Grand Am Series Crowns It's Champion at Homestead
Posted by Morgan Ferguson on Mon, Oct 12, 2009 @ 01:32 PM
Joao Barbosa and Hurley Haywood won Saturday's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season-ending Grand Prix of Miami while
Jon Fogarty and
Alex Gurney finished fourth to capture their second Daytona Prototype championship. The win came when Barbosa passed
Scott Pruett on the back straight with 28 minutes (Lap 84 of 100) remaining in the two-and-half hour race to score his first Daytona Prototype triumph, while Haywood, a late addition to the Brumos lineup, scored his first victory since winning a pair of races at Homestead and Phoenix in 2003. This is the second Daytona Prototype championship for Fogarty and Gurney in the No. 99 GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing Pontiac Riley. They finished six points ahead (337-331) of Pruett and
Memo Rojas, who finished second in the No. 01 TELMEX Lexus Riley.
Brian Frisselle and
Max Angelelli entered the race second in the standings, but finished seventh in the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara. They finished the year third in the championship with 325 points. In the GT class,
Safety-Kleen sponsored
Kelly Collins and
Paul Edwards won their second consecutive victory at Homestead, with Edwards going from fourth to first on the final restart to seal the team's first victory of 2009.
