PORSCHE RS SPYDER, 911 GT3 RSR NEED NEW SET-UP FOR MODIFIED MILLER MOTORSPORTS  
COURSE NEAR SALT LAKE CITY; PORSCHE-ACURA AND PORSCHE-FERRARI RIVALRIES CONTINUE

ATLANTA –- May 13 – When owner Larry Miller had famous sports car course architect Alan Wilson
design Miller Motorsports Park near Salt Lake City four years ago, he wanted to make sure the facility
was versatile enough to accommodate many different needs – sports car racing, motorscycle racing,
club racing, corporate and private facility rentals and more.
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Tags: ALMS, Porsche

PETALUMA, Calif. - TRG looks to return to victory lane when the team brings a four-car assault to the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 Bosch Engineering 250 at Virginia International Raceway April 26-27.
 
Spencer Pumpelly and Tim George will drive the No. 67 Tampico Porsche GT3. This tandem was the Rolex Series GT Driver's Championship point leaders heading into the Mexico City 250, but a broken wheel stud put them out of the race and subsequently dropped to them to a tie for second in the point standings with 81 points. The duo looks to regain the top spot with a win at VIR. Through three races, Pumpelly and George have a second (Homestead-Miami) and a third-place (Daytona) finish. Read More...

Tags: Grand-Am, Porsche

Mark your calender....history will be in the making this summer at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio with the Vintage Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio, June 27-29.

Highlights of the weekend include vintage sportscars from every era on track and on display. SVRA sanctioned group races, Formula B Reunion II and a Sprite 50th Anniversary Race as a special nod to the featured marque - the Austin Healy Sprite. Read More...

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DEFENDING CHAMPIONS DUMAS AND BERNHARD GUIDE PENSKE PORSCHE RS SPYDER TO SECOND
STRAIGHT LMP WIN; LIZARD AND FARNBACHER LOLES PORSCHES SECOND AND THIRD IN GT2
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida – April 5 – 2007 American Le Mans Series LMP2 champions
Romain Dumas (France) and Timo Bernhard (Germany) led the LMP2 class in their
#7 Penske Porsche RS Spyder virtually from start to finish to win their second
straight contest, and flirted with the overall win at the end of Saturday’s Read More...

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March 29, 2008
Ruby Tuesday Championship Racing Team finishes second in GAINSCO Grand Prix of Miami
HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Ruby Tuesday Championship Racing Team drivers Bill Auberlen and Joey Hand earned a well-fought second place finish in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 Round Two race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, as part of the GAINSCO Grand Prix of Miami.
 
Starting from the inside of row four in the No. 23 Ruby Tuesday Championship Racing Team Porsche-powered Crawford Daytona Prototype, Auberlen quickly took the strategy of letting the race come to him instead of being too aggressive early in the race. This race strategy came to fruition, as the defending race winner had to deal with five full course cautions during his 45-lap stint. During this time, he moved from seventh to fifth by lap 22. Read More...

Tags: Grand-Am

TRG and Co-Drivers Pumpelly and George Jr. Take Rolex Series GT Points Lead with Podium Performance in GAINSCO Grand Prix of Miami
HOMESTEAD, Fla.
- There's just something about Homestead-Miami Speedway for TRG, as the team once again brought home a podium result and took over the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 GT class championship leads in both the team and driver standings with a second-place performance by No. 67 Gleukos/Monster Cable/WIN Institute/944 Magazine/Wheels Boutique Porsche GT3 co-drivers Tim George Jr. and Spencer Pumpelly in Saturday's GAINSCO Grand Prix of Miami.
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PORSCHE WINS SEBRING OVERALL FOR 18TH TIME; DUMAS, BERNHARD,
COLLARD TAKE VICTORY IN 12 HOUR RACE IN PENSKE PORSCHE RS SPYDER
--Porsche also wins GT2 Class with one-two finish from the updated Flying Lizard
Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 RSRs with Bergmeister, Henzler and Lieb; Dyson
Racing Posche RS Spyders finish second and third in LMP2 to complete class
podium sweep— Read More...

