Tuesday, August 22, 2006
AJR finishes third in GT2 at Road America
Round seven of the American Le Mans Series took place this past weekend at the 4.1 mile Road America race track at Elkhart Lake Wisconsin. Bell Micro Racing hosted its fifth Relationship Sales Event entertaining guests from CDW, Cosmo Dog, CSD It Solutions, DSN Group, GE Heathcare, Hitachi Data Systems, Honeywell, Inacom and Omronost. Supplier Partners Seagate (Will Webster) and QLogic (David Harlow) would also be on hand to enjoy a full day of racing. Don Bell would race his Porsche GT3 Cup car for the second time this season in the Michelin Cup Challenge. Don would finish the race in 26th place, gaining 11 positions during the 17 minutes of green flag racing.
The third place finish for Alex Job Racing would place the team on the podium for the second time this season. Mike Rockenfeller started the #23 Bell Microproducts/Alex Job Racing/Porsche 911 RSR from the first row. The young German was able to takeover the number one position during the first caution period. On lap 33 Rockenfeller handed the car over to teammate Marcel Tiemann, the elder German returned to the battle in fourth position. Tiemann was able to hold fourth place but on lap 57 experienced a puncture going into turn six. Marcel would carefully navigate the Porsche back to the pits, during this stop, Rockenfeller would jump back into the driver’s seat and pilot the Porsche to a third place finish.
Rockenfeller commenting on the race said, “I had a good start at the beginning, but as the stint went on I got progressively worse over steer and could not drive as aggressive as I would have liked." Tiemann was perplexed by his drive. “I am not sure what happened during my stint. We had radio problems early and then I was not able to turn the lap times that I did earlier in the week, we will have to look at the data. On my 24th lap I went up the hill and into turn six and the tire went down. I was able to get it back around and into the pits without any damage. Mike did a great job at the end to get us on the podium.”
Bell Micro Racing will host its next Relationship Sales Event at the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta on Saturday, September 30th.
archives
- 10/25 :: AJR Finishes on Podium at ALMS Finale
- 10/16 :: AJR Heads to Laguna Seca for ALMS Finale
- 10/2 :: AJR Finishes Eight at Petit Le Mans; Katherine Legge Back In Champ Car
- 9/25 :: Katherine Legge Walks Away From Spectacular Crash
- 9/20 :: Katherine Legge To Join “Warriors In Pink” at Road America
- 8/22 :: AJR finishes third in GT2 at Road America
- 8/14 :: Legge finishes 9th at Denver Grand Prix; AJR Heads North to Road America
- 7/30 :: Legge finishes 12th at Canary Foundation Grand Prix of San Jose
- 7/25 :: AJR finishes Seventh in GT2 at Portland; Katherine Legge finishes 13th at Edmonton
- 7/17 :: AJR finishes fourth at Miller Motorsports Park, Utah Driver Change Planned for Portland Grand Prix
- 7/3 :: Alex Job Racing Finishes Ninth at Lime Rock Park
- 5/15 :: Crashes spoil PKV Racing's Grand Prix Weekend AJR Wins GT2 in Houston
- 4/7 :: Opening Round of the Champ Car World Series Bell Micro and PKV go racing – Sunday April 9th
- 3/20 :: Podium Finish for Bell Micro Racing Hospitality AJR Finishes Sixth at Sebring
- 3/16 :: Bell Micro Racing Heads South to Sebring, Florida AJR Looking to for Seventh Sebring Victory
- 1/30 :: Bell Micro guests have terrific race weekend! Alex Job Racing finishes Third at Daytona 24
- 1/26 :: Rolex 24 Hour at Daytona January 27, 28th Bell Micro and Alex Job Racing start the 2006 race season with the Grand American Rolex Series