Viewing reminder for Grand Am coverage 4-10

[formuladan]

I'll be watching. Thanks for the reminder.

[franknbeans]

dvr is set

[Beauwulf]

Here's a photo of the GT car on the banking at Daytona to whet your appetite!



and in the infield...



I'm just setting you up for a little surprise at the C5 Fest....

[Sax1031]

Starting grid for Barber 200

1 15 GS Mustang Boss 3 Multimatic Motorsports (Joe Foster) Scott Maxwell
2 61 GS Mustang Roush Performance (Jack Roush Jr) Billy Johnson
3 37 GS Mustang Boss 3 JBS Motorsports (Bret Seafuse) James Gue
4 59 GS Mustang GT Rehagen Racing (Ryan Winchester) Ken Wilden
5 01 GS Audi A4 APR Motorsport (Jordan Taylor) Ian Baas
6 52 GS Mustang GT Rehagen Racing (Bob Michaelian) Dean Martin
7 6 GS Camaro GS.R Stevenson Motorsport (Matt Bell) Jeff Bucknum
8 79 GS BMW M3 Kinetic Motorsports (Chris Hall) Chris Prusinski
9 17 GS Mustang GT CMA Motorsports (Felix Serralles) Todd Snyder Mark Ackley
10 16 GS Mustang Boss 3 Multimatic Motorsports (Frank Montecalvo) Gunnar Jeannette
11 38 GS Porsche Cayma BGB Motorsports (Steve Jenkins) Craig Stanton
12 35 GS Subaru WRX-S Subaru Road Racing T (Bret Spaude) Andrew Aquilante
13 45 GS BMW M3 Fall-Line Motorsports (Andrew Hendricks) Terry Borcheller
14 44 GS Porsche Cayma Magnus Racing (Leh Keen) John Potter
15 99 GS BMW M3 Automatic Racing (David Russell) Mark Hillestad Barry Waddell
16 48 GS BMW M3 Fall-Line Motorsports (Charles Putman) Charles Espenlaub
17 14 GS Mustang Boss 3 TC Motorsports (Rick Edwards) Ted Anthony Jr
18 96 GS BMW M3 Turner Motorsport (Paul Dalla Lana) Bill Auberlen
19 97 GS BMW M3 Turner Motorsport (Michael Marsal) Joey Hand
20 29 GS Mustang Boss 3 Racers Edge Motorspo (Jade Buford) Manuel Gutierrez
21 9 GS Camaro GS.R Stevenson Motorsport (Al Carter) Hugh Plumb
22 2 GS Mustang Boss 3 Jim Click Racing (Jim Click) Mike McGovern
23 19 GS Mustang GT Capaldi Racing Inc (Brad Adams) Steve Phillips
24 11 GS Mustang GT CMA Motorsports (Scott Panzer) Todd Snyder
25 46 GS BMW M3 Fall-Line Motorsports (Joe Koenig) Mark Boden
26 23 GS Porsche Cayma BGB Motorsports (Keith Carroll) Duncan Ende
27 62 GS Camaro GS.R Mitchum Motorsports (Devin Cates) Joey Atterbury
28 13 GS BMW M3 Rum Bum Racing (Gian Bacardi) Matt Plumb
