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<body> <Table Width="550" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" cellpadding="0"><TR><TD Width="35"><IMG SRC="//www.totalmotorsport.com/images/spacer.gif" WIDTH="35" HEIGHT="1"></td><td> <CENTER><Table border="0" width="100%"> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="5">GRAND AMERICAN ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2">30/12/2003</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">Michael Shank Racing Announces Driver Lineup </FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">Newton & Erdos Join Daytona Ranks</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="1">  </FONT></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2"><B>Michael Shank Racing Announces Driver Lineup for Rolex 24 At Daytona</B><BR> <BR> Michael Shank Racing (MSR) announced that it has finalized its driver lineup for the 2004 Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series' season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona, to be run January 29 - February 1 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach.<BR> <BR> Piloting MSR's No. 6 Toyota-powered Doran JE-4 Daytona Prototype in North America's premier sports car racing event will be Americans Brent Martini, Cort Wagner and Kelly Collins (substitute driver), Great Britain's Mike Newton and Brazil's Thomas Erdos. Sponsoring the efforts of Martini, Wagner and Collins will be Rx.com, with Dedicated Micros, NetVu and TransVu providing support for Newton and Erdos.<BR> <BR> Martini and Wagner teamed together to win the 2003 Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series' GT class championship, while Collins has driven factory backed Corvettes in the American LeMans Series (ALMS) for the past several seasons. Newton and Erdos competed in the FIA GT Championship as team-mates in 2003 driving a Saleen S7R. Erdos captured the British GT championship in 2002.<BR> <BR> "I feel extremely lucky to have the line-up we do for our team's first run in the Rolex 24," stated MSR owner Michael Shank. "All these guys have a huge amount of experience driving high-horsepower GT machines and we expect them to be competitive right out of the box. Kenny Wilden, who drove for us in the Toyota Atlantic Series and has won in the Trans-Am Series, will shake down our new Toyota Doran JE-4 at Daytona, January 3-5, so when we roll it out of the transporter for the race at the end of the month we're confident it will be ready to go flat out."<BR> </FONT></TD></TR> </TABLE><BR> </CENTER> <BR><CENTER><font size="1" color="#808080" face="Tahoma">Copyright ©2000-©2023 TotalMotorSport</font></CENTER> </td> </tr> </table> </body>