SunTrust Grand American Racing Team

LEXINGTON, OH - A three-race streak of podium finishes, which included a dominating victory in the recent Memorial Day Classic at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Conn., came to a rather unceremonious end for the SunTrust Racing duo of Max Angelelli and Ricky Taylor in the closing laps of Saturday's GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series EMCO Gears Classic at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington.

LEXINGTON, OH - Beneath the roar of racecar engines, much like the perpetual din of those South African vuvuzela horns that have become the signature soundtrack for the 2010 World Cup tournament that just got underway, the World Cup Fever epidemic makes its way to the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington this weekend as the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series kicks off the second half of its season with Saturday afternoon's EMCO Gears Classic.

WATKINS GLEN, NY - It's been a good week, to say the least, for the SunTrust Racing duo of Max Angelelli and Ricky Taylor. It started with a dominating victory in the inaugural Memorial Day Classic for the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototypes on Monday at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut. And it ended with a solid runner-up finish in Saturday's Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International.

WATKINS GLEN, NY - There is no rest for the well-rested, and there is little time for celebration for SunTrust Racing's Max Angelelli and Ricky Taylor as the most recent winners on the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series circuit head to Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International for Saturday's annual running of the Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen.

LAKEVILLE, CT - It was all in a day's work for veteran Max Angelelli and his 20-year-old co-driver Ricky Taylor as the SunTrust Racing duo stayed out of trouble and benefited from a perfect race strategy to score their first GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series victory of the season in Monday's Memorial Day Classic at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Conn.

LAKEVILLE, CT - Ah, Memorial Day weekend, the annual rite of spring for auto racing purists the world over. The Indy 500, the Coca-Cola 600, the Memorial Day Classic at Lime Rock Park, each a staple on the racing calendar for all or most of the last century.

ALTON, Va. (April 24, 2010) – Flawless driving performances by veteran and former series champion Max Angelelli and his 20-year-old co-pilot Ricky Taylor, and stellar work by the SunTrust Racing pit crew brought the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara of Wayne Taylor Racing its first podium of the season at Saturday's GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series Bosch Engineering 250 at Virginia International Raceway in Alton.

ALTON, VA - Eyjafjallajokull. It's a tongue-twister of a name SunTrust Racing driver Max Angelelli will never forget. The recently erupted volcano in Iceland, pronounced EY-ya-fyat-lah-YOH-kuht (or, "Hey, you forgot La Yogurt," as recommended by The New York Times), has managed to snarl airline travel worldwide after blanketing the skies over Europe for more than a week with ash clouds and debris.

BIRMINGHAM, AL - On a day that saw 20-year-old Ricky Taylor start from the pole for the first time and take total command of the opening green-flag run during Saturday's GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series Porsche 250 at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala., the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara team of Wayne Taylor Racing leaves with the disappointment of a 12th-place finish after late-race contact ultimately sent the car to the garage for good some 25 minutes before the checkered flag.

BIRMINGHAM, AL - The No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara of Wayne Taylor Racing will start Saturday's GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series Porsche 250 from the pole after qualifying Friday at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala.

BIRMINGHAM, AL - While the eyes of the golfing world are on this weekend's 76th Masters tournament in Augusta, Ga., the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series takes its act about 300 miles west of there on Interstate 20 to a pristine road course facility that has come to be known by casual observers as the Augusta National of North American racetracks — Barber Motorsports Park on the outskirts of Birmingham, Ala.

HOMESTEAD, FL - Yellow flags and GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series races at Homestead-Miami Speedway have come to be synonymous over the years. So much so that the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara team of Wayne Taylor Racing, featuring drivers Max Angelelli and Ricky Taylor, felt they had the perfect strategy to pull off the victory in Saturday night's Grand Prix of Miami despite struggling with tire wear issues in practice and qualifying for the second consecutive year on the 2.3-mile, 11-turn speedway road circuit.

HOMESTEAD, FL - What's the battle cry for the SunTrust Racing team at Saturday's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Grand Prix of Miami? How about, "Angelelli and Taylor Ride Again."

