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Genoa Racing Finishes Fifth in LMPC Class
In Sunday's American Le Mans Series Race
At Road America

ELKHART LAKE, Wis., Aug. 22 - Genoa Racing's run in Round 7 of the American
Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patron ended prematurely Sunday
afternoon at Road America due to an apparent engine failure, but the Zionsville,
Ind.-based team and its two New Jersey-based drivers still finished fifth in
the Le Mans Prototype Challenge (LMPC) class in the very demanding event.

The two-hour-and-45-minute race, part of the Time Warner Cable Road Race
Showcase, was broadcast live on SPEED. Ironically the Genoa Racing car, which
promoted the sponsors of Green Earth Team Gunnar - G-Oil, Bayshore
Recycling and the Zais Group - completed the same number of laps as its car number -
36. The team's sister car, the Green Earth Team Gunnar No. 99 of Gunnar
Jeanette and Elton Julian, completed the entire 69-lap race and recorded its
third class victory of the season.

The Genoa Racing squad would have liked nothing better than to join them on
the podium and they were in line to do just that, but those plans came to
an unexpected end when the problem developed under the race's fourth
full-course caution with 1:35:39 gone and 1:09.20 remaining. At the time the car
was in fifth place in class and 17th overall, just 1.616 seconds behind the
eventual class winner, which was fourth in class and 12th overall at the time.

The youngest driver in the race, Frankie Montecalvo of Highlands, N.J.,
qualified the Genoa entry fifth in class and tenth overall. His co-driver,
Christian Zugel of Holmdel, N.J., started the event. Zugel vaulted to third in
class and seventh overall just 37 minutes into the race when some of the
team's rivals pitted under yellow. Zugel was able to remain third in class and
seventh and eighth overall throughout the rest of his stint.

Team manager Thomas Knapp brought Zugel into the pits with 1:05:52 gone on
lap 27, when the Genoa Racing crew quickly fueled the car and Montecalvo
assumed the controls. Montecalvo recorded the car's fastest lap of the race on
lap 28 with a time of 2:06.706 for the 4.048-mile, 14-turn road course.

As luck would have it a few minutes later a Jaguar stopped just past Turn 5
due to a problem with its clutch and brought out a full-course caution,
which allowed some of the team's rivals to pit under yellow. After the shuffle
of those pit stops Montecalvo started his stint fifth in class and 15th
overall.

The team topped off its own fuel tank under yellow when it made its second
pit stop with 1:27.19 gone. At that point the top five LMPC cars, including
Genoa's, were all on the lead lap.

A fourth full-course caution waved with 1:35 gone when the ORBIT/Paul
Miller Racing Porsche crashed and the Robertson Racing Doran Design Ford GT
stopped at the same time. The field was still under yellow when the Genoa entry
stopped too, stranding Montecalvo in the grass just off the frontstretch.
The team ended up fifth in class and 27th overall.

"I only got a couple of laps under green, but when I was coming onto the
frontstretch I got on the power and felt a big vibration, and then smoke
started coming out the back," Montecalvo related afterwards. "I just turned it
off, and the safety marshals pushed me back behind the wall.

"Christian did a good job and we had a good race strategy, but it just
didn't work out for us today," he added.

"The car was doing great in my stint," Zugel said. "I saw nothing wrong.
We were in good shape. It's unfortunate, but such is racing."

"It looks like it was an engine failure, but we're not sure yet," Knapp
said. "We would have had to stop again for fuel. Christian did a really good
job during his stint and recorded very solid, consistent laps. This was his
first visit here in sports cars, and Frankie's first visit here ever. The
team worked hard and the drivers' lap times improved throughout the weekend.
It's unfortunate that we weren't able to finish today's race, but that
happens sometimes."

The team won't have to wait long to try again. The series' next race is
next Sunday, Aug. 29 at Mosport International Raceway in Bowmanville, Ontario,
Canada. It will be broadcast on a one-hour-delayed basis on SPEED, with the
telecast running from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern time. Internet coverage
will also be available on americanlemans.com and imsaracing.net.