Car owner Chip Ganassi sided with Hand in the incident: ”I feel bad,” Ganassi said. If “I was the #23 driver, I'd be pretty mad. I think it was uncalled for. I saw that move last year in the Busch race (when Pruett was bumped out of the lead by Juan Pablo Montoya), and Pruett was on the other end of that. I think it was a low-percentage move.”
From that point, clean passes were the order of the day for the remainder of the event.
Pruett needed four laps before taking second from Gidley, with Marc Goossens following him to take third in the #91 Riley Matthews Pontiac Riley. Pruett then took the lead from Law on lap 59, with Goossens taking second from Law two laps later, with Ricardo Zonta then taking third in the #76 Krohn Racing Pontiac Lola started by Nic Jonsson.
Goossens took the lead on lap 72 by going around Pruett on the outside in Turn 1, and held on to lead the rest of the way.
Jeff Segal took the early GT lead in the #69 FXDD Mazda RX-8, but was passed in the opening laps by pole winner Pierre Kaffer in the #87 Farnbacher Loles Porsche GT3. After the driver changes on lap 23, Paul Edwards gained the lead after taking over from Kelly Collins in the #07 Banner Engineering Pontiac GXP.R. Robin Liddell then worked his way into the lead in the #57 Stevenson Motorsports Pontiac GXP.R, followed by the #06 Banner Engineering Pontiac GXP.R of Ron Fellows and Dirk Werner in the #87 Porsche. Fellows lost the position when he pitted for fuel.
Pruett and Rojas remain the
Daytona Prototype point leaders, wtih Goossens and Mathews 16 points back and Gurney and Fogarty one point behind Saturday's winners.
In GT, Edwards and Collins took over a 10-point lead.
The next action for the Grand-Am Rolex Series will be next Sunday, April 28, with a 400-kilometre race at Virginia International Raceway.
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