Friday, January 25, 2008
Oz Negri and Mark Patterson (l.) took pole for the Rolex 24, while A.J. Allmendinger, Burt Frisselle, Ian James and John Pew will start alongside.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - In qualifying for the Rolex 24 at Daytona, every team that qualified in the top 10 has at least one (and in many cases, two or more) Skip Barber drivers (graduates and/or instructors) on the team. On pole is
Oz Negri, Mark Patterson, Graham Rahal and Justin Wilson in the #60 Riley-Ford. Alongside is
A.J. Allmendinger, Burt Frisselle, Ian James and
John Pew. Row two is
Ryan Hunter-Reay,
Jim Matthews, Marc Goosens and Johnny O’Connel next to Wayne Taylor,
Ricky Taylor and Michael Valiante. Row three has
Brian Frisselle, Andrew Ranger, Mark Wilkins and Colin Braun, next to
Juan Pablo Montoya, Memo Rojas, Dario Franchitti and Scott Pruett. In row four is
David Donohue, Darren Law and Buddy Rice, starting next to
Milka Duno, Ryan Dalziel, Tomas Enge and Harold Primat. And in the fifth row there’s Matt Plumb, Quentin Wahl and Paddy Shovlin, inside of
Salvador Duran, Scott Dixon, Alex Lloyd and
Dan Wheldon. Oh, and for the record, qualifying 11th was the car of
Jon Fogarty, Alex Gurney, Jimmie Johnson and Jimmy Vasser.
Click on this link for the full starting grid...Skip Barber-trained drivers in bold Rick Roso
