Friday, July 27, 2012

Grand-Am Afternoon Warm-Up: Indianapolis 2012

For the first time ever the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series is racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. This three-hour event is the third and final race of the North American Endurance Challenge. The Gainsco/Bob Stallings Corvette DP will be on pole with drivers Jon Fogerty and Alex Gurney. The SunTrust Racing Corvette starts second with Max Angelelli an Ricky Taylor. David Donohue, son of the 1972 Indianapolis 500 winner Mark Donohue, and Terry Borcheller start third with Antonio Garci and Richard Westbrook rounding out a Corvette DP 1-2-3-4. Championship leaders Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas start eighth and North American Endurance Challenge leaders Darren Law and Joao Barbosa will start tenth. Notables in the Daytona Prototype class are Seabastien Bourdais starting fifth with Alex Popow, the second Ganassi entry of Scott Dixon, Jamie McMurray and Juan Pablo Montoya in sixth and Paul Tracy teaming with Jim Lowe in eleventh.

Jonathan Bomarito and Sylvain Tremblay are on pole in the GT class. The Corvette of Eric Curran and Boris Said will start second. Leaders of the GT North American Endurance Challenge John Edwards and Robin Liddell start third. The Brumos Porsche of Leh Keen and Andrew Davis are fourth. Overall GT Championship leaders Emil Assentato and Jeff Segal start seventh in class.

Race coverage begins at 4:00pm ET on SPEED.