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FIVE PORSCHE RS SPYDERS, FIVE PORSCHE 911 GT3 RSRs, AND 40 PORSCHE 911 GT3 CUP
RACE CARS TO CHALLENGE COMPETITION AT MOBIL 1 TWELVE HOURS OF SEBRING WEEKEND
SEBRING, Florida – March 8, 2008 – For the Porsche owner and race fan, the 2008
Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring brings the best of the past and present in
Porsche Motorsport all in the same place at the same time next Saturday,
March 15, at 10:00 AM EDT at Sebring International Raceway.
The Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring will be telecast on Saturday, March 15, live
on SPEED TV, starting at 9:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time (the green flag drops
shortly after 10:00 AM EDT). Live radio broadcast, plus live scoring and pit
notes, are available at www.americanlemans.com, starting with qualifying on
Thursday, March 13.  Follow the progress of Porsche teams and view photos at
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Le Mans Series: European Premiere of the Porsche RS Spyder
STUTTGART, Germany – March 4 -- At the official test of the Le Mans Series (LMS)
in Le Castellet (France), the Porsche RS Spyder celebrated its European
premiere. Here, the two sports prototypes of the Team Essex (Denmark) and Van
Merksteijn Motorsport (Netherlands) met their opponents in the fiercely-
contested LMP2 class for the first time. Read More...

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TRG PORSCHES FINISH SECOND, THIRD AND FOURTH IN GT CLASS AT
ROLEX 24; BRUMOS, ALEX JOB DP PORSCHES LEAD INTO LAST HOURS
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – January 27 – Both the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars and the
various Porsche-powered Daytona Prototype racers led their class during long
periods of of time at the 2008 Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona, giving the teams
encouragement for the upcoming Rolex Grand-Am Sports Car points chase.
In the Daytona Prototype class, both the #58 Brumos Porsche – Darren Law, David
Donohue, and Buddy Rice – and the #59 team car - Hurley Haywood, J.C. France,
Terry Borcheller and Joao Barbosa – lead the race overall during the first
three-quarters of the race, with the #58 car rupturing a fuel cell and the #59
car – while leading the race in the 19th hour – broke a tie rod and crashed.  
Both cars finished the race, but well down in the standings. Read More...

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TRG Passes “Roar Before the Rolex 24” Test With Flying Colors

 
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., January 6, 2008 – In what might be the most massive undertaking in team history, TRG put the finishing touches on a seven-car assault toward the GT class victory in the 46th Rolex 24 At Daytona in three weeks with an outstanding effort in the three-day “Roar Before the Rolex 24” test.

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Joey Hand joins Ruby Tuesday Championship Racing Team for 2008
 
TAVARES, Fla. (Nov. 29, 2007) – The Ruby Tuesday Championship Racing Team announced today that Joey Hand, of Sacramento, Calif., will co-drive with Bill Auberlen during the 2008 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season.
 
Hand and Auberlen will co-drive the Alex Job Racing-prepared No. 23 Ruby Tuesday Championship Racing Team Porsche-powered Crawford Daytona Prototype beginning with the January (4-6) Test Days at Daytona International Speedway. The test days are in preparation for the Rolex 24 at Daytona Jan. 26-27. Read More...

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RS SPYDER TEAM ENDS DREAM SEASON
PENSKE RACING PORSCHE RS SPYDER TEAM ENDS DREAM SEASON WITH ONE-TWO LMP2 FINISH
AT LAGUNA SECA RACEWAY; 11 WINS IN 12 RACES
MONTEREY, Calif. – In an exciting race similar to the event two weeks ago at
Road Atlanta, Timo Bernhard (Germany) and Romain Dumas (France) scored their
eighth LMP2 win of the season in the Penske Racing Porsche RS Spyder at the
American Le Mans Series finale at Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway. Read More...

