Terry Borcheller - Homestead preview

champion at home

Terry Borcheller has a lot to offer his hometown crowd this week. Although he 
collects his mail in Gainesville, Ga., he still considers Hialeah, Fla. (near 
Miami) home. He returns this week carrying the 2003 Rolex Sports Car Series 
DP driver title - his sixth professional race championship in as many years - 
and a dozen wins in the last 10 months.

Borcheller will drive the No. 54 Bell Motorsports Doran-Pontiac in the Rolex 
Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla., on Saturday, Feb. 
28. He will again team with Forest Barber of Fort Worth, Tex., and Andy 
Pilgrim of Delray Beach, Fla. They are looking for their second victory of the early 
season, after winning the Rolex 24 at Daytona on Feb. 1.

"It should be fun having our first sprint race with this many cars [18] in 
the same class," Borcheller said. "I'm looking forward to that!"

Borcheller has five previous victories at Homestead including three wins in 
the Rolex Series, in the GTO class in 2000, GT in 2001 and SRPII in 2002.

banked speed

Borcheller believes a stable race car will be critical as the drivers adapt 
to faster conditions in the reconfigured banked section of the 2.3-mile 
Homestead circuit, which combines an infield road course and a banked oval track.

"Going into turn one should be faster because the banking is going to be 
flat-out now," he predicted. "It's going to be really important to have the car 
balanced under braking because you have a transition coming off the banking into 
the infield, and now it's going to be faster. Our car is very stable under 
braking. Jim [team owner Bell] does a great job balancing the car in every 
direction, so our car will be very good."

testing en route

Borcheller will stop at Sebring (Fla.) International Raceway en route to 
Homestead. He will spend two days testing the No. 63 ACEMCO Motorsports Saleen S7R 
in preparation for the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring endurance race in 
March.

details

The Rolex Sports Car Series race is set for Saturday, Feb. 28 from 3 pm to 
5:45 pm, on the 2.3-mile Homestead-Miami Speedway infield road course in 
Homestead, Fla. The race will air on Speed Channel on Sunday, March 7 at 4 pm. all 
times ET

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Sylvia Proudfoot
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