DAYTONA BEACH, FL - No one was faster during the month of January at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway than the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara of Wayne Taylor Racing, featuring drivers Max Angelelli, Ricky Taylor, Pedro Lamy and Wayne Taylor. But despite clocking the month's fastest testing lap in record-setting time, qualifying on the pole for this weekend's 48th Rolex 24 At Daytona, and setting the fast lap of the twice-around-the-clock Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series endurance marathon itself, the SunTrust team had to persevere through multiple mechanical maladies and a fateful meeting with a concrete barrier to earn a hard-fought sixth-place finish by the time the checkered flag flew Sunday afternoon.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL - Picking up right where it left off after last summer's win in the Brumos Porsche 250, and having clocked the fastest lap in the three-day Roar Before the Rolex 24 test earlier this month, the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara of Wayne Taylor Racing is at the front of the pack once again after Max Angelelli qualified the SunTrust Racing machine on the pole Thursday for this weekend's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL - The SunTrust Racing team returns to its winningest track on the fifth anniversary of its milestone victory in America's premier endurance race as the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series kicks off its second decade of existence with the 48th Rolex 24 At Daytona on Saturday and Sunday at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL - Italian driving ace and former series champion Max Angelelli laid down the fastest lap on opening day, and he and his co-drivers Wayne Taylor, Ricky Taylor and Pedro Lamy made it stand up the rest of the weekend as the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara team of Wayne Taylor Racing wrapped up three days of testing on the Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway 3.56-mile road circuit Sunday afternoon in preparation for the Jan. 30-31 running of the traditional Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona.

ATLANTA, GA - As the competitors in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series begin their final preparations for the 2010 season at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway this weekend, the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara team of Wayne Taylor Racing has named Ricky Taylor as fulltime co-driver alongside Italian veteran driving ace and former series champion Max Angelelli.

HOMESTEAD, FL - It only figures that a roller coaster ride of a 2009 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series season for co-drivers Max Angelelli and Brian Frisselle and the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara team of Wayne Taylor Racing came to an end Saturday during a Grand Prix of Miami filled with what seemed like a season's worth of ups and downs over a scheduled two hours and 30 minutes of racing.

HOMESTEAD, FL - Before NASCAR crowns its champion next month, and before the IRL IndyCar Series crowns its champion this Saturday night, the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series will decide its 2009 championship Saturday afternoon at the very same Homestead-Miami Speedway, and co-drivers Max Angelelli and Brian Frisselle will do everything in their power to bring that title back to SunTrust and the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara team of Wayne Taylor Racing.

TOOELE, Utah (Sept. 19, 2009) - The good news for SunTrust Racing co-drivers Max Angelelli and Brian Frisselle after Saturday's runner-up finish in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Utah 250: SunTrust's second series championship is very much within reach when the season comes to a close at Homestead-Miami Speedway three weeks hence.

TOOELE, UT - When the curtain came down on the four-race "Solid Is Lightning Fast" summer tour of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series three weekends ago at Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, SunTrust Racing's Max Angelelli and Brian Frisselle were spraying victory champagne for the second time in their last four outings.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN - Fresh off its second Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series victory of the season Saturday at Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara team of Wayne Taylor Racing put its silver "Solid Is Lightning Fast" racecar through its paces during a historic test session Thursday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

MONTREAL, CANADA - The four-race "Solid Is Lightning Fast" summer tour of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series ended just the way it started — with a stellar victory by Max Angelelli and Brian Frisselle in the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara of Wayne Taylor Racing during Saturday's third annual Montreal 200.

MONTREAL, CANADA - A winning driver from each of the first two Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series races on the legendary Circuit Gilles Villeneuve will be strapped into the cockpit of the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara of Wayne Taylor Racing for Saturday's third running of the Montreal 200. And with that, 2007 winner Max Angelelli and his co-driver Brian Frisselle, winner of the 2008 event, look to finish SunTrust's four-race "Solid Is Lightning Fast" summer tour just the way it started — with a victory.

