Less Than Five Hours To Go From Thunderhill

Night has become day at Thunderill Raceway Park and the 25 Hours of Thunderhill is entering the home stretch as less than five hours remain.

The #17 Davidson Racing Norma M20F BMW of Brian Frisselle, Alex Lloyd, Randy Pobst and Kyle Marcelli continues to lead as they have completed 554 laps and hold a 12-lap lead over the #00 Award Motorsport/Ehret Family Winery Porsche GT3 Cup of Pierre Ehret, Kelly Collins, Tom Hacker, Spencer Trennery and Tommy Sadler. The #17 is the top ESR class entry and the #00  leads the ES class. Third overall and second in ES is the #6 Stammer Inc./Bavarian Performance BMW E46 M3 of Derek Welch, Eddie Nakato, Jeffery Stammer and Matt Crandall. They are 25 laps behind the overall leader.

In fourth place is the #03 Team Quick Racing Products Superlite SLC of Mike Skeen, Ryan Eversley, Chris Durbin and Darrell Anderson. The #03 Superlite is third in the ES class. Rounding out the top five is the top E1 class entry, the #67 Sparta Evo Brakes/Maxxis Tire/Bullett Performance BMW 328i being driven by Brett Strom, Mickey Miller, Ralph Warren and Robert Green. They have completed 496 laps as has the #25 Honda Racing Acura ILX of Michael Tsay, Corey Taguchi, Derek Ferretti and Lawrence Hwang. Second in the E1 class, seventh overall and a lap back of the #67 BMW is the #95 Grip Racing BMW 330i of Charles Hurley, David Wheaton, Jason Vein, Mark Drennan and Richard Cohn-Lee.

Eighth overall is the top E0 entry, the CA Sport/Skullcandy Team Nissan 370Z of Vesko Kozarov, Lara Tallman, Bryan Heitkotter and Aaron Pfadt. Two laps behind the Nissan, ninth overall is second in the E0 class, the #31 Hankook Tires/El Diablo Motorsports BMW M3 of Dale Sievwright, Lance Boicelli, Scott Smith and William Brinkop. The #14 Technik/HQ Autosport BMW 330Ci of Joey Jordan, Neil Daly, Paul Quattrocchi, Peter Hopelain and Shawn Simpson round out the top ten and are third in the E1 class.

Other notable entries:

The #61 BF Goodrich Road Shagger Racing BMW M3 of Kurt Busch, Gavin Ernstone, Jon Morley and Robbie Montinola are 12th overall, fourth in the E0 class having completed 483 laps.

The #48 Crowd Strike/One Motorsports Radical SR3 of Colin Braun, Dave House, George Kurtz and Gerhard Watzinger are 23rd overall with 455 laps completed.

The #54 Motorsport Services Seat León SuperCopa is 34th with 428 laps completed. Their drivers are Clint Harvey, Daniel Stutterd, Malcolm Niall and Mark Pilatti.