Craig Stanton Looks To Extend Florida Hot Streak

Craig Stanton Looks To Extend Florida Hot Streak
 
HOMESTEAD, FLA., March 27, 2004 - Long Beach, California's Craig Stanton
returns to Florida this weekend for Sunday's Grand-Am Cup 250 on a
career hot streak. The west coast driver seems to have found a special
fondness for the east coast this year. Since the opening race of the
2004 season, Stanton has run four events in Florida taking his first
career Grand-Am Cup victory, the Daytona 250 at Daytona International
Speedway (DIS), driving with Terry Borcheller. Following the Grand-Am
Cup win, he took a top-ten in SGS class in the Rolex 24 at Daytona with
David Murry and Tim Sugden. He then traveled south to Homestead-Miami
Speedway (HMS) in late February to take the SGS class win in the Grand
American Rolex Sports Car Series driving the AASCO Motorsports Porsche
911 GT3 Cup entry with Murry. Murry and Stanton then turned north again
to take a podium finish racing the Petersen Motorsports/ White Lightning
Racing Porsche 911 GT3 RS in the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. 
 
Stanton will again join Borcheller, of Gainesville, Ga., this weekend
piloting the Grand Sport (GS) class points leading No. 44
TheRaceSite.com Racing Porsche 996. The Miami 250 is a three-hour or 250
mile race around the 2.3 mile, 11-turn HMS facility to be held at 12:30
pm (PST) on Sunday, March 30. The race will mark Stanton's last in
Florida until the Rolex Series returns to HMS in September. 
 
Craig Stanton: "I'm looking forward to getting back in TheRaceSite.com
Porsche with Terry and the Nonnamakers. They have done a few upgrades to
the equipment. This team is going to be pretty seamless. The Nonnamakers
are serious about this year and Terry and I are too. So we are going to
go into Homestead and drive as hard as we can. We have some tough
competition in the Grand-Am Cup from the other Porsches but also from
the new Cadillac and the BMWs. We worked hard for the win in Daytona and
all the rest will be even tougher to get."
 
Since moving from moto-cross/super-cross to automobiles in 1986, Stanton
has positioned himself as one of the premier drivers in sports car
racing. A desire to win in all kinds of machines has led to drives in
closed and open cockpit sports cars, sedans, NASCAR stock cars, open
wheel formula cars and midgets and in off-road competition. He has won
three championships and a Driver of the Year award in Sports Renault and
is the 1997 Speedvision Cup Rising Star Award winner. Stanton began
competing in the top echelon of sports car racing in 1999 and has class
wins in both the Grand-Am and ALMS. He takes his fitness training very
seriously with the goal of being the fittest race driver in the world
and has competed in 27 triathlons in his career. For more on Craig
Stanton please visit www.craigstanton.com. For more on TheRaceSite.com
Racing team, please visit www.theracesiteracing.com. For more on AASCO
Motorsports' Rolex Series effort, please visit www.aascomotorsports.com
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Contact: Tom Moore, Craig Stanton Motor Racing: 615-599-7034 (office),
404-229-3703 (cell), tom@darkhorsecom.com