Press Release from MMP: 

tah-Based Corsa Motorsports Enters Ferrari in Sunchaser 1000
 
(September 7, 2007) -- Corsa Motorsports, the Utah-based sports car racing team headquartered at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah, has announced its return to the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Special Reserve with the entry of its No. 62 EquiWest F430 Ferrari Challenge GT in the upcoming Sunchaser 1000 event scheduled for the Miller track on September 15. Corsa made its debut in the Grand-Am Rolex Series at the inaugural Sunchaser event last year along with the first, and to date the only, entry of a Ferrari F430 Challenge in the series. Although plagued by fueling fires in its first two pit stops due to a faulty design of the car's aftermarket fueling mechanism installation which resulted in the loss of 11 laps in the pits, the maiden event for F430 CGT was otherwise a success as the car went on to finish the race.
 
Driving the No. 62 F430 CGT in addition to team principal Steve Pruitt will be Rui Aguas of Parma, Italy and Gunnar Jeanette of Salt Lake City. Aguas finished second in the 2006 FIA GT Championship driving the Ferrari F430 GT for AF Corse and has driven the Corsa F430 Ferrari F430 GT in the GT2 class in ALMS, most recently finishing fifth in the 2007 Utah Grand Prix. Jeanette, with vast experience at the Miller track, has been driving a Ford Mustang for Multimatic in the European FIA GT3 series as well as a Panoz LMGT in ALMS. Both drivers have numerous podium finishes in a variety of series and cars, and both bring car development experience to the team from which Corsa will continue the development of F430 CGT aiming towards participation in the 2008 Grand-Am season.
 
Quotes:
Steve Pruitt: "Although we have had our attention averted due to other pursuits which were thwarted by problems with support personnel and tire manufacturers, we are looking forward to returning to where we started last year at Miller with the Grand-Am series and our one-of-a-kind F430 CGT program. It is with a renewed sense of the capabilities of the machinery uniquely Ferrari that excites us and, when taken in context of the prospects for the 2008 season, with all cars to be shod on Pirelli tiress for which the F430 chassis was originally bred, the No. 62 Corsa Ferrari should be able to get up to competitive speed more quickly and run at the front, as is customary with a Ferrari. The addition of the experience of both Jerry (J.T.) Tatum and Shawn Tatum will certainly add to the synergistic development of the car."