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The Grand-Am Road Racing Association was established in 1999 to return stability
to major league sports car racing in North America. As the organization begins its
eighth season of competition in 2007, Grand-Am is universally regarded as one of
the world's fastest-growning motorsports organizations.
Grand-Am is located in Daytona Beach, Fla. on the same corporate campus that is
also home to NASCAR, International Speedway Corporatione (ISC) and Daytona International
Speedway, but operates as its own stand-alone corporation with a group of independent
investors and its own board of advisors. Among the company's investors are several
key people behind NASCAR's success, but Grand-Am offers an entirely different product
that features extremely competitive sports car racing on historic road and street
cicuits and in major market speedways throughout North America.
Sports car racing in North America endured tough and uncertain times for the majority
of the 1990s, a far cry from the successful IMSA servies of the 1970s and '80s.
As is often the case in motor racing. Sports car racing's decline during this period
could basicaly be traced to an uncontroled technology and its related costs. Grand-Am
has addressed this with sensible and affordable rules that are competition driven
but grounded in common sense and stability with a firm commitment to a level playing
field.
Grand-Am's top-tier Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Special Reserve
-- has established itself as the most competetive professional road racing championship
in North America. The Rolex Series Daytona Prototype category has attracted the
attention of superstar drivers and universally-recognized teams through its extremely
raceable and relatively affordable format, and has revolutionized sports car racing
with plentiful battles at the front of the field and close finishes in virtually
every race. The result has been a rush to partiticpate in the class and demand for
Daytona Prototype continues to exceed supply as 2007 gets underway.
Like the Daytona Prototype class that has redefined prototype sports car racing,
the Rolex Series GT class has done the same for high-performance, production-based
sports car racing. With an eye toward the cost-containment and close competition
that has propelled the popularith of teh Daytona Prototype class, the GT category
provides a stable battleground for the world's top automobile manufacturers. Perhaps
the best of all, the Rolex Series' two-class format allows race fans watching from
the grandstands or on television amd the media covering the sport to follow the
action with just two easy-to-distinguish classes of race cars -- Daytona Prototype
and GT. The Grand-Am Cup Series for straight-from-the-showroom American muscle cars
and the hottest imports is also back in 2007 for its seventh season of competition
under the Grand-Am banner.
Grand-Am races at some of the world's most prestigious venues -- Daytona, Leguna
Seca, Mexico City and Watkins Glen -- and has taken the role of a top annual attractionat
some of the newest venues in the industry such as Miller Motorsports Park, Barber
Motorsports Park and Virginia International Raceway. Grand-Am is also making a standard
out of the newest form of curcuit racing -- "Stadium Road Racing" -- on the road
course layouts like Homestead-Miami Speedway and Phoenix International Raceway
Click Here to visit the Grand-Am Website.
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