| The field heads into Laguna Seca’s tight turn two. On the inside in No. 40 is pole sitter Kenny Wilden in the Jim Derhaag prepared Camaro. To his right is Brian Simo in the No. 88 Qvale Mangusta. Behind them and barely visible is third place qualifier Boris Said in the Sun Microsystems Ford Mustang. |
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Stu Hayner was part of Team Victoria, which also included Willy T. Ribbs. At Laguna Seca he qualified his Chevrolet Camaro ninth and had a fourth place finish. |
| This is how Brian Simo’s Qvale Mangusta looked prior to his on track skirmish with Paul Gentilozzi. Simo and Gentilozzi made contact on the nineteenth lap, which sent Simo in to the gravel trap at turn three. With heavy damage to the right side of the car he was no longer a factor in the race. Gentilozzi finished third. |
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Randy Ruhlman spent a lot of the 2000 season sideways – sometimes through no fault of his own. After getting sideways at Laguna Seca’s turn two he stalled the car and as the photo would indicate there was plenty of gas in the exhaust system when it re-fired. He is passed by No. 16 Willy T. Ribbs and Tomy Drissi. |
| Kenny Wilden picked up his first career victory, in only his fifth Trans Am start. Wilden had to fight it out with Brian Simo and Boris Said to capture the event. He also picked up the Simple Green Clean Sweep award for leading the most laps, having the fastest race lap and winning the pole and race. |
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Trans Am regular Don Sak finished twenty-fourth at Laguna Seca after a twenty-second place start. |
| During practice Mike Davis tested the Alex Zanardi line through the corkscrew. The Ford Mustang driver would start eighteenth and finish in fifteenth place. |
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Boris Said in a brand new Ford Mustang, delivered a week before the event, qualified third. He took the new car to the front and led laps nineteen to thirty-seven before finishing in second place. |
| Canadian Marybeth Harrison made four Trans Am starts during the 2000 season – Mosport, Cleveland, Elkhart Lake and Laguna Seca. At Laguna she had her best results - qualifying twenty-fifth and finishing thirteenth. |
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