Grand-Am Newcomers Excited to Fight for Podiums and Rookie-of-the-Year Title
(Toronto, Canada) -- Grand-Am's Continental Tire Street Tuner Champions, Compass360 Racing, added two talented rookies to their four-car program for 2011, today announcing the signing of Andrew Novich and Dan Rogers. The duo will share the team's #77 Honda Civic Si, starting at Daytona Test Days next week.
2010 Canadian Touring Car Champion Anthony Rapone and third-place finisher Karl Thomson talk about racing in the series and reflect on Durabond/Compass360 Racing's amazing CTCC season, which included winning the Touring-class Team and Manufacturer championships, as well as a taking a series-first podium sweep at Trois-Rivieres.
Honda CR-Z Hybrid Finishes Second at Thunderhill
(courtesy Honda Racing HPD)
A valiant, come-from-behind effort from Honda Performance Development (HPD) came up just short at the 25 Hours of Thunderhill, as HPD's hybrid Honda CR-Z racer recovered from a near 10-lap deficit to finish second in the Endurance 3 class in the 2010 edition of the National Auto Sport Association's (NASA) season-ending event.
Driving the #19 CR-Z for the final three hours, Lawson Aschenbach (who, along with Compass360 Racing co-driver David Thilenius, claimed the Continental Tire Challenge Driver's Championship, and giving Honda its second straight Grand-Am Manufacturer's title) moved onto the lead lap during the final hour, and closed to within 1 minute, 10 seconds of the winning Mazdacage.net Mazda Miata at the checkers, the closest finish among the half-dozen classes competing in this year's 25 Hours. The two E3 competitors finished 8th and 9th overall in the 72-car field, ahead of many faster-category entries.
About: Compass360 Racing (C360R) is a championship-winning race team that fields front-running Honda Civic Si's in Grand-Am's Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge and SCCA Pro's World Challenge.
