Special to the Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

(August 28, 2010)

MONTREAL—Car owner Chip Ganassi claimed another major victory Saturday when Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas won the Montreal 200 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, clinching the Rolex Sports Car Series’ team championship in the Daytona Prototype class.

Pruett and Rojas set a single-season series record with their eighth Daytona Prototype victory. It was Ganassi’s fourth DP championship and comes in a year in which Ganassi drivers also won the Daytona 500, Brickyard 400 and Indianapolis 500.

Pruett and Rojas beat Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty by 2.005 seconds on the 2.709-mile road course. It was their 17th victory together, also a series record.

The path to the drivers championship is not so clear cut with one race left in the season, Sept. 11 at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah.

If each driver completes at least 30 minutes, Pruett and Rojas will be crowned co-champions. If one and not the other complete that minimum requirement, there will be a solo champion. And finally, if both fail to meet the minimum, they will still share the title.

The production-based GT class was won by Paul Edwards and Scott Russell in a Corvette to give Chevrolet its first GT win since 2003. Chevrolets finished 1-2-3 in GT.

Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series
Montreal 200
At Circuit Gilles Villeneuve

Final results from Saturday’s race with drivers’ starting position in parenthesis, drivers, car and laps completed.
 
1. (2) Scott Pruett/Memo Rojas, BMW/Riley, 62.
2. (1) Jon Fogarty/Alex Gurney, Chevrolet/Riley, 62.
3. (3) Max Angelelli/Ricky Taylor, Ford/Dallara, 62.
4. (7) Darren Law/David Donohue, Porsche/Riley, 62.
5. (5) Antonio Garcia/Buddy Rice, Porsche/Coyote, 62.
6. (10) Michael Valiante/Brian Frisselle, Ford/Dallara, 62.
7. (8) Tracy Krohn/Nic Jonsson, Ford/Lola, 62.
8. (9) John Pew/Ozz Negri, Ford/Riley, 62.
9. (15) Paul Edwards/Scott Russell, Chevrolet Corvette, 61.
10. (17) Gunter Schaldach/Ronnie Bremer, Chevrolet Camaro GT, 61.
11. (14) Robin Liddell/Andrew Davis, Chevrolet Camaro GT, 61.
12. (20) Emil Assentato/Jeff Segal, Mazda RX-8, 61.
13. (21) John Potter/Craig Stanton, Porsche GT3, 61.
14. (22) James Gue/Leh Keen, Mazda RX-8, 60.
15. (18) Sylvain Tremblay/Jonathan Bomarito, Mazda RX-8, 60.
16. (16) John Edwards/Adam Christodoulou, Mazda RX-8, 60.
17. (13) Boris Said/Eric Curran, Chevrolet Corvette, 60.
18. (19) Joe Foster/Charles Espenlaub, Mazda RX-8, 59.
19. (11) Dion von Moltke/Mark Patterson, Ford/Dallara, 58.
20. (6) Terry Borcheller/Joao Barbosa, Porsche/Riley, 44.
21. (12) Mike Forest, BMW/Riley, 8.
22. (4) Burt Frisselle, Ford/Riley, 1.
 
Race statistics
 
Winners’ average speed: 82.986 mph.
Time of race: 2:01:26.186.
Margin of victory: 2.005 seconds.
Cautions: 4 for 15 laps.
Lead changes: 5 among 5 drivers/5 cars.
Lap leaders: Fogarty 1-2, Said 3, Potter 4-6, Fogarty 7-26, Taylor 27, Pruett 28-62.
DP points leaders: Pruett 337, Rojas 337, Angelelli 302, Taylor 302, Fogarty 293, Pew 278, Negri 278, Donohue 277, Law 277, Dalziel 276.
GT points leaders: Segal 318, Assentato 318, Tremblay 310, Bomarito 291, Keen 289, Gue 289, Liddell 280, A. Davis 280, J. Edwards 267, Christodoulou 267.