One week after taking an improbable first victory in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series, AIM Autosport made victory number two look easy at Watkins Glen International as Brian Frisselle and Mark Wilkins made it back-to-back victories.
The pair led 78 of the 82 laps to win the Crown Royal 200, round twelve of the 2008 campaign, ahead of defending champions Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty. Having secured victory in Montreal last week in the closest finish in series history, the win this time around was by a more ‘comfortable' margin of just under two second.
“It was a tough race and was mentally very fatiguing,” Frisselle said. “We didn't know what the elements were going to throw at us, because the track was constantly changing. Overall, it was a great result. Mark drove the wheels off the car at the end, and I did my best at the beginning.”
Gurney and Fogarty's second place finish in the #99 GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing Pontiac Riley cut the championship lead of Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas to 49 points with three races remaining. The six-time race winning #01 TELMEX Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates Lexus Riley was never a factor in the race, taking 13th – two laps down – for the team's worst finish of the season after scoring eight podium finishes in ten races. Darren Law and David Donohue finished third in the #58 Brumos Racing Porsche Riley, followed by Joey Hand and Bill Auberlen in the #23 Ruby Tuesday Porsche Riley and the #76 Krohn Racing Pontiac Lola of Ricardo Zonta and Nic Jonsson.
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