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| Curran & Whelen/Marsh Corvette ready for 'Home Track' in Lime Rock's Rolex GT race |
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 May 28, 2010 Lakeville, CT Thirteen-time GRAND-AM Road Racing series event winner Eric Curran, is now paired with Brandon Davis. Curran and Davis hope the familiar confines of the Lime Rock Park and Watkins Glen International race circuits will help them earn anticipated success by the Whelen Motorsports/Marsh Racing Chevrolet Corvette in the GT category of the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series, presented by Crown Royal Cask No.16. First up is a 2 ¾-hour Rolex series race Monday, May 31 in the 1.5-mile Lime Rock Park circuit outside of Lakeville, in western Connecticut, followed a week later by a six-hour race on Saturday, June 5 at Watkins Glen International, near Watkins Glen, N.Y. Both races will be televised live on SPED TV. "Our results in the first two Rolex series races of our season were disappointing," said Curran. "This is a new program with a new car, and we knew there would be some sorting with the car to keep up with the serious competition. "We anticipated having to learn a number of things about this Corvette configuration. It may look the same as the Whelen Corvettes fans have been used to, but it is very different in GRAND-AM specs." It has been three weeks since the team's last race. "Teddy Marsh and his crew have been testing and working hard to make sure we have a good showing at Lime Rock, where I've won two GRAND-AM Continental Challenge Sports Car Series races in a Chevrolet Cobalt, and countless SCCA Club Racing events," Curran added.  "It helps that the Whelen Engineering and Marsh Racing's shop is just down Rt. 7 from Lime Rock, in Cheshire, Conn."Team owner Sonny Whelen, who drove with Eric in the new car's first two races, will work his personnel inspiration magic from the sidelines at both Lime Rock and Watkins Glen. He will be replaced by 24-year old Brandon Davis, both a former teammate of Eric's and a competitor in the SCCA World Challenge sprint series.  "Brandon was just a freshman at the University of Denver when, in 2006, we had the closest finish in the history of the series - :00.005 sec. -- at a street race in Denver. He knows I backed off just to let him win a race in front his college buddies, but we never remind him of that," Curran laughed."We shared a car in a 25-hour race in California in 2008, but this will be our first time as teammates in a regular series event," said Curran. "I'm excited to have Brandon on the team for these two races." In an effort to reduce competitor expenses, the featured Rolex race portion of the Lime Rock race weekend will be 100% conducted in one day - Monday, May 31. The 2 ¾ hour race starts at 2pm on a 1.5-mie configuration of the famed road course, compared to a 1.53-mile configuration used by GRAND-AM's Continental series cars on Friday and Saturday. |