Tags: ALMS

Bill Auberlen signs with Ruby Tuesday Championship Racing Team for 2008

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Nov. 14, 2007) – The Ruby Tuesday Championship Racing Team announced today that it signed two-time Grand-Am Rolex Series champion Bill Auberlen, of Redondo Beach, Calif., to co-pilot its No. 23 Porsche Crawford Daytona Prototype during the 2008 Grand-Am season.
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PORSCHE 911 GT3 CUP TEAM WINS 2007 ROLEX GRAND-AM GT SERIES DRIVERS AND TEAM
CHAMPIONSHIPS; PORSCHE WINS GT MANUFACTURERS TITLE, CONTINUES STREAK
TOOELE, Utah – September 17 – Dirk Werner (Germany), teaming with rookie Bryce
Miller (USA) and Wolf Henzler (Germany), clinched the 2007 Rolex Grand-Am GT
Series drivers championship in the #87 Farnbacher Loles Motorsports IPC/Marquis
Jet Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race car with a third-place finish at Saturday’s
Sunchaser 1000 at Miller Motorsports Park. Read More...

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TRG TITLE-HOPES DASHED IN UTAH; FINISHES THIRD IN CHAMPIONSHIP
 
TOOELE, Utah (September 15, 2007) – Team TRG fell short of a third consecutive GT-Class Championship when the Grand-Am Rolex Series presented by Crown Royal Special Reserve contested the Sunchaser 1000 at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah on Saturday. Read More...

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Pontiac Wins Grand-Am DP Manufacturers, Team and Drivers Titles
Record Year for GAINSCO and Pontiac Teams
 
Detroit, Mich., October 1, 2007 – The 2007 Grand-Am season concluded with the Pontiac powered GAINSCO team taking the team and drivers championship in the Daytona Prototype (DP) category.  On the strength of a record setting season by GAINSCO and top performances by SunTrust and the remaining Pontiac powered teams, Pontiac was awarded the manufacturers trophy.
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Tafel Racing’s Wolf Henzler – A Lap of Road Atlanta
 
Braselton, Georgia, October 4, 2007 – Tafel Racing’s Wolf Henzler takes a fast lap around the 2.54-mile, newly repaved, 12-turn Road Atlanta circuit.  The team is in the first official practice day in preparation for the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) Petit Le Mans to be run on Saturday, October 6. Read More...

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DUMAS/BERNHARD CLINCH 2007 AMERICAN LE MANS SERIES LMP2 CHAMPIONSHIP WITH TENTH
CLASSWIN IN ELEVEN TRIES; PENSKE PORSCHE RS SPYDER SECOND OVERALL
BRASELTON, Georgia – October 6, 2007 – Romain Dumas (France) and Timo Bernhard
(Germany), with help from Patrick Long (USA), completed their season-long quest
for the 2007 American Le Mans Series LMP2 drivers championship by winning their
fifth class victory in a row and coming within one second of the overall win at
the tenth running of the 1000-mile Petit Le Mans classic at Road Atlanta in
their #7 Penske Porsche RS Spyder. Read More...

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TRG’s Chase for the Grand-Am Championships
 
PETALUMA, Calif., (September 7, 2007) - As TRG enters the home stretch of the ‘Chase for the Championships,’ it is involved in an intense battle to claim two prestigious GT-Class crowns – both of which will be decided at the season’s last race of 2007 at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah, on September 15.
 
TRG is tied with Farnbacher-Loles for the Rolex GT Team Championship going into the final event.  Drivers RJ Valentine and Andy Lally are only five points out of the lead for the Rolex GT Drivers Championship.  TRG won two consecutive team championships in 2005 and 2006, as well as last year’s driver’s championship.  Earning a third GT Championship in a row would be another record for the TRG squad and one that it would relish.
 
