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MIKE FOREST COMPLETES FIRST DAYTONA PROTOTYPE SEASON

Oct 12, 2009

Homestead, Florida - The Beyer Racing team completed its maiden season in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The Beyer squad of Jared Beyer and Mike Forest (#5 Lennox/Dyancor Media Chevrolet Crawford), and brothers Ricky and Jordan Taylor (#13 Brach's Chevrolet Riley) took to the South Florida track under conditions of extreme heat and humidity which were only magnified inside their closed-cockpit Daytona Prototypes.


For Mike Forest and the #5 car the beginning of what would be a long and difficult day came on Lap 3 when he had to avoid debris on the track by going wide and falling back from his 14th starting position. After running as high as ninth, Forest was bumped by the #6 car causing significant damage to his car which affected its aerodynamic efficiency for the rest of the race. Jared Beyer jumped in the car on Lap 46 while the crew made some temporary repairs to his machine which caused him to lose valuable time and track position and he found himself in the 17th position when he came back on to the track. For the duration of his stint Beyer concentrated on nursing his ill-handling damaged car to the end. Adding insult to injury he was bumped and spun during a restart on Lap 96 and then collected again by another car causing major damage to his Crawford chassis and forcing him to retire only four laps shy of the checkered flag.

Mike Forest
#5 Lennox Chevrolet Crawford
Qualified: 14th
Finished: DNF
"The race was really stressful; it didn't go according to plan at all. The car was good on new tires but then a few laps into the stint the car was just really tough to drive, big understeer coming into the corner and big oversteer coming out. I had a few big moments, coming into Turn one I was passing a car but ended up going off so we lost some time there and just tried to use the yellows to get some positions back. After that in one of the restarts the #6 driver was passing me and I had the other Beyer car on the other side, the #6 driver hit me down the straight which really upset the car coming into the braking zone so I couldn't get it slowed down and we ended up touching again and doing some damage to our car and that was basically the end of my stint."

Jared Beyer
#5 Lennox Chevrolet Crawford
Qualified: 14th
Finished: DNF
"The car was pretty hard to drive when I got in it especially in the banking where I had a huge understeer, it just wanted to push up towards the wall so you had to take it really easy through there.

On a restart everybody got bunched up in Turn 1 and I got nudged there a little bit then recovered and then going into Turn 2 I got hit again by one of the GT cars which spun me and then while I was in the middle of the track I got hit again which is what really did the damage. It's a shame because we really wanted to finish up the year with a strong result, but I know the Beyer crew will do a great job repairing the car and we'll be out testing in the next few days getting ready for next year."

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