partners with leading NASCAR driver, Kyle Busch to Make their Grand Am Debut at Daytona in July
Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates will field a second entry for two leading NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers - Kyle Busch and Scott Speed -in the July 4 Brumos Porsche 250 at Daytona International Speedway.
The race will be televised live on SPEED at 2 p.m. ET. The duo will make their Grand-Am debut piloting the No. 02 Waste Management Lexus Riley, alongside defending Rolex Series Daytona Prototype champions, Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas in the No. 01 TELMEXLexus Riley.
The team is the defending winner of the Brumos Porsche 250, with Pruett winning on the last lap last July.
Ganassi said," Kyle is one of the best racecar drivers in the world, andScott is a young talent with a lot of road course experience. It will be exciting to see what they can do."
Since the team's introduction into the Grand-Am Rolex Series in 2004,Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates has won the Rolex 24 Hours At Daytona three consecutive times.
Scott Speed added to his open-wheel experience in Formula One before moving to NASCAR, making 28 starts in 2006 and 2007 for the Italian team- Scuderia Toro Rosso.
A former Jim Russell champion,h is two years in F1 followed good results in British F3, Formula Renault and GP2 in Europe.
The 26-year-old Californian was fifth in the NASCAR Aaron's 499 at Talladega Superspeedway in April at the wheel of the No. 82 Red BullToyota. Currently, Busch is the leading winner in all three of NASCAR's stockcar national touring series.
He has won three events in Sprint Cupc ompetition in the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 18 M&M's Toyota and is ranked ninth in the point standings, in position to make the Chase for the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup. In the Nationwide Series, he has four victories and leads the point standings and has two victories to share the lead in Camping World Truck Series competition in wins.
Last year, the24-year-old native of Las Vegas, Nev. won a record 21 races in the three series. The Brumos Porsche 250 will be a one-day event on July 4, with practice beginning at 8:30 a.m. The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will follow the two-and-a-half hour race with the 8 p.m. Coke Zero 400 Powered By Coca-Cola.
