From Michael Harker; Grand-Am Series Oswaldo Negri held off Max Angelelli by .459 seconds Sunday to win the first professional feature race at New Jersey Motorsports Park, the Supercar Life 250, while Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas clinched the Daytona Prototype team championship with a ninth-place finish in a backup car.Negri led the final 45 laps in the No. 60 Ford Riley started by Mark Patterson, scoring the second career victory for the team. Angelelli came up short in a bid for the second consecutive triumph for the No. 10 Pontiac Riley started by Michael Valiante.Bill Auberlen and Joey Hand took third in the No. 23 Porsche Riley, taking their second podium finish of the season and best outing since placing second at Homestead-Miami Speedway.Pruett destroyed the primary No. 01 Lexus Riley in a testing accident on Thursday. The team went back to its Indianapolis shop to prepare the car that last competed in their Rolex 24 At Daytona victory. The finish - coupled with a fifth-place finish by Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty - opened a 38-point lead (386-348) in the team standings with only the Sept. 20 finale at Miller Motorsports Park remaining on the schedule. Teams may score a maximum 35 points at each event. Pruett and Rojas each need to run 30 minutes at Miller to score points.There were five cautions for 25 laps, with many of them for debris and gravel following off course excursions. The race came down to a two-lap sprint, with Negri holding on after Barbosa lost second position on the final lap.In GT, rookie Tim George Jr. scored his first Rolex Series victory after starting the No. 67 Porsche GT3. Andy Lally took over and held off Robin Liddell by 1.776 seconds.The second-place finish by Liddell and Andrew Davis in the No. 57 Pontiac GXP.R tightened the point race into the season finale, Liddell and Davis now trailling by only five points (337-332).Nick Ham and Sylvain Tremblay entered the event second in the team points, but struggled with an oil leak to place 16th in the No. 70 Mazda RX-8. They enter the final round 12 points behind the leaders.Ryan Phinny led 34 laps early in the event in the No. 21 Pontiac GTO.R, with Diego Alessi taking third on the final lap to give the team its third third-place finish of the campaign.The season wraps up at Salt Lake City's Miller Motorsports Park.
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