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GRAND SLAM.(Special Report)(Brief Article)
Byline: Bill McGuire
Call it a banner year for Grand-Am with new venues, record-sized grids and seven winners in 14 races. It was a good year for Wayne Taylor and Max "The Ax'' Angelelli too, as they won both the Rolex 24 at Daytona and the season championship.
Angelelli and Taylor scored five wins over the season in their Riley-Pontiac, and here's the real eyebrow-raiser: This well-oiled operation completed all 2050 laps and 6047 miles of competition this year, humming along like an atomic clock. In endurance sports car racing, that's what it's all about.
Last year's champion Scott Pruett, now teamed with Luis Diaz in the Riley-Lexus of Ganassi Racing, won three races, but some bad breaks and miscues conspired against their run for another title. They had to settle for second.
Grand-Am's carefully contrived Daytona Prototype category, with technology-controlled chassis and strict engine restrictions to hold down costs, generated a bonanza of entries: The field averaged 22 cars per race ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, GRAND SLAM.(Special Report)(Brief Article)