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One day after John Fogarty gave the team its first pole position of the season, Gurney caught and passed Pruett with less than two laps remaining and went on to win by 3.674 seconds.
The defending Daytona Prototype champions took their first GRAND-AM Rolex Series victory of the season in the NJMP 250. They drove the No. 99 GAINSCO Auto Insurance Chevrolet/Riley.
Pruett beat Gurney out of the pits following his final pit stop and led 45 laps in his quest for a record fourth consecutive victory in the No. 01 TELMEX BMW/Riley started by Memo Rojas. However, Pruett brushed Ozz Negri while making a pass with less than three minutes remaining in the two-hour, 45-minute event, causing a slow leak in his right-front tire.
With six victories in nine races, Pruett and Rojas lead fifth-place finisher Ryan Dalziel by 19 points (267-248) with three races remaining in the DP championship. The six victories this season remain one shy of the record seven recorded by Fogarty and Gurney in their 2007 championship season.
Max Angelelli and Ricky Taylor finished third in the No. 10 SunTrust Ford/Dallara, followed by Burt Frisselle and Mark Wilkins in the No. 61 Pacific Mobile/BioSign Ford/Riley and Mike Forest and Dalziel in the No. 8 Corsa Car Care/Xtreme Indoor Karting BMW/Riley.
Jonathan Bomarito and Sylvain Tremblay led a top-four sweep by Mazda in the production-based GT class, giving the No. 70 Castrol Syntec Mazda RX-8 its first victory since the Rolex 24 At Daytona. John Edwards and Adam Christodoulou finished second in the No. 68 Mazdaspeed Motorsports Development Mazda RX-8, with Edwards .170 seconds behind Bomarito at the checkered flag.
Race classification:
1 - Fogarty/ Gurney (Riley-Chevrolet) - Stallings - 116 laps in 2h47'12”
2 - Pruett/ Rojas (Riley-BMW) - Ganassi + 3"674
3 - Angelelli/ Taylor (Dallara-Ford) - SunTrust + 4"416
4 - Frisselle/ Wilkins (Riley-Ford) - AIM + 9"112
5 - Forest/ Dalziel (Riley-BMW) - Starworks + 9"832
6 - von Moltke/ Bell (Dallara-Ford) - Doran + 16"979
7 - Valiante/ Frisselle (Dallara-Ford) - Shank + 52"470
8 - Pew/ Negri Jr (Riley-Ford) - Shank + 1:20.375
etc.
Championship:
1. Rojas-Pruett 267 points ; 2. Dalziel 248; 3. Frisselle-Wilkins 241; 4. Angelelli-Taylor 240, etc.
One day after John Fogarty gave the team its first pole position of the season, Gurney caught and passed Pruett with less than two laps remaining and went on to win by 3.674 seconds.
The defending Daytona Prototype champions took their first GRAND-AM Rolex Series victory of the season in the NJMP 250. They drove the No. 99 GAINSCO Auto Insurance Chevrolet/Riley.
Pruett beat Gurney out of the pits following his final pit stop and led 45 laps in his quest for a record fourth consecutive victory in the No. 01 TELMEX BMW/Riley started by Memo Rojas. However, Pruett brushed Ozz Negri while making a pass with less than three minutes remaining in the two-hour, 45-minute event, causing a slow leak in his right-front tire.
With six victories in nine races, Pruett and Rojas lead fifth-place finisher Ryan Dalziel by 19 points (267-248) with three races remaining in the DP championship. The six victories this season remain one shy of the record seven recorded by Fogarty and Gurney in their 2007 championship season.
Max Angelelli and Ricky Taylor finished third in the No. 10 SunTrust Ford/Dallara, followed by Burt Frisselle and Mark Wilkins in the No. 61 Pacific Mobile/BioSign Ford/Riley and Mike Forest and Dalziel in the No. 8 Corsa Car Care/Xtreme Indoor Karting BMW/Riley.
Jonathan Bomarito and Sylvain Tremblay led a top-four sweep by Mazda in the production-based GT class, giving the No. 70 Castrol Syntec Mazda RX-8 its first victory since the Rolex 24 At Daytona. John Edwards and Adam Christodoulou finished second in the No. 68 Mazdaspeed Motorsports Development Mazda RX-8, with Edwards .170 seconds behind Bomarito at the checkered flag.
Race classification:
1 - Fogarty/ Gurney (Riley-Chevrolet) - Stallings - 116 laps in 2h47'12”
2 - Pruett/ Rojas (Riley-BMW) - Ganassi + 3"674
3 - Angelelli/ Taylor (Dallara-Ford) - SunTrust + 4"416
4 - Frisselle/ Wilkins (Riley-Ford) - AIM + 9"112
5 - Forest/ Dalziel (Riley-BMW) - Starworks + 9"832
6 - von Moltke/ Bell (Dallara-Ford) - Doran + 16"979
7 - Valiante/ Frisselle (Dallara-Ford) - Shank + 52"470
8 - Pew/ Negri Jr (Riley-Ford) - Shank + 1:20.375
etc.
Championship:
1. Rojas-Pruett 267 points ; 2. Dalziel 248; 3. Frisselle-Wilkins 241; 4. Angelelli-Taylor 240, etc.