SunTrust Grand American Racing Team

MILLVILLE, N.J. - Despite cold temperatures and extremely wet conditions, Max Angelelli and Brian Frisselle delivered a solid runner-up finish for SunTrust Racing in Sunday's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Verizon Wireless 250 at New Jersey Motorsports Park (NJMP) in Millville.

MILLVILLE, NJ - The last time Max Angelelli and the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara team of Wayne Taylor Racing visited New Jersey Motorsports Park (NJMP), they were flying high from having won their first Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series race of the 2008 season just eight days prior at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif.

ALTON, VA - It's amazing how "unlucky" and "13" always seem to find their way into the same sentence, like into the storyline that describes the outcome of Saturday's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Bosch Engineering 250 at Virginia International Raceway (VIR) in Alton for Max Angelelli and the rest of the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara team of Wayne Taylor Racing.

ALTON, VA - Yes, Virginia, there is a racing season in progress. Considering the high-powered racing prototypes and GT cars of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series have been nowhere to be seen over the last three months, the 2009 Rolex Series is very much alive and well, thank you very much.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL - Throughout nearly the entire running of the 47th Rolex 24 At Daytona, Simon Hodgson, general manager for the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara team of Wayne Taylor Racing, repeatedly told each of his four drivers over the radio: "Be patient, there is a lot of time left, take care of the equipment."

DAYTONA BEACH, FL - SunTrust Racing, the last team to win the traditional Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona that does not have Ganassi in its name, is riding a slew of racing firsts this weekend in hopes of returning to victory lane at one of the world's most prestigious motor racing marathons.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL - The No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara team of Wayne Taylor Racing completed three days of testing on the Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway 3.56-mile road circuit Monday afternoon in preparation for the Jan. 24-25 running of the traditional Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona.

ATLANTA, GA - The lineup is complete for the No. 10 SunTrust Racing team at the 2009 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona endurance classic at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway.

NASHVILLE, TN - For the fourth consecutive year, the world of country music and NASCAR will collide in Music City for Sprint Sound & Speed Presented by SunTrust on Jan. 9-10, 2009. Executives from Sprint, SunTrust and NASCAR announced today that the award-winning country duo Montgomery Gentry ("Roll with Me," "My Town," "Back When I Knew it All") will headline the kick-off concert to be held at 8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 9 at the Sommet Center.

ATLANTA, GA - The No. 10 SunTrust Dallara Daytona Prototype of Wayne Taylor Racing will enter its sixth season of Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series competition in 2009 with a new engine manufacturer for the very first time.

ATLANTA, GA - Brian Frisselle, the 24-year-old American who scored a pair of breakthrough Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series victories this past August, has joined the No. 10 SunTrust team of Wayne Taylor Racing as co-driver with Italian former series champion Max Angelelli for the 2009 season.

TOOELE, UT - Max Angelelli, Michael Valiante and the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Dallara team of Wayne Taylor Racing closed out the 2008 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season with their third consecutive top-two finish during Saturday's marathon SunRichGourmet.com 1000 at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah.

TOOELE, UT - All that's left to do is win. So simple and to-the-point is the game plan for the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Dallara team of Wayne Taylor Racing as it heads to Utah's scenic Tooele Valley to drop the curtain on another Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season with Saturday's marathon SunRichGourmet.com 1000 at Miller Motorsports Park.

MILLVILLE, NJ - Co-drivers Max Angelelli and Michael Valiante and their No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Dallara team of Wayne Taylor Racing followed up last weekend's first victory of the season with a gutsy second-place performance in Sunday's inaugural Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Supercar Life 250 at the brand new New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville.

MILLVILLE, NJ - Moments after Max Angelelli took the checkered flag for SunTrust's first victory of the season last Saturday at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., Wayne Taylor Racing general manager Simon Hodgson, who calls the races from pit lane, radioed to his driver with a word of caution during the cool-down lap. "Watch out for a monkey running around out there, Max," Hodgson said. "It's the one that just fell off your back."