31 83 GS Porsche 997 BGB Motorsports (John Tecce) Guy Cosmo
55 88 GS Porsche 997 Ranger Sports Racing (Fraser Wellon) Barry Ellis
29 80 ST BMW 328i BimmerWorld/GearWr (David White) James Clay
30 27 ST Mazda Speed 3 Freedom Autosport (Eric Foss) Randy Pobst
32 171 ST Volkswagen GT APR Motorsport (Mike Sweeney) Mike Halpin
33 25 ST Mazda MX-5 Freedom Autosport (Derek Whitis) Tom Long
34 75 ST Honda Civic Si Compass360 Racing (Zach Lutz) Ryan Eversley
35 197 ST Mini Cooper S RSR Motorsports (Sarah Cattaneo) VJ Mirzayan
36 21 ST Chevrolet Cobal GS Motorsports (Andrew Danyliw) Jamie Holtom
37 74 ST Honda Civic Si Compass360 Racing (David Thilenius) Lawson Aschenbach
38 10 ST Kia Forte Koup Kinetic Motorsports (Nic Jonsson) Andy Lally
39 77 ST Honda Civic Si Compass360 Racing (Jesse Combs) Gregory Liefooghe
40 31 ST Mazda Speed 3 i-Moto (Glenn Bocchino) Todd Lamb
41 32 ST Mazda Speed 3 i-Moto (Taylor Hacquard) Pierre Kleinubing
42 81 ST BMW 328i BimmerWorld/GearWr (Bill Heumann) Seth Thomas
43 181 ST Volkswagen GT APR Motorsport (Kevin Stadtlander) Josh Hurley
44 51 ST Volkswagen Jett Irish Mikes Racing (Stan Wilson) Todd Buras
45 91 ST Volkswagen GT APR Motorsport (Tom Drewer) Stephen Hooks
46 12 ST Kia Forte Koup Kinetic Motorsports (Trevor Hopwood) Adam Burrows
47 36 ST BMW 330i Next Generation Motor (Laura Olson) Chris Brown
48 196 ST Mini Cooper S RSR Motorsports (Dicky Riegel III) Owen Trinkler Randall Smalley
49 76 ST Honda Civic Si Compass360 Racing (Marv Weidner) Alex Kirby
50 42 ST Honda Civic Si LRT Racing (Juan Leroux) Jorge Leroux
51 20 ST Mazda MX-5 Matt Connolly Motorsp (Greg Shaffer) Ric Bushey
52 86 ST Porsche Boxste Prey Racing (Gene Sigal) Chris Prey
53 34 ST BMW 330i Next Generation Motor (Squeak Kennedy) Byron Payne
54 24 ST BMW 330i V-Pack Motorsport (Ari Straus) Sam Schultz
56 198 ST Mini Cooper S RSR Motorsports (Craig Conway) BJ Zacharias
57 18 ST BMW 328 RRT Racing (Rick Maxson) Paul Gerrard
58 43 ST Mazda Speed 3 Team Sahlen (Joe Sahlen) Will Nonnamaker
59 50 ST Volkswagen Jett Irish Mikes Racing (Carlos Lira) Jack Corthell
60 69 ST Mazda RX-8 Pirate Motorsports (Dan Harding) M Allen Milarcik
61 26 ST Mazda MX-5 Freedom Autosport (Rhett O'Doski) Andrew Carbonell

