O’Connell Racing Heads to the Wine Country at Infineon with Rolex Series
Aug 23, 2006 O'Connell Racing 12241 Views
NEWPORT BEACH, CA. — (National Distribution) August 23rd, 2006.
The team travels to beautiful Sonoma Valley and Infineon Raceway in the last weekend of August to compete in the Rolex Series with both the GT cars and the Daytona Prototypes racing together. Additionally, the Indy Racing League will be present with their primary race on Sunday. O’Connell and Speakman will be piloting the Taleo Grill-General Environmental Porsche GT-3 car. For this race, Speakman will take all first practices and will qualify the car. Driver and Team Owner Kevin O’Connell commented, “ Mike will be responsible for most of the driving duties this weekend until the driver change at some point after the first pit stop. Unfortunately, I will miss Thursday and Friday practice as well as qualifying due to commitments with General Environmental’s acquisition of PCI – Pollution Control Industries. This is a track that the team has done well at in the ASC – American Stock Car road racing series with a track record and multiple poles and wins. Even with all of our challenges this month we should be in good shape.”
Marketing partners of OCR for the weekend at Sonoma will be managed by SpeedSport Branding, LLC: General Environmental Management, Inc., Taleo Grill, Mothers Polishes-Waxes-Cleaners, Dragon Optical, Crow Enterprises, HPC West, MicroFiberStuff.com, Neo Synthetics, SparcoUSA, Streamline Designs and BASF. The entire race will be broadcast on the SPEED Channel, check your local listing for times.
Team Solid at Daytona, Heads to Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama Next
Jul 10, 2006 O'Connell Racing 12403 Views
NEWPORT BEACH, CA. — (National Distribution) JULY 10th, 2006.
Independence Day weekend saw the Rolex Series merged into a jammed pack racing weekend at Daytona International with the NASCAR Busch and Nextel Cup Series. With rain threatening and temperatures and humidity significant factors, the team became acclimated to the track quickly. Practice was as completed as scheduled for the first day with speeds in the Taleo Grill — GEM GT-3 reaching 175 MPH on the front tri-oval. O’Connell and Speakman adjusted to the infield road course and adapted to the changes in the car for the superspeedway portion of the track. Race day practice was cancelled as well as scheduled qualifying due to timing and scoring problems at the track. O’Connell was set up on the grid for the race according to season points. O’Connell drove the first have of the race with only small contact into turn 1 with a Daytona Prototype and handed the car off to Speakman having moved as high as 10th place during the race. Montgomery and O’Brien agreed to a late pit stop strategy in an effort to try to catch a caution and put the leaders a lap down. Roy Montgomery stated, “ We saw the leaders cycle thru their pit stops and stayed out as long as we could. Kevin did a great job of driving the car late on worn tires but we decided to make the call and do the pit stop under green flag conditions. Mike did a great job of keeping the car out of trouble and finishing in 14th place. Now we are focused on getting prepared for Barbers Motorsports Park at the end of the month.”
The Barber Motorsports race will include the current marketing partners of OCR managed by SpeedSport Branding, LLC: General Environmental Management, Inc., Taleo Grill, Mothers Polishes-Waxes-Cleaners, Dragon Optical, Crow Enterprises, HPC West, MicroFiberStuff.com, Neo Synthetics, SparcoUSA, Streamline Designs and BASF. The entire race will be broadcast live on the SPEED channel, check your local listing for times.
O’Connell & Speakman to Run Rolex 24 at Daytona With Pechnick, Roush & Bowles
Jan 22, 2006 O'Connell Racing 12440 Views
NEWPORT BEACH, CA. — (National Distribution) January 22nd, 2006.
Coming off a record breaking win at the annual 25 Hours of Thunderhill in northern California, O’Connell Racing (OConnellRacing.com), a southern California based Grand American Rolex Series and NASCAR road racing team announced today that it has entered the 24 Hours of Daytona. Team drivers Kevin O’Connell and Michael Speakman will be joined by ALMS GT2 driver Lonnie Pechnik, IMSA winning driver Kevin Roush and NASCAR driver Jason Bowles. Kevin O’Connell commented, “ we have been preparing for this race for months and the entry list for this years race is evidence that the 24 Hours of Daytona is a unique race involving the most diverse drivers from the best racing series in the world today.” The team has entered its Porsche GT-3 Cup car for the 24 hour event and will engage the same partners for the Daytona race that the team used for the 25 Hours of Thunderhill. Technical Director, Roy Montgomery stated, ” Our GT-3 for Thunderhill was mechanically flawless for the entire weekend in Thunderhill thanks to the efforts and the expertise of BBI in Huntington Beach. The 24 Hour race will be broadcast on Fox initially and then switch to Speed channel for in depth coverage and analysis.