TRG - Fontana practice

Fontana times

 

TRG driver Andy Lally posted the fourth-fastest GT time in Friday practice
for the Rolex Sports Car Series race at California Speedway. Lally was quick
early in the day, lapping the 2.88-mile infield road course in one minute
43.297 seconds in the No. 65 Auto Gallery/TRG Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car. He
and his co-driver Marc Bunting lead the Rolex Sports Car Series GT
championship standings after two of 14 races.

  

school days

 

Teenagers Colin Braun and Brad Coleman, who drive the No. 64 Team16 Porsche,
have learned to effectively combine school and racing. Brad Coleman attends
private school in Martinsville, Va., where the teachers support his race
program. "My school understands my unique situation and works with me and my
scheduling," he said. "They give me my work before I leave on a race trip so
I don't fall behind when I go to the races, and when I get back, they help
me catch up."

 

Colin Braun and his brother Travis, Team16's data engineer, are
home-schooled by their mother Diane. "My mom will select the curriculum and
then she will assign what we are to do for the day. Then we read our books
and do the work and my mom comes back and grades our work," Braun explained.
"If we are really working good and doing our school quickly, it can take as
little as three hours. If things are hard, it may take six hours."

 

hot prep

 

Marc Bunting has discovered the magic of yoga, but his chosen discipline
isn't for the faint of heart. He practices Bikram yoga, also called hot yoga
– for good reason.

 

"It's a pretty good correlation to race cars," he said. "The type I do is an
hour and a half, it's 104 degrees, so you're stretching as well as focusing
and concentrating for the equivalent amount of time we're driving a race
car. My younger brother owns a studio in Montana and he's a big proponent of
it. He guaranteed to take tenths off my lap times! If nothing else, it helps
mentally. You don't have to be big and bulky to be quick in a race car, you
want to be flexible and able to withstand the heat."

  

track bonus

 

Colin Braun will get extra track time at Fontana. In addition to his Rolex
Series duties, he will compete in his first Grand-Am Cup race, driving the
No. 03 BGB Motorsports Porsche 996.