Six Hours
Krohn Racing/TRG is looking for a strong finish in the six-hour Rolex Sports Car Series race at le Circuit Mont-Tremblant, Qué., on May 21. The rookie team has enjoyed some success in shorter races, tempered by the racer's luck of sometimes being in the wrong place on track at the wrong time. Krohn/TRG's two Pontiac-powered Riley Mk XI cars have scored one podium finish and three top-fives in the first four races this season.

"As a team, we are really looking forward to a true endurance race. Our drivers are quick and our team has been solid, but a little bad luck has cost us dearly. Our bad luck has always come at a time when we could not recover quick enough," team manager Mike Johnson explained. "Now we should have enough time to recover if we encounter some bad luck again and if we encounter no bad luck, then look out!"

Testing ...
Jörg Bergmeister of Langenfeld, Germany (right, interviewed by Calvin Fish), who drives the No. 66 Pontiac-Riley with Christian Fittipaldi of Key Biscayne, Fla., is encouraged by Krohn/TRG's early success. He believes recent testing will further strengthen the team's performance. Bergmeister knows the value of testing – he tested at every track en route to winning the 2000 Porsche Carrera Cup championship with four poles, three wins and eight podium finishes in nine races.

"Krohn Racing/TRG is a new team, so we need as many tests as we can get. With every test, we learn new things about the car. It's time to understand the car better and develop it. We work on the whole package – the shocks, tire pressures, roll bars, everything," he said. "The most important thing is for the engineer and driver to work close together to get the car in the right direction."

Crew Credit
Nic Jönsson (left) of Buford, Ga., and Tracy Krohn of Houston have continually progressed in the No. 67 Pontiac-Riley. Jönsson credits their success to the Krohn/TRG crew.

"I've always been a big believer in long-term relationships. I try to build synergy and relationships with the crew guys," he said.

"The engineer and the driver always get the recognition and the crew seems to be secondary, which I think is wrong. Without them preparing the car, I would not be able to do my job out there on the track.

"We think it's just a machine and we go drive it, but there's so much more that goes into it – all the preparation back in the shop, long days and nights to get the car to where we need it to be competitive."

Canadian Quest
TRG knows what it takes to win on le Circuit Mont-Tremblant in Québec, site of the next Rolex Sports Car Series race. The California team won the GT class on the 2.65-mile track in 2002 and followed with a second-place class finish in 2004.

Andy Lally (right) of Dacula, Ga., who drives the No. 65 Auto Gallery/TRG Porsche 911 GT3 Cup with Marc Bunting of Monkton, Md., has won at Mont-Tremblant, topping the SRPII class in 2002. He also notched two class pole positions on the fast Canadian course.

"I love this track! it is so smooth and has some great high-speed sweeping corners. I love just about everything about this track and am really looking forward to racing there again," he said. ''Turn one is probably the trickiest corner. There are three different elevation changes through the corner and it is a totally blind exit. Add on to that the fact it may be the fastest corner on the track and you now have one tough corner."

Video View
Marc Bullock of Tulsa, Okla., and Dave Master of Santa Fe, N.M., will race at Mont-Tremblant for the first time on May 21, sharing the No. 63 Master Asset Management/Somers Lithium Porsche. Master has logged long hours preparing for the race with an in-car video.

"I watch it for three to five hours at least, just getting the memory of all the things that you do in the car. Then I'll get the track map and write down all the brake points and all the shift points and have that all in my mind before I even get there, so my time to learn the track will be much shorter," he explained.

"It's a beautiful layout, and it looks like it's in extremely good condition. It doesn't seem to be a complicated track. I counted – it's only got 10 upshifts and eight downshifts. But any track takes at least three different times to really learn it. Then I get comfortable, really get the sense that I'm beginning to know the little nuances of the track."

Global Racer
Marc Bullock plans to see the world from his race car. He and his son Marc will start their international quest driving a Porsche Cayenne S in the Targa Newfoundland international rally in September. The seven-day Canadian event covers 1300 miles. The pair have also entered the 2007 Peking-to-Paris 10,000-mile race, and they will likely contest a race from Equador to Argentina in 2006. Shanghai, China, is also on their wish list.

"We love the adventure of travel and the adventure of all car nuts, so I think that's a good meld," Bullock said.