Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas have done it again in their BMW Riley Daytona Prototype! They’ve won their third consecutive Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series race, this time at Virginia International Raceway for the Bosch Engineering 250 at VIR. Once more the team dominated the race, leading an impressive 75 of the total 88 laps.

Unlike Pruett and Rojas, however, Mazda RX-8 drivers Emil Assentato and Jeff Segal, of SpeedSource, were unable to grab their third consecutive GT Class victory and finished second in class, behind TRG’s Ted Ballou and Andy Lally in their Porsche GT3 Cup. Less than a second was all that separated the two GT cars at the finish line.

Results:

POS  NO  CL  DRIVERS
  1   1  DP  Pruett / Rojas
  2  61  DP  Frisselle / Wilkins
  3  10  DP  Angelelli / Taylor
  4  59  DP  Donohue / Law
  5  99  DP  Fogarty / Gurney
  6   8  DP  Dalziel / Forest
  7   6  DP  Frisselle / Valiante
  8  77  DP  Gidley / von Moltke
  9   7  DP  Hand / Lester
 10  90  DP  Garcia / Rice
 11  75  DP  Jonsson / Krohn
 12  66  GT  Ballou / Lally
 13  69  GT  Assentato / Segal
 14   7  GT  Edwards / Russell
 15  44  GT  Potter / Stanton
 16  41  GT  Gue / Keen
 17  30  GT  Lamb / Taylor
 18  57  GT  Davis / Liddell
 19  94  GT  Auberlen / Dalla Lana / Hand
 20  70  GT  Bomarito / Tremblay
 21  97  GT  Pumpelly / Schaldach
 22  68  GT  Christodoulou / Edwards
 23  40  GT  Dempsey / Espenlaub / Foster
 24  43  GT  Nonnamaker / Nonnamaker
 25  46  GT  Lewis / Pilgrim
 26  56  GT  Bennett IV / Skeen
 27   9  DP  Barbosa / Borcheller / France
 28  42  GT  Nonnamaker / Sahlen
 29  28  GT  Collins / Lux
 30  81  GT  Huisman / Murry
 31  31  GT  Curran / Whelen
 32  60  DP  Negri / Pew

The final 2009 season race of the KONI Challenge Series was won by Bret Seafuse and James Gue at Virginia International Raceway. The JBS Motorsports team raced their #37 Trumansburg ShurSave Mustang GT to the checkered flag beating out the second place finishers (Andrew Hendricks and Terry Borcheller / #28 BMW M3) by just 1.305 seconds.

Seafuse and Gue, who celebrated their second win of the season, finished second in the final points standings – each with 309 points. Ahead of them was Ken Wilden, of Rehagen Racing, who was crowned the KONI Challenge Series champion for 2009. Wilden, who also celebrated two victories in 2009 lead the field with 317 points.

In the ST class, the race victory went to Derek Whitis and Tom Long in the #145 Mazda MX-5 of Freedom Autosport. Christian Miller, despite finishing 21st in today’s race, retained the championship lead with 15 points ahead of Andrew Aquilante, who finished second in the ST final points standings.

Top GS Finishers of the 2009 KONI Challenge Series Race in Virginia:

Pos   No  Class  Car             Drivers
  1  #37     GS  Mustang GT      Bret Seafuse
                                 James Gue

  2  #28     GS  BMW M3          Andrew Hendricks
                                 Terry Borcheller

  3   #8     GS  Porsche 997     Daniel DiLeo
                                 Eric Foss 

  4  #96     GS  BMW M3          Bill Auberlen
                                 Matt Bell

  5  #91     GS  BMW M3          Charles Putman
                                 Charles Espenlaub

Top ST Finishers of the 2009 KONI Challenge Series Race in Virginia:

Pos   No  Class  Car             Drivers
 19 #145     ST  Mazda MX-5      Derek Whitis
                                 Tom Long

 20  #95     ST  BMW 328i        Paul Dalla Lana
                                 Will Turner

 21 #146     ST  Mazda MX-5      Mark Pombo
                                 Andrew Carbonell

 22  #75     ST  Honda Civic Si  Randy Pobst
                                 Jamie Holtom

 23 #111     ST  Subaru Legacy   Kristian Skavnes
                                 Andrew Aquilante

Top GS Drivers in the 2009 KONI Challenge Series Final Points:

Pos  Name          Points
  1  Ken Wilden       317
  2  James Gue        309
     Bret Seafuse     309
  3  Matt Bell        288
  4  Dean Martin      287
  5  Jack Roush Jr    272

Top ST Drivers in the 2009 KONI Challenge Series Final Points:

Pos  Name             Points 
  1  Christian Miller    296
  2  Kristian Skavnes    281
     Andrew Aquilante    281
  3  Randy Pobst         263
  4  Andrew Carbonell    259
  5  Ian Baas            236

Related Links:
Grand-Am KONI Challenge Series: Series Facts, Schedule, Standings, News, Videos

The Grand-Am KONI Challenge Series spent the weekend at VIRginia International Raceway, which wrapped up with two split class races.

Saturday’s race saw the ST class take to the track for their final race of the season. Lawson Aschenbach, Ken Dobson, and Jamie Holtom of Georgian Bay Motorsports took the win in their Chevrolet Cobalt SS. Close behind was the Compass360 Racing entry driven by Adam Burrows and Trevor Hopwood. Finishing in third place was the sister car to the winning entry – the Georgian Bay Motorsports machine driven by Lawson Aschenbach, Eric Curran, and Jamie Holtom.

On Sunday it was time for the GS class to hit the track for their final race of 2008. Finishing in the top two positions were the Ford Mustangs of Rehagen Racing. The first one driven by Mike Canney, Hugh Plumb, and Matt Plumb, and the second one piloted by Dean Martin, Ryan Phinny, and Jack Roush Jr.

The full results from both races can be found here:

2008 Virginia International Raceway Split Classes Results

The final points standings for both classes have been updated and are available at the following location:

Grand-Am KONI Challenge Series: 2008 Standings