SONOMA, CA - As elusive as victory has been for the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Dallara team of Wayne Taylor Racing of late, this weekend's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Armed Forces 250 at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., seemed to have victory written all over it for co-drivers Max Angelelli and Michael Valiante from the opening minutes of practice Friday morning.

SONOMA, CA - With all the recent buzz surrounding the goings-on in Beijing and the Games of the 29th Olympiad, the exploits of record-setting U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps and his eight gold medals has had SunTrust Racing driver Max Angelelli not-so-fondly recalling the days of his Italian youth, when his family had him chasing a decade-long dream toward Olympic swimming greatness of his own — or so they thought.

WATKINS GLEN, NY - It was the slightest contact that produced an ever-so-slight slice in the sidewall of the right-rear tire on the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Dallara of Wayne Taylor Racing. But that small slice ruined a potentially huge result in Friday night's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Crown Royal 200 at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International for Max Angelelli and Michael Valiante, who had to settle for a seventh-place finish.

WATKINS GLEN, NY - Do not adjust your set. Sports car racing fans in and around the greater Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International area who are accustomed to seeing a blue No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Daytona Prototype making its way around the historic racing circuit will witness SunTrust Racing horsepower of a different color for the first time during Friday night's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Crown Royal 200.

MONTREAL, CANADA - Like most world-class racing facilities, Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve pays a premium to those race cars and teams that can generate speed. But more so than most, at the legendary Formula 1 layout, with ultra-tight right- and left-hand combinations mixed in with ultra-high speed straightaways, stopping power has as much to do with running the quickest laps as the ability to generate speed.

MONTREAL, CANADA - First impressions being what they are, the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac team of Wayne Taylor Racing (WTR) left a lasting one on the race fans of Canada a year ago this weekend when it stormed to its second victory of the season in the first-ever Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series race at the legendary home of the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix, Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

BIRMINGHAM, AL - On a typically hot and sweltering July afternoon at Barber Motorsports Park, Max Angelelli and Michael Valiante survived two hours and 45 minutes of the ever-so-typical bumps and grinds this 2.3-mile road circuit outside Birmingham, Ala., is known for and co-drove the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Dallara of Wayne Taylor Racing to a sixth-place finish in Sunday's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Porsche 250.

BIRMINGHAM, AL - As Max Angelelli and Michael Valiante head to beautiful Barber Motorsports Park for Sunday�s Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Porsche 250, the driving duo and the rest of the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Dallara team from Wayne Taylor Racing (WTR) feel they are long overdue for a heaping helping of Southern hospitality.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL - On a day when SunTrust announced to the racing world that it is proud to extend sponsorship agreements with Grand-Am and Wayne Taylor Racing for many years to come, Thursday night's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Brumos Porsche 250 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway started with a flourish but ended rather unceremoniously for Max Angelelli and Michael Valiante in the brand new No. 10 SunTrust Racing Pontiac Dallara.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL - A brand new race car signals a new beginning for the No 10 SunTrust Pontiac Dallara team of Wayne Taylor Racing (WTR) as it kicks off the second half of the 2008 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season with Thursday nights Brumos Porsche 250 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway.

LEXINGTON, OH - What looked like a sure podium result for the second race in a row for the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley team of Wayne Taylor Racing evaporated into a disappointing 10th-place finish in the closing minutes of a wet and wild Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series EMCO Gears Classic Saturday at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington.

LEXINGTON, OH - Coming off of one of the most improbable podium finishes in Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series history, the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac team of Wayne Taylor Racing (WTR) heads to Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington for Saturday's EMCO Gears Classic, site of yet another highly improbable podium finish in the history of SunTrust Racing.

