Riley Technologies - Grand-Am

Grand-Am

In 2001, Bob Riley and son Bill, formerly of Riley & Scott formed Riley Technologies. The company moved their headquarters to Mooresville, NC in late 2006.

Riley Technologies is the leading constructor of the Daytona Prototype chassis for the Rolex Grand-Am series. The Riley chassis has become dominant in terms of both numbers of cars on the grid and results. Riley chassis have won the last seven 24 Hours of Daytona races with different engines, the 2005 race was won by the SunTrust Racing Pontiac-Riley and 2006, 2007, and 2008 victories went to Chip Ganassi Racing Lexus powered Rileys. The 2009 race was won by a Brumos Racing Porsche powered Riley. In the 2010 race, another Porsche-powered Mark XI from Action Express Racing won. The 2011 race was again won by Chip Ganassi Racing, this time with a BMW engine. Riley also developed the Mazda RX-8 chassis that won the GT class in the 2008 race. Also unveiled in 2008 was the new BMW M6 GT race car.

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