Miller Barrett Racing - Watkins Glen qualifying

Miller Barrett Racing will start the six-hour GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car
Series race at Watkins Glen International from seventh on the GT class grid.
Bryce Miller of Summit, N.J., qualified the No. 48 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car
in one minute 51.316 seconds on the 3.4-mile road course in Watkins Glen,
N.Y.  His average lap speed was 109.957 mph.

 

Miller will drive the first stint in the six-hour race on Saturday, then
alternate with Luke Hines of Essex, England. The pair competed in two
previous Rolex Series races this season, the Rolex 24 At Daytona and a
series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. They race with the support of
Marquis Jet, Grand Prix Racewear, IPC Information Systems and TOTAL
Lubricants.

 

"We're pretty excited to be back and racing at The Glen. This is one of our
home tracks," Miller said. "It's good to come here and the Porsche has shown
strong here. Considering we've been away for a little while, I'm pretty
pleased with how the team has been able to close the gap just in the short
timeframe that we have. Over the course of this one practice day that we're
allotted, we've closed a couple of seconds. So we're still improving;
there's still more to come."

 

Hines is in his first season of racing in North America, so every track
presents a new learning curve.

 

"It's not easy coming to a track the first time and this year has always
been learning the track and jumping into different cars," he acknowledged.
"This is a great track and I've really enjoyed my testing time at Watkins
Glen. I'm getting quicker every lap - my last stint I was going a
half-second quicker, half-second quicker. That was on old tires and we have
another couple of practice sessions, so I'll find the time."

 

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The six-hour GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series race is scheduled for
Saturday, June 5, starting at 2 pm ET, on the 3.4-mile Watkins Glen
International road course in Watkins Glen, N.Y. The race will be telecast
live on SPEED from 2 pm to 4 pm and from 6 pm to 8:30 pm ET. Live
timing/scoring is available at grand-am.com.

 

partners

 

Bryce Miller and Luke Hines compete with the support of four 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. Grand Prix Racewear is a
respected supplier of motorsport protective clothing and driver accessories,
based at Silverstone Circuit in England. The company offers worldwide
delivery of 15,000 product lines. 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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