Apr. 20, 2010
J.J. O'Malley, GRAND-AM
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -Joe Foster and Andy Lally veteran competitors in the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16, join series newcomer Skip Bennett on tonight's GRAND-AM Weekly.
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Foster is set for double-duty Saturday at Virginia International Raceway. After joining Patrick Dempsey in the No. 40 Dempsey Racing Mazda RX-8 in the Bosch Engineering 250 at noon, he will race a Ford Mustang in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge race at 3:30 p.m. Foster and Dempsey finished 10th in the recent Porsche 250 at Barber Motorsports Park, and are ranked sixth in the GT point standings. Foster also won the pole at Barber for the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge race, finishing eighth with Scott Maxewell in the No. 15 Multimatic Motorsports Mustang Boss 302R. Foster and Maxwell won the 2008 Grand Sport championship in that series.
Lally is set to achieve a personal milestone when he attempts his 100th start in Rolex Series competition at VIR. Lally has 20 Rolex Series victories, winning titles in GT (2006), SGS (2004) and SRPII (2001). He has 61 podium finishes - most recently at the 2010 Rolex 24 - and 74 top-five finishes.
Bennett will make his Rolex Series debut on familiar turf when he joins Mike Skeen in the No. 56 South River Marina & Mercruiser Ferrari F430 Challenge. His first race was a NASA event at VIR in 2006 in a Porsche 996, and he also raced in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge race at the circuit, improving from 55th to finish 28th. He finished fourth in the USA Ferrari F430 series in 2007, and raced in the NASA Spec E30 Series the past three seasons.
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