Spirit of Daytona Racing Scores Another Top-10 at Daytona in Brumos Porsche 250
(DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.) 3 July 2008 – Spirit of Daytona Racing opened the 2008 Rolex Sports Car Series season with a run to tenth in the Daytona Prototype class in the Rolex 24 At Daytona, and showed improvement in Thursday night’s Brumos 250 to take the tenth overall position with drivers Guy Cosmo and Marc-Antoine Camirand, who came back from a disappointing qualifying to mark another chapter in the potent V8 Porsche-Coyote combinations race history.
It’s All About Daytona for Spirit of Daytona Racing at Home Track
(DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.) 2 July 2008 – Spirit of Daytona Racing opened the 2008 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season at the World Center of Racing with a strong run in the Rolex 24 At Daytona, making it through the night and to the checkered flag tenth in the Daytona Prototype class, netting the highest DP finish for a Porsche-powered machine in the grueling event.
Since inception, the mission of Spirit of Daytona has been to create a high profile and professional race car team and an automotive facility to assist the ultimate car enthusiast with their hot rod, street tuner or racecar. The team has recently announced a joint partnership between 2000 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Champion, Bobby Labonte for their Daytona Prototype Program in the Rolex Grand American Series.
Spirit of Daytona was founded in 1987 when Troy Flis and his brother began competing in club-racing events with their Volkswagen. Troy's love for turning cars into speeding, streamlined racing machines soon became a small business and after numerous wins on the club-racing circuit he turned professional in 1999 with the beginning of the Grand American Rolex Series. Spirit of Daytona has grown tremendously since Troy's club-racing days and now encompasses a Daytona Prototype effort, a fleet of three Pontiac GTOs which compete in the Grand-Am Cup Series, an 8,000 square foot preparation and race shop facility, a staff of eight full-time employees and five part-time employees.
