Borcheller, Stanton Take Show on Road

After a day of practicing on California Speedway’s twisting 2.8-mile road course Friday, drivers in the Grand American Rolex Sports Car series get serious today.

Terry Borcheller, who has won at least one professional sports car championship in each of the last six years, will go for No. 7 when he lines up his Cadillac CTS-V for the Lexus Grand American 250 today at 2 p.m. To win the championship, the Gainesville, Ga., veteran needs to win or finish directly behind Craig Stanton of Long Beach.

Stanton has won six races to four for Borcheller, but because he missed a race at Mid-Ohio, Stanton trails Borcheller by four points with today’s race closing out the season. The two were co-drivers for the first three races. Stanton was fastest Friday with a speed of 94.421 mph.

Borcheller will drive with Devon Powell of Canada; Stanton will share a Porsche 996 with David Murry of Cumming, Ga.

“Fontana should be a strong track for our car,” said Borcheller, who won his class on the track the last two years and set a race-lap record last year. “The track has a nice flow to it and I’ve done well in both the Daytona Prototypes and the SRPII [sports racer prototype].”

In addition to the 250-mile Grand Am race, there will be qualifying for the Daytona Prototypes and other Rolex Series cars that will race Sunday in the Lexus Grand American 400. Each race today and Sunday will be 89 laps; today’s is 250 miles, Sunday’s 400 kilometers.

Max Angelelli, in owner and co-driver Wayne Taylor’s Pontiac-powered Riley, posted the fastest practice lap for Daytona Prototypes at 111.540 mph. In the GT class, which will run with the prototypes Sunday, points leader Bill Auberlen was quickest at 102.643.