WATKINS GLEN, NY - Less than three weeks after their team's transporter and all of its contents burned to the ground, Max Angelelli and Michael Valiante co-drove a race car that hadn't turned a wheel since January, backed by a Wayne Taylor Racing team that used borrowed tools and equipment, and muscled their way to SunTrust Racing's top Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series finish of the season - a third-place effort at Saturday's Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen.

WATKINS GLEN, NY - Before the race cars even take to the track for Friday morning's first practice session, SunTrust and the entire Wayne Taylor Racing (WTR) organization already know that Saturday's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen will be a race they will never forget.

MONTEREY, CA - An eighth-place finish has never been something to celebrate in the four-plus seasons SunTrust has competed in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series. But after Max Angelelli and Michael Valiante brought the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Dallara of Wayne Taylor Racing home in eighth at the conclusion of Saturday's RumBum.com 250 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, they and their SunTrust teammates have a bona fide finish for their new Dallara chassis to build upon as they leave the outskirts of Monterey, Calif., with nine races remaining.

MONTEREY, CA - A year ago this weekend, the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Daytona Prototype team of Wayne Taylor Racing arrived at scenic Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca as the defending race-winner, fresh off its first of two Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series victories of 2007 and with a somewhat comfortable 11-point lead in the championship standings.

ALTON, VA - On a weekend that saw the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Dallara team of Wayne Taylor Racing rebound from a horrendous crash in Mexico City to win the pole and lead the opening laps of Sunday's Bosch Engineering 250 at Virginia International Raceway, the nightmare continues.

ALTON, VA - Racing, like a lot of other things in life, is all about timing. And for the No. 10 SunTrust Racing Pontiac Dallara team of Wayne Taylor Racing and its drivers Max Angelelli and Michael Valiante, the timing couldn't be better for their annual visit to one of SunTrust's most successful race tracks on the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series circuit over the last four years.

MEXICO CITY - For the second time in as many Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series races, the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Dallara of Wayne Taylor Racing was spun from behind by another competitor in the early going. But this time, during Saturday's Mexico City 250 at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in downtown Mexico City, a lap-44 incident put Max Angelelli and the SunTrust Racing machine out for good and left the team with an 18th-place finish.

HOMESTEAD, FL - The story of this weekend's much-anticipated debut of the all-new No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Dallara of Wayne Taylor Racing was shaping up quite nicely as the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series competitors were more than a third of the way through Saturday's Gainsco Grand Prix of Miami at Homestead (Fla.) Miami Speedway.

MEXICO CITY - For Max Angelelli and Wayne Taylor, the historic Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in downtown Mexico City forever will be remembered as the place where they clinched for SunTrust Racing its first Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series championship in 2005.

HOMESTEAD, FL - Like the sunrise signals the dawning of a brand new day, a bold, new paint scheme and a new-from-the-ground-up race car ushers in a new era for SunTrust Racing and drivers Max Angelelli and Michael Valiante as they head to Homestead (Fla.) Miami Speedway for Saturday's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Gainsco Grand Prix of Miami.

KERSHAW, SC - The all-new No. 10 SunTrust Racing Pontiac Dallara DP-01 chassis of Wayne Taylor Racing wrapped up its first on-track test session at Carolina Motorsports Park Wednesday afternoon as it continued preparations for the Daytona Prototype's highly anticipated Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series debut March 29 at Homestead (Fla.) Miami Speedway.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL - As always seems to be the case at the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona, the combination of perseverance and good fortune tend to pay off with top finishes. In the case of the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley, the relentless efforts of the cast of drivers and crew from Wayne Taylor Racing earned a top-five finish despite three potentially devastating setbacks over the course of the 24-hour event, including an electrical failure, a major brake issue, and a major overheating problem.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL - Storylines abound in the SunTrust Racing camp as it heads to Florida for this weekend's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series traditional season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona.

