For more information: 
Linda Mansfield, Restart Communications
Tel.: (317) 201-0729
E-mail: LindaKMansfield@cs.com
Web site: restartcommunications.com
 
 
 
 
Miscellaneous Notes from the Rolex 24 Paddock
 
 
1. Jeff FitzGerald, the linebacker coach for the Cincinnati Bengals, is 
attending his first Rolex 24 this weekend as a guest of Wright Motorsports driver 
B.J. Zacharias. Zacharias was born and raised in Cincinnati and still lives 
there, close to Wright Motorsports' base of Batavia, Ohio, and he's a huge 
Bengals fan. FitzGerald said he's enjoying being at the Rolex 24, and is thrilled to 
be in the pits with the Wright Motorsports team.  He said a racing team and a 
football team share many similarities, and he's already right at home with 
the Wright Motorsports crew.
 
2. Driver Jean-Francois Dumoulin pointed out that there are many synergies 
occurring on the Miami-based Alegra Motorsports team.  Dumoulin, of 
Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, recruited his friend Martin Lampron to help the team this weekend. 
 Lampron owns the Carlito restaurant in Trois-Rivieres, a favorite spot for 
racers visiting that area.  Lampron has been put to work helping prepare food 
for the team, as well as helping with some of the car's graphics.  Several 
members of Fiorano Racing, which worked in conjunction with Alegra Motorsports for 
its 2007 Rolex 24 GT victory, are on board with Alegra this year too. A 
friend of Ryan Dalziel's, Daniel Martin, who is a gearbox specialist for Pacific 
Coast Motorsports in IndyCar, is also helping that team, and Andy Green, one of 
Dalziel's crew chiefs from Scotland who he also worked with at Pacific Coast 
Motorsports, is also on board as Alegra's crew chief.  Another IndyCar 
connection with the Alegra team is Andretti-Green Racing spotter Dave Reininger, who 
will help Alegra in that capacity this year too, as he did last year.  
 
3. Anyone looking for a local driver to cheer for or a racing love story need 
look no further than Alegra Motorsports' Ryan Dalziel, a native of Scotland 
who now calls Orlando, Fla. home. Dalziel is scheduled to marry a Floridian on 
April 10 in Orlando, Jessica Sapp.  She grew up in the Sebring area, and 
although her family went to the races there, they frowned on her attending because 
they didn't want her to get involved with a race car driver.  But what is 
destined to be occurred anyway, as she and Dalziel met in Orlando through mutual 
friends. Dalziel pursued her for about six weeks before she finally agreed to 
go on a date with him.  Their engagement was announced on SPEED's coverage of 
last year's Rolex Series race at Miller Motorsports Park, and now they're 
getting married this spring. Her first race was last year's Rolex 24. She attended 
several other Rolex Series races last year too.
 
4. Wright Motorsports driver Phillip Martien of Finksburg, Md., totally 
understands how racing can spice up any company's marketing plans.  He features a 
race car prominently on the Web site for his company, Phillips Way, and uses 
the slogan “Maryland's fast-track renovation specialist” for that business.  
Phillips Way specializes in providing construction and renovation work quickly 
and on time and on budget.  Two of its niches are healthcare and schools, 
neither of which can afford extended downtime for construction.  For more info, see 
phillipsway.com and also notice the big Phillips Way logo on the Wright 
Motorsports Porsche, No. 33.
 
5. In addition to starting the Rolex 24 in his StrategicAir Riley BMW No. 22 
Daytona Prototype, Alegra Motorsports owner/driver Carlos de Quesada will also 
drive another car he owns in the Rolex 24 Heritage Exhibition at 11 a.m. 
Saturday.  Vintage racing is a passion of de Quesada's, and he's very proud to be 
showcasing the Hawaiian Tropic Porsche 935 in that exhibition this weekend at 
Daytona. In addition to Le Mans and Sebring, it won the 1981 Rolex 24 with 
Bobby Rahal, Brian Redman and Bob Garretson behind the wheel.  De Quesada 
purchased the car in 2004, and Paul Willison did a complete restoration of it to get 
it into its current pristine condition.
 
6. Alegra Motorsports' new sponsor, StrategicAir, a worldwide private air 
charter company based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., scheduled five private flights to 
Daytona for this weekend's Rolex 24.  
 
Keith St. Clair, StrategicAir's president and chief executive officer, said 
the company is entertaining approximately 50 guests and customers at this race 
to cheer on the Alegra Motorsports Riley BMW No. 22 of Carlos de Quesada, Ryan 
Dalziel, Chapman Ducote, Jean-Francois Dumoulin and Tomas Enge.
 
St. Clair is also offering $10,000 in additional private charter air service 
with the purchase of a $100,000 StrategicAir travel card, called a SkyCard 
(see limitlessskycard.com), if the customers mention the Rolex 24.
 
What's more, he's also giving gifts to 50-60 selected Rolex Series team 
owners and drivers.  They're receiving free corporate ASSIST-CARDS (see 
assist-card.com) for 2009.  ASSIST-CARD is the largest travelers' assistance network in 
the world.
 
StrategicAir believes personal, walk-up aviation is the future of air travel. 
 It can control its executive and personal air customers' travel experiences 
from beginning to end without the customers incurring the expense of airplane 
ownership. 
 
For more information on StrategicAir, see strategicair.com.