Terry Borcheller - Road America race

fast start

Terry Borcheller enjoyed a few days in a Ferrari during the American Le Mans 
Series race weekend at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis.  Borcheller, of 
Phoenix, and Shane Lewis of Jupiter, Fla., put the No. 63 ACEMCO Motorsports 
Ferrari 360 Modena GT through its paces on the 4.048-mile road course.

Borcheller qualified the ACEMCO Ferrari 10th in the GT class with a lap time 
of two minutes 12.811 seconds, more than a second faster than his best time in 
practice.

"I had a really good qualifying run," he said.  "The fastest the car had gone 
was a 14 [2:14.085].  I thought my qualifying lap would be a 14 or low 13, 
but I ended up popping off a 12.8!  I was really, really pleased."

tough timing

Borcheller drove the first 80 minutes of Sunday's two-hour 45-minute race, 
moving up from 10th to fifth in GT.  His low-fuel warning light came on at the 
start of the sole caution period during the race.  Because of the long track 
distance, he was able to complete only one more lap before refueling, forcing 
him to stop while the pits were closed.  Borcheller then had to wait for two 
more laps before the pits opened, allowing fueling and a driver change.

Lewis returned to the track 12th in class, two laps behind the class leader.  
He regained four positions during his stint, and the pair finished eighth - 
the highest Ferrari GT finish.

"We had a virtually perfect race," Borcheller said.  "Shane and everyone did 
a tremendous job, but the yellow [caution] just couldn't have come at a worse 
time.  We knew we couldn't do another lap, so we had to pit while the pits 
where closed and sit there until the pits were open.  I went in fifth and we came 
out 12th, two laps down.  It was just really bad timing."

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Borcheller will drive the No. 63 ACEMCO Ferrari in the American Le Mans 
Series race at Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, Calif., on Sept. 7.