Starworks Motorsport scored a 1–2 finish in the Grand Am Rolex Rolex Continental Tire 200 on the Watkins Glen short course Saturday, the first 1–2 in the team’s history.
It was the second win in a row for Starworks; the #2 car of Sebastien Bourdais and Alex Popow won the previous race, the Brickyard Grand Prix at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, earning the team the North American Endurance Championship.
Ryan Dalzeil and co-driver Lucas Luhr in the in the #8 Riley-Ford led for 30 laps of the 91-lap race, holding off teammate Sebastien Bourdais in a four-lap sprint after a late yellow.
“It was an unbelievable job,” Dalziel told Grand-am.com. “We definitely felt in Indy that we could have had a 1–2 and after a couple of seasons of knocking on the door of a double podium, this is excellent. I don’t think it was just a podium for both cars. I think it was a pretty dominating performance.”
The win moved Dalziel to within six points of series leaders Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas, whose No. 01 Telmex-Ganassi Riley-BMW finished third.
