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Rolex Grand Am GT - Segal And Assentato Build GT Points Lead AtMid-Ohio LEXINGTON, June 10, 2012: Jeff Segal, with co-driver EmilAssentato, finished second in Saturday's EMCO Gears Classicat Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course to build his biggest GT points leadof the season in the No. 69 AIM Autosport Team FXDD Ferrari 458Italia Grand Am that has finished no lower than fourth in the lastfive races. The runner-up placing was the fourth podium appearance of the 2012season for Segal and Assentato after scoring back-to-back winsearlier in the year at Homestead-Miami Speedway and New JerseyMotorsports Park. Segal and his teammates also finished second inMarch's race at Barber Motorsports Park and fourth last weekin Detroit. Saturday at Mid-Ohio, starting driver Assentato did a great jobrecovering from an early bump-and-run hit from a Daytona Prototypeand handed the Ferrari over to Segal just past the race's onehour mark.
"It was a really close race like it always seems to be atMid-Ohio," Segal said. "We were off pit sequence allday on fuel strategy, we pitted early on the first yellow andnobody else took it, but we knew we needed it. We knew wecouldn't do the race on two stops, so we pitted early andthen got some help from the cautions. We gained some track positionand then fought to hold on at the end." Segal led two laps with less than an hour to go in the race but wascontent with the second-place run after the early close call. "Second place wasn't perfect but it was a damn goodrecovery," Segal said.
"We had contact early in therace, and fell way back, but Emil recovered and drove a reallystrong stint. We knew we had a good race car so we just keptchipping away at it. We leap frogged a couple of people throughsome crafty pit strategy that played out earlier in the race and atthe end we were P2, a nice podium at Mid-Ohio, and we extended thepoints lead a little bit. It was a good day." Segal added to his GT class championship lead for the thirdconsecutive race and now has an 11 point edge on the competition,his first double-digit points lead of the season.
Segal andAssentato, the 2010 GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series GT champions,now have 185 points while nearest challenger Robin Liddell has 174points. The No. 69 AIM Autosport Team FXDD Ferrari 458 Italia GrandAm leads the team championship standings with the same points totaland margin. Segal and his AIM Autosport Team FXDD teammates also raced Saturdayin support of Ferrari's fundraising effort for the victims ofthe recent earthquakes in Italy.
Two devastating earthquakes shookthe Emilia-Romagna region of Italy last month, not far from theFerrari factory. A 6.0-magnitude quake May 20th and a 5.8-magnitudetremor May 30th left a wake of destruction and countless victims.Ferrari quickly announced its online auction for the relief effortand Segal and AIM Autosport Team FXDD jumped at the chance toextend some support. "We were racing for a win, we were racing for points and wewere also racing to promote the charity auction that Ferrari.comhas going on right now to benefit the earthquake victims in theEmilia region around the Ferrari factory," Segal said."There's lots of F1 memorabilia pieces that are up forauction, all of the proceeds go to the victims in that region, andwe are going to donate a portion of our prize money from Mid-Ohioto the cause as well. So a good finish, some good winnings and agood donation for them.". I am Drinking Water writer, reports some information about star popcorn machine , star popcorn popper.
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