WATKINS GLEN, NY - For being the shortest race on the 2009 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series calendar, Friday night's Crown Royal 200 at The Glen was packed with a season's worth of drama from beginning to end. But one of the teams that appeared destined for a happy ending during the two-hour event — the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara of Wayne Taylor Racing — was only left wondering what might have been, through no fault of its own, as it had to settle for a 12th-place finish.

WATKINS GLEN, NY - The "Solid Is Lightning Fast" tour of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series circuit takes the stage at historic Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International for Friday night's annual Crown Royal 200 with defending race-winner Brian Frisselle in the cockpit of the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara of Wayne Taylor Racing, and he and co-driver Max Angelelli locked in a fierce, three-team championship battle with four races remaining and the season's most electrifying event set to kick off a full weekend of NASCAR racing.

BIRMINGHAM, AL - Two weeks and a day removed from their first Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series victory of the season that came in dramatic fashion at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway on the Fourth of July, co-drivers Max Angelelli and Brian Frisselle and their No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara of Wayne Taylor Racing teammates found themselves on the opposite end of the emotional spectrum a mere three laps into Sunday's Porsche 250 at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala.

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BIRMINGHAM, AL - "Solid Is Lightning Fast" was the battle cry for co-drivers Max Angelelli and Brian Frisselle and the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara team of Wayne Taylor Racing, as evidenced by their race-winning performance on the Fourth of July at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway and their brand new, silver paint scheme.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL - A bold, new silver paint scheme with the words "Solid Is Lightning Fast" emblazoned on the sidepods of the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara of Wayne Taylor Racing proved to be prophetic as SunTrust's Max Angelelli held off Alex Gurney in a dramatic, nose-to-tail battle over the final 10 laps of the Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway road circuit and scored the team's first victory of the season at Saturday's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Brumos Porsche 250.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL - There will be double-takes aplenty when co-drivers Max Angelelli and Brian Frisselle and a striking, new silver paint scheme that will adorn their No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara of Wayne Taylor Racing take to the Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway road circuit to kick off a Fourth of July racing doubleheader of grand proportions.

LEXINGTON, OH - On a day when the driving duo of Max Angelelli and Brian Frisselle appeared to have put their No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara of Wayne Taylor Racing in position to score their first Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series victory of the year, an ill-timed yellow made all the difference in the world between first place and eighth, where the SunTrust car crossed the finish line at the conclusion of today�s EMCO Gears Classic at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio.

LEXINGTON, OH - Coming off a stellar team effort at the Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen two weekends ago that netted a third consecutive podium finish for the SunTrust Racing team, co-drivers Max Angelelli and Brian Frisselle head to the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for Saturday's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series EMCO Gears Classic with a share of the lead in the championship standings.

WATKINS GLEN, NY - It wasn't the ever-elusive victory in the Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen that they've been chasing for oh-so-long. But Wayne Taylor and the No. 10 SunTrust Racing Ford Dallara team, featuring the driving duo of Max Angelelli and Brian Frisselle, are more than happy to leave Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International with first place in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series standings after Saturday's runner-up finish in the latest renewal of one of America's longest-standing endurance classics.

WATKINS GLEN, NY - The last time SunTrust Racing's Max Angelelli saw his now-teammate Brian Frisselle at the legendary Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International road circuit, the young Southern California-born sports car racer was spraying victory champagne after winning his second career Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series event in as many weeks.

MONTEREY, CA - The SunTrust Racing duo of Max Angelelli and Brian Frisselle enjoyed their second consecutive podium finish with a solid, third-place run in Sunday's Verizon Festival of Speed at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca which, most importantly, moved the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara team of Wayne Taylor Racing from fourth to third in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series championship.

MONTEREY, CA - Safe to say Sunday's Verizon Festival of Speed at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca near Monterey, Calif., won't be the wet and wild affair experienced by the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series competitors two weekends ago at New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville.

