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Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Round 2 Homestead 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway
Long, Whitis Edge Out ST Victory In Homestead 200
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (March 6, 2010) - Tom Long led Lawson Aschenbach by 0.103 seconds in Saturday's Homestead 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway in the Street Tuner (ST) class, in a reversal of the top two cars from the class race last year at Homestead-Miami. Long was joined by Derek Whitis in the No. 25 Aventura Technologies/PFC Mazda MX-5.
Long took the victory on the last lap from Aschenbach, who was trying to give Compass360 Racing its second straight victory . Instead, it was Long, who battled tooth-and-nail with Compass360's No. 74 Skunk2/HPD Honda Civic Si a year ago, coming up with a pass on Aschenbach and his second victory in three races with Whitis, who started fourth.
Last season, Long finished 0.129 seconds behind the No. 74. "It was like deja vu, but this time, our Mazda came out on top," Long said. "The MX-5 handled well in the infield, and the parity in the class made for a great race."
Whitis also won with Long in last season's finale at Virginia International Raceway. He is a team owner of Freedom Autosport with Rhett O'Doski. "We fought the entire way, and it was a little nerve-wrecking in those final laps, waiting to see if the race would finish the same or different from last year," Whitis said. "Everything worked out though."
The GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge features sports cars manufactured from around the world, brought straight from the showroom floor, that race side by side with only minor modifications in the area of safety. The Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge races two classes at the same time: Grand Sport (GS) and Street Tuner (ST).
13.3.2010
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