MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada (August 3, 2007) – The Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve is a 2.709-mile, 15 turn clockwise track in which Max Angelelli closed the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Special Reserve Daytona Prototype championship series points lead, behind points leader Scott Pruett on Friday evening  to give himself, co-driver Jan Magnussen and the No. 10 SunTrust Racing Pontiac Riley team its second victory of 2007 in the 68-lap, two-and-a-half hour Montreal 400k.

"I had a fantastic car," Max Angelelli said. "I want to thank the team; they gave me a great pit stop which gave us great position. The car was very strong and fast and I think we have found something in the car which will help us the rest of the year."  Jan Magnussen said, "we started off strong, the first pit stop we made was a great pit-stop, we made a good call on not taking on new tires.  What they gained on new tires wasn’t really enough to challenge our used tires."

For Marc Goossens and co-driver Jim Matthews, it marked the drivers' best finish of 2007 in the No. 91 Riley-Matthews Motorsports Pontiac Riley. Marc Goossens was a solid top-five runner all afternoon, taking over from Jim Matthews early and making a strong pass on Scott Pruett on Lap 56.

Jon Fogarty and Alex Gurney in the No. 99 Gainsco / Bob Stalling Racing, Porsche Riley, had an up-and-down afternoon, but came away with third and closed to within nine points of Scott Pruett. Fogarty started the afternoon strong, leading the opening 13 laps from his fifth straight pole and running third before handing the car off to Alex Gurney. However, a long pit stop during the driver exchange forced the pair to drop as far back as 10th. But in fine Gurney fashion, he needled his way through the field, picking off three cars in a couple laps and finally past Scott Pruett and Antonio Garcia in the final 10 laps.

Antonio Garcia and Christian Fittipaldi, who drove the No. 39 Crown Royal Special Reserve, put the car out front for three laps after running well throughout the afternoon and finished fourth. Scott Pruett, who kept the No. 01 TELMEX Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates Lexus Riley in the top five after strong challenges, finished fifth with co-driver Memo Rojas.
 

In GT action, last-lap contact between leader Dirk Werner and Emil Assentato forced Werner wide in the hairpin, allowing Andy Lally to take the point in the No. 66 TRG CRG/Maxter Porsche GT3 with RJ Valentine for the duo's series-leading fifth victory of 2007.

Andy Lally and RJ Valentine have closed the gap to five behind Dirk Werner with only the Sunchaser 1000 at Miller Motorsports Park in September the remaining race.

Coming in second was the team of Bryce Miller and Dirk Werner, in the No. 87, Farnbacher Loles, Porsche GT3 Cup.

Tom Nastasi, who started strong in Grand-Am's KONI Challenge Series Grand Sport (GS) season, and Terry Borcheller shared third in the No. 15 Blackforest Motorsports USG Sheetrock/Guardian Insurance Ford Mustang Cobra GT after running fifth on the final lap.

Both drivers ran among the top five all afternoon.

The Daytona Prototypes will return to action next Friday, Aug. 10, for the Crown Royal 200 at The Glen at Watkins Glen International.

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