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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">09/07/2004</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">Auberlen Leads GT Axciom Grand Touring Challenge</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">Nonnamaker Cleans Up SGS</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>Auberlen Leads GT Axciom Grand Touring Challenge; Nonnamaker Cleans Up</B><BR> <BR> GT co-points leader Bill Auberlen leads the Acxiom Grand Touring Challenge through the halfway point of the 2004 Rolex Sports Car Series, while SGS driver Wayne Nonnamaker earned a $5,000 windfall from Acxiom for his class victory in last week’s Paul Revere 250 presented by Brumos Porsche. In its second year, the Acxiom Grand Touring Challenge offers $1,000 awards to the fastest qualifier and race winner in the GT division and a $1,500 bonus if the same car wins the pole and the race. <BR> <BR> In SGS, Acxiom gives $750 to each pole and race winner, and $1,000 if the same car does both. In both classes, if the pole sitter fails to win the race, the bonus rolls over to the next race. Auberlen and his former co-driver in the No. 21 Prototype Technology Group BMW M3, Boris Said, earned consecutive pole, race and bonus awards from Round 2 at Miami through Round 5 at Watkins Glen, and Auberlen collected another race-winner bonus with new co-driver, Justin Marks, for winning the Paul Revere 250 last week. As a result, Auberlen and the No. 21 have won $15,000 from Acxiom thus far.<BR> <BR> Other GT winners of the Acxiom Grand Touring Challenge were the No. 74 Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche GT3 Cup which was the Rolex 24 At Daytona fastest GT qualifier, the Rolex 24 At Daytona class-winning No. 44 Orbit Racing Porsche GT3 RS team and the No. 67 The Racer’s Group Porsche GT3 RS team that qualified on the class pole for the Paul Revere 250. In SGS, the rollover bonus went unclaimed through the first five races until Wayne Nonnamaker took his class pole sitting No. 41 ORISON-Planet Earth Motorsports Porsche GT3 Cup to SGS victory in the Paul Revere 250. Nonnamaker was rewarded for his efforts by a $750 fastest qualifier bonus, the $750 race winner bonus, the regular $1,000 bonus for winning from the pole, and $5,000 for becoming the first driver to win from the class pole in 2004. Nonnamaker’s total take from Acxiom was $9,000. <BR> <BR> Other SGS teams to receive the fast qualifier bonus were the No. 38 TPC Racing Porsche GT3 Cup (poles at the Rolex 24 At Daytona and Mont-Tremblant), the No. 71 Doncaster Racing Porsche GT3 Cup (Miami), the No. 16 AASCO Motorsports Porsche GT3 Cup (Phoenix) and the No. 36 TPC Racing Porsche GT3 Cup (Watkins Glen). Teams to earn the SGS race winner bonus are the No. 91 team (Rolex 24 At Daytona). the No. 16 team (Miami), the No. 36 team (Phoenix and Mont-Tremblant) and the No. 38 team (Watkins Glen). Acxiom is also the title sponsor of the GT division of the Rolex Sports Car Series.<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>