Grand-Am Road Racing or Grand-Am is an auto racing sanctioning body that was established in 1999 to organize road racing competitions in North America. Its primary focus is the Rolex Sports Car Series, an endurance racing championship series. It currently sanctions five auto racing series. The series announced in September 2012 that it will be merging with the American Le Mans Series, which had been Grand-Am's main US competitor since its inception. The two series will fully merge in 2014 with a new name that has yet to be disclosed.
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Famous quotes containing the words road and/or racing:
“Dear common flower, that grow’st beside the way,
Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold,
First pledge of blithesome May,
Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold,
Hight-hearted buccaneers, o’erjoyed that they
An Eldorado in the grass have found,
Which not the rich earth’s ample round
May match in wealth—thou art more dear to me
Than all the prouder summer-blooms may be.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
“Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don’t get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat’s cheese ... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)