ATLANTA, GA - With final preparations underway for next week's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona, three-time sports car champion and two-time event winner Wayne Taylor took time to reflect on the brand new racing team he launched just a year ago, his ongoing relationship with sponsor and business partner SunTrust Bank, Inc., his current partnership with fellow team owner Roger Penske, and getting ready to race with and against not one, but both of his teenage sons.

ATLANTA, GA - Notable father-and-son driving combinations have played a significant role in the history of the Rolex 24 At Daytona, the annual Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season-opening marathon that pits man and machine against the clock for 24 grueling hours each January. Some of racing's most notable racing families have seen multiple generations tackle this world-renowned event over the years — names like Andretti, Unser, Gurney, Pearson and Allison.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL - The No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley team of Wayne Taylor Racing wrapped up a successful three-day test session on the Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway road circuit this afternoon as preparations continue for the Jan. 26-27 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona. And, as has been the case during its previous efforts at the twice-around-the-clock marathon, the SunTrust Pontiac appears to be one of the cars to beat in perhaps the most competitive field in event history.

NASHVILLE, TN - It's a match made in motorsports and entertainment heaven: NASCAR and country music. No matter how you look at it, they go together like peanut butter and jelly, like biscuits and gravy, like Richard Petty and Alan Jackson. Such is the spirit behind a one-of-a-kind, interactive fan event now in its third year called Sprint Sound & Speed Presented by SunTrust, which on Jan. 11-12 will once again bring together the stars of NASCAR and country music at Nashville's Sommet Center for autograph and storytelling sessions, show car displays and a blockbuster concert headlined by Jackson, the Grammy-winning and multi-platinum-selling recording artist.

ATLANTA, GA - Max Angelelli and the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac team of Wayne Taylor Racing received an early holiday gift as they prepare for their pursuit of the 2008 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series championship. Canadian Michael Valiante, the 28-year-old veteran of open-wheel and sports prototype racing, has been named Angelelli's full-time co-driver for the entire 14-race campaign, which kicks off Jan. 26-27 with the traditional, season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL - Fans of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 can help on-track rivals Max Angelelli and Max Papis battle one last time in 2007, and push Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty to another championship by voting for the annual SPEED Performance Awards. SPEED, which televises all events on the Rolex Sports Car Series schedule, will announce the winners of all nine popular vote categories as well as the SPEED Performer of the Year during a one-hour show in February.

TOOELE, UT - Max Angelelli and the SunTrust Pontiac Riley team of Wayne Taylor Racing worked their way into prime position to win the 2007 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series driver and team championships entering the final laps of Saturday's marathon, 1,000-kilometer Sunchaser 1000 at Miller Motorsports Park outside Salt Lake City. But, with 23 laps remaining on the mammoth 4.5-mile, 24-turn road circuit, it all came to a shocking end, leaving 2005 championship-winning SunTrust Racing to settle for a still-admirable fourth top-three finish in the season-ending points in four years in the series.

TOOELE, UT - Two races to go, two teams locked in a first-place tie with a third lurking just four points back.

SONOMA, CA - Just three points separate the top three teams in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series championship with one race remaining, and the driving duo of Max Angelelli and Memo Gidley ensured the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley team of Wayne Taylor Racing is one of them with a hard-fought fourth-place finish in Saturday's Armed Forces Grand-Am 250 at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif.

SONOMA, CA - Two races to go, two teams locked in a first-place tie with a third lurking just four points back.

WATKINS GLEN, NY - Max Angelelli might have felt like he was fit to be tied at the conclusion of Friday night's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Crown Royal 200 at The Glen. And tied is precisely what he and the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley team of Wayne Taylor Racing are at the top of the series team and driver championships with two races left after a wild runner-up finish in the two-hour, 82-lap sprint race at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International Raceway.

WATKINS GLEN, NY - The timing couldn't have been better for co-drivers Max Angelelli and Memo Gidley to bring their No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley of Wayne Taylor Racing to one of the fastest circuits on the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series schedule.

