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Mooresville, NC, (June 22, 2011) - Andy Lally is ready for the first road course race of the season in the TRG Motorsports No. 71 Adobe Road Winery Ford Fusion for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Toyota/Save Mart 350 to be run at Infineon Raceway on Sunday, June 26.

Lally, a seasoned road racer, is looking forward to running his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event at Infineon. This will be a “home” race for the team, as team owner Kevin Buckler lives in nearby Novato and operates Adobe Road Winery just over the hill from Turn Three. The 10-turn, 1.99-mile undulating road course located at the gateway to wine country is a welcome race for the four-time Grand-Am sports car champion.

“Sonoma is one of the two places I would like to highlight this season, the other being Watkins Glen,” Lally said. “I don’t have a lot of laps around Infineon. I was able to take out a Late Model car last week and shake-it down around the NASCAR version of the circuit. I had never run the two back turns on that configuration. It is definitely a track that I can go to and be more aggressive right off of the trailer. It is imperative we have a good result this weekend and get maximum points.

I have a lot of in-car footage of Infineon to go with my Late Model laps. When you have as much horsepower as our Ford does, it just wants to spin the tires in every gear. Our main focus is to get the power to the ground and not to rip the rear tires off. In the short runs you have to be really aggressive. If you are not working on the guy in front of you, the guy behind you is trying to dump you into the next sandbox. You have to go hard from the drop of the green flag. You have to really pick your points. You can’t be reckless. Over aggressive moves can knock you back a few spots and you spend the rest of the day trying to make it up.”

Kevin Buckler, team owner, has a big weekend planned on and off the track.

“This is a fantastic weekend for everyone at TRG Motorsports, Adobe Road Winery and all of our friends,” Buckler said. “We have done a lot of work leading up to this weekend. We tested the car at Road Atlanta, took it back to the shop and tuned on it some more and then we went up to VIR (Virginia International Raceway) for a final shake down. Andy has some quality laps here, both behind the wheel and working with our Porsche customers to get them around here fast. We have always done well at Infineon and it is a tricky track to set-up for and even trickier to drive. Our race team started in one of the garages over in Turn 10 and we have come a long way since then. We need to take advantage of this weekend to move up in the points standings and get our mojo working for the second half of the season.”

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Toyota/Save Mart 350 from Infineon Raceway can viewed live on TNT starting at 2 p.m. ET. The race can be heard on affiliated Performance Racing Network (MRN) stations and Sirius XM Satellite Radio 90. Qualifying can be seen on the SPEED Channel starting at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, June 24.

TRG would like to thank associate sponsors Interstate Moving Services, TIFCO Industries, Super Eco-Fuel Saver, Stone Harbor Investment Partners, HPT, Guardian Angel Motorsports, ACG Motorsports, Savory Thymes.com, and Adobe Road Winery for their support.

TRG is a full-service motorsports company offering a total driver ladder approach, as well as comprehensive sponsorship and business opportunities. For drivers, this approach starts with track days, goes to club events, up into street stock series and culminates in the ultimate goal of professional motorsports. For sponsors and business partners, this method starts with everything from executive events, to traditional sponsorship models, all the way to comprehensive business-to-business opportunities and experiential marketing. With facilities in Petaluma, California and Mooresville, North Carolina the team can offer turn-key marketing programs as well as arrive-and-drive support.

The company’s NASCAR operations are headquartered in Mooresville, North Carolina. The team fields a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series entry and has the capacity to run ARCA, Nationwide and the Camping World Truck Series.

The Racer’s Group was founded in 1993 and has been competing at the top level of motor racing. The team boasts Rolex Series GT championships in 2005 and 2006 and holds the record for the most wins in Grand-Am with 32. The team’s resume is highlighted by five championships, four Rolex 24 Hour at Daytona victories, and a Le Mans 24 Hour win.

For more information please contact Kyle Chura at (248) 821-0468 or chura@aol.com. Detailed team info can be viewed at www.trgmotorsports.com and www.theracersgroup.com.

For sponsorship information, please contact Donato Bonacquisto at (704) 905-2791 or donato@trgmotorsports.com.

- TRG Motorsports, Press Release