Amesbury, MA. July 19th, 2012 --Turner Motorsport, the leading BMW tuner in North America, will start its 249th and 250th professional races with the famed BMW brand at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Friday, July 27th when the Grand American Rolex Sports Car and Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Series makes their debut at the worlds most famous racing facility.
We have been proud to race professionally with BMW since 1998, said Will Turner. 250 races is a great achievement and were ready for more. Grand-Am has been our home for 8 seasons. The series fits our business model very nicely. We finished second in the GS Championship in 2010 with Michael Marsal and Joey Hand, and won it in 2011 with Paul Dalla Lana and Bill Auberlen. Last year we also drove Paul to the BMW Sport Trophy as the most successful privateer BMW racer in the world. This season weve kept our M3 at the front of the Rolex GT class and Paul stands third in GT driver points.
A unique one-day format at Indy will see Turner line up two BMW M3s in the 2.5-hour Continental Tire race at 1:00 p.m. and at 4:10 p.m. roll out the teams Fire breathing GT class BMW M3 for the 3 -hour Rolex race. The morning will host one practice and one qualifying session for each class. The Speedways 2.6 -mile, 13-turn road course, utilizing part of the famed oval and running in a clockwise direction, will be used for the Grand Am events.
The Rolex race is also the third and final race in the inaugural North American Endurance Championship. Based on finishes at the Rolex 24 at Daytona, the Sahlens Six Hours of the Glen and Indy the GT class winner will receive the trophy and $50,000.00 on the podium at Indy. The Turner team has not finished out of the top-five in the last seven Rolex races, posting a win at Mid-Ohio and second place finishes at Road America and Watkins Glen in the last three events. Another podium result by Bill Auberlen, Paul Dalla Lana and Billy Johnson in the No. 94 machine could place them at the top of the NAEC.
With seven races complete in the ten race CTSCC season both the No. 96 M3 of Dalla Lana and Auberlen and the No. 97 M3 of Michael Marsal and Boris Said have posted seasons-best fourth place finishes.
Live timing and scoring from practice, qualifying and both races can be found on grand-am.com. The Rolex race will be broadcast live beginning at 4:00 p.m. ET July 27th on SPEED television.The CTSCC race will be broadcast on SPEED television on Sunday, August 5th at 12:00 p.m. ET.
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About Turner Motorsport
Turner Motorsport is the leading BMW tuner in North America, bringing technology and expertise from the racetrack to the street for over two decades. Since 1993 the Turner Motorsport Team has competed in over 240 professional races, winning six professional racing championships in three different series since 2003. The most recent being the 2011 Continental Sports Car Challenge. Their success is passed into every component that Turner Motorsport designs and sells through their comprehensive website and performance showroom. Our race team, R&D engineers and Sales team work together, ensuring practical knowledge and state-of-the-art engineering flow in both directions. Few companies in North America can claim such a close relationship to what they sell and what they race.
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2012 ROLEX SERIES SCHEDULE
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LIVE! Super Weekend at the Brickyard July 27th @ 4:30pm ET | Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, IN
LIVE! Watkins Glen International Short Course August 11th @ 6:00 ET | Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen. NY
LIVE! Circuit Gilles Villenueve August 18th @ 7:00pm ET | Circuit Gilles Villenueve, Montreal, Quebec
LIVE! Continental Tire Sports Car Festival September 9th @ 3:00pm ET | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Salinas, CA
LIVE! Lime Rock Park September 29th @ 3:00pm ET | Limerock Park, Lakeville, CT
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