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Southard Motorsports Looks to New Jersey Facility to Put Season Back on Track Lester and Lewis Hope New Track Gives No. 3 Edge in Grand-Am's Penultimate Event MILLVILLE, N.J., August 27, 2008 - It isn't often that a series with the roots that the Grand- Am Rolex Sports Car Series enjoys comes to a facility that none of its competitors have ever turned a wheel at. However, Sunday's Supercar Life 250 on the brand new Thunderbolt Raceway will be the first professional event held at the New Jersey Motorsports Park. The new scenery may be just the thing that Powell, Ohio-based Southard Motorsports needs entering the last two races of the 14-race Daytona Prototype (DP) season. The No. 3 Southard Motorsports Lexus-Riley is coming off its only mechanical failure of the year at last weekend's Infineon Raceway and drivers Bill Lester (Atlanta) and Shane Lewis (Jupiter, Fla.) look to the new 2.25-mile, 14-turn facility in Millville, N.J. as just the ticket to regain their momentum. |
Southard Motorsports Endures Heartbreak Weekend in Sonoma Lester and Lewis Fight Back from the Brink but Take First Mechanical DNF SONOMA, Calif., August 24, 2008 - The Armed Forces 250 at Infineon Raceway got off to a difficult start for Southard Motorsports. Despite the team's gallant effort it ended the same. In the first practice session for the 250-mile Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype (DP) race, the No. 3 Southard Motorsports Lexus-Riley left the track in Turn 10 while Bill Lester (Atlanta) fought a loose race car. The damage was substantial forcing the Powell, Ohio-based team to rebuild the car almost from the ground up in a matter of hours. The Steve and Martha Southard (Powell, Ohio) owned team rallied with a remarkable qualifying effort allowing Shane Lewis (Jupiter, Fla.) to start within the top-10. However, the effort would go unrewarded when, on lap 56, the car suffered its first mechanical failure of the season with a broken axle. The red, white and blue prototype would take 17th, missing the checkered flag for the first time since the season-opening Rolex 24 at Daytona where an accident ended their effort... |
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