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.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- Riley Motorsports LLC of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Surrey Sport LLC of Apopka, Florida announced today that both businesses are expanding their operations in motorsports, but separately.

PHOENIX, AZ --Although the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley team felt they had a car good enough to be on the podium, they gladly accepted their fourth-place finish in the Gainsco Grand Prix at Phoenix International Raceway. The Top Five finish helped move them to third in the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype Team points championship, a goal they had set for this weekend.

LAGUNA SECA, CA -- The No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley team, with drivers Max Angelelli and Jan Magnussen, collected their first victory of the 2006 Grand American Rolex Sports Car season today in the Road & Track 250 race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

ALTON, VA -- The No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley of Wayne Taylor and Max Angelelli returned to a familiar location today -- the podium with a second place finish.

LONG BEACH, CA -- The No. 10 SunTrust race team had their best finish of the season at today's Grand American Challenge of Long Beach race, Round 4 of the 14-race schedule, however, it was not the podium finish they were seeking. If it were not for bad luck, they would not have had any luck at all.

MIAMI, FL -- The third stop on the 2006 Grand American Rolex Sports Car series at the Homestead-Miami Speedway featured numerous cautions, as was expected for the Grand Prix of Miami in the two and three-quarter hour night race. Six cautions for over one-third of the race and five car lead changes among five different drivers was all part of the drama.

MEXICO CITY, MEX -- Round Two of the 2006 Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series was a challenging race for the defending championship No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley team. They persevered in adversity to finish ninth overall in a very competitive event.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- Wayne Taylor, 2005 Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series Driver Champion and owner/driver of the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley, competed in his first Crown Royal International Race of Champions (IROC) Race tonight, finishing sixth in a exciting race.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- Grand American Road racing champion Wayne Taylor spent the majority of last week practicing for his inaugural effort at the International Race of Champions (IROC) race at Daytona International Speedway.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- The No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley officially retired from the 2006 Rolex 24 At Daytona after an unavoidable collision on lap 125 caused extensive damage to the car.

DAYTONA, FL -- Looking to repeat their 2005 victory against a loaded Grand American field, the No. 10 SunTrust race team is eager to return to Daytona International Speedway for the 44th Annual Rolex 24 At Daytona, January 28-29, 2006.

ATLANTA, GA -- As if winning the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Championship was not a difficult enough task, Wayne Taylor and Max Angelelli will now take on the challenge of competing in the 2006 invitational IROC Series. The International Race of Champions is open only to the world's best race drivers, as it pits the best drivers in all the U.S. racing series competing against one another in identically prepared cars.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- The No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley of Wayne Taylor, Max Angelelli, Emmanuel Collard and Ryan Briscoe experienced a very successful test at the Daytona Test Days this week in preparation for the Rolex 24 At Daytona.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- After coming off a championship season in 2005, where they won the Driver's and Team championship in Grand American Daytona Prototype competition, the SunTrust race team is ready to ring in the 2006 race season this week at the Daytona Test Days.

MEXICO CITY, MEX -- The No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley of Wayne Taylor and Max Angelelli achieved their goal of the season by being crowned the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Daytona Prototype team champion and co-driver champions.

MEXICO CITY, MEX -- The No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley race team of Wayne Taylor and Max Angelelli hopes to finish what began in Daytona.

ALTON, VA -- The No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley race team of Wayne Taylor and Max Angelelli finished fourth in today's VIR 400 after starting from the pole in another dramatic Grand American race. Although the team was unable to clinch the 2005 Grand American Daytona Prototype team championship with today's finish, the SunTrust team earned enough points to win the championship by simply starting the next race at Mexico City.

ALTON, VA -- The SunTrust team will start on the pole for the VIR 400 after rain from the remnants of Hurricane Tammy forced Saturday afternoon's qualifying to be canceled. Wayne won a pole earlier this year at the Daytona 250.

WATKINS GLEN, VA -- Wayne Taylor and Max "The Ax" Angelelli drove the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley to their second Watkins Glen victory and fifth total of the year at the Crown Royal 250 at The Glen. Today's podium finish was the team's sixth podium in a row and the ninth in 12 races as they continue to dominate the 2005 Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series.