http://www.grand-am.com/assets/2010Barber200_Grid.pdf

Can't wait.

[Beauwulf]

Originally Posted by Sax1031

Starting grid for Barber 200


http://www.grand-am.com/assets/2010Barber200_Grid.pdf

Can't wait.

It'll be fun watching this one! Barber is an awesome track!

[R Kern]

All right, I'm sitting here with the TV tuned to Speed, ready to watch! Uh......right after some show called 'Nascar Smarts'. Isn't that an oxymoron?
Sorry, I had to do it.

[Beauwulf]

Stevenson's Camaros finish 4th and 8th in GT class. 1st thru 3rd were Mazda RX-8s. So, no rice got burned but a strong showing just the same! Props to No 57 drivers Davis and Liddell for a forth place finish!

[SleepWarz]

I wish they would air this during non morning hours. WTF are people with shit to do supposed to do.

Without a dvr box....

[Sax1031]

Here was a right up for the Barber 200 yesterday:

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Dean Martin held off a charging Billy Johnson over the final half-hour of Saturday's Barber 200, the third round of the 2010 GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge, at Barber Motorsports Park, to win with co-driver Bob Michaelian in the No. 52 Rehagen Racing Products/bizrate.com Ford Mustang GT.
Martin led the final 29 laps in the 76-lap event on the 2.3-mile, 17-turn track, as Fords won for the third consecutive time in the race. Johnson, with co-driver Jack Roush Jr. in the No. 61 ROUSH Performance Products Ford Mustang GT, took second, as the race ended under caution after an accident with eight minutes remaining in the two-and-a-half hour race.
In the Street Tuner (ST) class, Tom Long made a late-race pass of 2007 race co-winner Jamie Holtom to win his second consecutive class event with Derek Whitis in the No. 25 Aventura Technologies/Freedom Autosport Mazda MX-5.
Martin, who did not expect to participate in the race, took over for Michaelian and went to work. Two-thirds into the race, Martin had moved to the front, and it was him versus Johnson during the last 30 minutes.
Johnson tried to make the winning pass several times, but an accident involving Scott Panzer in the No. 11 Strategic Occupancy Solutions Ford Mustang GT with eight minutes left brought out the final of seven caution periods. Martin crossed the finish line with his fifth career victory, while Michaelian celebrated his first.
"I was just trying to keep the car in one piece and turn it over to Dean," Michaelian said. "He did a great job. He got it out in front and kept it there. I appreciate all the help from Rehagen Racing. It was set up perfectly."
Johnson never led the race, but he and Roush were always in the hunt.
"Unfortunately, it ended under yellow, but if I was in first when it came out I'd be happy like Dean is," Johnson said. "Definitely a great run for the Roush Mustang, it handled awesome. We're trying to climb back up the points ladder. Second place is definitely helping us do that."
Breaking up a potential podium sweep by Ford were Joey Hand and Michael Marsal in the No. 97 Turner Motorsport BMW M3. Fourth were Terry Borcheller and Andrew Hendricks, who picked up the Grand Sport (GS) points lead by two (85-83) in the No. 45 Stable One Racing BMW M3, while Turner Motorsport co-drivers Bill Auberlen and Paul Dalla Lana garnered fifth in the No. 96 Turner Motorsport BMW M3.
Martin and Michaelian's teammates, Ken Wilden and Ryan Winchester, were near the front of the race before a broken ball joint cost the team seven laps. It ended a 19-race streak of top 10s for the No. 59 Rehagen Racing Products Ford Mustang GT, dating back to the Barber race in 2008.
Fords essentially dominated the day, leading all 76 laps. Joe Foster, the 2008 race winner, led the opening 44 laps in the No. 15 Multimatic Motorsports/Bayshore Recycling Ford Mustang Boss 302R, but he and Scott Maxwell finished eighth. Defending race winners James Gue and Bret Seafuse in the No. 37 Trumansburg ShurSave Ford Mustang Boss 302R were seventh.
Long and Whitis triumphed again thanks to Long's late-race heroics. Holtom, in the No. 21 Sick Kids Foundation/C&P Cross Border Law Chevrolet Cobalt, had held the lead for seven laps before Long made the winning pass. Moments later, the yellow was displayed.
"We were close to pulling this one off a long time ago," Long said. "The (No.) 21 car got around us, but the Performance Friction Brakes enabled us to get back by him. I got him in Turn 5 - I was able to slide by and keep on going, two laps before the last caution."
For Holtom's teammate Andrew Danyliw and the GS Motorsports team, one of several teams based in Canada, it was a career-best finish.
"It seemed like Tom Long had me everywhere, I was pushing so hard," Holtom said. "I was trying to capitalize on the one spot where I seemed to be faster, but the Mazda was just too fast for us. We had awesome strategy. They got us in the lead, it was ours to hold, but unfortunately he got us near the end."
Taking third were Ryan Eversley and Zach Lutz, also taking career-best finishes in Compass360 Racing's No. 75 Skunk2/Honda HPD Honda Civic Si.
Fourth were points leaders Lawson Aschenbach and David Thilenius in Compass360's No. 74 Skunk2/Honda HPD Honda Civic Si, while polesitter David White and BimmerWorld/GearWrench team owner James Clay finished fifth in the No. 80 Performance Friction/RAYS Engineering BMW 328i.
Aschenbach and Thilenius now lead by 10 points (95-85) over Seth Thomas and Bill Heumann, sixth in the ST race, in the No. 81 Performance Friction/RAYS Engineering BMW 328i.
The next Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge race will be the two-and-a-half hour race April 24 at Virginia International Raceway.