It is not often that a professionalathlete finds himself in nearly perfect-sync with his sport so early inthe season. However, Craig Stanton, who knows a little bit aboutfinishing on top of professional endurances races, finds himself in thatenviable position. The Long Beach, Calif. native, who has competed in 27triathlons, has run in five races in 2004 ranging in length from twohours, 45-minutes to 24 hours. He has not failed to finish an event yet.In fact, this season, the easy-going Californian has won in three of thefive races he has entered and finished on the podium in a fourth.Drawing from that success, Stanton will again drive the No. 44TheRaceSite.com Porsche 996 with Gainesville Georgia's Terry Borchellerin the Grand Sport (GS) class of Friday's Grand-Am Cup Series' PhoenixTwin 200s. The duet is perfect in 2004 Grand-Am Cup competition to-date.The three-hour event is the third Grand-Am Cup race of the season andStanton and Borcheller have won both of the proceeding events inconvincing fashion. Stanton, who is one of the most successful drivers in GrandAmerican-sanctioned events in 2004, will co-drive with David Murry inthe No. 16 AASCO Motorsports' Porsche in Saturday night's Food City 250.In that event, Stanton and Murry will attempt to back-up the team'sRolex Series' Homestead-Miami Speedway (HMS) victory with a second SGSclass victory at PIR. The Food City 250 Rolex Series event, the premier event of the weekend,will be broadcast live on SPEED Channel at 9 pm (ET), Saturday April 10.The GS-class race of the Grand-Am Cup Series will be shown at 6 pm (ET)on April 18. Both events can be followed live on timing and scoring atwww.grandamerican.com. Craig Stanton, about racing for the three-peat at Phoenix: "Terry and Ihave found ourselves with a little bit of momentum here in the 2004season of the Grand-Am Cup. It puts us in a good position going into the250 at Phoenix. Everyone is really, really excited about where we are.It's going to be great seeing the cars under the lights and the fans aregoing to get a great show. The first two races were terrific and I don'tsee any reason that this race will be any different. I'm really eager toget out there and race the Nonnamaker's TheRaceSite.com Porsche thisweekend."Since moving from moto-cross/super-cross to automobiles in 1986, Stantonhas positioned himself as one of the premier drivers in sports carracing. A desire to win in all kinds of machines has led to drives inclosed and open cockpit sports cars, sedans, NASCAR stock cars, openwheel formula cars and midgets and in off-road competition. He has wonthree championships and a Driver of the Year award in Sports Renault andis the 1997 Speedvision Cup Rising Star Award winner. Stanton begancompeting in the top echelon of sports car racing in 1999 and has classwins in both the Grand-Am and ALMS. He takes his fitness training veryseriously with the goal of being the fittest race driver in the worldand has competed in 27 triathlons in his career.