Iron man Scott Pruett braved the heat at Watkins Glen International Saturday, running the final three hours to win the Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen, Round 7 of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16.Pruett passed Ricardo Zonta on a restart with 45 minutes remaining and went on to score his fourth victory in six Daytona Prototype races, co-driving the No. 01 TELMEX Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates Lexus Riley with Memo Rojas.Pruett took the chequered flag 3.033 seconds ahead of Darren Law, who co-drove the No. 58 Brumos Porsche Riley with David Donohue.Max Angelelli secured a podium finish with a side-by-side pass of Oswaldo Negri with three laps remaining. Angelelli was driving the pole-winning No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley with Michael Valiante, with the team making a remarkable comeback from a highway fire that destroyed the team's primary Dallara race car, along with its equipment and spares, following the most recent Daytona Prototype race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.Negri and Mark Patterson took fourth in the No. 60 Michael Shank Racing Ford Riley, followed by the No. 77 Doran Racing Kodak Ford Dallara of Memo Gidley and Brad Jaeger.The GT race came down to the wire, with Jeff Segal passing Paul Edwards in the Esses with 33 minutes remaining and going on to score the first Grand-Am Rolex Series victory for the No. 69 SpeedSource FXDD Mazda RX-8 co-driven by Emil Assentato and Nick Longhi.Longhi won by 5.817 seconds over the No. 57 Stevenson Motorsports Pontiac GXP.R of Robin Liddell and Andrew Davis. Third went to the No. 07 Banner Racing Pontiac GXP.R of Edwards and Kelly Collins.The next race for the Grand-Am Rolex Series will be the June 21 EMCO Gear's Classic presented by KeyBank at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
Grand-Am: Pruett, Rojas brave the heat