“Here we are again right down to the wire, but I don’t know what could be more exciting,” said TRG team owner Kevin Buckler.  “The pressure will be intense, but that seems to be when the entire TRG squad is at its best.  Make ‘em longer, harder, more difficult or more complex and it just seems to suit our style.”
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DUMAS PASSES PIRRO WITH FOUR LAPS LEFT; PENSKE PORSCHE DETROIT WIN
EIGHTH OVERALL AS PORSCHE CLINCHES LMP2 MANUFACTURERS CHAMPIONSHIPS
DETROIT –  September 1 – Romain Dumas (France), driving the number seven Penske
Racing Porsche RS Spyder LMP2 prototype, pulled side-by-side and then passed the
Pirro/Werner Audi R10 TDI LMP1 car with four laps to go to win Porsche’s eighth
straight American Le Mans Series event overall at the Detroit Belle Isle Sports
Car Challenge presented by Bosch. Read More...

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PENSKE PORSCHE RS SPYDERS WIN MOSPORT LMP2 AND OVERALL; PENSKE RACING CLINCHES
2007 LMP2 TEAM CHAMPIONSHP
BOWMANVILLE, Ont., Canada – August 26 - After their last pit stop, team driver
Romain Dumas (France), who started in the #7 Penske RS Spyder, was packing his
helmet to get ready for the next race, confident that co-driver Timo Bernhard
(Germany) would bring the car in second overall and first in LMP2 for an
important class win.  And Ryan Briscoe (Australia) was finishing the race that
Sascha Maassen (Germany) started in the #6 Penske RS Spyder, settling into a
second place in LMP2 and third overall. Read More...

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PORSCHE AIMS TO CLINCH 2007 AMERICAN LE MANS SERIES LMP2 ENGINE AND CHASSIS
MANUFACTURERS CHAMPIONSHIP SUNDAY AT MOSPORT INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY IN CANADA
ATLANTA – August 22 – Riding a seven-race class winning streak – including six
straight overall wins – the Porsche RS Spyder prototypes will head north of the
border to Mosport International Raceway this Sunday in hopes of wrapping up the
LMP2 class engine and chassis manufacturers title for 2007. Read More...

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PETER SCHWARZENBAUER AND BETTY JO TURNER NAMED CO-GRAND MARSHALS   
FOR PORSCHE® RENNSPORT REUNION III
Two Porsche Dignitaries to Preside Over Expected Largest Gathering of Legendary
Porsche Race Cars in History  
ATLANTA, GA – Aug. 22, 2007 —  Porsche Cars North America President and Chief
Executive Officer, Peter Schwarzenbauer, and Porsche Panorama Editor, Betty Jo
Turner, were today announced as Co-Grand Marshals for the November 2-4, 2007,  
Porsche Rennsport Reunion III at Daytona International Speedway in Florida.
Sponsored by Porsche Cars North America and organized by Brian Redman’s
Intercontinental Events, Inc., Porsche Rennsport Reunion is held every three
years. It is open to the public and brings together an unprecedented gathering
of significant Porsche vintage and current racecars and famous Porsche race
drivers. Read More...

Tags: rallye, concours

ROD MILLEN AND RICHARD KELSEY BRING AMERICANS VICTORY
FOR PORSCHE® CAYENNE® IN MONGOLIA
ATLANTA – August 17 – Driving their Team North America Porsche Cayenne S
Transsyberia, Rod Millen and Richard Kelsey outlasted a field of 39 vehicles
over more than two weeks and 4,400 miles to score a 17-minute win in 2007
Transsyberia Rallye, one of the world's toughest off-road marathons.
After a two-week drive from Moscow to Ulan Bator, Mongolia, (the same distance
from Alaska to the Panama Canal) Rod Millen and co-driver Richard Kelsey – both
New Zealand-born rallyists now living in the United States, reached the finish
in the capital of Mongolia earlier today, and the challenge for both man and
machine impressed the veteran rallyist. Read More...

