GMI Shines in the Wet at VIR

Courtesy Greisiger Motorsports

Greisiger Motorsports left Virginia International Raceway last Sunday with two top 5 finishes in race contested by a huge 38 car field to start its 2007 season. In its debut in the Hankook F2000 Series, the team's principal drivers, Brendan Puderbach , in the Pioneer Magnetics #93, and Douglas Kniffin, finished 4th and 5th respectively in Sunday's race with Douglas Kniffin, driver of the #13 Triad Magnetics car leading and turning the fastest lap times of the race before spinning in the driving rain.

"I lost my radios on lap 3 and didn't know how much time was left or where I was on the track position wise so all I could do was push. Unfortunately, I pushed a little too hard when I had the lead and a decent cushion but, there was no way for me to know at the time." said a frustrated Kniffi.

Satellite team Fat Boy Racing had a productive weekend coming off a testing shunt on Thursday morning that featured both Thom Reilly and Charles Finelli. However they stayed out of trouble for the remainder of the weekend under the guidance of Chris Burke, who drove the #00 to an 11th place finish in the monsoon on Sunday.

Team rookie Christopher Gumprecht was able to get further accustomed to the Zetec over the course of the weekend. Gumprecht battled alternator problems throughout Saturday and Sunday but was able to turn some promising laps and improve upon his base times set on Thursday.

Team cars driven by Ric Baribeault and Len Amato came home 12th and 16th in the wet. Baribeault was able to overcome clutch troubles and a huge practice crash to drive a trouble free race.

All 8 cars entered as part of the Greisiger organization in the race returned to the pits after the race without damage which was a feat worthy of mentioning as the race cut short due to horrible conditions and a race track littered with crash damaged cars.

Pictures from the VIR weekend as well as dramatic in car camera videos of the race are available on the team's web site, www.greisigermotorsports.com.

The team moves on to Lime Rock Park to test next week and then on to Road Atlanta for the next race weekend in the Hankook F2000 Championship on the weekend of May 13th.

For more information and video visit www.GreisigerMotorsports.com.