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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series regulars Carl Edwards and Marcos Ambrose will make their Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 Daytona Prototype testing debut Tuesday, driving the Doran Racing No. 77 McDonald’s Ford Dallara on the North Course at Virginia International Raceway.

All I want for Christmas is the 2009 Nissan GT-R pictured at left.
It’s not too much to ask considering it comes with a twin-turbocharged (one per cylinder bank) 3.8-liter V6 putting out 480 hp @ 6,400 rpm. (Given the GT-R’s history a laptop would boost that to well over 600 hp with little problem)
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Not CORN country as in that funny little winged box on four wheels that appears at 16 NASCAR events this year but corn, as in Maize. As in Iowa Speedway.
Nextel Cup driver Mark Martin will be at Iowa Speedway on Friday night, July 13th, to compete on the road course in the Grand Am Rolex [...]

Those of us that spend too much time trolling the auto racing blogosphere and forums have all seen the outrage over “intruders” into “their” sport of NASCAR. Whether it be the imminent entry of Toyota to NASCAR’s top level, “foreign” drivers (a/k/a Juan Montoya), and the overriding (overblown?) issue of NASCAR disregarding “its roots,” the [...]

You can add to the list of drivers from other racing series’ that has been sucked into BubbaLand.
Andy Belmont, who owns and drives an under-financed entry in the ARCA RE/MAX Series (and an occasional attempt to make a NEXTEL Cup field), will be at Lowes Thursday testing three-time and reigning Rolex Grand Am Champion Andy [...]

I have no reason to post this except my smart-assed title: Playboy Goes Full Speed With Grand American Racing

Indianapolis 500 fourth place finisher and IndyCar Series Rookie of the Year, Danica Patrick has been invited by Rusty Wallace to co-drive his #2 Pontiac Crawford in the January 28-29 Rolex 24 At Daytona.
Lead driver for the team is sports car veteran Allen McNish along with Boris Said, Wallace, who will be making his first [...]

At least nine drivers with NASCAR ties are scheduled to test Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series cars Thursday through Saturday at Daytona International Speedway in preparation for the Jan. 28-29 running of the Rolex 24 At Daytona.
Defending Nextel Cup champion Tony Stewart and recently retired Rusty Wallace are on the entry list for testing. [...]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Bobby Labonte made his Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series debut earlier this year competing in the Rolex 24 At Daytona co-driving the No. 44 Doran Racing Pontiac Doran with his brother Terry, Jan Magnussen and IndyCar star Bryan Herta.
After finishing ninth overall in the Rolex 24, Bobby Labonte is poised [...]

From daytime to nighttime and back again, teams led by Tony Stewart and Max Angelelli fought for the lead in the Rolex 24 endurance race. Then, with just 123 minutes left in the 24-hour sports car event, the Pontiac Crawford that 2002 NASCAR champion Stewart shared with former race winners Andy Wallace and Jan Lammers [...]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A Daytona Prototype entry driven by endurance aces Max Angelelli, Wayne Taylor and Emanuel Collard held a narrow lead halfway through the Rolex 24 sports car race.
In one of the closest races in the 43 years that the twice-around-the-clock event has been run at Daytona International Speedway, four cars were [...]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.

Driving the Porsche 996 GT3 car of Phoenix Promotions and Team Sahlen, will be a 16-year old Buffalo boy, Eric Lux.
This year’s 24-hour race at Daytona, on February 5-6, boasts an impressive list of Indy Racing League and NASCAR drivers, as well as other racing greats, such as Unser, Fittipaldi, [...]

Emerson Fittipaldi turned his first laps in a race car Sunday since a Champ Car crash in 1996 at Michigan International Speedway.
The two-time Formula One champion and two-time Indy 500 winner ran a handful of laps at Daytona International Speedway in testing for Rolex Sports Car Series competition.
The Brazilian

This is not it, it’s better, much better! Pontiac will expand its motorsports program in 2005 when the Pontiac GTO takes on European, Asian and American rivals in the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series. GM announced today that Pontiac will debut two production-based GTO race cars in the Grand American Series in midseason of [...]

Max Angelelli turned the quickest lap during the opening practice session for the Food City 250 at Phoenix International Raceway on Thursday afternoon. Angelelli put together a 58.130-second lap around the 1.51-mile road course in the SunTrust Racing No. 10 Pontiac Riley. Scott Pruett turned the second-fastest lap in practice with his 58.374-second lap in [...]

Fines have been handed out for the recent “side-by-side” action in this past weekends Grand Prix of Miami. The race was won by Andy Wallace and Milka Duno, who co-drove the #2 CITGO Pontiac Crawford to the first Rolex Sports Car Series win for Howard-Boss Motorsports.
Grand American Road Racing Association has fined Rolex Sports Car [...]