For more information:
Linda Mansfield, Restart Communications
Cell: (317) 201-0729
E-mail: LindaKMansfield@cs.com




Gleason and Hand Are Victorious
At Lime Rock Park on Memorial Day

LAKEVILLE, Conn., May 25 - Memorial Day 2009 was certainly memorable for
Chris Gleason and Joey Hand.

Gleason, of Johnstown, Pa., and Hand, of Sacramento, Calif., spent the
holiday winning the KONI Challenge GS race at Lime Rock Park Monday afternoon in
their Turner Motorsport BMW M3 Coupe No. 97. Their car is sponsored in
part by Gleason Financial.

It was the third victory for Gleason in as many races at this demanding
road course.

Hand took the checkered flag 4.735 seconds ahead of runner-up Andy Lally,
who shares a Porsche with John Potter.

A sister car to Gleason and Hand's, the Turner Motorsport BMW M3 No. 96
driven by Bill Auberlen and Matt Bell, took the final spot on the podium after
135 laps of competition on the challenging, 1.530-mile, seven-turn road
course.

Gleason qualified ninth with a lap in 57.944 (95.057 miles per hour), which
was just 0.773 of a second off the pole. He passed Charles Putman's
Automatic Racing BMW M3 on the first lap for eighth, and then settled into a rhythm
running between Jack Roush Jr. and Bret Seafuse.

He moved up to seventh on lap five and ran in that spot until lap eight
when Seafuse passed him. He regained seventh place on lap 13, right after he
set the fastest lap of his stint on lap 12 with a 58.408-seconds lap (94.302
mph). At that point Peter Ludwig suffered an apparent left-front brake
failure and hit a guardrail off Turn 1, bringing out the first full-course
caution.

On the restart on lap 19 Gleason continued to set his sights on Seafuse,
while behind him Nick Igdalsky passed Putman. Both Seafuse and Igdalsky were
in Ford Mustang GTs.

Gleason nabbed sixth place on lap 24 right before the second full-course
yellow flew on lap 27 when Bryan Sellers' Porsche experienced an apparent
electrical failure and went off course in Turn 4. At that point the leaders
pitted and Gleason did too, diving into the pits on lap 29 for service and for
Hand to take over with a car that was still in excellent shape.

The entry fell from sixth to 11th due to the pit stop, but Hand quickly got
to work. He was back in the top 10 by lap 32 and in the top five by lap 46,
right before Spencer Pumpelly hit a tire wall in Turn 7 on lap 47 to bring
out a third full-course caution. A few other top cars pitted at that point
and Hand vaulted into second place, trailing only Bell in his sister car.

The two Turner Motorsport cars showed the way in that order from lap 48
until lap 60, when Hand passed Bell for the lead. Lally got second from Bell on
lap 72 and then took the lead on lap 73 when Hand pitted for fuel under
another full-course caution, falling back to ninth in the process. That
caution was necessary after the JBS Motorsports Mustang plowed into a tire wall
off Turn 2.

On the restart on lap 79 Hand was still in ninth place, about 2.307 seconds
behind the leader, Lally. He averaged one car each lap as he climbed back
into the top five, achieving that on lap 83 by powering around Bryan Ortiz.
He got fourth by overtaking Ken Wilden on lap 87, and third on the next lap
by passing Charles Espenlaub.

The driver in second at that point, Hugh Plumb, proved to be more difficult
but Hand got by him on lap 92. The leader, Lally, was 2.242 seconds ahead
of him then. Hand methodically cut that advantage down until he passed Lally
on lap 112.

Auberlen moved into third by passing Espenlaub around the same time, but
none of them had anything for Hand, who set the fastest lap of the two and
one-half hour race on lap 117 with a time of 56.990 seconds (96.648 mph) before
taking the checkered on lap 135.

Lally led the most laps (39) followed by Hand (37), Duncan Ende (27), Dean
Martin (20) and Bell (12).

After not finishing the last race May 15-16 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in
Monterey, Calif. due to a rare mechanical problem, Monday's victory greatly
boosts Gleason and Hand's championship hopes.

The next race is coming right up on the long course at Watkins Glen
International in Watkins Glen, N.Y. on June 4-5. Although Monday's race at Lime
Rock won't be televised, the Watkins Glen race is scheduled to air at 3 p.m.
Eastern time June 14 on SPEED.

The circuit then moves to the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio
on June 19-21. That race is slated to air at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time June
28 on SPEED.

For the rest of the schedule and additional information, see
turnermotorsport.com, grand-am.com/koni, konisportscarchallenge.com, gleasoninc.com and
speedtv.com.

Gleason's post-race quote follows:

"It was a wonderful weekend. I've won the last three races that I've
entered at Lime Rock, so it's really special. To share this one with Joey was
great too. I look at him like a son and he looks at me as a father figure.
Our families are close too, so it was great. He did such a great job! I was
fortunate to be part of it.

"We approached this race with our usual strategy. I qualified ninth.
After taking last year off, my rhythm is coming back. You have to work at it,
but things are going better.

"My stint was clean, which is my first goal, and I managed to get up to
sixth. My pit stop was clean too; the Turner Motorsport crew did a great job.

"On our second pit stop Joey overshot his mark and we lost some time
pushing the car back in position. That's why we fell back to ninth, but Joey
overcame that.

"He and Andy Lally had a wonderful race. Joey finally got by him with a
brilliant pass on the outside of Turns 1, 2 and 3. It was like a sprint car
pass; he went high and then dove down. It was wonderful.

"It's great to be back on top. The trophy is beside me as I'm driving back
to Johnstown; it's belted in beside me on the front seat, and I smile every
time I look at it. You can't beat that!"