DOMINATING DRIVES AT MID-OHIO.(Competition)

Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty left Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course with everything but the Grand-Am Daytona Prototype championship lead. The duo led practically every lap and scored a nearly 32-second win over points leader Scott Pruett. The Grand Touring class also saw a dominating performance by Andy Lally, who led by 38 seconds before a series of late yellows bunched the pack.

The third Grand-Am event of the year featuring separate DP and GT races provided the effect everyone had feared: dull racing. This was most visible in Saturday's prototype race. Fogarty qualified Gainsco/Bob Stallings Racing's Riley-Pontiac on the pole and led all but six of 111 laps to take the car's third victory of the season. And even though second through fifth places ran nose-to-tail for much of the last stint, no one could pass based on speed. David Donohue monopolized second place with his Red Bull/Brumos Porsche until he ran out of fuel with four laps remaining. This gave Pruett and co-driver Memo Rojas their third-consecutive second-place finish, followed by Krohn Racing's Colin Braun in third.

Although the GT race was more eventful, one car-the Racer's Group Porsche of Lally and R.J. Valentine - also dominated. Lally replaced nonprofessional driver Valentine during a lap-one caution period and drove the remaining 93 laps, of which he led more than a third. Sylvain Tremblay drove his SpeedSource Mazda RX-8 back from a lap down after a brief spin to take second, followed by the Pontiac GXP.R of Paul Edwards. Edwards and co-driver Kelly Collins now share a three-way points lead with Dirk Werner, whose Porsche finished 12th.

Indy and MotoGP

A MotoGP race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway is back in play for 2008, according to track president Joie Chitwood. Chitwood's optimism comes after negotiations with the series, and he said finding a suitable date is among the final hurdles.

MotoGP has an 18-race 2007 schedule that includes many of the world's top road courses. It has one U.S. race scheduled for Laguna Seca on July 22. MotoGP will have to modify its schedule for 2008 to accommodate Indy in September or October. The series would utilize IMS' infield road course, although a portion of it figures to be reworked to accommodate motorcycles before MotoGP takes to the track.

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