LAKEVILLE, IN (January 28, 2008) – Friday’s Fresh From Florida 200, the season-opener for the Grand-Am KONI Challenge Series, on the historic 3.56-mile, 12-turn Daytona International Speedway’s Road Course.

 

Craig Stanton, with co-driver Tim Traver, handed the BGB Motorsports team and the No. 83 Performance Drink/Toro Viejo Motorsports Porsche 997 a home track victory in the Grand Sport (GS) division.

 

Settling for the runner up position was the No. 55, Hyper Sport, Mustang GT piloted by Joe Foster and Jeff Courtney, finishing just 4.356 seconds behind the leaders.

 

Third on the podium were Scott Turner and Terry Borcheller, in the No. 3 Blackforest Motorsports Mustang. 
 

Nick Wittmer gave i-MOTO Racing a season-opening Street Tuner (ST) victory and second win in four races by taking the No. 31 Cobalt Friction Acura TSX to the checkered flag. The win also marked the first KONI Challenge win of any kind for co-driver and team owner Glenn Bocchino, whose team swept the top two positions.
 
Kuno Wittmer’s and Peter Cunningham led the opening stages of the event, in the No. 32 i-MOTO Racing  Acura TSX, and then stood on the second step of the podium.

 

In third place was again an Acura TSX, driven by the team of Compass360 Racing, drivers Karl Thomson and Travis Walker.

 

The race will be televised (tape delayed) February 2nd, 8:00 PM on the SPEED Channel.

 

Hoosier Racing Tire is proud to be the sole racing tire provider for the Koni Challenge racing series.  This weekend race was serviced by Hoosier’s service team of:  Scott Huffer, Doug Barnes, Chris Grossman, Rick Sisk, Dan Webb, Jim Bartholomew, Eriks Bers, Mike Haenes, Jeff Yute and engineer Matt Marlow.
 
The weather stayed in the mid-60’s and low 70’s all week with a bit of cloud cover most days.  It sprinkled mildly on Friday morning but made for good racing conditions.
 
The Grand-Am KONI Challenge Series competitors return to the track May 24-26 at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Conn. for the second round of the season

 

For more information about the Grand American Road Racing Series please visit www.grand-am.com.