Terry Borcheller - Homestead race

Miami challenge

Terry Borcheller and Bell Motorsports had a difficult weekend at 
Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla., but recovered to post a solid race result. 
Borcheller, of Gainesville, Ga., and Forest Barber of Fort Worth, Tex., were 
hoping to repeat their win in the Rolex Sports Car Series season opener, the 
Rolex 24 at Daytona, but mechanical gremlins interfered.

Barber qualified the No. 54 Doran-Pontiac 14th on the 42-car grid with a time 
of one minute 16.470 seconds on the 2.3-mile infield road course. He started 
the race ready to charge, but was spun on the first lap by another car. The 
team's woes continued as the car lost its brake lights, resulting in a lengthy 
repair that cost a lap. Barber charged back to 12th in the Daytona Prototype 
class before Borcheller took over after 54 minutes of the two-hour 33-minute 
race. He regained the lost lap and moved up to finish sixth.

"For the weekend we had, I'm real happy to end up with what we did," 
Borcheller said. "We had some small handling deficiencies in the past, but it took big 
setup changes to correct them. We also had some mechanical and electrical 
issues the first two days, so Forest had barely been in the car before qualifying 
and we had done almost no work on our new setup. Consequently, we were 'way 
behind.

"Our race started like the weekend, when Forest was hit on the first lap and 
then our brake lights quit working. But we came back for a good finish."

see it again

The Rolex Sports Car Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway will be telecast 
on Speed Channel on Saturday, March 7 at 4 pm ET.

next

Borcheller's next race will be the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring at Sebring 
(Fla.) International Raceway on March 20. He'll drive the No. 63 ACEMCO 
Motorsports Saleen S7R in the race, first of the season in the American Le Mans 
Series.

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Sylvia Proudfoot
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