Monday, January 05, 2009

ROAR BEFORE THE ROLEX 24

Matthew Marsh is in Daytona Beach, Florida for the January Test Days at Daytona International Speedway, in preparation for the Rolex 24 Hours which takes place January 24/25 and forms part of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.
Testing continues Jan 3-5, on the 3.56-mile, 12-turn speedway road course.

Day 1: 23rd O/A, #86 GT, 6th in class: Farnbacher/Lux/Marsh/Roush; Farnbacher Loles Racing/Porsche GT3; 1:52.345, 114.077.

Day 2: In GT Dominik Farnbacher topped the morning times with a lap of 1:51.424 at 115.020 mph in the #86 Farnbacher Loles Racing Flex-Box/Wheel Enhancement Porsche GT3. Next up was Sylvain Tremblay, 1:51.471 in the #70 Castrol Syntec/SpeedSource Mazda RX-8, followed by Andy Lally, 1:51.540 in the #67 TRG Porsche GT3.

Day 3: Morning session:
18th fastest and first in GT class #86 Farnbacher/Lux/Marsh/Roush; Farnbacher Loles Racing Porsche GT3; 1:51.486, 114.956.
Second: #30 Cameron/Peterson/Sellers/von Moltke; Racers Edge Motorsports Mazda RX-8; 1:51.643, 114.794.
Third: #65 Holzer/Miller/Potter/Stanton; TRG Porsche GT3; 1:51.758, 114.676.

See: http://www.grand-am.com/
Drivers: Dominik Farnbacher of Ansbach, Germany; Eric Lux of Jacksonville, Fla.; Matthew Marsh of Hong Kong; Kevin Roush of Upland, California.
Sponsors: Flex-Box, Wheel Enhancement.
Farnbacher Loles press release here. RLT.

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