MONTREAL, CANADA - Max Angelelli and Jan Magnussen scored their second victory of the season in the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley of Wayne Taylor Racing at Friday's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Montreal 400K and pulled to within two points of the championship lead with three races left on the 2007 schedule.

BIRMINGHAM, AL - Max Angelelli succumbed to the effects of extreme heat exhaustion after completing the final 89 laps of today's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Porsche 250 at Barber Motorsports Park, but not before holding of a fierce challenge behind the wheel of the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley of Wayne Taylor Racing for the third and final spot on the podium and inching a bit closer to the driver and team championship lead.

BIRMINGHAM, AL - Two weeks ago, Max Angelelli and the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley team of Wayne Taylor Racing kicked off the current three-race Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series stretch with a stellar drive from the back of the pack to a second-place finish at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway.

NEWTON, IA - An off-course excursion approaching the midpoint of Friday night's inaugural running of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Iowa Speedway 400K cost co-drivers Max Angelelli and Jan Magnussen a top finish. But the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley duo and their Wayne Taylor Racing teammates fought back to salvage a seventh-place finish that enabled Angelelli and the team to hold onto second place in the season-long driver and team championships.

NEWTON, IA - Like its big-screen baseball counterpart Field of Dreams, Iowa Speedway rose from the cornfields just a short time ago and began staging major racing events that, in the spirit of �if you build it, they will come,� have drawn thousands upon thousands of spectators from throughout the upper Midwest in this, its first season of existence.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL - The driving duo of Jonathan Cochet and Max Angelelli took the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley of Wayne Taylor Racing from last in the 18-car Daytona Prototype field to second in Thursday night's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Brumos Porsche 250 at Daytona International Speedway.

ATLANTA, GA - With the first full season of the SunTrust MOTO-ST Series well underway, the �Official Bank of Motorsports� is delighted to have expanded its racing and entertainment portfolio and client services to the exciting world of professional motorcycle endurance road racing.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL - Even though the chase for the 2007 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series championship is only halfway over, there�s a certain sense of urgency in the minds of Max Angelelli and the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley team of Wayne Taylor Racing as they come to Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway for Thursday night�s Brumos Porsche 250, the traditional midsummer prelude to NASCAR�s Pepsi 400 weekend at the legendary superspeedway.

LEXINGTON, OH - On a day when passing on the race track was nonexistent at the front of the field, and the entire 400-kilometer race distance was covered without a single caution flag, Max Angelelli and Jonathan Cochet finished where they started in the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley of Wayne Taylor Racing, bringing home a fourth-place finish in Saturday's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series EMCO Gears Classic at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio.

ATLANTA, GA - As the 13th annual Chick-fil-A Kyle Petty Charity Ride Across America embarks July 14 on a seven-day, 2,800-mile trek down the East coast, the familiar colors of SunTrust Bank will be riding along for the third consecutive year as proud sponsor of the popular fundraiser benefiting the Victory Junction Gang Camp and other children's charities.

LEXINGTON, OH - Safe to say the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley team has figured out a way to win at just about every track it has visited in just three-plus seasons competing in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series. At Saturday night�s EMCO Gears Classic, drivers Max Angelelli and Jonathan Cochet and the first-year Wayne Taylor Racing outfit that now flies the SunTrust Racing banner hopes to add the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course to its list of Rolex Series conquests.

WATKINS GLEN, NY - Not one, but two stop-and-go penalties during Saturday's Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen could not keep the SunTrust Racing trio of Max Angelelli, Wayne Taylor and Jonathan Cochet from grabbing the team's fifth podium finish through the first six of 14 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series events of 2007 and, most importantly, staying a close second in the season-long championship.

WATKINS GLEN, NY - A new co-driver joins regular Max Angelelli in the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley of Wayne Taylor Racing for Saturday�s annual Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Sahlen�s Six Hours of The Glen, but the quest for a second series title in the last three seasons is the same as it ever was in the SunTrust Racing camp as it prepares to tackle at the historic, 3.4-mile Watkins Glen International road course.

