Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas win 6th straight

Ganassi drivers Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas have won their 6th straight Grand-Am Rolex race today at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama.  Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty were 2nd in their Chevy Riley almost 1/2 minute behind. 

Ryan Dalziel was third in his Ford Riley. 

Bill Auberlen was first in the GT class driving a BMW M3.

GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing, and drivers Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty, combined some good tire management strategy, great racing on the track and excellent pit stops with some last-lap good luck and heads-up driving to score the team’s first top-three podium finish of the season Saturday with a second-place finish in the Porsche 250 at Barber Motorsports Park.  Full coverage of the race can be seen Sunday, April 10, on SPEED at Noon ET/9 a.m. PT.

After closing on leader and eventual race winner Scott Pruett, who co-drove with Memo Rojas, in the No. 01 TELMEX/Chip Ganassi Racing BMW Riley in the final half of the race, Gurney took the white flag in second place only to realize something was suddenly wrong with the No. 99.  What he thought might have been a tire going down turned out to be a broken right rear roll bar blade that severely slowed the GAINSCO machine.  Gurney kept his head in the game and his foot on the pedal, however, and did a great job bringing the stricken GAINSCO “Red Dragon” across the finish line ahead of the closing third-place car.

“We broke the right rear roll-bar blade, so the car was wobbling all over the place, and they told me I had 20 seconds back to third place,” Gurney said. “We were worried that I would make it around, because I was going really slow, but it ended up a good result with second place.  Obviously we didn’t close on Scott and Memo, but a step in the right direction.”

Next up Grand-Am is the Bosch Engineering 250 at Virginia International Raceway, May 13 – 14, and the race can be seen in same-day “virtual live” coverage on Saturday, May 14, at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT.

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