HOMESTEAD, FL (March 2) -- The 2.21 mile road course of Homestead-Miami Speedway played host to the second round of the Grand America Road Racing Association's Grand-Am Cup this past weekend. The flat turns of the oval track coupled with the tight infield sections of this unique circuit challenged the 72 entrants for Saturday's race. In the end, two new teams emerged victorious to share the winner's podium with two repeat winners. Lance Stewart and John Bourassa drove their Porsche 911 to the Super Grand Sports Class and the overall titles, Speedsource drivers Sylvain Tremblay and David Haskell recorded their first Grand Sports triumph, Power Racing made it two in a row in Sports Touring, and 2000 C2K Champions Honda of America claimed their second win of the young season.

Super Grand Sport
It appeared throughout most of Saturday's three-hour event that the Corvettes might dominate SGS action for the second straight event. Phoenix American Motorsports drivers John Heinricy and Bill Lester teamed to place their #35 Corvette into the lead for most of the event, leaving Team Hurricane and Mical Motorsports to battle for second position. Daytona winner Powell Motorsports struggled with a smoking engine throughout the race, while Heinricy continued to stretch his advantage. The complexion of the race changed with only 45 minutes left in the event. With Heinricy at the controls, the Phoenix American Corvette slowed and pulled out of the race with engine problems. From there, it was all Team Hurricane. Lance Stewart battled back from nearly two laps down to bring his #76 Porsche home 4.1 seconds ahead of the Mical Motorsports and Motorsports Technologies Porsche TT's, giving the German manufacturer its first sweep of SGS competition in the 2001 season.

Grand Sport
Porsche was also the top story in Grand Sports competition at Homestead. The Speedsource prepared Porsche 911 of Sylvain Tremblay and David Haskell not only captured the pole position, they took the class victory in only their second race with the new machine. The Speedsource team pulled away to a full-lap victory in the three-hour event despite some impressive laps posted by the TF Racing Mustangs. The #46 Mustang of Peter Sachs and Chuck Snipes set the fastest race lap, nearly 1/2 a second faster than the Porsche, but could only salvage a fifth place finish. TF Racing did place two other drivers on the victory podium in Homestead as the #75 and #74 team cars came home second and third. Daytona GS winners Jeff Lapcevich and John Shreiner struggled to a 17th place class finish, pulling from the race with 13 minutes remaining.

Sport-Touring
Sixteen of the 72 cars entered for Saturday's event in Homestead lined up for the Sport Touring battle on the 2.21 mile road course. Daytona winners Mike Keravich III and Jason Potter led the ST class to the green flag. That is just where the Power Racing Acura Integra Type R would remain as the #77 captured its second ST class victory in as many races. After opening a large advantage on the field with lap times nearly two seconds faster than last year, Keravich handed the car over to Potter to complete the event. Meanwhile, Karavich climbed aboard the Power Racing team car and proceeded to come home in sixth. Villaconn International crossed the line in second with their BMW Z3, while The Data Clean Spirit of Miami Acura came home in third.