SRO America

Sears Point: AD, Stu Hayner preview

Stu Hayner Infineon Raceway Pre Race Report No. 5 GMAC / Trenton Forging GTO On A Roll Into Round Seven Detroit -- July 13, 2005 With his fourth place finish at Lime Rock Park and a development program that is starting to hit its stride, Stu ...

Published: Jul 14, 2005, 11:16 AM

Copy link

Share on Viber

Add as a preferred source

Stu Hayner Infineon Raceway Pre Race Report
No. 5 GMAC / Trenton Forging GTO On A Roll Into Round Seven

Detroit -- July 13, 2005 With his fourth place finish at Lime Rock Park and a development program that is starting to hit its stride, Stu Hayner wants to keep moving the GMAC Commercial Finance / Trenton Forging #5 GTO heading in the right direction for Round Seven of the SCCA Pro SPEED World Challenge GT race at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California, July 15-17. The race is in conjunction with the American Le Mans Series and part of the Infineon Grand Prix of Sonoma Presented by Ravenswood.

"This west coast swing will be a real test for our guys and this program," said Hayner. "Now is the time to step it up. We've made great progress in the last four races, but they're already history. Our guys know that the next steps in our progress are really tough. You can shave 1/10s of your time with a change here and a change there. But now we need to find those 1/100ths-- we need to find that extra speed at the long end of the straights."

"We've done a great job zoning in on the car's handling," Hayner continued. "That was such massive problem with last year's car that it became our primary focus with our 2005 cars. Horsepower has been somewhat secondary. We knew we had to focus on getting the car in and off the corners--. we've done that. I can really feel the car now-- and I can put it where I need to be whether I'm in traffic or in the corners. Now we need top end speed-- I can manage the rest."

Hayner and his Autosport Development team will have their opportunity to finally put the #5 GTO on the podium this Saturday at The Infineon Grand Prix of Sonoma Presented by Ravenswood. The weekend schedule calls for the SPEED GT race to run Saturday at 1:05pm and the Touring Car race to run on Sunday at 2:50pm. Both races will air Sunday, July 17th on SPEED with the GT race at 1:30pm the Touring Car race at 6pm. All times are EST.

Autosport Development competes as part of the SPEED World Challenge GT Series. All events are nationally televised on SPEED channel (formerly Speedvision). In 2005 the SPEED World Challenge Series schedule will include street races and temporary circuits in Cleveland, Denver and St. Petersburg, and make the traditional stops around the country at great tracks like Sebring, Road Atlanta, Lime Rock Park, Infineon, Mosport, Portland, Mid-Ohio and Laguna Seca.

-www.GoAutosport.com

We want your opinion!

What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?

Take our 5 minute survey.

- The Motorsport.com Team

Read and post comments

Share Or Save This Story

Copy link

Share on Viber

Previous article Edmonton: Hima Maher preview

Next article Loudon: Kevin Harvick preview

Top Comments

There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?

View More & Comment

Latest news

Alex Bowman hits out at critics in snarky post, shooting down early exit rumors

NASCAR Cup

NAS NASCAR Cup

Homestead-Miami

3 h

Alex Bowman hits out at critics in snarky post, shooting down early exit rumors

Ryan Blaney gets sweet redemption after 'nightmares' following 2024 Homestead loss

NASCAR Cup

NAS NASCAR Cup

Homestead-Miami

4 h

Ryan Blaney gets sweet redemption after 'nightmares' following 2024 Homestead loss

IndyCar 2026 season review: Dale Coyne Racing

IndyCar

Indy IndyCar 4 h

IndyCar 2026 season review: Dale Coyne Racing

Noah Gragson apologizes to Daniel Suarez for spinning him at Homestead

NASCAR Cup

NAS NASCAR Cup

Homestead-Miami

4 h

Noah Gragson apologizes to Daniel Suarez for spinning him at Homestead

Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.

From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.

You have 2 options:

Become a subscriber.
Disable your adblocker.

Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here

Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page

Manage Alerts