(Leeds, AL) -- Compass360 Racing team-mates Zach Lutz plus Ryan Eversley bounced back from unhappiness at Miami in March along allowing for a robust effect at the gorgeous Barber Motorsports Park as to the outskirts up of Birmingham, Alabama. The couple assembled on Lutz's fifth-place qualifying and stayed close to the leaders throughout the race, bringing the #75 JC Concrete Honda Civic Si home in third place, simply ahead of the team's #74 Skunk2/Honda HPD automobile in fourth.The outcome marks the pair's better result during the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge. "I'm so satisfied. It has just unimaginable," enthused Lutz. "The team gave united states a brilliant car and which we tend to had an incredible pit prevent. (Technical Director) Ray referred to as the tactic perfectly. Once the blow-up in Florida, about that could be still astounding and just what we needed. Currently we're back in the championship hunt!" Meanwhile, current championship leaders David Thilenius and Lawson Aschenbach managed to increase his or him or her lead by two points, to ten ahead of the #80 Bimmerworld BMW. "This is concerning the ideal shall we are hoping for," explained Aschenbach. "We just did no longer suffer from the pace of the little Mazda these days, and it appeared just favor the Seventy-five used to be functioning a little touch better at the finish of the race, so we'll take fourth and hope to be back on the box at VIR." Jesse Combs and Greg Liefooghe brought their #77 Coolgas/Exclusive Management Civic across the line in 14th, keeping that car in the top-five in points. Marv Weidner, constructing his series debut with the team, was in an excellent position at hand , his #76 Honda to team-mate and fellow rookie Alex Kirby after he was tagged from in the dirt by a lapped car. Fortunately unhurt, Weidner was nonetheless disappointed. "The guys were just great and helped me attain up to hurry temporarily. The automobile was such a heap amusing to drive and that i carry out be familiar with Alex would have done a great job. It's tricky when somebody who is the handful of laps down wrecks your race, less than I is sufficient to be back in an orange Honda soon!" The team's returned to its Toronto base to correct and decided the vehicles up for the following race on April Twenty-fourth at Virginia Global Raceway. "There's not lots of your previous point between these races, so I know we'll be busy repairing the wear and tear and making a handful of new enhancements," reflected Team Principal Karl Thomson. "But as necessarily, we'll be ready." The Barber race are going to be broadcast on April Seventeenth at 3:00pm on SPEED. Compass360 Racing (C360R) is the motorsports division of Compass360 Branding Communications, a firm providing promotional experience to purchasers in diverse industries across North America. The Championship-winning race team, with support from Honda of America, fields four front-running Honda Civic Si's in Grand-Am's KONI Challenge, in addition to cars in Canadian Touring Car. For main points
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