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Posted (07/17/2007) - The 2007 Season was scheduled to be a development year for Team Sahlen with their brand new HRPWorld.com Corvettes. Having received the Corvettes the week of the ROLEX 24 Hours, the race season began before the team had much chance to sort through the race cars.

But Team Sahlen took each race one at a time, using the race weekends as test sessions. This focused dedication has paid off and the results of that dedication has been demonstrated with a strong run of finishes. At Lime Rock Park, the #42 HRPWorld.com Corvette secured 7th placed. That was followed up by a duplicate 7th place by the #43 racer at Mid-Ohio. Then at last weekend's Iowa Speedway race, Team Sahlen's #42 captured 6th place. This was not only the team's best finish of the year, but the best finish by a Corvette in GT for 2007.

Now this weekend, Team Sahlen comes to Barber Motorsports Park. In the past, Team Sahlen has had strong success at the Alabama road course, having won in the KONI Challenge Series Grand Sports class races in 2003 & 2004.

"There is another test day at Barber, and that should really assist us in gaining valuable set up time at the twisty road course. We know that several of our competitors have been testing here, so we will have a bit of catching up to do."
- states Joe Nonnamaker

The ROLEX GT field will be 23 cars strong at Barber. This will make for an exciting, action packed event for the competitors as well as the race fans come Saturday.

"I am so proud of our crew. They have had to work so hard during this very tight schedule. By the time we race at Montreal in August, there will have been 8 races in 12 weeks. That is hard just to prepare cars from race to race, let alone develop a race car. But they have persevered and our pace has been showing that in recent events." - states Will Nonnamaker

The ROLEX Grand American GT race at Barber Motorsports Part will be televised live at SPEED TV on July 21st at 4 pm.

The 2007 Team Sahlen ROLEX GT Campaign is support by HRPWorld.com, GOJO, ZIP Products, Kempthorn Auto Mall, HAWK Performance, Forgeline Wheels, Cool Shirt, TheRaceSite.com, TheRaceMarket.com, Grassroots Motorsports, HOTSEAT, Holliday Canopies, Alcon, CM Racing, Joe Gibbs Motor Oil, Genesis Technologies, Endurance Karting, Racetech Seats, and Corsa Performance.
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