Lee Keen & Farnbacher Loles Racing - Mid-Ohio win!
6/23/2008
Farnbacher Loles Racing earned its first victory of the 2008 season, topping the GT class in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio, on Saturday. Leh Keen of Charleston, S.C., and Eric Lux of Jacksonville, Fla., kept the No. 86 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car on track through treacherous conditions to take the win.
Lux started fourth on the 22-car GT grid and gained one position in the first 10 minutes of the two-hour 45-minute race. Heavy rain then turned the 2.258-mile road course into an obstacle course as multiple cars slid off-track. Lux pitted for rain tires and returned to the track sixth. He took the class lead just before the halfway mark, then turned the car over to Keen. Back on track ninth, Keen regained the class lead and held it to the checkered flag.
Leh Keen, No. 86: "This was incredible, the crew awesome, Eric incredible. When I first went out, the conditions were so bad. At the beginning of the race, everybody struggled so much, so Eric did an awesome, awesome job. He's awesome in the rain. I got in and just tried to keep everything together. At the end, it started to dry up and I was fighting with the 69 car and 57 car, but their tires started to fall off. Mine started to fall off a little bit, but the car just held together for me. I've got to thank the Farnbacher Loles team. I'm just so happy!"
