Continuing with a gust of wind of results between first, that takes already more of a year, the pilots of car no. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley, Max Angelelli and Jan Magnussen passed to the first place of the championship of the Daytona Prototypes of the Series Grand-A.m. Rolex Sports Car presented by Crown Royal Special Reserve, after to conquer their first triumph in season 2007, in disputed race VIR 400 in Virginia International Raceway.

Taylor/Angelelli/Magnussen de SunTrust Racing

Angelelli, one of the champions of the Daytona Prototypes in 2005, advanced to another one of the 2004 champions, the Italian Max Papis in curve 1, when they reduced 25 returns of competition and from it did not have any serious challenge by the first position there. Angelelli crossed the line of goal an advantage of 3,567 seconds with respect to Papis and to its teammate in the 75 no. Krohn Racing Pontiac Riley, Colin Braun. The victory of Angelelli and Magnussen, next to the eighth place of the square of the no. 01 TELMEX Chip Ganassi Racing Lexus Riley de Scott Red Pruett and Memo, catapult to the runners of car no. 10 to the first place of the championship with an advantage of 11 so many with respect to Pruett (127-116) when as soon as four of the 14 races of the calendar have been disputed.
“It is a fantastic sensation”, added Angelelli. “We have always been good in this track, but this year is different, with as much involved different people. Until this morning we had a terrible car and luckyly we could change that and have a good race”.
Angelelli - that led last the 25 returns and Magnussen, was combined to lead 27 turns in route to their first triumph from obtained the past the month of May in the Mazda Raceway Dry Lagoon. This was the tenth victory in the general for Angelelli and fourth for Magnussen, but it was first for Wayne Taylor Racing, equipment that formed at the end of season 2006. Because Magnussen will not participate in the next U.S. Sports Car Invitational Delivered by Luggage Express in the Mazda Raceway Dry Lagoon the 20 of May, Angelelli happens to command the championship alone. Angelelli and Magnussen have finished within the five first in last the 11 races like teammates.
“It would mean the happy thing that I feel by all the equipment”, Magnussen said. “It has been an arduous work completing the equipment for Wayne and Max, and all the involved, so to secure this victory he is huge. We had an opportunity to win at the beginning of year and have been fighting by this each race so to obtain it here, it was good. I must say that after the classification of I did not think yesterday that we went to have a winning car. We had some problems throughout the practice and the classification that luckyly we solved this morning during the session. Warm-up was wonderful and in the race we had a great car”.

Braun/Papis of the equipment Krohn Racing

Papis and the Brauns remained for the second time with the second place of the race in three competitions. The pair finished the second in 400 km in City of Mexico past month. After taking from pole position, Braun led the greater number of returns (34), whereas Papis stayed to the front by six returns before yielding the route to Angelelli. This result moves just to the pilots of no. 75 behind Pruett in the points of the championship. With 107 points, they march after Pruett to only nine points and 20 Angelelli and Magnussen.
“One feels very well”, said Braun. “All the equipment did a great work this week. We begin with a car that was not very good but it changed it to Max and it returned it a great car. We concentrated ourselves in a car that were not very hard with the rims and fodder that worked very well. It did not pass anything extraordinary during the first turn to the steering wheel. I went to track, I handled and I tried to conserve the rims and the fuel. I entered pits and I passed the car to Max, and fodder that a great work did. She is so hard, so is closed the competition that we have. Fodder that we are going to go to the next one and that we are still more going to be strong. We are going to go to try and we hoped to return to track the next time and to fight by the victory”.

Green Banderazo in Virginia

“Colin gave the car me in the end and knew that she was going to be a short turn and that she had to be as fast as it was possible”, Papis added. “It was good during the first pair of returns and after that he was a little difficult to maintain the rate. A little went away and was a little difficult to maintain the car, especially in the curves. We were battling a little and I tried to maintain my rate the best thing than I could. When I saw Angelelli trying do its movement I tried to make it a little more difficult but it knew that once found the route it was going to be difficult to equal its rate. I tried to maintain the pressure exceeds he. I clear the hat to me in front of them. Fodder that no. 10 was a little better. Colin did a work impressive and all the equipment did a work huge. He is hard to finish second, but to finish secondly after these huge pilots causes that the one of today is a good day”.
Closing a touching weekend after the death - Tuesday by late of the president and the executive Wax director Racing, Bob Snodgrass, the pilots of 58 car no. Red Bull/Waxes Racing Porsche Riley, Darren Law and David Donohue finished in the third place when 11 car no. South Coast Fish Company/CITGO Pontiac Riley lead by Ryan Dalziel “sputtering” in the final return. This he is first podio of Racing Waxes since escudería of no. 58 of Donohue and Mike Borkowski finished thirdly in the last race of the season of the Rolex Series, in the Daytona International Speedway.

Donohue/Law and its Porsche Riley

“It has been a hard weekend for all”, said Law. “We felt really proud of the equipment. They have done a great work. Last night we were working until behind schedule in the car. I have already said that he is huge to obtain podio, but is even more special east weekend reason why it happened with Bob. There was much happy people here today”.
“With regard to my handling in the track today, he was very boring”, it said Donohue. “It went all along after car no. 11 and it remained without fuel in the last return reason why we secured the third place. It really did not have much to go by him. It could go away in the curves and could approach me in the brakings and even so we were in different parts from the track. I tried to maximize in the points where éramos forts and to pass it in the brakings, but we had to approach to us from very back. As Darren said, very we are moved. Those boys were working until the 2 or 3 in the morning fixing the car and that gave a car us of podio, were very tuna. That class of effort is not unique of this weekend. The boys have put that class of effort in last the four years and is tuna to see compensated them with podio, especially after the death of Bob”.

Long/Bergmeister arrived in the ninth position

In spite of remaining without fuel in the final return, Dalziel and its teammate in no. 11, Jean-Francois Dumoulin, finished in fourth position. This it is the second result of Dalziel between the four first in the Rolex Series in 2007, since it participated in the Rolex 24 AT Daytona that abrió the season. The performance moves to car no. 11 SAMAX to the third place in the championship of equipment, in spite of the fact that his pilot full-time, Patrick Carpentier had to retire of VIR 400 due to a familiar emergencia and to that Milka Duno happened to the Indy Racing League IndyCar.
The pilots of car no. 99 GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing Pontiac Riley, Jon Fogarty and Alex Gurney battled during the race and secured the fifth place. After to start from the second position, Fogarty took - in the second return the commando of the race that maintained Braun and maintained to the front until the seventh turn, until right after making contact with enemy with the 05 no. Luggage Express Team Sigalsport BMW Riley de Matthew Alhadeff. Fogarty soon damaged the right side of the frontal body with an excursion outside track that finished against the barrier of tires of curve 11.
For Memo Rojas and Scott Pruett, it was a anxious day. Red it left the first round of pits - under yellow flag, in return 8, like leader, but it lost the position later two returns when leaving the circuit in curve 1. Later it passed the car to Pruett, that also left, in curve 4 (returned 24), battling of there in recovering positions more. With this eighth place, it is the first time in the season that Pruett is not in the first place of the championship of the Daytona Prototypes.

Source: Average Racing
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