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Angelelli holds on to victory

Max Angelelli held off Scott Pruett in the closing laps of the Food City 250 at Phoenix International Raceway to give SunTrust Racing its first-ever Rolex Sports Car Series win on Saturday night.

Angelelli took the wheel of the Pontiac-powered Riley early in the race when Wayne Taylor brought it in during the second full-course caution. Angelelli piloted the car into second-place and claimed the lead when polesitter Max Papis pitted on lap 82 to hand the Chip Ganassi Racing Riley-Lexus over to Pruett.

Angelelli and Pruett ran in first and second place for nearly all of the remaining laps, with Pruett making several attempts to get back in front before the two hour, 45 minute time limit drew to a close. But Angelelli was able to hold off his advances, giving SunTrust its first Grand-Am win.

Cort Wagner and Kelly Collins scored their second-straight podium finish with third place in the G&W Motorsports Doran-BMW, moving the pair of drivers into the Daytona Prototype points lead in the unofficial standings.

Several teams in the hunt for the title were taken out of the race early due to on-track incidents, including the Doran-Lista Doran-Lexus, both of the SpeedSource Ford Multimatics and the Southard Motorsports Fabcar-BMW.

Boris Said and Bill Auberlen won the GT class in their Prototype Technology Group BMW M3.

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