Spirit of Daytona Racing Closes Rolex Season out on strong note at New Jersey
MILVILLE, NJ 31 August – Spirit of Daytona Racing had a strong return to Rolex Sports Car Series competition with the No. 09 Porsche V8-Coyote in the debut event at New Jersey Motorsports Park this weekend for the penultimate round of Rolex competition. Guy Cosmo and Marc Antoine Camirand shared the driving duties in the two hour and forty-five minute Supercar Life 250 sprint event as the duo showed the strong form of the Coyote-Porsche combination.
Seventh on the New Jersey grid for Spirit of Daytona
MILVILLE, NJ 30 August – Spirit of Daytona Racing’s return to Rolex Sports Car Series competition got off to a strong start on Saturday as Marc-Antoine Camirand qualified the Porsche V8-Coyote seventh on the grid with a fast lap time of 1:12.674-seconds. Camirand will start the two hour and forty-five minute race before turning the Coyote over to teammate Guy Cosmo to bring to the finish.
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.