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AFTER 12 0F 14 STAGES, PORSCHE LEADS TRANSSYBERIA RALLYE;
MONGOLIAN LEGS PROVE TO BE CHALLENGING FOR MAN AND MACHINE
STUTTGART, Germany – August 16 – Only 30 of the 39 starters on the 2007
Transsyberia Rallye have made it to the Mongolian village of Bayankhor, with
Porsches in the top seven positions overall. Read More...

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TRG HEADS TO QUEBEC SEEKING SECOND STRAIGHT KONI CHALLENGE WIN

 
PETALUMA, Calif., (August 15, 2007) – Team TRG goes north of the border in search of their second GS-Class win when Grand-Am Koni Challenge Series competitors head to Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada to contest Round 10 of the 2007 schedule on Sunday, August 19th.
 
TRG was the class of the field in mid-July with a dominant win at Barber Motorsports Park and the northern California-based team will try for an encore performance on the tricky 2.521-mile Le Circuit du Trois-Rivieres street course.
 

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DUMAS/BERNHARD TAKE FOURTH OVERALL VICTORY OVER FAVORED AUDIS IN PENSKE PORSCHE
RS SYPDER; PORSCHE EDGES TOWARD LMP2 CHAMPIONSHIP OVER ACURA RIVALS AFTER EIGHT
EVENTS
--Sascha Maassen/Ryan Briscoe’s second-place LMP2 position gives Penske Porsches
sixth one-two class finish and sixth overall win in a row, assuring at least
half the overall wins for the 2007 season--
ELKHART LAKE, Wisc.  – August 11 – Capping off an improbable week where the LMP1
Audis were more than one second a lap faster than the LMP2 Porsches, Romain
Dumas (France) and Timo Bernhard (Germany) squeezed out a 1.7-second overall win
in the American Le Mans Series’
Generac 500 at Road America. Read More...

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LMP2 POINTS LEADER DUMAS WINS CLASS POLE FOR PENSKE PORSCHE RS SPYDER WITH
TEAMMATE BRISCOE SECOND; BERGMEISTER AND LIZARDS FOURTH IN GT2 BEHIND FERRARIS
ELKHART LAKE, Wisc. – August 10 –  Romain Dumas (France) set an LMP2 class
record – faster than last year’s LMP1 qualifying – while putting his points-
leading #7 Penske Porsche RS Spyder on class pole for tomorrow’s American Le
Mans Series race – the Generac 500 – at Road America. Read More...

Tags: ALMS

Ruby Tuesday Championship Racing Team Returns to Watkins Glen
 
TAVARES, Fla. (Aug. 7, 2007) – Two words can describe how the Ruby Tuesday Championship Racing Team felt after having a fast race car all weekend at Montreal’s famed Circuit Gilles Villenueve. We’re back! The same two words can be said about the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Special Reserve’s return to Watkins Glen International for this weekend’s Crown Royal 200 at The Glen.
 
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Tafel Racing Well Tested for ALMS at Road America
 
Cumming, Georgia, August 7, 2007 – Tafel Racing is headed to Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin’s Road America for round seven of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) Generac 500 to be run on Saturday, August 11.
 
The Road America natural road course is made up of 4.05-miles of undulating landscape funneling into 14- turns. The course will not be a mystery to the team from Georgia as they have logged a lot of testing miles at the central Wisconsin track.
 
Robin Liddell and Wolf Henzler rank the Road America circuit as one of their favorite tracks in America.
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THE CHAMPIONSHIP CHASE FOR THE AMERICAN LE MANS SERIES TITLES STARTS IN ERNEST AT ROAD AMERICA THIS WEEKEND; PENSKE, FLYING LIZARDS LEAD FOR PORSCHE IN TWO CLASSES

ELKHART LAKE, Wisc. – August 7 – Penske Motorsports and Flying Lizard Motorsports have battled to put their drivers and their Porsche race cars in respective class leads after seven rounds of the American Le Mans Series, but neither team is secure in its championship bid as the series heads to Wisconsin for the Generac 500 at Road America in Elkhart Lake. Read More...

