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SPA, Belgium, May 11 - After finishing third in class at Monza, Italy 14 days
ago, Horag Racing placed a strong second in the LMP2 class Sunday in the
1,000 Kilometers of Spa Le Mans Series race at the Circuit de Spa Francorchamps.
The Lista Office and Lista, Making Workspace Work Porsche RS Spyder No. 27 led the class for more than two hours of the race, which ended after 5:17:48 had elapsed and the overall winning Peugeot had circled the 7.003-km, 15-turn road course 143 times.
Horag Racing's No. 27 finished on the same lap as the class winner, another Porsche RS Spyder fielded by Van Merksteijn Motorsport, as both completed 138 laps. What's more, the Horag team was only 10.387 seconds behind the class winner at the end.
Team Essex made it a Porsche RS Spyder class sweep. It was three laps behind the Horag No. 27 at the checkered.
In its first four races, the brand-new Horag Porsche RS Spyder has been on the podium twice, in the top five three times, and never worst than sixth in class.
For the bulk of Sunday's race the LMP2 class battle was between the Van Merksteijn Porsche, the Horag Porsche and the Speedy Racing Team Lola Judd. The latter had difficulties around the 114-lap mark, opening the door for Team Essex to move up. There were 15 cars in the LMP2 class out of the 46 overall entries. "Read more"»
BRASELTON, Ga., May 10 - Two Van Diemens prepared by Andersen Racing took
the checkered in first and second place, another one was fifth and yet another
one finished ninth in Saturday's F2000 Championship Series race at Road Atlanta
Motorsports Park.
Anders Krohn (right in photo) posted a 2.643-second victory over Peter Dempsey (left in photo) to lead the way for the Palmetto, Fla.-based team in the 33-car, 18-lap race around the 2.540-mile road course. Doug Prendeville came on strong at the end to finish fifth, while Jonny Baker placed ninth. A fifth Andersen Racing driver, Scott Willard, took fifth in the master's class with a 16th-place finish overall.
Krohn, a 20-year-old rookie from Sandnes, Norway, started second, took the lead from the polesitter, Jordan Taylor, in Turn 6 on lap one, and was never again headed.
Krohn's lead was wiped out by a full-course caution on lap 11 for contact between Brendan Puderbach and Kyle Marcelli in Turn 7. Krohn said the yellow was actually a blessing because it allowed the Hoosier tires to cool on his Van Diemen, which is sponsored by Trallfa Industries, Colosseum Dental and Kruse Smith. "Read more"»
BRASELTON, Ga., May 9 - Anders Krohn qualified second and finished second to
lead the way for Andersen Racing in Friday's F2000 Championship Series race
presented by Hoosier Racing Tire at Road Atlanta Motorsports Park.
Polesitter Jordan Taylor got a jump at the start and Krohn spent the rest of the 18-lap race trying to catch him. There were no full-course yellows to help the cause of the driver from Sandnes, Norway, and Taylor had a 4.944-second advantage over Krohn's Van Diemen at the end. Krohn's No. 9 is sponsored by Trallfa Industries, Colosseum Dental and Kruse Smith.
Doug Prendeville of Whippany, N.J. had an excellent start, moving up from tenth to eighth in the No. 5 Van Diemen sponsored by Andersen Racing, Allied Interior Products and Restart Communications. He got as high as seventh on lap two and fell back to ninth at one point, but battled back for eighth by lap 13 to finish in that spot.
Scott Willard of Weston, Conn., advanced the most positions of the Andersen Racing drivers. He started 18th with the BroadReach Partners No. 14 and finished 13th."Read more"»
Other Releases . . .
INDIANAPOLIS, May 4 - As the Indianapolis Motor Speedway opens its gates to start its traditional month of May activities, Andersen Racing is leading the point standings in two of the three support series in which it competes, and it has drivers in second- and third-place in the other one.
The Palmetto, Fla.-based team, which is sponsored by Allied Building Products Corp., strives to offer the best training future Indy 500 drivers can obtain anywhere.
Led by brothers Dan and John Andersen, the team fields cars for 11 different drivers. It is the development team for IndyCar's Rahal Letterman Racing. Graham Rahal was one of Andersen Racing's Star Mazda drivers in 2005.
John Andersen manages RLR/Andersen Racing's two-car Firestone Indy Lights team. The driver of one of those cars, J.R. Hildebrand, a native of Sausalito, Fla., is the Firestone Indy Lights point leader heading into the Freedom 100 at IMS on Friday, May 23 with RLR/Andersen Racing's Allied Building Products No. 25. A rookie in the series, he is the only Firestone Indy Lights driver to finish in the top 10 in every race so far this year. He won the series' most recent event at Kansas Speedway on April 27, which was only his second oval-track race ever. "Read more"»
INDIANAPOLIS, May 3 - Whether it's on four Firestone Firehawks or his own two feet, so far RLR/Andersen Racing's J.R. Hildebrand is mighty fast at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Hildebrand, a rookie in the Firestone Indy Lights series and its current point leader, finished the 13.1-mile OneAmerica 500 Festival Mini-Marathon in just 1 hour, 33 minutes and 36 seconds on Saturday. He placed 834th out of more than 35,000 entrants, averaging 7:09 minutes per mile.
The Mini's 13.1-mile course includes the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where Hildebrand will drive RLR/Andersen Racing's Allied Building Products No. 25 in the Freedom 100 on Friday, May 23. He was second fastest in a series test there on April 11, which was the first time he drove at the Brickyard.
"I ran a sub-7-minute mile for the first five miles to get into the clear, and then slowed a bit until the end," the 20-year-old native of Sausalito, Calif., said after completing the Mini on Saturday.
He said his only specific training for the event was a 1-hour run on Tuesday. He credited his performance to the overall condition he maintains for auto racing through his regular training program directed by PitFit's Jim Leo. "Read more"»
