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The team rallied last Saturday inDetroit for a fourth-place finish – GAINSCO'ssecond-best showing of the year – but believed they had a carthat could have won for the second consecutive race. Both times, in Detroit and at the preceding race at New JerseyMotorsports Park, on-track contact, some questionable calls andother issues combined to cost GAINSCO a shot at victory. Mid-Ohiocould be just what the team needs to turn its season around. "Mid-Ohio is definitely a GAINSCO track," Gurney said."We've had a couple of wins there and several poles. Ourseason didn't get any better in Detroit but we can still takethe positive that our car is very competitive and I think weimproved again at Detroit as far as outright speed.

We actuallygained a bit to the leaders points-wise too so we are not out ofthis thing yet. A lot of people have written us off at this pointbut we believe the 20 point deficit to the front is stillattainable." Fogarty, GAINSCO's usual qualifier, has three career DaytonaPrototype poles at Mid-Ohio, including last year's race,while Gurney captured what was then just the team's secondcareer pole on the Buckeye track in 2005. Fogarty's otherMid-Ohio poles were in 2007 and 2009. "Both Jon and I love that track and the car has been quickfrom the moment we rolled off the truck in our first race there wayback in 2005," Gurney said. "We've got so much Mid-Ohioexperience now in all different conditions that we're hopefully notleaving much on the table.

There's a great atmosphere there ofdie-hard road racing fans. I can't wait to hit the track!" Fogarty won GAINSCO's first pole of the season in Detroit,and the record-extending 20th of his career, and led the first 19laps of the race. GAINSCO appeared to be the team to beat but afaulty door latch created a delay during the first pit stop andeven more time was lost in a later stop amid the confusion of a"pit-closed" radio call by race officials. One raceprior to Detroit in New Jersey, Gurney was battling for the win inthe race's late stages only to be knocked out by rival ScottPruett.

"Very happy to be going to a track like Mid-Ohio where the 99has always proven to be fast," Fogarty said. "I am alsohappy to be going there so soon as well. We have had a very quickcar on the more technical courses this year and Mid-Ohio falls intothat category, so I am anxious to get back at it and get our firstwin. We have been in a great position in the last two races only tohave things beyond our control take us out of contention. It isgreat to be able to have another shot at it so soon and at such agreat track.

The GAINSCO team is ready." Mid-Ohio continues a grueling stretch of four races in five weeksthat began in Detroit. The only off weekend of the month followsSaturday's EMCO Gears Classic but another back-to-backstretch at Road America and Watkins Glen closes out June. "This is a very important stretch of the championship,"Gurney said. "This thing could be won or lost right here inthe next few weeks. Leaving the concrete confines of Detroit, itdefinitely is a plus that we got out of there without much damageto the car." Although the No.

99 had its fair share of battle scars from theDetroit race, the GAINSCO "Red Dragon" remains intactand more than ready for the next three races. "Always good to come out of a street course without havinghad a run in with a concrete wall," Fogarty said. The crew will be put to the test in June so it is good that theyare not going to be burned out by race number two repairing somedamage from Detroit. We still need to be careful because theCorvette bodywork is not exactly made for our Riley chassis, sothere is no such thing as a quick fix." Gurney and Fogarty, and the No.

99 GAINSCO Auto Insurance CorvetteDaytona Prototype, currently rank seventh in the respectiveGRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series Driver and Team Championships with122 points, just 20 points shy of the leaders. "Mid-Ohio is a downforce track but I am not sure that is thebest way to race," Fogarty said. "The straight atMid-Ohio is long and the braking zone is a classic passing area. Wewill have to figure our race configuration out closer to race time,but for all out elapsed time, you need downforce at Mid-Ohio andthe Corvette has it." Following practice and qualifying on Friday, race-day Saturdaystarts with final practice that morning at 8:40 a.m. before thatafternoon's race at 4:30 p.m.

local time. Noteworthy Although it is a tight turn around between Detroit and Mid-Ohio,both Gurney and Fogarty traveled back to their respective Westcoast homes. Gurney lives in Irvine, California with his wifeColleen and two young daughters while Fogarty and his wife Sarareside in Bend, Oregon with their young son and daughter."It's nice getting a few days at home during this longstretch," Gurney said. "My little two-year-old girlSavannah grows so quickly at this age and even looks different whenI come back from being gone for only a week!" Thecoast-to-coast travel takes its toll on Fogarty but he is wellaware that his wife doesn't exactly have it easy when he isgone.

"It is tough with the kids out of school to begone," Fogarty said. "It puts a lot on the wife'splate, and summer is short and we want to do stuff with ourfamilies. The calendar this summer is pretty packed, but all of itis fun stuff. July is looking good for some quality summer familytime.".

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