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Monday, 7th January 2008

ALMS regular adapts quickly to new Daytona Protoype mount.

Sylvain Tremblay turned the GT class' fastest lap on Sunday in the #70 SpeedSource Mazdaspeed Mazda RX-8, lapping the twelve-turn layout in 1min 51.462secs.

“We had a pretty good gameplan coming in,” team boss Tremblay said, “We stuck to that gameplan, but luckily all of the Mazdas went fast – not just us. I'm just really proud of the effort put forth by the entire SpeedSource MazdaSpeed team.”

Tremblay also said the SpeedSource machines will have a distinct, new look for the Rolex 24.

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“We have a pretty significant press announcement at the Detroit International Auto Show next Monday that will announce our new partner in the Grand-Am Rolex Series with Mazda," he revealed, “It's a big-time sponsor, and we're really proud of what it will mean to us and how our cars will look.”

Seventeen-year old Robert Thorne was among those 'other' fast Mazda RX-8 machines, posting the fastest GT time of the weekend on Saturday afternoon, after taking advantage of the draft on Daytona's banking and a lightning-fast trip through the infield section to post a lap of 1min 50.617secs. Thorne's time was more than half a second quicker than the 1min 51.139secs effort posted by the #15 Blackforest Motorsports Ford Mustang Cobra GT in Saturday's night session.

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