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HOMESTEAD, Fla. (March 2, 2010) – What’s the battle cry for the SunTrust Racing team at Saturday’s Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Grand Prix of Miami? How about, “Angelelli and Taylor Ride Again.”

Considering Italian driving ace Max Angelelli and three-time sports car racing champion Wayne Taylor thoroughly dominated the 2005 Grand Prix of Miami en route to their second of five victories during a season in which they won the Rolex Series championship, it has a mighty nice ring to it.

This weekend at the 2.3-mile, 11-turn Homestead-Miami Speedway road circuit, however, the Taylor who Angelelli will be co-driving with in the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara of Wayne Taylor Racing is none other than 20-year-old Ricky Taylor, who in the past three seasons has come to be known in sports car racing circles as a bona fide chip off the old block.

Wayne Taylor’s eldest son, the veteran of 21 Rolex Series races driving Daytona Protoypes, will be making his third appearance in the SunTrust Racing machine this weekend but his first in a two-driver event with Angelelli. Ricky Taylor’s previous two SunTrust outings came in the Rolex 24 At Daytona four-driver marathons. In 2008, he co-drove to a top-five Rolex 24 finish with Angelelli, his father and Michael Valiante. And this past January, Taylor, Angelelli and his father were joined by Portuguese former Formula 1 competitor Pedro Lamy in opening the season with a sixth-place Rolex 24 finish.

As always has been the case since SunTrust joined the Rolex Series in 2004, winning races and the season-long championship is the goal as Angelelli and Taylor set out to do it together for the first time as a duo over the remaining 11 races of 2010. Taylor’s role will be to qualify the lightning-fast SunTrust Ford Dallara, drive the opening stint during the race, and then turn the car over to Angelelli for the charge to the finish. This weekend will be Taylor’s first to qualify and start the SunTrust Racing machine in the race. But he’s no stranger to laying down fast laps during the Rolex Series’ thrilling 15-minute qualifying sessions, nor to taking the green flag to start a 2-hour, 45-minute event. In his 21 career Rolex Series starts, Taylor has co-driven to three top-five and 13 top-10 finishes between the SunTrust team, Houston-based Beyer Racing, and Cincinnati-based Doran Racing.

All of that suits Angelelli just fine. The Italian was thoroughly impressed by what he saw of his new fulltime co-driver at the Rolex 24 in January, and he just can’t wait to dig in for the long haul with the mechanical engineering major from the University of Central Florida beginning Saturday evening at Homestead.

Practice and qualifying for Saturday’s Grand Prix of Miami begins Friday, with qualifying set for 3:45 p.m. EST. For the first time, live streaming video coverage of qualifying can be found online at SPEEDTV.com beginning at 3:40 p.m. Saturday’s 2-hour, 45-minute race begins at 5 p.m. with live television coverage on SPEED, and a live radio broadcast provided by the Motor Racing Network (MRN). The detailed event schedule, as well as live timing and scoring during all on-track sessions, can be found at www.grand-am.com.

Max Angelelli, co-driver of the No. 10 SunTrust Racing Ford Dallara:

You had the fastest car all month at the Rolex 24, but had to settle for a sixth-place finish. How do you feel about the SunTrust effort as it heads to Homestead this weekend?

“I’m feeling good about this weekend. I definitely like Homestead and I really like the car we have this year. Last year’s result there (seventh place) was a big disappointment because we had a chance to win the championship and it didn’t work out that way. It was probably the worst experience we’ve had at Homestead as far as getting the car to work with the racetrack. It was hot and it was impossible to find grip, so it was very frustrating because we were fighting for the championship. This year, our car is much different, especially with the new Pirelli tire. It looks like we nailed the setup with many of the changes we made at Daytona. The car was so good, we did not change a thing between the test weekend and the race weekend. That makes me feel pretty good about Homestead and the rest of the season.”

Will that speed from Daytona translate into speed at Homestead, since they are both banked ovals with infield road courses?

“Well, I think Daytona is such a unique track and requires a particular setup, I can’t say for sure what that means about how our car will do at Homestead. They look similar on paper, with the NASCAR oval and the flat road course in the middle, but Homestead is different, as far as I’m concerned. But still, a really important thing we learned about our car during the Daytona test was what kind of changes don’t work. That, I think, is going to help us for the rest of the season.”

The Rolex 24 is history, so now it’s down to you and Ricky Taylor the rest of the way. How do you feel about your new fulltime co-driver after what you saw of him during testing and at the Rolex 24?

“I’m feeling very positive, very happy. I’m happy to have such a dedicated ‘student,’ and he is very dedicated to make this SunTrust program a success. He has made me feel very helpful, and he makes me feel like he’s interested in what we all have to say. And I have already learned from him, too. That’s the way it needs to be between teammates. I’m very happy with Ricky and I’m confident in what he can deliver.”

What did you do during the long break since the Rolex 24?

“I had a very nice skiing trip with my family at the Andalo resort up in the northern part of Italy, in the Alps, although I was struggling quite a bit with my oldest son (6½-year-old Samuele). He’s very fast, doesn’t always make the corner, and does not listen to his father. I thought it would help if I put him in the ski school, that maybe he would listen to the instructor. But every day the instructor tells me he doesn’t listen, so I had to keep finding a new instructor. Maybe Samuele’s a lot like his father – he likes to go his own way. I enjoyed the skiing, but you have to be careful there on the ski runs because the ‘ski police’ check everybody’s speed with radar and, if you’re going too fast, they impound your skis. So I