24th January 2009

Rolex 24 pole winner leads, Ganassi hopes for history

The pole-winning Porsche Riley Daytona Prototype driven by former Indianapolis 500 winner Buddy Rice, David Donohue, Darren Law and Antonio Garcia was out front Saturday night after the first six hours of the Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway.

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24th January 2009

Notes: EGR to name fourth Daytona driver on Monday

Earnhardt Ganassi Racing will field a fourth entry — the No. 41 Chevrolet — in the Feb. 15 Daytona 500 and expects to decide on a driver Monday, team president Steve Lauletta said Saturday before the start of the Rolex 24 Grand-Am race at Daytona International Speedway.

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24th January 2009

Penske’s new Porche Riley setting pace in Rolex 24

Roger Penske’s new Porsche Riley Daytona Prototype was out front Saturday after the first three hours of the Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway.

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24th January 2009

Ganassi team takes aim at another Rolex 24 victory

The sometimes-messy Rolex 24 sports-car endurance race got off to a clean start Saturday with Roger Penske’s new Daytona Prototype and Timo Bernhard wresting the lead from pole-winning David Donohue in a battle of Porsche Rileys.

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24th January 2009

Ganassi team takes aim at another Rolex win (AP)

The sometimes-messy Rolex 24 sports car endurance race got off to a clean start Saturday with Roger Penske’s new Daytona Prototype and Timo Bernhard wresting the lead from pole-winning David Donohue in a battle of Porsche Rileys. Donohue, who set a qualifying record Thursday on the 3.56-mile road circuit at Daytona International Speedway, led the first lap, but lost the top spot to Bernhard on the…

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24th January 2009

"Dr. McDreamy" draws attention at sports car race (AP)

A few years ago it was the late Paul Newman who drew some of the biggest crowds in the garage and on pit road during the running of the Grand-Am Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway. The big draw this week is Patrick Dempsey, Dr. McDreamy in TV’s “Grey’s Anatomy” and a serious, if part-time, sports car racer.

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24th January 2009

Top 20 countdown: No. 15 Tony Stewart (Yahoo! Sports)

Nobody comes into 2009 with fewer expectations but more of a burden on their shoulders than Tony Stewart.

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24th January 2009

Driver and owner Stewart also comfy as a pitchman

Tony Stewart played pitchman for Old Spice recently, starring in a commercial in a frigid outdoor garage at a mall in White Plains, N.Y.

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24th January 2009

FR9 engine has promise, but future remains on hold

The latest NASCAR-approved engine from Ford and Roush Yates Engines has raised expectations to an even higher level for 2009.

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24th January 2009

Nemechek plans to run full Cup, N’wide slates in 2009

Joe Nemechek’s NEMCO Motorsports plans to have Sprint Cup and Nationwide series cars for Speedweeks at Daytona International Speedway in less than three weeks — and the most stunning part of the bold plan is “we’ll be at California, Las Vegas, Atlanta and Bristol in both series, too,” Nemechek said on Thursday evening.

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