Miller Barrett Racing - Watkins Glen qualifying

Miller Barrett Racing will start its first Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series
race - at Watkins Glen International - from the top half of the GT class
grid. Kevin Roush of Upland, Calif., will drive the first stint of the
two-hour race on Friday evening and Bryce Miller of Summit, N.J., will
finish the race.

 

Roush qualified the No. 48 Marquis Jet / IPC / Total Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car
on the historic 2.45-mile road course in Watkins Glen, N.Y., in one minute
13.286 seconds at an average speed of 120.35 mph. He was slowed by traffic
on course, so he believes the car has more speed for race day.

 

"The car got better each and every session. That's what's important," he
said. "The team did a great job and the car was good. We just started a
little farther away than probably ideal, but we got faster every session and
I think we're going to get better yet. Every change we've made to the car,
Bryce and I both said, 'Great, great,  great!' I think we're going to race a
lot better than we qualified."

 

Miller agreed: "Everything has gone fairly well for our first rollout of the
car. The team is feeling pretty confident because we know the speed of the
car is more than what was reflected in qualifying. That's a great
morale-booster for the crew and for the drivers. So far, the reliability in
the car has been perfect. We've made some really dramatic improvements with
the platform and the race setup, so it's all positive, forward movement."

 

The two-hour Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series race is set for 6:30 pm Friday
on the 2.45-mile Watkins Glen International Raceway road course in Watkins
Glen, N.Y.

 

partners

 

Bryce Miller races with the support of three international sponsors. Marquis
Jet is the recognized leader in private jet cards because it's the only
program that offers exclusive access to NetJets - the gold standard in
private aviation - 25 hours at a time. IPC Information Systems is a leading
provider of mission-critical communications solutions to financial services
firms. Total Lubricants is the world's fourth-largest publicly traded
integrated international oil and gas company.

 

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Sylvia Proudfoot

sylvia@spurcom.ca

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