Grand-Am Cup Street Stock Series Latest Point Standings Reveal New Leaders
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (July 2, 2002) -- The Grand-Am Cup Street Stock Series released its latest point standings following last weekend's VIR Three-Hour Race at Virginia International Raceway. The series' first of two visits to the track this season brought about lots of movement in the standings, including new team and driver leaders in two of the four classes. Doncaster Racing and Powell Motorsports have been in battle for the Grand Sport I lead, and with the series half-way through its 10-race schedule, Doncaster Racing and its drivers Scott Maxwell and David Empringham, both of Toronto, have taken the lead in the class standings. After experiencing engine trouble at VIR and being passed by Doncaster Racing in the closing laps of the Watkins Glen race, Powell Motorsports drivers Doug Goad, of Farmington Hills, Mich., and Devon Powell, of Port Perry, Ontario, have dropped to second, trailing their rivals by six points. Max Q Motorsports and its drivers, Emil Assentato and Nick Longhi, continue to lead in the Grand Sport II team and driver standings. The biggest change occurred between second and third. After earning its second win of the season at VIR, Shreiner Racing moved into second, pushing SpeedSource down a place to third. Shreiner's win caused a switch in the driver standings as well, with SpeedSource's Sylvain Tremblay and John Strum moving down a position to third, now trailing Shreiner drivers Jeff Lapcevich and John Shreiner by four points. Villaconn International continues to hold onto first in the Sport Touring I team standings. After earning its second win of the season, King Motorsports moved from fifth place to second, knocking the Team Lexus #2 entry from second to fourth place. Villaconn driver Beau Buisson, of the #34 BMW, continues to hold first place in the driver standings, while Team Lexus' Jean-Francois Dumoulin trails him by three points in second. Dumoulin's teammate in the #2 Lexus, Ian James, moved up two positions to third. HRPworld.com's #41 entry earned its first Sports Touring II win of the season, knocking Bill Fenton Motorsports out of the top position for the first time this year. The victory moved HRPworld.com drivers Wayne and Will Nonnamaker into first place in the ST II driver standings, while Bill Fenton Motorsports' Bob Beede dropped to second, trailing the brothers by three points. The leads in the manufacturer standings remained the same with the exception of the GS I class where Porsche took the lead from Chevy. Porsche also increased its GS II standing from third to second place, bumping BMW down a position. However, BMW maintained its top spot in the ST I class. The ST I second and third positions flipped with Acura now leading Lexus. Acura closed the gap on first, trailing BMW by only four points. Acura also maintained its lead in the ST II standings and increased its lead over Mazda from 12 to 21 points. Grand-Am Cup will next race in the CART Grand Prix at Mid Ohio Sports Car Course, Aug.8-10. Tickets are currently on sale for the event and may be purchased online www.midohio.com or by calling 1-800-Mid-Ohio. Additional information about the Grand-Am Cup Street Stock Series is available online at www.grandamcup.com -30- Grand-Am Cup Driver Point Standings DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (July 2, 2002) -- The Grand-Am Cup Street Stock Series awards points to drivers based upon their finish in their respective class. Although drivers may race in more than one class during a race, they are only awarded points in the first car they drive. Only drivers holding valid Grand American Road Racing Association memberships are awarded points. The driver points reflect the top-20 drivers in each class after the fifth race of the season. Next Race: Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (Aug. 10) Last Race: Virginia International Raceway (June 28) Grand Sport I Driver Standings Pos TotalPoints Driver 1 161 Scott Maxwell 161 David Empringham 3 155 Doug Goad 155 Devon Powell 5 136 David Lacey 136 Greg Wilkins 7 126 Paul Mears Jr 8 124 Selby Wellman 9 121 Joe Nonnamaker 121 Shane Lewis 121 Michael Weinburg 12 108 John Kohler 108 Gary Smith 14 100 Brent Martini 15 98 David Haskell 16 96 Stuart Hayner 17 91 Darren Law 18 86 Freddy Baker 86 Michael Levitas 20 83 Cort Wagner Grand Sport II Driver Standings Pos TotalPoints Driver 1 159 Emil Assentato 2 159 Nick Longhi 3 143 Jeff Lapcevich 4 143 John Shreiner 5 140 Sylvain Tremblay 6 140 John Sturm 7 124 Don Istook 8 124 Alejandro Lince 9 122 Michael Baughman 10 118 David Shep 11 106 Forest Barber 12 106 Terry Borcheller 13 102 Howie Liebengood 14 102 John Lloyd 15 88 Benoit Theetge 16 85 Peter Sachs 17 76 Bret Seafuse 18 76 Jim Seafuse 19 71 Reza Pourkhomami 20 71 Joe Danaher Sport Touring I Driver Standings Pos TotalPoints Driver 1 150 Beau Buisson 2 147 Jean-Francois Dumoulin 3 131 Ian James 4 131 Daniel Dror 5 129 Chuck Goldsborough 6 128 Tim Gaffney 7 127 Bob Endicott 8 127 Mike Van Sicklen 9 122 Ken Dobson 10 118 Bransen Patch 11 118 Don Salama 12 110 Jim Hamblin 13 110 Steve Pfeffer 14 96 Andy Lally 15 95 David Haskell 16 95 Stan Winokur 17 93 Mark Craig 18 91 Rick Ellinger 19 90 Mike Keravich III 20 83 Jason Piscelli Sport Touring II Driver Standings Pos TotalPoints Driver 1 159 Wayne Nonnamaker 2 159 Will Nonnamaker 3 156 Bob Beede 4 141 Scooter Gabel 5 139 Tony Nuzzo 6 128 Bill Fenton 7 112 Jonathan Lowman 8 100 Dennis Baglier 9 94 Jim Harrell 10 91 Charles Espenlaub 11 84 Rod Riley 12 81 Don Velcio 13 76 Marty Luffy 14 75 Steven Lisa 15 72 Mark Underwood 16 58 Frank DelVecchio 17 58 John Wymore 18 55 Scott Turner 19 52 Dean Martin 20 45 Bill Pate