Almost a Quarter of the Way Home at Thunderhill

Six of 25 hours have been completed from Thunderhill Raceway Park in Southern California.

The pole-sitting #17 Davidson Racing Norma M20F BMW of Alex Lloyd, Brian Frisselle, Kyle Marcelli, Randy Pobst, Dominic Ciero and Bob Davidson lead the #48 Crowd Strike/One Motorsports Radical SR3 of Colin Braun, Dave House, George Kurtz and Gerhard Watzinger. Both cars are apart of the ESR class and have completed 159 laps. In third is the #00 Porsche GT3 Cup of Award Motorsport/Ehret Family Winery. The Porsche is the top ES class entry and the final car on the lead lap.

The #03 Team Quick Racing Products Superlite SLC of Mike Skeen, Ryan Aversely, Chris Durbin and Darrell Anderson is second in the ES class and fourth overall, two laps down. Rounding out the top five is the ES class #6 Stammer, Inc/Bavarian Performance BMW E46 M3 of Derek Welch, Eddie Nakato, Jefferey Stammer and Matt Crandall. The Stammer BMW is five laps down.

The top E0 class entry is the #31 Hankook Tires/El Diablo Motorsports BMW M3 of Dale Sievwright, Lance Boicelli, Scott Smith and William Brinkop in sixth position. Running seventh is the ES class #27 Acura ILX of Honda Racing of Lee Niffenegger, Sage Marie, Scott Nicol and Matthew Staal. Both are 11 laps back.

Second in the E0 class is the #61 BF Goodrich Road Shagger Racing BMW M3 of Kurt Busch, Gavin Ernstone, Jon Morley and Robbie Montinola. They are running eighth overall. The #52 JFC Racing Wolf GB08-ASR is ninth overall, third in the ESR class with drivers Al Unser, Jr., Ivan Bellarosa, Miles Jackson and Phil Fogg, Jr. The #52 Wolf was leading overall earlier in the race but are now down 12 laps. Rounding out the top ten is the ES class #66 Coldcock Whiskey Silverado of Donald Powell, Randy Blaylock and Troy Lindstrom, also 12 laps down.

Other notable entries:
The #62 One Motorsport Radical of Sean Rayhall, Jesse Menzcer, John Falb and Todd Slusher is 11th, down 15 laps.

The #54 Motorsport Services Seat León SuperCopa of Clint Harvey, Daniel Stutterd, Malcolm Niall and Mark Pilatti is 42nd, over 40 laps back of the leading Davidson Racing entry.

The #16 Davidson Racing DR Eagle of Anthony Lazzaro, Burt Frisselle, Kyle Marcelli, Brandon Klaus, Dion von Moltke and Chris Lock has had clutch issues and are behind the wheel in 48th position, having completed only 97 laps.