AASCO Motorsports Announces Rolex Series Championship Effort

AASCO Motorsports Announces Rolex Series Championship Effort
 
 
ANAHEIM, Calif., December 15, 2003 - Multi-time championship winning
entrant AASCO Motorsports announced its return to professional sports
car racing today at its Anaheim, California shop. The team, owned and
managed by legendary racer Dennis Aase, will compete with two 2004
Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars  in the 2004 Grand American Road Racing
Association (Grand-Am) Rolex Series' Super Grand Sport (SGS) class. The
team will field Nos. 16 and 17 at each of the 12 stops on the
championship trail for the new production-based class starting at the
world-renowned Rolex 24 at Daytona (International Speedway) in January.
The lead Hoosier-tired Porsche will be driven by two of the sport's
premier road racers; Craig Stanton, of Long Beach, California, and David
Murry of Cumming, Georgia. The second entry will be driven by Porsche
Club standouts Mark Webber, Gary Becker, Joe Kunz and Pat Flanagan. Aase
has gone to great lengths to acquire the best in equipment and personnel
for the assault on the SGS championship. Key team members include Randy
Aase, Thomas Blum as race strategist, Joe Hullett as data acquisition
specialist and race engineer Harry Haggard. 
 
"One of the things that makes me the happiest about this program is that
we have really intelligent drivers in Craig and David that have
experience going more than three hours," enthused Aase. "We would like
to be able to use the talent that we have to make up for any deficits
that we have built into the rules. For the second car, between Mark
Webber and Joe Kunz, those guys can run with almost anyone. They are
both very fast. Both cars will be treated equally and both will be
capable of winning. I have been very encouraged with the way that
Porsche is approaching this program. We are getting wonderful support
from Porsche. Our first tests with the '04 cars went extremely well and
we are all very enthusiastic about getting to Daytona."
 
"I am thrilled to be a part of this," remarked lead driver Stanton.
"Dennis was one of my heroes as a kid and I'm excited about racing in
the Grand-Am with AASCO again. He has really put together the 'A-list'
team here. David Murry has been a friend of mine for years and our
talents really seem to mesh well together. The entire program is
top-notch. I think Dennis has done an awesome job of getting guys that
are the best and can work well together. I can't wait to get the season
started. This is my best opportunity in Grand-Am. This is a championship
caliber team."
 
"This is an extraordinary opportunity for me because this is a premier
team," offered Murry. "True success of a team comes from enjoying what
you are doing and I am enjoying this. My co-driver is not only a good
driver but a good friend. This is going to be a competitive year but a
fun year."
 
AASCO first came to the forefront of motorsports in 1995 winning the
IMSA GT-3 title and with success as the Toyota factory effort in the
Firehawk series. However, Dennis Aase's involvement in racing covers 30
years and includes multiple victories, championships and records set as
a driver that stand to this day. Since the late '90s, AASCO has prepared
cars for the Rolex Series first with EMC AASCO Racing and then with
BoDuck AASCO Racing. The team is based in Anaheim, Calif. where it
enjoys complete chassis and body fabrication facilities as well as a
state of the art engine building shop overseen by Randy Aase.
 
For more on AASCO Motorsports and Craig Stanton, please visit
www.CraigStanton.com. For more on David Murry, please visit
www.DavidMurry.com . 
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Contact: Tom Moore, AASCO Motorsports: 615-599-7034 (office),
404-229-3703 (cell), tom@darkhorsecom.com