Max Papis/Krohn Racing Sonoma Post-Race Report

August 26, 2007 - It was a very competitive race on a beautiful day at the Infineon Raceway/Sears Point in the Armed Forces 250, a two and one-half hour/97-lap sprint race for Daytona Prototypes in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series on Saturday, August 25th.

The No. 99 Gainsco Pontiac Riley of Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty won their seventh race of the season and the No. 57 Brumos Porsche of David Donohue and Darren Law finished second. The No. 75 Krohn Racing Pontiac Riley of Nic Jönsson and Ricardo Zonta, who filled in for Colin Braun, finished fifth. Jönsson had started the Pontiac from the outside pole, qualifying in the second position. The No. 76 Krohn Racing Pontiac Riley of team owner/driver Tracy Krohn and Max Papis started and finished in the 16th position after a lengthy pit stop early and retired the car just before the end of the race.

The No. 01 Ganassi team leads the No. 10 SunTrust team in points in the DP Team championship. The No. 99 Gainsco Racing team is third and the No. 75 Krohn Racing team continues to maintain fourth place.
Max Papis, driver, No. 75 Krohn Racing Pontiac Riley:
“I was pleased that Tracy got the points he needed for the Truman Award. I did not get to drive the car today, but Tracy improved his Truman Award points and that was the final goal. I was planning to go and drive the last 5-6 laps to finish the race off.  We had a starter motor problem and Tracy was stuck in the middle of the race track somewhere and couldn’t restart the car. Tracy won the Truman Award and now we go on to Miller to finish the season.”
The finale race of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season, Round 14 of 14, will be the Sunchaser 1000 at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah on August 12-15, 2007. The race will be televised live on SPEED TV in two parts on Saturday, September 15 at 1:00 p.m. ET and again at 5:30 p.m. ET. For more information, please see www.grand-am.com and www.krohnracing.net.