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TRANSSYBERIA RALLYE ENTRANTS DISCOVER NEW EXPERIENCES, BUT NO NEW COMPETITION
AS RAIN AND TERRAIN CANCEL STAGE FOUR; EVENT HAS MOVED FROM EUROPE TO ASIA

STUTTGART, Germany – August 6 – After an exhausting transit on Sunday from Kasan to Ekaterinburg, the 33 competitors left in the Transsyberia Rallye 2007 were ready for a challenging 21.7-mile special stage in an off-road vehicle park today, but were disappointed when the organizer was forced to cancel the stage. Read More...

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ROD MILLEN/RICHARD KELSEY WIN SECOND STAGE OF TRANSSYBERIA RALLYE AS WATER HOLE TAKES TOLL ON FIELD; PORSCHE CAYENNES HOLD TOP NINE POSITIONS IN TWO-WEEK EVENT

VALDIMIR, Russia – August 5, 2007 -- The second stage of the Transsyberia Rally 2007 will be remembered by some participants for a long time - torn off bumpers and rear ends, one engine failure, and one flooded electronic steering gear. Those are the preliminary results of the second day. A knee-deep water hole on the 18 mile-long special testing route near the Russian village of Wjasniki, caused many drivers considerable difficulties. Read More...

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TRG CHARGES TO FIFTH GRAND-AM WIN OF SEASON IN MONTREAL
 
MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada (August 3, 2007) – Team TRG posted another of its patented come-from-behind wins Friday evening during Round 11 of the Grand-Am Rolex Series presented by Crown Royal Special Reserve at the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve in Montreal, Canada. Read More...

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THE THREE PORSCHE® CAYENNES OF TEAM NORTH AMERICA “ROLL OFF” IN MOSCOW AS THEY BEGIN THEIR TRANSSYBERIAN RALLY ADVENTURE

--Opening day of Rally sees 39 vehicles from start under a cloudy-filled sky and rainy conditions in Moscow’s hallowed Red Square; Canadian Team in Top 5 after Stage 1--

MOSCOW, August 3, 2007 --- The days of preparation and anticipation ended today when the first car, a 2008 Porsche Cayenne TransSyberia of last years’ winner and Porsche engineer Juergen Kern, rolled through the starter’s arch in front of the ancient walls of The Kremlin, under the watchful eye of the famous St. Basil’s Basilica. The three-Cayenne team that comprises “Team North America,” entered by Porsche Cars North America, started 17th, 20th and 24th. Read More...

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TRG HEADS TO MONTREAL SEEKING FIFTH GRAND-AM GT-CLASS WIN OF ‘07

 
PETALUMA, Calif., (August 1, 2007) – Team TRG looks to add to its series-leading four GT-class wins when the Grand-Am Rolex Series presented by Crown Royal Special Reserve competes at the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve in Montreal, Canada on Friday, August 3rd during Round 11 of the 2007 schedule.

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ANCA and TORNOS Join Tafel Racing For Remainder of ALMS
 

Cumming, Georgia, August 1, 2007 – ANCA Total Precision and TORNOS will join Tafel Racing as sponsors on the Tafel Racing Porsche RSR race cars for the remainder of the 2007 American Le Mans Series (ALMS).
 

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Pontiac Solstice GXP And Millen Confident For Race To The Clouds
E85 Powering Solstice GXP Up The Mountain
 
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 19, 2007 – With qualifying for the 85th running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb completed, Rhys Millen and his Red Bull Pontiac Solstice GXP team set the fastest time in the Time Attack two-wheel-drive class.  The team is now in the process of making final preparations for Saturday’s race.
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TRG GOES TO BIRMINGHAM RIDING WAVE OF FOUR-WIN SEASON IN GT AND A STRONG KONI CHALLENGE TEAM PERFORMANCE

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