Pruett and Rojas top opening Grand-Am practice
Chip Ganassi Racing's Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas ran fastest Thursday in opening practice for this weekend’s GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series Porsche 250 at the scenic 2.3-mile, 17-turn circuit Barber Motorsports Park. The 2-¾-hour timed sprint race goes green at 3 p.m. local time, Saturday, April 9, and will be telecast on SPEED the next day, Sunday, April 10, at Noon ET/9 a.m. PT.
Barber Motorsports Park is known for being a challenge for both drivers and tires. Many teams spent the majority of the day working through setups that will suit the new series-standard Continental Tires.
Sharing the card this weekend at Barber with the IZOD Indy Car series, on track time for the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series is fairly limited. Grand-Am teams only have one more practice and a quick qualifying session, all on Friday morning, before Saturday afternoon’s race.
The weather, however, is one issue from past races that should not be a factor this year. Temperatures hovered in the low 70s, the sun was shining, and humidity was not existent Thursday.
Results
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Pos |
No. | Class | Pic | Drivers | Team/Car | Time |
| 1 | 01 | DP | 1 | Pruett / Rojas | Chip Ganassi Racing BMW Riley | 1:22.718 |
| 2 | 90 | DP | 2 | Edwards / Garcia | Spirit of Daytona Racing / Chevrolet | 1:22.886 |
| 3 | 10 | DP | 3 | Angelelli / Taylor | SunTrust Racing Chevrolet Dallara | 1:23.059 |
| 4 | 99 | DP | 4 | Fogarty / Gurney | GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Chevrolet | 1:23.448 |
| 5 | 77 | DP | 5 | Frisselle / Richard | Doran Racing / Ford Dallara | 1:23.674 |
| 6 | 60 | DP | 6 | Negri / Pew | Michael Shank Racing / Ford Riley | 1:23.697 |
| 7 | 9 | DP | 7 | Barbosa / Borcheller / France | Action Express Racing / Porsche | 1:23.963 |
| 8 | 8 | DP | 8 | Dalziel / Forest | Starworks Motorsport / Ford Riley | 1:24.193 |
| 9 | 5 | DP | 9 | Donohue / Law | Action Express Racing / Porsche | 1:24.631 |
| 10 | 61 | DP | 10 | Frisselle / Wilkins | AIM Autosport / BMW Riley | 1:24.678 |
| 11 | 2 | DP | 11 | Popow / Potolicchio | Starworks Motorsport / Ford Riley | 1:28.535 |
| 12 | 70 | GT | 1 | Bomarito / Tremblay | SpeedSource / Mazda RX-8 | 1:31.762 |
| 13 | 31 | GT | 2 | Curran / Said | Marsh Racing / Corvette | 1:31.884 |
| 14 | 67 | GT | 3 | Bertheau / Pumpelly | TRG / Porsche GT3 | 1:31.935 |
| 15 | 94 | GT | 4 | Auberlen / Dalla Lana | Turner Motorsport / BMW M3 | 1:31.998 |
| 16 | 44 | GT | 5 | Potter / Stanton | Magnus Racing / Porsche GT3 | 1:32.043 |
| 17 | 40 | GT | 6 | Dempsey / Foster | Dempsey Racing / Mazda RX-8 | 1:32.269 |
| 18 | 07 | GT | 7 | Gavin / Schaldach | Banner Racing / Camaro GT.R | 1:32.324 |
| 19 | 88 | GT | 8 | Lester / Taylor | Autohaus Motorsports / Camaro | 1:32.358 |
| 20 | 59 | GT | 9 | Davis / Keen | Brumos Racing / Porsche GT3 | 1:32.524 |
| 21 | 42 | GT | 11 | Gidley / Nonnamaker | Team Sahlen / Mazda RX-8 | 1:32.524 |
| 22 | 43 | GT | 10 | Nonnamaker x 3 | Team Sahlen / Mazda RX-8 | 1:32.524 |
| 23 | 57 | GT | 12 | Liddell / Magnussen | Stevenson Motorsports / Camaro GT.R | 1:32.696 |
| 24 | 41 | GT | 13 | Cameron / Gue | Dempsey Racing / Mazda RX-8 | 1:32.717 |
| 25 | 69 | GT | 14 | Assentato / Segal | SpeedSource / Mazda RX-8 | 1:32.903 |
| 26 | 30 | GT | 15 | Cozzi / Lux | Racers Edge Motorsports Mazda RX-8 | 1:34.091 |
| 27 | 49 | GT | 16 | Nonnamaker / Nonnamaker / Sahlen | Team Sahlen / Mazda RX-8 | 1:35.165 |