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 MONT-TREMBLANT,
QUEBEC, CANADA (May 22-23) -- The Grand American Road Racing
Association contested its fourth event of the year Saturday at Le
Circuit Mont-Tremblant. Hoosier is the exclusive tire supplier to the
Grand-Am Cup Series (in both the GS and ST classes) and is also the
only tire used by the SGS class in the Rolex Series which has three
classes in competition. On Saturday in the Grand-Am
Cup Series GS class, Powell Motorsport's Cadillac CTS-V crossed the finish line
first followed by Doncaster Racing's Porsche 996 (photo) and Rehagen
Racing's Mustang Cobra SVT. A post race inspection found the first and
third place teams guilty of "fuel capacity
violations". As a result, the team and drivers of the Powell Motorsport's #11 were awarded
28th place points and the Rehagen Racing's #58 were given 29th place
points. Both teams retain their overall finishing positions but will
forfeit their prize money. In the ST
class, Team Lexus was the first to cross the line (11th overall)
followed by Turner Motorsport (12th overall) and Bill Fenton
Motorsports (13th overall). There were 52 cars in attendance with 47
cars in the two classes competing in the Grand-Am Cup Series on
Saturday. In the Rolex race on Sunday, there were 38 cars in
competition with 10 cars competing on Hoosiers in the SGS class. TPC
Racing's #36 car finished in first place (15th overall) for the second
consecutive event followed by the TPC Racing (19th overall) #38 car and
the Powell Motorsport (22nd overall) #07 Corvette in third.
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 (May
22) -- The Grand-Am Cup Series race began at 2:00 pm on Saturday with
a 250mile/95-lap/3 hour limit. The Mont-Tremblant 2.65-mile road
course had 47 cars in competition with 27 competing in the GS class.
The 92-lap race reached the three hour time limit first with Devon
Powell and Terry Borcheller crossing the finish line first overall in
the Sunoco/Powell Motorsport sponsored Cadillac CTS-V #11 in the GS
class. For Borcheller, it was his fourth straight first place finish
and his first of the season with new teammate Devon Powell. The duo
was followed to the line by Greg Wilkins and Robert Julien in the
Doncaster Racing #91 Porsche 996 and David Shep and Kenny Wilden
driving the Rehegen Racing #58 Mustang Cobra SVT. It was later
determined that the first and third place teams were in violation of
the fuel capacity guidelines which resulted in the teams being awarded
the 28th and 29th place points but retaining their finishing
positions. The penalty was costly to Borcheller after capturing three
straight win to begin the season, the 28th place points dropped him to
second in the driver standings behind Craig Stanton, who was
Borcheller's teammate for the first three event wins. Stanton, along
with new teammate David Murry finished in fifth place in
TheRaceSite.com Racing Porsche 996.
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 (May
23) -- Thirty-eight cars started Sunday's "6 Heures Circuit
Mont-Tremblant" race with 10 cars competing on Hoosier tires in
the SGS class which employs a Hoosier tire-rule. When the six hour
race was over, TPC Racing's #36 Porsche GT3 Cup car driven by Randy
Probst, Michael Levitas and Scott Maxwell were the winners
finishing 15th overall. Probst and Levitas also won the previous event
in Phoenix in April. The trio was followed to the line by Andy Lally
and Marc Bunting driving the TPC Racing Porsche GT3 Cup #38 car
making it a 1-2 finish for TPC Racing in the SGS class. Lally and
Bunting finished 19th overall. In third place (22nd overall) were
Canadian's Marc-Antoine Camirand and Normand Guindon in the Powell
Motorsport #07 Corvette. The SGS class race winners completed 188
laps--just two off the pace of overall race winners Scott Pruett and
Max Papis. This is the first season Hoosier Racing Tire Corp. has
been an exclusive tire provider in the Rolex Series.
The event was serviced out of Hoosier's corporate
facility in Indiana by Jim Bartholomew, Dennis Carmean, engineer Gary
Freymiller, Brian Herthoge, Hoosier Grand-Am Track Service Manager Tim
Gilvin, Chris Grossman, Ray Grant, Track Service Manager Mike Kraemer
and Dave Wroblewski.
Both the Grand-Am Cup Series and Rolex Series will be
back in action for their fifth event of the season, June 18-20, at
Watkins Glen International in New York.
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(May
22) -- There were 20 cars competing in the ST class on Saturday with
Chuck Goldsborough and Ian James finishing first (11th overall) in the
Team Lexus #2 Lexus IS300. The pair completed 91 laps during the three
hour race and were followed to the finish line by Will Turner and Don
Salama in the Turner Motorsport #95 BMX 330i. Turner Motorsport finished
12th overall. Finishing in third was Eric Curran and Bob Beede driving
the Bill Fenton Motorsports #27 Acura RSX-S. In a testament to the
consistency of Hoosier tires, the winning team of James and
Goldsborough averaged 79.342 mph on the Canadian road course with a
best-lap time of 1:52.542 which came on lap 82--nine laps from the
conclusion of the race. The ST class has now enjoyed four different
winners in the first four events of the 2004 season.