Road racin'
NASCAR fans know next weekend (no, not this weekend -- the weekend after that) as Phoenix weekend. It's also Rolex/Grand Am weekend at VIR, the road course not too far up the road from here.
Some of the names in the Rolex Series will be familiar to Cup fans: drivers Scott Pruett, Adrian Fernandez and Christian Fittipaldi and owner Chip Ganassi, to name a few. They're racing Sunday, April 23.
The Grand Am race, which is Saturday 4/22, has 99 entrants.
Greensboro's Randy Ruhlman, second last year in the Trans-Am Series, will be driving the Derhaag Motorsports entry in the Daytona Prototype class. (Those are the faster of the two classes; the little Porsches run in the GT class.)
If you've seen these guys race on Speed - and I know you have - you might want to check 'em out live when they're here.
Linkage:
VIR
Grand American
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And the weekend after this race is the "Biggest Race in the History of Spring."
And it's no where near 'dega.
Posted on April 12, 2006 3:21 PM