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Southard Motorsports Returns to Daytona Road Course as Regular Top-10 Performer
One-day Daytona Prototype Event Offers Challenges and Opportunities for Lester and Lewis
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., June 30, 2008 - The Rolex 24 At Daytona in January kicked-off a bright 2008 season for Southard Motorsports. On July 3, the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series returns to the high- speed road course for the Brumos 250 at Daytona. Having run regularly in the Top-10 this season, the Steve and Martha Southard (Powell, Ohio)-owned team sees the Daytona International Speedway (DIS) as the ideal setting for a breakthrough victory in the intensely competitive Daytona Prototype (DP) class.The January event was the location at which NASCAR veteran Bill Lester (Atlanta) first joined with Grand-Am winner Shane Lewis (Jupiter, Fla.) in the No. 3 Southard Motorsports Lexus-Riley. Since that time the Powell, Ohio-based team has shown impressive consistency finishing regularly deep inside the top- half of the large and cutthroat field. A solid run in treacherous...
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Rain Pummels Southard Motorsports Homecoming, No. 3 Lexus-Riley Finishes 13th
LEXINGTON, Ohio, June 22, 2008 - Southard Motorsports, based in nearby Powell, Ohio, entered Saturday's EMCO Gears Classic presented by Key Bank eager to put on a good show for their hometown crowd. However, the weather had different plans for the No. 3 Southard Motorsports Lexus-Riley and drivers Bill Lester (Atlanta, Ga.) and Shane Lewis (Jupiter, Fla.) in the two hour and 45-minute timed event at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Round seven of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Daytona Prototype season left the Steve and Martha Southard- owned team wet and frustrated with a 13th-place finish at the conclusion of the rain-soaked and caution- riddled race.
Lewis started the race 10th on the grid. Even as the green flag waved across the Daytona Prototype (DP) field raindrops were beginning to fall on portions of the 2.258-mile, 13-turn mile road course. The first of eight cautions came on lap eight as a number of DPs came together under the increasing showers. Despite cars adding to the mess both in front of and behind him, Lewis successfully plotted his way through...
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