DUNO AND TEAM TO START 5TH TOMORROW AT ROLEX 24
Teammate
Carpentier Qualifies CITGO Racing Team 5th on
Grid
January 26, 2007, Los Angeles, CA...The CITGO Racing Team will start
tomorrow's famous 24-hour endurance race at Daytona 5th on the grid.
Duno's
teammate Patrick Carpentier earned the #11 CITGO Pontiac Riley a starting
spot in the top-five during qualifying on Thursday. Darren Manning
and Ryan
Dalziel will join Duno and Carpentier to complete the four-driver team
for
the 45th running of the Rolex 24 At Daytona this Saturday and Sunday,
January 27 and 28.
The drivers and crew have completed all on-track sessions in preparation
for
tomorrow's 1:30pm ET start and will now enjoy the fan interaction and
pre-race ceremonies scheduled for Saturday morning and leading up to
the
start of the race. Duno, Carpentier, Manning and Dalziel are looking
forward
to the opportunity to meet race fans in person during the official
autograph
session that will begin at 10:30am. Next will be the Rolex Driver
introductions and pre-race ceremonies on the grid until 1:00pm ET.
FOX Sports and the SPEED Channel will combine to air live fifteen hours
of
the big race. At 1:00pm ET on Saturday live FOX Sports coverage will
begin
and will include 30 minutes of extensive pre-race programming and the
first
hour of race action. SPEED's coverage will be broken into three segments
totaling 13.5 hours - from 2:30-6:30pm ET on Saturday, then again from
8:00-10:00pm ET the same evening, and then resuming at 6:00am ET on
Sunday
and continuing until the checkered flag and post-race interviews.
Live Timing and Scoring of all practice and qualifying sessions and
the
24-hour race is available on the Internet at www.grandamerican.com.
CITGO, based in Houston, Texas, is a refiner, transporter and marketer
of
transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals, refined waxes, asphalt
and
other industrial products. The company is owned by PDV America, Inc.,
an
indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela,
S.A., the
national oil company of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. For more
information on CITGO visit www.citgo.com.
For the past three years, well-known Latina racecar driver Milka Duno
has
been featured in Pontiac's advertising campaigns. Pontiac is a division
of
General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM) and markets the G6 sedan, coupe
and
retractable hardtop convertible; Grand Prix; Solstice roadster; Vibe
and
Torrent. In 2005, Pontiac sold more than 437,000 vehicles, ranking
third
among GM divisions in total sales. For the 2007 model year, Pontiac
will be
launching the turbocharged Solstice GXP. Pontiac also launched the
entry-level G5 coupe in the Fall 2006. More information on Pontiac
and its
products can be found at www.pontiac.com.
Information in Spanish can be
found at www.pontiac.com/sp.
For additional information on Milka please visit www.milkaduno.com.
For more
information on the Rolex Sports Car Series please log on to
www.grandamerican.com.
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