Terry Borcheller - Mont-Tremblant race

Québec podium

Terry Borcheller was happy with his third-place finish in the Rolex Sports 
Car Series race at Le Circuit Mont-Tremblant (Qué.) on Sunday, after a tough 
six-hour race. Borcheller, of Gainesville, Ga., teamed with Andy Pilgrim of 
Delray Beach, Fla., to put the No. 54 Bell Motorsports Pontiac-powered Doran JE4 on 
the podium.

Borcheller qualified ninth on the 40-car grid with a time of one minute 
30.994 seconds on the 2.65-mile road course, after the team quickly repaired the 
car from an incident in the morning practice, when a wheel came off the car. 
Borcheller started the race and moved up to fourth during his first two-hour 
stint. Pilgrim then drove a double stint, but dropped back to eighth when he was 
hit by another prototype car on his first lap. Borcheller took over again at 
3h50 and drove the final two hours, moving up to finish third.

"To come out of the weekend with a third-place finish is just unbelievable 
for everybody involved with Bell Motorsports," Borcheller said. "From the 
beginning of the weekend, it seemed like we struggled the whole time and it just 
continued right into the race. Lo and behold, we got a podium, so it's pretty 
amazing for the team. 

"I had the front wheel come off twice, and thankfully it was under yellow 
both times. One time it came all the way off the car on the back straightaway and 
I drove back to the pits on three wheels. Tony Stewart did it, so ..." 
(referring to NASCAR star Stewart's similar three-wheel drive during the 
season-opening Rolex 24 at Daytona)

... and a win

Borcheller started the race weekend with a Grand-Am Cup win on May 22, his 
first race driving the No. 11 Powell Motorsport Cadillac CTS-V with Devon Powell 
of Port Perry, Ont. Powell started the three-hour race from third on the grid 
after qualifying in 1:48.108. He set a race-lap record of 1:47.970, moved to 
first place at 1h23 and held the lead until the end of his stint. Borcheller 
took over at 1h50, returning to the track in third place. He took the lead at 
2h23 and held it to the finish, giving Cadillac its first Grand-Am Cup victory.

"The team did a great job and Devon did an awesome opening stint," Borcheller 
said. "The race just came to us. The Cadillac has a lot of characteristics of 
the cars I've driven in the past. I've got a ton of seat time with 
street-stock tires and street-type cars. I attribute Bondurant [School of High 
Performance Driving] for my street-stock experience and my ability to get in just about 
anything and go fast."

Unfortunately, Borcheller did not receive first-place championship points for 
the win due to a technical infraction. A fuel-displacement block cracked and 
filled with fuel, taking the car's fuel capacity over the specified series 
limit. He is now second in series driver points with 108, behind his former 
co-driver Craig Stanton of Long Beach, Calif. (131).

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Borcheller will compete in Rolex Sports Car Series and Grand-Am Cup racing at 
Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, N.Y., June 18 to 20.

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Sylvia Proudfoot
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