MONTEREY, CA -- The good news after today�s Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series U.S. Sports Car Invitational is the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley team of Wayne Taylor Racing has nine more races this season to overcome a five-point deficit in the championship standings. The not-so-good news is the team watched its 11-point lead in the standings evaporate despite starting on the front row for today�s 91-lap excursion around scenic Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, Calif., the very track where Max Angelelli and Jan Magnussen co-drove the SunTrust Racing machine to victory a year ago this weekend.

MONTEREY, CA -- From one winning race track to another, and with the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series championship lead stashed firmly in their hip pockets, the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley team of Wayne Taylor Racing and its drivers Max Angelelli and Jan Magnussen head to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for Sunday�s running of the Road & Track 250.

ALTON, Va. (April 29, 2007) - Max Angelelli and Jan Magnussen scored a double-milestone victory in Sunday's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series VIR 400 in the No. 10 SunTrust Racing Pontiac Riley of Wayne Taylor Racing. It was the 10th victory for SunTrust Racing in 42 starts since joining the series in 2004, and the very first for the newly formed Wayne Taylor Racing team, which took on the responsibility of carrying the SunTrust Racing banner just this past offseason.

ALTON, VA -- A year ago this weekend at Virginia International Raceway, Max Angelelli and his No. 10 SunTrust Racing Pontiac Riley found themselves smack in the middle of a breathtaking, five-car, 20-lap sprint to the finish worthy of racing highlight reels the world over.

ATLANTA, GA -- A new season begins this weekend for the young racers who participate in the Snap-On Stars of Karting presented by the IRL IndyCar Series, and SunTrust is proud to play a role in helping shape the careers of its highly talented array of competitors as Official Bank of the series for a second year.

HOMESTEAD, FL -- Max Angelelli and Jan Magnussen pulled to within a single point of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series championship lead after recording their third consecutive podium finish in three 2007 races, bringing the No. 10 SunTrust Racing Pontiac Riley of Wayne Taylor Racing home in second place at Saturday�s Grand Prix of Miami on the Homestead (Fla.) Miami Speedway road circuit.

HOMESTEAD, FL -- In the eyes of the No. 10 SunTrust Racing Pontiac Riley team of Wayne Taylor Racing, good things may come in threes, but even better things come in ones — as in first place.

MEXICO CITY -- Max Angelelli and Jan Magnussen overcame an early race drive-through penalty and power steering trouble the latter half of the event to give the No. 10 SunTrust Racing Pontiac Riley of Wayne Taylor Racing its second podium finish in two Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series races this season at Saturday�s Mexico City 400K.

MEXICO CITY -- As the No. 10 SunTrust Racing Pontiac Riley of Wayne Taylor Racing heads south of the border for Saturday�s Round 2 of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season at the famed Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in downtown Mexico City, it�s either been an eternity or seemingly just yesterday, depending on your vantage point, since we last saw the sleek, blue SunTrust Racing prototype rally from five laps down to a third-place finish in the season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona.

ATLANTA, GA -- Veteran Formula One, Champ Car and sports car racer Jan Magnussen of Denmark has been named as co-driver alongside Max Angelelli in the No. 10 SunTrust Racing Pontiac Riley of Wayne Taylor Racing for the next three Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series events at Mexico City, Homestead, Fla., and Virginia International Raceway in Alton, Va.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- For the third time in the last four Rolex 24 At Daytona Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season openers, the familiar colors of SunTrust Racing battled their way to the podium, this weekend at the hands of Max Angelelli, Wayne Taylor, Jeff Gordon and Jan Magnussen, who came from five laps down in the early going Saturday to a lead-lap fight for the race win until brake problems with just 38 minutes remaining relegated them to a third-place finish. It was the first race for newly formed Wayne Taylor Racing, which assumed responsibility for carrying the SunTrust Racing banner less than three months ago.

