Corvette Drivers Ron Fellows and Randy Ruhlman to Start Fourth and Sixth as Qualifying is Rained Out at Trois-Rivieres Trans-Am

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Corvette Drivers Ron Fellows and Randy Ruhlman to Start Fourth and Sixth as
Qualifying is Rained Out at Trois-Rivieres Trans-Am

 

Greensboro, NC (July 30, 2004)  -- Top Corvette teammates Ron Fellows and
Randy Ruhlman will be starting directly behind each other in tomorrowıs
100-mile Motorock Trans-Am Series race at Trois-Rivieres in fourth and sixth
position. Qualifying was cancelled and both of todayıs on track sessions
changed to practice sessions, as heavy rains pounded the tight temporary
street course at Trois-Rivieres.  The starting order was determined from
combined times from yesterdayıs practice sessions.

 

Two weekıs ago, Randy Ruhlman and Ron Fellows finished second and third at
Toronto and the two Corvette drivers look to surpass that double podium
finish with a first and second at Trois Rivieres. Randy Ruhlman is currently
third in the Driversı Championship points race and the top Corvette driver
in the Trans-Am Series.  Ruhlman is going into the Trois-Rivieres Trans-Am
race with an impressive string of top finishes, having scored a second place
finish in Toronto, a fourth at Cleveland, and another podium, a third, at
Infineon Raceway. The second at Toronto by Ruhlman gave Corvette its highest
finish thus far in the 2004 Trans-Am Series season.

 

Randy Ruhlman is also returning this weekend to defend his repeat Trois
Rivieres podium finishes.  Ruhlman finished second at Trois Rivieres in 2002
and third in last yearıs Trans-Am race driving the blue and white #49
Preformed Line Products Canada/Coyote Closure Corvette.

 

 Ruhlman is joined on the Derhaag Motorsports team for the second time this
year by top Corvette factory driver and Canadian Ron Fellows. Fellows
rejoins Ruhlman for a second two-car Corvette assault on the Jaguars on the
very fast, tight street course. Fellows is a two time winner at Trois
Rivieres (1995 and 1996), and Ruhlman was part of the one-two Corvette
finish at Trois Rivieres in 2002 with his teammate at Tom Gloy Racing, Butch
Leitzinger. 

 

The 66 lap, 100.32 mile Motorock Trans-Am race will be run on Sunday, August
1st at 3:45PM EDT.  The track is a 1.52-mile, nine turn temporary street
course located in the town of Trois Rivieres, about an hour east of
Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

 

Le Grand Prix du Trois-Rivieres will be Ruhlmanıs 143rd start in Trans-Am.
Ruhlman is currently third in the Driversı Championship points after Round
Five of the Motorock Trans-Am Series at Toronto. Ruhlman is just sixteen
points behind leader Paul Gentilozzi and fourteen points from Diaz in
second. A win in Trans-Am is worth 30 points, second 27, third 25, fourth
23, fifth 21, and down by one point from there.  A bonus point is available
for leading a lap, winning the qualifying pole and for leading the most laps
in a race.

 

         Randy Ruhlman finished sixth overall in 2003 in the Driversı
Championship in a Derhaag Motorsports Corvette. He was seventh overall in
2002 while driving for Tom Gloy Racing, with a second (and a 3rd in 2003) at
Trois Rivieres and third at Miami.  Ruhlman was awarded the 2002 BBS Wheels
"Most Improved Driver of the Year".  Randy Ruhlman is fifth overall in Top
Ten finishes in Trans-Am history.

 

         Ruhlman's Chevrolet Corvette is fielded this year by the
Minneapolis-based, Derhaag Motorsports, led by former Trans-Am driver Jim
Derhaag.  Jim Derhaag himself made 150 starts as a driver in the Trans-Am
Series before his successful move to full time ownership in 1998.  The team
has fielded many successful drivers, including top Trans-Am drivers Justin
Bell, Kenny Wilden, Tony Ave, Dorsey Schroeder, and Darin Brassfield.

 

         Preformed Line Products (PLP) is an international manufacturer and
supplier of hardware and support systems for the communications and energy
industries.  Products include the COYOTE Closure and GUY-GRIP Dead-End used
in the telecommunications, cable and energy industries.  Manufacturing
facilities are located worldwide in the USA, Canada, China, Brazil, Mexico,
England, Spain, South Africa, Australia and Japan.

 

 

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