TRG to Field Five Potent Porsche Entries for Rolex 24 Team is looking for third Rolex 24 win

Petaluma, Calif., When the TRG armada of transporters unloads for the Grand-Am Rolex Series Rolex 24 Hours At Daytona, the numbers will be TRG Team Headertrumped by quality and speed. TRG will field five cars for the twice around the clock race on January 24-25 with the hope and expectation of bringing home their third Rolex 24 Hour GT win.

Piloting the five Porsche 997 TRG GT class sports cars will be a who's who of the top sports car drivers from around the globe. With drivers from five different countries emerging on the World Center of Racing with a single goal of returning to their homeland with a shiny Rolex Daytona wrist watch.

The No. 63 TRG/Guardian Angel Motorsports (GAM) entry includes an all east coast driver lineup that will be racing for a children's charity. The team consisting of Bruce Ledoux, David Quinlan, Dan Watkins, Steve Zadig and Kurt Kossman has taken on the added challenge of gathering donations on a per lap or lump sum basis to aid Children's Hospital Boston and their comprehensive center for pediatric health care. The GAM web site, www.guardianangelmotorsports.com, is in place to take donations and explain the basics of this worthy cause.

The No. 65 Riegel-Stanton Porsche will be driven by John Potter, Craig Stanton, Bryce Miller and Marco Holzer. After a stellar performance in 2008, Potter returns to TRG in 2009 and will partner Grand-Am series veteran and 2005 GT series champion Stanton. Multiple GT series race winner Bryce Miller will add outright speed and consistency to the lineup while young gun Porsche Factory Driver Marco Holzer brings youth and a lot of Porsche miles behind the wheel of a 997. The team will also be turning laps for a worthy charity, flying the colors for the "65 Roses Sports Club," a division of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The team will be giving several behind the scenes tours and VIP experiences for charitable donations. For more information be sure to check out www.65rosesracing.com.

In the historic No. 66 AXA Insurance/Mitchell Rubber TRG Porsche Ted Ballou, Tim George Jr., Spencer Pumpelly, Emmanuel Collard and Richard Lietz will be a team to be reckoned with at the 24. Ballou and Pumpelly drove most of the 2008 season together. George Jr. is the reigning GT series winner of the Akin and MESCO rookie awards. Collard is a Porsche Factory Driver with a world class endurance pedigree. Richard Lietz, also a top factory driver, will help to round out this potent lineup of experienced road racers.

The No. 67 Construct Corps/ CRG/ No Fear Energy Drinks/ K1 Speed/ Gemstone Winery TRG Porsche will see Justin Marks teamed with RJ Valentine, Andy Lally, Patrick Long and Joerg Bergmeister. This quintet should be a threat to top the charts in practice, qualifying and at 3:30 p.m. on January 25th. Lally and Marks most recently banged wheels in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and will be teammates for the full 2009 GT season. Marks drove in sports cars as a Factory BMW driver for three years prior to his foray into truck racing. RJ Valentine last teamed with Andy Lally in 2007, winning five races together. Long is a Porsche Factory Driver and a Rolex Series race winner in both GT and Daytona Prototype (DP) cars. Bergmeister, also a factory driver, is the 2006 Rolex Series DP champion as well as winning two Daytona 24 hour races with TRG team owner Kevin Buckler as his co-driver.

The No. 68 James Farrell & Co./ Pallis Properties, Inc./ COLO Columbia River Logistics/ TRG Porsche will feature Josemanuel Gutierrez, Steve Miller and Chris Pallis all bringing a healthy level of speed and experience to the effort. For Gutierrez it will be his first 24 as he continues his steady ascension through the professional racing ranks. For Miller and Pallis they have been there multiple times before and will be looking for a top finish.