Team Sahlen is coming off a fantastic 3^rd place at the recent ROLEX Sports Car Series Event at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.  Additionally, Team Sahlen also secured a fine 10^th place finish in GT.  Compiled with the 3 Top Ten finishes at the prior event at Watkins Glen, Team Sahlen is on a streak of 5 Top Ten’s in 2 races.  This brings the team’s 2012 total to 13 Top Ten’s.  This is the most in ROLEX GT competition to date in 2012.

Pairing in the #43 Mazda RX-8 will be the “Wayne & Dane Show” of Wayne Nonnamaker & Dane Cameron.  The duo currently sit in 6^th place in the GT Driver Standings.

Team Sahlen’s Dane Cameron is very familiar with Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca – “Growing up in Northern California Mazda Raceway is always a special weekend for me. It is always fun to have extra friends and family come out to see the race, especially now that I live in Atlanta it's great to catch up with everyone. I think we should be very competitive at MRLS, it is a handling and momentum track and that plays to the strength of our Sahlen's Mazda RX-8 which has be driving great lately.”

Wayne Nonnamaker will again be pulling double duty at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, where in addition to his duties as starter for the #43 and finisher for Joe Nonnamaker in the #42 - “I always enjoy Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.  The track seems to suit our RX-8s, and a personally enjoy the rolling terrain of the track.  We qualified 2^nd here last year, and a freak mechanical issue put us back in the race.  Hopefully we can find some redemption here this year.”

For the event this weekend, Team Sahlen will be entering the #49 “Soccer Ball” Mazda RX-8 for Joe Sahlen and Will Nonnamaker.  Although not a full time entrant in the 2012 season, for the 2012 season the #49 will have entered 6 events.  After a one race hiatus, Joe Sahlen makes a return to ROLEX competition – “I always look forward to racing at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.  My business schedule does not allow me to attend every race during the calendar year, but I always make it a point to put this event on my races to run.  The Murphy’s Law that was Team Sahlen’s race here last  year struck our #49 RX-8.  After a great 9^th place finish recently at Watkins Glen, I feel that momentum is on our side in the #49, and hope to secure another Top 10 this weekend.”

Currently in the Points Standings, Team Sahlen continues to make improvements.  Wayne Nonnamaker’s 3^rd place finish at Montreal pushed him into 2^nd place in the Bob Akin Sportsman Award Standings, behind Emil Assentato.  Additionally, both the #42 (7^th) and the #43 (9^th) are comfortably in the Top Ten in the GT points standings. 

The September 9^th event at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca will be 2 hour and 45 minutes long.  The race will air live at 3 pm ET. 

The 2012 Team Sahlen campaign in the

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