PHOENIX, AZ -- It was a night of drama under the lights at Phoenix International Raceway in what some called a "crash fest" of a race. The Racetickets.com 250 was the eleventh stop of the 2005 Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series season and the only race run solely by the Daytona Prototype class. The different format proved to be exciting and eventful.

LEXINGTON, OH -- It was an incredible comeback story for the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley race team tonight as they finished the EMCO Gears Road Racing Classic in third-place at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and continued their Grand American Daytona Prototype points lead.

WATKINS GLEN, NY -- Wayne Taylor and Max "The Ax" Angelelli drove the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley to their fourth victory, and second consecutive, of the 2005 Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series tonight at Watkins Glen International in the CompUSA 200 at The Glen in a highly competitive race.

BIRMINGHAM, AL -- The No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley of Wayne Taylor and Max "The Ax" Angelelli drove to their third victory of the season in the 2005 Grand American Rolex Sports Car Championship today at the Porsche 250 race at Barber Motorsports Park. Flawless race strategy, orchestrated by Bill Riley and the SunTrust crew, along with great driving and some luck helped drive the SunTrust team into victory circle.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- There was a reward at the end of the rainbow today for the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley team of Wayne Taylor and Max Angelelli. Their "pot of gold" came in the form of valuable championship points, of which they collected 32 and jumped back into the lead of the 2005 Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype class.

WATKINS GLEN, NY -- The Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen race was another Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series race filled with plenty of drama -- from variable weather conditions, including rain and fog, to eight cautions for 44 laps and 12 driver lead changes. It produced the fourth Daytona Prototype winner in just six races. Unfortunately, the No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley team of Wayne Taylor and Max Angelelli, which had been dominant all weekend long, had to settle for a sixth place finish.

MONT-TREBLANT, QUEBEC, CANADA -- The No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley team, with drivers Wayne Taylor and Max Angelelli, experienced both highs and lows at the 6 Heures de Circuit Mont-Tremblant race today in Quebec, Canada. The series point leaders started from the second position, lead on two separate occasions for a total of 43 laps, yet had to settle for sixth place, when Max "The Ax" Angelelli experienced gearbox problems on Lap 181, while leading the race.

LAGUNA SECA, CA -- The No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac Riley team just missed a podium finish at the Road and Track 250 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, when they were fourth in the 97-lap, two hour-and-forty-five minute race. Race winners were Scott Pruett and Luis Diaz in the No.01 CompUSA Lexus Riley.

FONTANA, CA -- The No. 10 SunTrust Racing team continued to show the racing world their desire to dominate the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series this year. After starting from the eleventh position on the grid, they systematically climbed up the charts to finish in second place, just a mere .096 seconds from the top spot. It was the closest finish in the history of Grand American racing. The SunTrust team's penultimate finishing spot earned them a 17-point lead over the No. 01 CompUSA/Ganassi team in the 2005 Grand American point standings, 102 to 85 points.

HOMESTEAD, FL -- The No. 10 SunTrust Racing team made it one-two for the season with another victory this weekend in the Grand Prix of Miami race at the Homestead-Miami Speedway. The team's second win of the season extends their points lead by six points in the 14-race 2005 Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series championship.

DAYTONA, FL -- The No. 10 SunTrust Racing Pontiac Riley team of Wayne Taylor, Max Angelelli and Emmanuel Collard won this weekend's prestigious 43rd annual Rolex 24 at Daytona endurance classic race. Deemed as a favorite going into the race, the team felt confident in their preparation by Bill Riley and his Riley Technologies team, yet with trepidation of facing the talented driver line-up of the over 250 driver entries.

ATLANTA, GA -- The 2004 Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series proved to be a very exciting inaugural year for the SunTrust Racing team. With the team making seven out of twelve podium finishes, SunTrust was a constant in the race for the series championship.