ATLANTA, GA -- Having clocked the fastest laps in testing earlier this month for next week's renewal of the annual Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona (Fla.), Max Angelelli and his No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley teammates of Wayne Taylor Racing are counting down the days until they return to the legendary 3.56-mile road circuit at Daytona International Speedway for Rolex 24 weekend Jan. 24-27.

ATLANTA, GA -- When they loaded up the No. 10 SunTrust Racing Pontiac Riley and rolled the team transporter out of the Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway garage late Saturday after a hugely successful three-day test session Jan. 4-6, Wayne Taylor the driver's work was through — for the time being. But for Wayne Taylor the team owner, work was just beginning with the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season opener and year's biggest race — the Rolex 24 At Daytona — just three weeks away.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- The No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley team of newly formed Wayne Taylor Racing announced the final addition to its four-driver lineup during today's opening of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series' annual three-day test at Daytona International Speedway in preparation for the season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona.

HOMESTEAD, FL -- SunTrust Banks, Inc., one of the largest commercial banking organizations in the United States, announced today its renewal as the "Official Bank of the Grand American Road Racing Association." The three-year extension serves as the cornerstone of SunTrust's burgeoning motorsports portfolio, one that extends from the pinnacle of sports car racing and reaches all the way to future racers competing in the Snap-On Stars of Karting.

HAMPTON, GA -- A sour engine in the season finale didn't sour Wayne Taylor's first year of competition in the International Race of Champions, better known as IROC.

TOOELE, UT -- In three years of competing in the Daytona Prototype division of the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series, the No. 10 SunTrust Racing Team has finished in the top-three each year. Second in 2004, first in 2005, and despite a solid chance at defending their series championship in Saturday's season-ending Discount Tire Sunchaser at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah, the SunTrust Racing Team had to settle for third in the championship standings.

ATLANTA, GA -- With a title fight in its Daytona Prototype division, it's appropriate the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series holds its season-ending banquet in Las Vegas.

SONOMA, CA -- Jan Magnussen and Max Angelelli drove the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley to a solid fourth-place finish in the Daytona Prototype division of Saturday's Sonoma 250 Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series race at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif.

WATKINS GLEN, NY -- Ryan Briscoe and Max Angelelli drove the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley to a strong second-place finish in the Daytona Prototype division of Friday's Crown Royal 200 at The Glen Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series race at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International. And with two penalties befalling the championship-leading No. 76 Krohn Racing Team of Colin Braun and Jorg Bergmeister, the Briscoe/Angelelli duo picked up 10 points to place the SunTrust Racing squad just three points out of first.

BIRMINGHAM, AL -- Max Angelelli and Jan Magnussen drove the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley to a strong second-place finish in the Daytona Prototype division of Sunday's Porsche 250 presented by Bradley Arant Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series race at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- The No. 10 SunTrust Racing Pontiac Riley team of Wayne Taylor and Max "The Ax" Angelelli took their sixth straight Top Four finish tonight in the 2006 Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series season with a fourth-place finish at the Brumos Porsche 250 race at Daytona International Speedway.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- In a press conference at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida today, Wayne Taylor (and his Surrey Sport LLC company) and SunTrust Racing announced that four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon will co-drive the No. 10 SunTrust Racing car in the 45th annual Rolex 24 At Daytona, January 27-28, 2007.

LEXINGTON, OH -- The No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley race team claimed fourth place at the EMCO Gears Classic at Mid-Ohio, and with misfortune striking the first and second place teams in points, the SunTrust team was able to close a substantial gap in the Daytona Prototype team championship standings.

WAYKINS GLEN, NY -- Once again this year, the clouds appeared and the rain fell upon the Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen race at Watkins Glen International for Round Eight of 14 in the 2006 Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series today. It was the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley team's third podium finish in four races and helped close the points gap further in the championship chase with their third-place finish.