Jon Fogarty and Alex Gurney piloted the No. 99 GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing Pontiac Riley to their third consecutive victory in Thursday night’s 70-lap Brumos Porsche 250 at Daytona Int’l Speedway.
Gurney crossed the finish line 7.48 seconds ahead of the No. 10 SunTrust Racing Pontiac Riley of Max Angelelli and Jonathan Cochet.
The victory was a series-leading fourth of the season for the GAINSCO team.
After leading the early laps of the race from the pole, Fogarty dropped all the way to seventh after pitting with most of the lead pack on lap eight.  During a climb back to second place, Fogarty was assessed a stop-and-go penalty on lap 13 for avoidable contact with the No. 01 TELMEX/Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates Lexus Riley of Memo Rojas and the No. 23 Ruby Tuesday/Alex Job Racing Porsche Crawford of Jörg Bergmeister.
After serving the penalty, Fogarty began picking off competitors one-by-one. By lap 25, he had climbed to eighth place.  Fifteen laps later, Fogarty shot past Angelelli for third place and by lap 43 had climbed into a nose-to-tail battle with the race-leading No. 58 Red Bull/Brumos Porsche Riley driven by Darren Law and the second-place No. 75 Krohn Racing Pontiac Riley of Max Papis.
“I didn’t really think about the penalty,” Fogarty said. “I just took the anger and tried to channel it to some speed, put my head down and tried to get to the front. It was important to get the car up to the front, it seemed like we were going to go green so we had to push. It was very hot and humid in the car, tough, but we got it done, and we’re very happy.”
Fogarty turned the GAINSCO car over to teammate Gurney on lap 43 who took the lead after a cycle of pit stops just two laps later. Gurney wasn’t seriously challenged again.
“We can’t do anything more than what we’re doing,” said Gurney, still trailing by 17 points in the season championship. “Hopefully we keep putting up the results and maybe the championship will take care of itself.  There’s a long way to go, and a lot of things can happen.  With these GT cars running in the same race, you have to be really careful because everything can change in a heartbeat.”
The SunTrust team’s second-place finish helped Angelelli close the gap in the championship lead to just four points behind Scott Pruett (237-233), who finished sixth co-driving with Rojas. Pruett took the wheel from Rojas in 13th place on lap 37 and climbed to a sixth-place finish to hold his points lead.
In GT class competition, the No. 70 SpeedSource Mazda RX-8 of Nick Ham and Sylvain Tremblay won from the pole, pulling a 9.514-second gap over the No. 07 Banner Racing Pontiac GXP.R of Kelly Collins and Paul Edwards at the finish. Ham and Tremblay combined to lead 45 laps of the 70 lap battle. 
Collins and Edwards used the second place finish to take over the GT championship lead (255-253) after entering the night’s race in a three-way tie with Dirk Werner, who finished third with co-driver Bryce Miller in the No. 87 Farnbacher Loles Motorsports Porsche GT3 Cup. 
The Rolex Series reconvenes July 13-14 at Iowa Speedway for split-class action, and then heads on to Barber Motorsports Park in Leeds, Alabama July 20-22.