FONTANA, CA -- A small problem in the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series finale at California Speedway prevented the SunTrust Racing team from winning the championship, however they had an stellar race today.

BIRMINGHAM, AL -- The Porsche 250 presented by Bradley Arant race at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama was another nail-biter in the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Championship point chase, as it finished under a caution. Rain was a factor in today's race as well as six cautions for 32 laps, produced five lead changes by three different cars. Although the No. 10 SunTrust Racing car of Wayne Taylor and Max Angelelli never led a lap in today's race, they finished second overall and narrowed the points gap even closer to the leading contender -- the No. 01 CompUSA Lexus Riley of Max Papis and Scott Pruett by a mere three points.

ALTON, VA -- The SunTrust Racing team took its third victory of the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series 2004 season Sunday at Virginia International Raceway in the "VIR 400 presented by SunTrust" race. They beat out the series points leading No. 01 CompUSA team of Max Papis and Scott Pruett in the closest finish in Grand American's five-year history by 0.870 seconds.

HOMESTEAD, FL -- The SunTrust Racing team of Wayne Taylor and Max Angelelli battled hard and fought extreme heat conditions to collect their second runner-up position in a row on Sunday at Homestead/Miami Speedway in the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series' Miami 250 race.

WATKINS GLEN, NY -- On Friday, the 13th of August in Watkins Glen, New York, the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series was not racing as usual. Rain showers, a multi-car incident, three cautions, six lead changes and a new Daytona Prototype team winner were all elements of the exciting race.

LEXINGTON, OH -- Following an excellent start and a brief lead of the EMCO Gears Road Racing Classic Grand American race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Circuit Saturday, the SunTrust Racing team went home with an eighth place finish.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- Perfect race strategy, perfectly executed pit stops, great fuel economy and flawless driving by both Wayne Taylor and Max Angelelli all contributed to a textbook win for SunTrust Racing at Daytona International Speedway in The Paul Revere 250.

WATKINS GLEN, NY -- The SunTrust Racing Team put on a dominating performance in the Grand American Racing Association's fifth round at the legendary Watkins Glen Grand Prix Circuit of upstate New York.

ATLANTA, GEORGIA -- SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE: STI) announced today a multi-year agreement with the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) to become the "Official Bank of NASCAR."

MT. TREMBLANT -- After a surprising recover from adversity in Saturday's qualifying session, Max Angelelli started SunTrust Racing's Pontiac-Riley Mk. 11 from the front row alongside eventual race winner Scott Pruett.

PHOENIX -- It was one of those days. Everything seemed just right. Clear blue skies, perfect temperature and a great collection of stars and cars seeking glory at Phoenix International Raceway in the Food City 250 race -- third round in the 2004 Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series.

ATLANTA -- SunTrust Banks, Inc. announced today that Andy Deas has joined the company as a First Vice President and Director of Sports Marketing, a newly created position within its Marketing Services Group.

HOMESTEAD, FL -- At times, round two of the Rolex Sports Car Series at Homestead-Miami Speedway looked like a Saturday night stock car race. The race winner was decided in the final few laps after the leaders slam-banged their way across the start/finish line.

HOMESTEAD, FL -- They qualified on the front row. Most of the time, they were the fastest race car on the track. They lead the race and persevered despite horrendous weather conditions compounded by technical gremlins.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- They qualified on the front row. Most of the time, they were the fastest race car on the track. They lead the race and persevered despite horrendous weather conditions compounded by technical gremlins.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- Team leader Wayne Taylor described the three-day session as promising."

ATLANTA, GA -- SunTrust Racing announced today that it will kick off its assault on the 2004 Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series championship.

To Be Primary Sponsor of Wayne Taylor's Grand-Am Entry

ATLANTA, GA -- SunTrust Banks, Inc., (NYSE: STI) announced today that it will be the primary sponsor of Wayne Taylor's entry in the Grand American Road Racing Series for 2004. Operating as "SunTrust Racing," the team will have a single car entry in the Rolex Sports Car Series for Daytona Prototypes, the premier category in Grand American Road Racing.

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