March 26th-28th Grand-Am Cup @ Homestead Speedway
 

From HMS web site: http://www.homesteadmiamispeedway.com/

Don't Miss the Grand-Am Cup, March 26-28

Come out to the Speedway, March 26-28 for the Grand-Am Cup Miami 250 featuring racecars straight off of the showroom floor with only minimal racing modifications to enhance safety and performance taking on the Speedway's world-class road course. For more information, visit www.grand-am.com

2004 Grand-Am Cup Series Class Descriptions
The Grand-Am Cup Series is the premier proving ground for many of today's automotive manufacturers. The series features some of the best production car drivers from around the world. The series typically complements the Rolex Sports Car Series by using race cars that are actual production cars. Grand-Am Cup cars are straight off the showroom floor with only minimal racing modifications to enhance safety and performance. Two classes of race cars compete on the track at the same time during Grand-Am Cup events, with drivers competing for top honors in their specified class, as well as the overall win. Grand-Am Cup cars are classified by weight, engine size and model.

GRAND SPORT (GS)
The Grand Sport class includes popular sports and muscle cars, such as the BMW M3, Ford Mustang, Pontiac Firebird and GTO, Porsche 996 and Nissan 350Z.

SPORT TOURING (ST)
The Sport Touring class includes various small-to-mid-size, four door sedans and sports coupes, including the BMW Z4 and 328, Lexus IS300, Acura RSX, Mazda RX-8, Mini Cooper and Porsche Boxster.


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Come out and root for David Haskell, Sylvain Tremblay and the rest of the Speed Source Gang as they Race around the Homestead Miami Speedway in their very cool RX8s :D

http://www.speedsourceinc.com/

Qualifying for the Grand-Am Cup 250 begins at 4 p.m. on March 27, and the race starts at 12:30 p.m. on March 28. Tickets for the race will be sold at the Homestead-Miami Speedway gate. Single race day tickets are $10, and two-day packages are $15.

Also an interesting "news link" can be found here:

http://www.grand-am.com/news/news1061.html

:D Got to watch qualifying today...

Those cars are amazing!

I want one of those MS wings!!!








...Chuck, has it shipped yet ;)

Congrats to the Speed Source crew for coming in 6th,7th,8th, and 11th in class

Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of the event, but pro photographer Juha Lievonen did and they are posted on

www.theracesite.com

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oh, btw:

Juha frequently goes to the Auto X events I post and will take pictures of your car... In case you don't notice by these pictures, he's a DAMN good photographer.

my personal favorite ;)