Birmingham, Alabama - July 19^th, 2009 - It was a busy day at the Porsche 250 presented by Legacy Credit Union in which both the team's #5 and #13 Daytona Prototypes showed a strong pace and the opportunity for a top finish but were hampered by various setbacks throughout the 2 hour 45 minute race.Ricky Taylor had a good start in the #13 Lennox Chevrolet Impala SS Riley and went from his 13^th starting position on the grid to ninth place in only two laps.  Things were finally looking up after a difficult weekend in which Taylor and teammate Mike Forest struggled to find grip with their Riley chassis.  The problems started on lap eight however when Taylor received a stop-and-go penalty for passing before the start-finish line on a restart, which put the #13 car back to the 18^th overall position and one lap down to the leaders.  Taylor fought back to 12^th only to discover that a flat spot on his left front was worsening every lap and slowing him down considerably, he pitted for a new tire on lap 41 and once again lost valuable ground.  Forest jumped into the car on lap 90 and had to focus on quickly learning the handling characteristics of his Daytona Prototype because the Beyer team had made major changes to the setup of the car since the Canadian drove it for the last time in Saturday morning practice.  Forest quickly adapted and turned his fastest laps of the weekend as he drove the car to the checkered flag finishing in the 12^th place.

Jordan Taylor showed impressive speed all weekend running in the top three in the race,in only the second time that he and teammate Jared Beyer ran their new Crawford chassis.  After running among the top ten during most of the weekend sessions, Taylor started the #5 Lennox Chevrolet Crawford from the 12^th position.  He had to pit on lap five during a caution so the Beyer crew could check his front left suspension which he felt had a problem.  No problems were found and he came out in the 22^nd overall position but quickly recovered to 11^th.  Taylor was flying through the field but lost valuable time when he got held up by #59 JC France who was considerably slower but aggressively trying to keep the 18 year old behind him.  On lap 19 Taylor gained the position and went on to drive a strong race in which he kept gaining positions and running among the top six, he handed the car to teammate Jared Beyer on lap 89 while running eight.  Beyer came out on track in the middle of a GT battle and had to carefully weave through the slower traffic which was more focused on their own race than the faster DP cars.  With only two laps to go the New Braunfels, Texas native got smashed on the right side by the #76 Krohn car causing bodywork damage and a flat tire.  All of the day's hard work was lost as Beyer had to slowly nurse his injured car around the Barber Motorsports Park track for the last two laps of the event watching a number of cars drive by and eventually finishing in the 13^th position.osition.