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StrategicAir, Merchant Services LTD
Join Alegra Motorsports
As Primary Sponsors
 
MIAMI,  Jan. 8 - Alegra Motorsports is pleased to announce that two new 
primary sponsors have joined its Grand-Am Rolex Series endurance sports car team:  
StrategicAir, a worldwide private air charter company, and Merchant Services 
LTD, which provides payment processing solutions for merchants around the world.
 
The new marketing partnership will kick off at the most prestigious endurance 
sports car race in North America, the Rolex 24 at Daytona International 
Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. on Jan. 24-25.  
 
Alegra Motorsports won this event's GT class in 2007.  This year it is 
fielding a Riley BMW Daytona Prototype, No. 22.
 
At the Rolex 24 the car will be driven by team owner Carlos de Quesada of 
Coral Gables, Fla.; Scotland's Ryan Dalziel of Orlando, Fla.; Chapman Ducote of 
Miami Beach, Fla.; Jean-Francois Dumoulin of Trois-Rivieres, Quebec; and the 
Czech Republic's Tomas Enge of Monte Carlo.  It will be driven by Dalziel, de 
Quesada and Ducote for the subsequent shorter events in the 12-race season. 
 
"We're thrilled to welcome StrategicAir and Merchant Services LTD to our 
team," said de Quesada.  "Both are excellent companies, and they're a perfect fit 
for our fans' demographics.  StrategicAir owns and manages over 10 aircraft 
with a goal of 25 for 2009, and it has access to over 5,500 corporate and 
private aircraft with only four hours prior notice. Its clients experience all the 
benefits of aircraft ownership without the monthly maintenance fees or 
acquisition costs. Merchant Services LTD is one of the nation's largest merchant 
processors, with several thousand customers around the globe."
 
"We are delighted to enter into such a significant sponsorship with Alegra 
Motorsports,  which like StrategicAir believes in the pursuit of perfection and 
total customer satisfaction," said Keith St. Clair, president and chief 
executive officer of StrategicAir.  "Winning associations build winning teams.  We 
feel the demographics of the series are absolutely perfect for our company, and 
are eager to deploy our marketing efforts within the motorsports community."
 
With speeds approaching 200 miles per hour, Enge topped the charts during the 
last session of Rolex 24 testing at Daytona on Monday with a lap of  1:41.916 
for the nine-turn, 3.56-mile road course. 
 
Dumoulin and de Quesada were part of the winning GT effort in 2007.  Dalziel, 
a former Champ Car World Series driver and Toyota Atlantic star, finished 
second overall in this event in 2007, and he won a Rolex Series race at Mazda 
Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas, Calif., last May.  Enge will be looking for his 
first Rolex 24 victory but he won the GTS class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 
2003 and finished second in GT1 in that race in 2006.  He's also well known for 
his American Le Mans Series, IndyCar Series and Formula 1 accomplishments.
 
The two new primary sponsors join two long-time supporters of the team: 
Gatorade and TodayMD.
 
The Rolex 24 is scheduled to be televised live Saturday, Jan. 24 beginning at 
3 p.m. EST on FOX.  The coverage then switches to SPEED from 4:30 p.m. until 
10 p.m. SPEED will rejoin the action at 7 a.m. on Sunday morning, with 
post-race interviews concluding at 4 p.m.
 
Live timing and scoring is planned for grand-am.com.  The team, which was 
founded in 1996, has a Web site at alegramotorsports.com. Additional information 
can be found at merchantservicesltd.com, strategicair.com and limitlesssky.com.