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AIM & Doncaster - Utah qualifying |
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Saturday, 15 September 2007 |
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AIM Autosport will start the
Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season finale from ninth on the 21-car Daytona
Prototype grid. Brian Frisselle of Lynchburg, Va., qualified the No. 61
Lexus-powered Riley Mk XI in two minutes 41.660 seconds on the 4.486-mile Miller
Motorsports Park road course in Tooele, Utah. He will drive the first stint in
the 1000-km race on Saturday, followed by his brother Burt and Mark Wilkins of
Toronto.
"We wanted to be a little bit
further up there because we'd been doing so well in practice, but second Lexus
is not too bad. The only Lexus in front of us is the one in the hunt for the
championship – on the pole, too. You always want to set your quickest time of
the weekend in qualifying and we accomplished that," Brian Frisselle said. "I'm
excited for this race – I know we've got a good race car underneath us. We've
started weekends much worse than this and ended up with good results, so we
could win the race tomorrow. Who knows?"
Doncaster Racing will start the race
from 12th on the 25-car GT-class grid. Dave Lacey of Toronto
qualified the No. 17 MineStar / Tim Hortons Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car that he'll
share with Tom Papadopoulos of East Hills, N.Y., and Greg Wilkins of Toronto.
His time of 2:58.378 wasn't as quick as he'd hoped.
"We were struggling a bit, just
playing catchup because we had some contact yesterday with the 27 car and broke
an upright [suspension component]," he explained. "So we started a little bit
behind the eight-ball this morning, but I'm pretty satisfied. We're the
third-fastest Porsche.and it's definitely not a track that favours our
manufacturer, so to be third-fastest puts us in good stead. We're mid-pack on
the entire grid, which is not where we'd like to be, but I think we did the best
we could with the card we were dealt."
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