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I have a very busy schedule this month. I am leaving home on June 4, heading
East to compete in the six-hour Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series race at
Watkins Glen: The six-hour Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series race is
scheduled for Saturday, June 6, from 2:15 pm to 8:15 pm ET on the 3.4-mile
Watkins Glen International road course in Watkins Glen, N.Y. The race will
be telecast live on SPEED from 2 pm to 4 pm and from 6 pm to 8:30 pm ET.
Then I will drive to New York City the next day to board an overnight flight to Paris. I
am switching from plane to train to catch the high-speed connection to Le Mans: Les 24 Heures du Mans is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, June 13 and 14, starting at 3 pm CET (9 am ET), on the 13.629-kilometre (8.47-mile) Circuit de la Sarthe street and road course in Le Mans, France. The race will be televised live on SPEED on June 13 from 8 am to noon and from 4:30 pm to 10 pm, and on June 14 from midnight to 9:30 am, all ET. Practice, qualifying and the race will also be covered live on radiolemans.com.
After one night at home, I am off to Lexington, Ohio, for a Rolex Series
race at Mid-Ohio: The Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series race is scheduled for Saturday, June 20, from 5 pm to 7:45 pm ET on the 2.258-mile Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio. The race will be televised live on SPEED.
As far as the different tracks, Watkins Glen is one of my favorite tracks. I
won the 6 hour there in 2001 in the GT class and have always done well. Last
year, We crossed the finish line just three car-lengths behind Scott Pruett
(the race winner). We've been fighting some handling issues the last two
races, but we've done a lot of testing prior to the six-hour, so hopefully
we'll be back for another podium finish.
In LeMans I am joining Jörg Bergmeister and Seth Neiman in the No. 80 Flying
Lizard Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 RSR. I'm very excited. I'm really looking
forward to it. It amazes me after doing endurance racing for so many years
that I haven't been there. I spent a lot of time looking at data, in-car
video, playing X-Box, doing everything I can to be prepared. Jörg's been on
pole, he's won it before. Seth and the team know their way around – Flying
Lizard has been fast every year they've run. So I've got some good guys to
lean on, and the car is capable of winning.
For the final race this month I will be back in the No. 58 Brumos Daytona
Prototype. David and I finished second in last year's race. Mid-Ohio is
another great track for us. I love both Watkins Glen and Mid-Ohio; they're
drivers' tracks. After running a six-hour and a 24-hour, doing one stint in
a two-and-three-quarter-hour race should be a piece of cake!
The next 3 races are all televised live on Speed Channel so check your local
listings and tune in if you can. Thanks for visiting my site, I will have an
update at the end of the month as to how things went.
Darren Law
Darren Law has joined the Voices of Speed columnists on speedtv.com. Here is a link to his first report:

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