Sept. 17 - The Daytona Prototype and GT championships will be on the line as the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 visits Miller Motorsports Park for Saturday's season-ending SunRichGourmet.com 1000 presented by the Grand and Little America Hotels.
The Rolex Series tackles the mammoth 24-turn, 4.486-mile circuit in the Salt Lake City, Utah, suburb of Tooele in the 139-lap, 1,000-kilometer event, with a seven-hour time limit. The race will be televised live flag to flag on SPEED (1 p.m. ET).
TELMEX Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates teammates Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas need to drive at least 30 minutes each in the No. 01 Lexus Riley to share the Daytona Prototype championship. Pruett is looking to become the first repeat champion in the Grand-Am Rolex Series' premier division. The Ganassi team has already locked up its third title, leading by 38 points.
The GT championship is expected to come down to the final lap of the season, with Paul Edwards and Kelly Collins - drivers of the No. 07 Banner Racing Pontiac GXP.R - leading by six points. Also in contention are Sylvain Tremblay and Nick Ham, who are 13 points out of the lead in the No. 70 SpeedSource Mazdaspeed Castrol Syntec Mazda RX-8.
The SunRichGourmet.com 1000 takes the green flag at 11 a.m. Saturday.
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