at Road America with early retirement for No. 99 GAINSCO Corvette Daytona Prototype Focus shifts to next weekend at The Glen as No. 99 fails to finish a race for the third time this seasonAn unbelievable streak of bad luck for GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing, and drivers Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty, continued in the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series 250 Driven by VISIT FLORIDA Saturday at Road America where the No. 99 GAINSCO Auto Insurance Corvette Daytona Prototype suffered its third race retirement this year.GAINSCO and starting driver Fogarty were just settling into the race after an early pit stop when a front suspension part snapped on the GAINSCO “Red Dragon” just over 30 minutes into the two-hour sprint race.“We had come up with a pit strategy that we thought was going to play out in our favor,” Fogarty said. “I had clear running, and was running quick laps and when I came down into Turn 5 everything was great.  It’s a heavy braking zone and right after I went to the brakes, something broke without warning.  At first I thought ‘oh great, I just locked up both front tires and screwed up our race,’ but pretty quickly afterwards I realized there was a failure. Luckily, it happened in a fortunate spot and I was able to get the car in a safe spot and off the race track. It is all just really unfortunate.”The No. 99 was towed back the to the GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing paddock area where the crew quickly found a snapped rod-end bolt on the upper right front suspension A-arm.  Gurney later returned to the track in the quickly repaired car but realized in the exploratory lap that the No. 99’s steering rack also had an issue.  The team decided to play it safe and retire the “Red Dragon,” the team’s second mechanical and third overall DNF (Did Not Finish) of the 2012 season.“It’s obviously very disappointing,” Gurney said. The failure on the front end happened at, luckily, a good spot and Jon was able to get it slowed down, stay safe, and it didn’t do too much damage.  When I went back out it felt like something was wrong with the steering rack, it wasn’t steering straight, so the team decided to call it.”GAINSCO also retired roughly 30 minutes into April’s Grand Prix of Miami with mechanical issues and was taken out in an accident in last month’s race at New Jersey Motorsports Park.  The team has persevered through mechanical setbacks and other issues to finish the season-opening Rolex24 At Daytona, and races earlier this month in Detroit and Mid-Ohio, but so far the only highlight result of the year has been a second-place finish at Barber Motorsports Park in March.“I don’t know, I guess people are probably tired of us talking about all of the problems we have been having, and we are too,” Gurney said.  “We were in great position strategy wise and fuel and tire wise today. Things were coming our way but now we have to look to Watkins Glen and we should be as strong there as we usually are.  I am going to go home for a few days and come back and we will start all over again with GAINSCO at Watkins Glen.”The GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing crew will spend some time prior to next Sunday’s Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen getting the No. 99 GAINSCO “Red Dragon” back to its usual level of top preparation and off-the-trailer pace.“Rod ends are usually pretty stout pieces,” Fogarty said. “We are just going to have to take a close look at everything on the car and make sure when we show up at Watkins Glen we get as many as these gremlins as we can sorted out.”Next up for GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing and the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series is the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen, June 29 – July 1. The featured six-hour race can be seen live on SPEED, Sunday, July 1, at 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT.