SEBRING, Fla. - Todd Snyder and Mark Ackley won their second straight Motorola cup race. and the third consecutive one for the T-F Racing/Zippo Motorsports Ford Mustang Cobra team, with a close win in the three-hour race at Sebring International Raceway on Saturday night "We did almost 70 laps on the last tank of gas," said Snyder, Sheffield, Mass., "and that was just about one lap shy of too many, I felt the engine starve for gas on the victory lap, but running out of gas then would have been just fine." Ackley, Horseheads N.Y.. won for the second time in his seventh professional race. "I went off the track twice during my stint and dropped back to 17th place, but I didn't hurt the car. Todd was the real hero of this win, just as he was two weeks ago at Watkins Gen (N.Y.)." Finishing second in their Multimatic Motorsports/Coca-Cola Ford SVT Mustang Cobra were Toronto racers Scott Maxwell Jay Malowney and Dave Lacey. "That was a heck of a race," said Maxwell. "but what's more important is that between the winners and our team, we were able to put a five-point lead over Pontiac for the Manufacturers Championship in the Grand Sports class. None of us has a chance for the Drivers Championship, so all the Ford teams really want to win one for Ford." Lance Stewart, Jupiter, Fla., and co-driver/car owner John Bourassa, Hobe Sound, Fla., won the Sports class in the wet/windy-weekend aptly-named Team Hurricane Acura Integra R, beating to the finish line Andy Lally, Northport, N.Y. in the Team Spartanburg BMW Z3 Coupe which had led the class throughout the race." "Our car doesn't have the engine torque that the BMW has, so I just had to rely on 15 more years experience and out-drive Andy," smiled Stewart. 'Lance really took me to school today." added Lally, but he only has a one-point lead on me for the championship, and I think we can win that at Daytona next month." Finishing an amazing sixth overall and winning the Touring class was Scott Hartmann, Newport Beach, Calif., and co-driver Joe Foster, Gainesville, Ga. 'We only needed one gas stop," said Hartmann, 'and our Audi A-4 Quattro was flawless all weekend long- The only thing that could have improved our finish would have been rain - if it had rained we might have finished in the top three overall Instead of just winning our class." Bob Saw, Falmouth, Mass., and co-driver/car owner SIP Fenton, Keene, N.H. won the Compact class, loading almost wire-to-wire In their Team Kendall Honda Civic del Sol. "Our winning and the second place by the Oldsmobile team should pretty well secure first and second for us in the driver's points. and come close to looking the Manufacturer's Championship for Honda." The overall race featured 13 lead changes among seven cars. Snyder and Ackley averaged 77.312 miles per hour for 63 laps around the famed 3.7-mile Florida mad course. Associate sponsors of the Motorola Cup Series are Hoosier, Sunoco Deringer, Sony, STP, Castrol and Speed Stick. In addition to the race purses, $181,750 in contingency monies is posted at each Motorola Cup race from BMW, Audi, Honda/Acura, Mazda, Toyota. Ford, and General Motors, plus the Hoosier Pole Position program from Hoosier Tire.
Results:
PROVISIONAL RESULTS FOR - C GS S T Race 09 on October 16 1999 October Speedfest at Sebring Sebring International Raceway - Length of Track: 3.7 Miles
FN.ST.CAR LAPS --DURING-RACE-- PS.PS.NO. CL DRIVERS SPONSOR/CAR COMP STATUS FAST LAP SPEED 1 2 17 GS Ackley/Snyder Zippo Manufacturing/Ford Cobra R 63 2:26.652 90.827 2 9 7 GS Lacey/Malowney/Maxwell Coca-Cola/CIBCWorldMkts/TimHor/Ford Cobra 63 2:25.445 91.581 3 3 22 GS Culver/Pilgrim BombardierAerospace/PureImage//BMW M3 63 2:25.358 91.635 4 11 11 GS Powell/Goad/Conway Sunoco/Pennzoil/Powell High Perf/Pontiac Fi 63 2:26.264 91.068 5 6 54 GS Pfeffer/Fitzgerald Pure Image/Bombardier Aerospace//BMW M3 62 2:26.728 90.780 6 18 2 T Hartmann/Foster Intrax/AMS/ABT/Audi A4 Quattro 62 2:36.050 85.357 7 17 78 GS De_Fontes/Thompson/Thmps Dura(The Fitted Garage)/Steel Cab/Pontiac Fi 62 2:28.268 89.837 8 12 47 GS Kohler/Smith Zippo Manufacturing/Ford Cobra R 62 2:29.236 89.254 9 16 10 S Bourassa/Stewart Honda Acura/All European Autos/Acura Integra 62 2:33.817 86.596 10 19 71 T Schwartzott/Endicott BBS/Acura/Acura Integra R 61 2:35.355 85.739 11 25 58 T Hein/Green Smith Barney/TI Racing/Honda Prelude 61 2:36.090 85.335 12 27 40 T Nonnamaker/Nonnamaker US Filter/Mazda MX-6 61 2:35.741 85.526 13 38 43 T Wymore/Starita US Filter/Mazda MX-6 61 2:36.514 85.104 14 15 72 S Liebengood/Lally GlobalImport/Lear/BMWManufactr/BMW Z3 Cou 61 2:33.506 86.771 15 10 5 GS Gilbert/Camp Bay Area Automotive/Ford Cobra R 61 2:28.308 89.813 16 20 63 S Van_Sicklen/Plumb MAI/Kosel/TireRack/KingMotorsp/Acura Inte 60 2:35.991 85.389 17 26 59 T Hein/Blackman Smith Barney/TI Racing/Honda Prelude 60 2:38.336 84.124 18 31 27 C Fenton/Beede Kendall Motor Oil/Honda Of Keene/Honda Del So 60 2:38.894 83.829 19 37 48 C Magner/Del_Vecchio/Beede Superwinch/Olds Achieva SC 60 2:39.656 83.429 20 21 74 GS Houk/Shreiner Zippo Manufacturing/Ford Cobra R 60 2:34.253 86.351 21 40 24 T Linder/Colletti Power Connector Inc/Acura Integra R 60 2:40.893 82.787 22 28 06 C Fenton/Beede/Magner Kendall Oil / Honda of Keene/Honda Civic 60 2:39.447 83.538 23 30 6 C Hebert/Craig/Schraenen HyundaiMtrspts/HyundaiAutoCana/Hyundai Ti 60 2:40.382 83.051 24 1 33 GS Miller/Yarosz/Heinricy Phoenix Pontiac-Buick Inc/Pontiac Firebrd 60 2:26.767 90.756 25 41 4 T Negri/Cagnolo/Clark Intrax/AMS/ABT/Audi A4 Quattro 59 2:39.930 83.286 26 8 16 GS Theetge/Tremblay X-Tends/Mazda Canada/Mazda RX7 Turbo *56 LooseW 2:26.683 90.808 27 36 62 C Grammer/Lauzon/Greenisen King Motorsports/Kosel/TireRack/Honda del 56 2:45.413 80.525 28 5 31 GS Conway/Goad/Espenlaub Sunoco/Pennzoil/PowellHighPerf/Pontiac Fi *48 Crash 2:26.600 90.859 29 4 32 GS Miller/Hayner/Heinricy Phoenix Pontiac-Buick Inc/Pontiac Firebrd *44 Mechan 2:27.572 90.261 30 39 05 S Lynch/Fitzgerald DeLeon Industries Inc/Mazda RX-7 41 2:44.792 80.829 31 7 0 GS Wilkins/Maxwell Coca-Cola/TrizecHahn/FordCanad/Ford Cobra *40 FuelPr 2:26.907 90.669 32 35 90 S Bunting/Goldsborough LexusOfAnnpls/GleasonFinl/Coal/Lexus GS 4 40 2:35.690 85.554 33 32 8 C Cullen/Schraenen/Craig Hyundai Motorsprt/HyundaiAutoCN/Hyundai Ti *38 Crash 2:40.588 82.945 34 23 04 GS Kopperl/Piscelli PontiacFirebird *31 FuelPr 2:35.079 85.891 35 33 70 S Lally/Drew/Nelson Lear/ZimsCrackCreme/Racemrq/Gl/BMW Z3 Cou *27 Mechan 2:37.835 84.391 36 24 26 GS MacDonald_Cadieux/Shep Snap On/Pontiac Firebrd *21 PwrSte 2:32.267 87.477 37 29 35 GS Aquilante/Yarosz/Miller Phoenix Pontiac-Buick Inc/Pontiac Firebrd *17 Flat T 2:35.037 85.914 38 13 39 GS Hayner/Weinberg/Miller Phoenix Pontiac-Buick Inc/Pontiac Firebrd *16 RearDi 2:32.676 87.243 39 14 89 GS Hebert/Emeric Zeke's/AubergeGodefroy/CIGB/Chevy Camaro *9 Transm 2:29.446 89.129 40 22 02 S de_Quesada/Gabel/Espenlb Safe Quip/DiamondRotore/Porsche 944 S2 *4 Crash 2:38.059 84.272 41 34 81 S Hillested/Callahan BMW 328is *4 Engine 2:41.374 82.541 42 42 46 C Cioci_Jr/TBD Cioci Auto Sales Inc/Dodge Neon *0 n.a. No-Time
PTS/PURSE include qualifying awards ** Better than the Existing Track Record O/A Time of Race: 3 hours 54.142 seconds Length of Race: 233.1 Miles Margin of Victory: 4.656 seconds 77.312 MPH Average Lap Speed Fastest Race Lap: 02:25.358 by Culver/Pilgrim in car # 22
Compact Margin of Victory: 2.219 seconds Average race speed: 73.227 MPH Grand Sport Margin of Victory: 4.656 seconds Average race speed: 77.312 MPH Sport Margin of Victory: 1 LAPS Average race speed: 75.108 MPH Touring Margin of Victory: 1 LAPS Average race speed: 75.835 MPH
LAP LEADER(S) # 33 1- 2 # 32 3- 4 # 33 5- 6 # 32 7- 7 # 33 8- 18 # 31 19- 24 # 54 25- 28 # 22 29- 39 # 11 40- 43 # 31 44- 44 # 17 45- 47 # 11 48- 53 # 17 54- 63
