Quick Start
Krohn Racing/TRG set the fifth-fastest Daytona Prototype time during testing for the six-hour Rolex Sports Car Series race set for Saturday on le Circuit Mont-Tremblant. Nic Jönsson turned the team's fast lap in the No. 67 Pontiac-powered Riley Mk XI he drives with Tracy Krohn. His lap time was one minute 31.463 seconds on the 2.65-mile road course. Jönsson's and Tracy's teammates Jörg Bergmeister and Christian Fittipaldi were close behind in the No. 66 Pontiac-Riley (1:32.294).

Leader
Tracy Krohn leads the Jim Trueman Award standings for sportsman drivers in the Rolex Series Daytona Prototype class. Bolstered by two top-five finishes, he has a six-point edge (855 to 849) after four of 14 races this season.

"I wasn't aware of that, but I'm happy that I'm leading it," he said. "Hopefully, we'll have a better lead after this race. We had a little bad luck last race, but we had a good day today. We still have some work to do on setup, but the car was good."

Southern Championship
Christian Fittipaldi (right, talking to Jorg Bergmeister) is chasing a stock-car racing championship in his native Brazil. He reported mixed results from the first two races of the season.

"The first race, we weren't as competitive as the other people. We started 29th out of 40 and finished 18th. We had a coming-together with a couple of cars during the race. Even if we'd had a perfect race, I would have only finished 12th or 13th. The second race, we were very competitive the whole weekend, qualified third and ran second for the whole race. Two laps from the end, the transmission broke and I finished 10th. So, on to the next one!"

Five For Five
TRG set the fastest GT time during Rolex Sports Car Series testing Thursday on le Circuit Mont-Tremblant. Andy Lally cruised the high-speed 2.65-mile road course in one minute 41.306 seconds in the No. 65 Auto Gallery/TRG Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car. He and his driving partner Marc Bunting are both fans of the Québec track.

"We're thrilled. I love this place, Marc loves this place. We were hoping we would come out of the box and be quick here. Lars [Giersing, race engineer] put a great setup on the car and, as usual, these guys have been hustling their butts off," Lally said. "We tried five different things today and all five of them made us quicker. It's rare that that happens, but it just clicked and we put a real good lap together. We need this, we need to go faster to charge for the championship, and we've done that today."

Lithium Power
Marc Bullock is driving the No. 63 Porsche with Dave Master and Andy Brumbaugh. His company, Somers Lithium, is a sponsor on the car, with Master Asset Management. Bullock noted the synergy between lithium and motorsport.

"There are more lithium button batteries in automobiles than people know and the memory boards for the computers onboard have small button batteries installed. The lithium battery is also now coming into the fuel-cell business, so our button batteries are becoming larger to get a hybrid type of fuel cell," he said. "Lithium is the lightest metal known to man so it's wonderful because it takes weight off the car. They're perfecting a lithium-phosphate ion cell and therefore it has no flammability, so that's a fantastic deal in a car. In addition, lithium has a strength of three or four times nickel cadmium."

Patience
Marc Bunting uses several techniques to win on track, including lessons he learned in the business world. He says patience is a key tool in both business and in his quest for a second-consecutive Rolex Series championship.

"Rather than making rash or quick decisions, I try to sit back and look at the overall picture. That certainly plays a part in our strategy of trying to be there at the end.

"In the critical moments, you have to make a split-second decision whether to make a pass or not. It helps to pull back for a millisecond, look at the overall picture and realize what our real goal is."