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Race Report From Lara Tallman:
Team Skullcandy Finishes 5th at Grandam Season Opener!
Daytona was another eventful race for the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge and the CA Sport team. We were join by our crew of: Josh Sandel as crew chief, Mark Keeton as strategist, Jason Smith from Innovative Garage, Ryan Taylor, Tyler Burgoyne and The Pfadt Racing crew: Aaron Pfadt, Josh and Blair.
Practice for us went smoothly, not so much for some of the other teams which caused a black flag in the first session so I ended up getting only one hot lap. Daytona is a short event since the test is earlier in January and due to budget we weren’t there. That means that on Thursday we had two practice sessions, and then qualifying. Since the first session didn’t give me much track time I was hoping to get it together the quickly. The new track felt quite different, much smoother and faster. The car got up to speed sooner on the oval and caused the car to move more from turbulence. The set-up was pretty good from the start, but Vesko and the crew continued to improve the car and before I knew it it was time to qualify.
Qualifying, what can I say, not pretty. I was trying to find a gap to get a run, but it seemed like the race was on. After a couple of laps I found a hole and put down a better lap, but it was less than stellar so we started the race in 32nd 
I was in the car first as usual and my job was to stay out of trouble and to be very easy on the brakes. We still can hardly finish a race with any brakes left and staying out of trouble in the start of a Continental race is challenging. There were 45 cars in the ST field, 80 plus cars total, so it was a busy start. There were two full-course yellows in the first 30 minutes. Mark and Vesko decided to do our pit stop then as I radioed in that there were 5 cars involved and clean-up would be lengthy. I narrowly missed that pile-up, can’t wait to see the video. That happened half a lap after one of the Freedom cars got loose in the horseshoe and almost collected me. I think there were 5 full-course yellows during the race and many cars down—but not the Skullcandy Honda Civic si!
Sitting in the pit waiting for the outcome is torture, but watching Vesko show his usual style was excellent. He made it to 3rd place but couldn’t get by the KIA’s who were working together then he was hit repeatedly by one of the orange civics which happened to be a lap down and not competing in the top ten, but his teammate behind him was trying to catch Vesko. He turned Vesko twice and ripped off the back bumper, but Vesko held on for a 5th place finish.
After the race Grand-am pulled several cars for tech and a dyno test. I doubt well here anything from the results, but I’d love to. It took several hours so we were really late getting packed up and out.
On to Miami. . .
