INDY - ROLEX SPORTS CAR SERIES. Fogarty takes DP Pole

Indianapolis - RIS - July 27, 2012 - Qualifying for the Rolex Grand Am Sports Car Series   at the World’s Greatest Race Course took place today in preparation for the first Brickyard Grand Prix.

Jon Fogarty in the Gainsco number 99, Corvette DP car, took the pole at 1:23.034 just 0.015 of a second faster than Max Angelelli in the number 10 SunTrust Corvette. Terry Borcheller rounded out the Corvette top three sweep in his number 5. Action Express Corvette DP at 1:23.050.

The GT class saw Jonathan Bomarito’s Mazdaspeed RX-8 setting a time of 1:30.359 for the pole followed by veteran Boris Said’s Corvette about a tenth behind. Robin Liddell took the third spot in the number 57 Camaro.

With a very condensed schedule of practice, qualifying and the race, action started early with the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Series taking to the Speedway road course at 8:00 AM. The DP and GT cars took to the track at 10:00 for just one hour of practice before they rolled right into qualifications.

Another very hot and humid heartland day is in store for the teams with a very high likelihood of a thunderstorm or two before we see the final checker flag of the day.
Highs of 92 degrees with humidities of 50% are expected.

The Continental Series will take to the track for a 2:30 hour race at one, followed by the featured Rolex Brickyard Grand Prix at 4:10 for a three hour racing tour of IMS.