Spirit Of Daytona Wins First For Corvette DP at Barber

Richard Westbrook and Antonio Garcia gave Spirit of Daytona and the new Corvette DP their first wins in the Grand-Am Rolex series. Photo courtesy Grand-Am

After more than seven years of trying, everything came together for Spirit of Daytona in a near-perfect day at Barber Motorsports Park. Richard Westbrook and Antonio Garcia combined to lead all but 19 of the 103 laps to win the Porsche 250 in the No. 90 Spirit of Daytona Corvette DP – the first Daytona Prototype victory for the team and the first victory for the new car in GRAND-AM Rolex Series competition.

Garcia was leading by 32 seconds when a late-race caution period set up a three-lap sprint to the finish. It was no problem for the Spanish driver, who beat Alex Gurney to the checkered flag by 2.326 seconds.

“The car felt great all weekend, particularly in race trim,” said Westbrook, who followed up his first career pole with his first triumph in the series. He paced the opening 33 circuits.

“The most important thing was to bring home the first victory for the Corvette DP,” said Garcia, who led twice for 51 of the 103 circuits. His only prior Rolex Series victory was in the 2009 Rolex 24 At Daytona.

Gurney, driving the No. 99 GAINSCO Auto Insurance Corvette DP, held off Scott Pruett over the closing laps to take second. Pruett and Memo Rojas had a two-year winning streak ended at Barber in the No. 01 TELMEX BMW/Riley.

“Spirit of Daytona has a magic sauce here, based off what they’ve done here the last few years,” Gurney said. “We tried real hard to find out their secret, but we’re only about halfway there.”

A year ago, Spirit of Daytona won its first DP pole at Barber and led a race-high 50 laps before being slowed by an electrical problem late in the event.

SpeedSource teammate Sylvain Tremblay and Jonathan Bomarito won in GT by a full lap in the No. 70 Mazdaspeed Mazda RX-8, with Bomarito leading the final 70 circuits. Jeff Segal finished second in the No. 69 AIM Autosport Team FXDD Ferrari 458 Italia Grand Am started by Emil Assentato, followed by Leh Keen and Andrew Davis in the No. 59 Brumos Racing Porsche GT3.

Grand Am Rolex Series
Barber Motorsports Park – Birmingham, AL
Porsche 250 – March 31, 2012

Pos	No.	Class	Pic	Drivers	Team/Car	Laps	Best Lap	(#)	Avg MPH	Sponsors
1	90	DP	1	Garcia / Westbrook	Spirit of Daytona / Corvette DP	103	1:22.245	3	85.684
2	99	DP	2	Fogarty / Gurney	GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing / Corvette DP	103	1:22.940	3	85.664	GAINSCO Auto Insurance
3	01	DP	3	Pruett / Rojas	Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates / BMW Riley	103	1:22.931	103	85.659	TELMEX
4	8	DP	4	Dalziel / Potolicchio	Starworks Motorsport / Ford Riley	103	1:23.843	46	85.603	Duncan, Motorola
5	10	DP	5	Angelelli / Taylor	SunTrust Racing / Corvette DP	103	1:22.860	68	85.591	Suntrust
6	2	DP	6	Luhr / Popow	Starworks Motorsport / Ford Riley	102	1:24.861	46	84.712	Soloson Import, Motorola
7	9	DP	7	Barbosa / Borcheller / France	Action Express Racing / Corvette DP	101	1:23.404	44	83.950
8	60	DP	8	Negri / Pew	Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian / Ford Riley	100	1:23.820	43	83.069	LiveOn, Curb Records
9	70	GT	1	Bomarito / Tremblay	SpeedSource / Mazda RX-8	98	1:31.435	43	81.051	Mazdaspeed, Mazda, Modspace, Castrol
10	69	GT	2	Assentato / Segal	AIM Autosport Team FXDD Racing with Ferrari / Ferrari 458	97	1:31.669	47	80.390	FXDD
11	59	GT	3	Davis / Keen	Brumos Racing / Porsche GT3	97	1:31.659	45	80.383	The Brumos Companies
12	44	GT	4	Lally / Potter	Magnus Racing / Porsche GT3	97	1:31.827	45	80.381	Magnus Racing
13	94	GT	5	Auberlen / Dalla Lana / Johnson	Turner Motorsport / BMW M3	97	1:32.091	47	80.370	Turner Motorsport
14	88	GT	6	Edwards / Taylor	Autohaus Motorsports / Camaro GT.R	97	1:31.374	9	80.358	Autohaus Motorsports
15	57	GT	7	Bremer / Liddell	Stevenson Motorsports / Camaro GT.R	97	1:31.448	81	80.356	Stevenson Auto Group
16	41	GT	8	Espenlaub / Putman	Dempsey Racing / Mazda RX-8	97	1:31.773	2	80.340	Mazda, Visit Florida, Bass2BillFish
17	42	GT	9	Cameron / Nonnamaker	Team Sahlen / Mazda RX-8	97	1:31.367	35	80.331	Theracesite.com
18	67	GT	10	Bertheau / Pumpelly	TRG / Porsche GT3	97	1:31.289	43	80.328	Sargent & Lundy
19	51	GT	11	Norman / von Moltke	APR Motorsport / Audi R8 Grand-Am	97	1:31.546	43	80.287	APR Tuned, Motul, Parathyroid.com, PRNewswire, South African Airways
20	31	GT	12	Curran / Said	Marsh Racing / Corvette	97	1:31.929	2	80.251	Whelen Engineering
21	40	GT	13	Dempsey / Foster	Dempsey Racing / Mazda RX-8	96	1:33.129	48	79.520	Mazda, Visit Florida, Share a Little Sunshine
22	73	GT	14	Foss / Lindsey	Horton Autosport / Porsche GT3	95	1:31.987	3	78.710	Neo Synthetic Oil
23	74	GT	15	Al Masaood / Kane	Oryx Racing / Audi R8 Grand-Am	95	1:31.976	42	78.685
24	43	GT	16	Nonnamaker / Nonnamaker	Team Sahlen / Mazda RX-8	95	1:32.952	46	78.602	Theracesite.com
25	49	GT	17	Nonnamaker / Sahlen	Team Sahlen / Mazda RX-8	95	1:34.303	43	78.335	Western New York Flash
26	15	GT	18	Cook / Earnhardt	Rick Ware Racing / Ford Mustang	94	1:32.853	9	77.504	Poynt.com
27	5	DP	9	Donohue / Law	Action Express Racing / Corvette DP	80	1:23.071	3	66.411
28	68	GT	19	Bleekemolen / Di Guida	TRG / Porsche GT3	11	1:34.966	8	77.577	Group SK 18, ADE Cargo, Solar Cargo, Venezuela, Avior Airline

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