SRT Motorsports/Dodge - Global Rallycross Race Advance - Round 7 - Atlanta Motor Speedway

August 7, 2013 , HAMPTON, Ga. -  DODGE GLOBAL RALLYCROSS NEWS
· Pastrana Racing will field two Dodge Darts at this weekend’s GRC event at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Travis Pastrana will be competing in the NASCAR Nationwide race at Saturday afternoon at Watkins Glen International and will not be able to compete at Atlanta.
· Timur Timerzyanov will pilot the No. 199 Red Bull / Discount Tire Dodge Dart for the fourth time this season. He competed in rounds two and three in Munich, Germany in June and round 5 at Bristol Motor Speedway in July, where he scored an eighth-place finish.
· Henning Solberg will join Timerzyanov as his Pastrana Racing teammate at Atlanta. Solberg makes his first start of the season in the No. 99 Red Bull / Discount Tire Dodge Dart entry.
· Pastrana Racing has earned one Global Rallycross Series event win (Travis Pastrana, New Hampshire, 2012).

DRIVER QUOTES
“The car is going better and better this year race by race. From the start of the season we’re trying to find some solution with a few things on the settings of the cars. We will try to be somewhere on the podium. We are expecting a lot of things now from Atlanta and we will see how everything goes. I’m not the main driver of this car and for this team and we try to put some good settings on the car. Most of the time when I go out on the track we test something.

“American tracks are different than European tracks. European tracks are smaller and they are more flat and a flat tarmac. Here in America everything is different. I think Atlanta will be quite interesting. The NASCAR tracks are fun because you feel like you are driving in a NASCAR race. European and GRC are a completely different style of driving.”
-- Timur Timerzyanov, Driver, No. 199 Red Bull/Discount Tire Dodge Dart

QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“We were running really well at Irwindale last week. I think that the cars should be able to get past our slight issue that we had and be pretty quick in Atlanta. It was a minor issue with the engine calibration that really put us off the podium but that’s been fixed and I think the drivers will be ready to go. Timur (Timerzyanov) is of course a driver that we’ve had some history with and we’re looking forward to having him back.”
-- Gary Johnson – Racing Manager, SRT Motorsports

GRC POINT STANDINGS
1. Toomas Heikkinen 117
2. Tanner Foust             78
3. Brian Deegan           72
4. Ken Block                  70
5. Patrik Sandell           69
6. Liam Doran               59

Timur Timerzyanov
No. 199 Red Bull/Discount Tire Dodge Dart
Birthdate: 1/31/87
Hometown: Kazan, Tatarstan. Crew Chief: Derik Nelson
Career Rally Highlights
· 2012 European Supercar Champion
· Seven career European Supercar victories
· Made Global Rallycross Championship debut at SEMA in 2012
· Leads the 2013 FIA European Rallycross Championship by 13 points after five of nine races
· 2010 FIO European Rallycross Champion (Super 1600) with four victories and the first Russian to win a FIA Rallycross title

Henning Solberg
No. 99 Red Bull/Discount Tire Dodge Dart
Birthdate: 01/08/1973
Hometown: Spyderberg, Norway Crew Chief: Ian Davies

Career Racing Highlights
· Won five consecutive Norwegian Rally Championships from 1999-2003
· Owns six podium finishes and 31 stage wins in 108 World Rally Championship events
· Made World Rally Championship debut in Sweden in 1998
· Scored first WRC points in 2004 event in Sweden

TV Coverage: Saturday, August 10, 6:30 p.m. EDT on ESPN2



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