LIME ROCK PARK, CT - For the second year in a row, a Turner Motorsport M3 sits on the pole for the Koni Challenge race at Lime Rock Park. Don Salama and Bryan Ortiz will start from the top spot in the #97 BMW M3 sponsored by H&R Springs, Nova Derm, OCG, and GoToPuertoRico.com.

Don Salama is no stranger to the 1.5 mile, 7-turn Connecticut road course - racing here in the BMW Car Club series, World Challenge, and the Koni Challenge series. But it was his teammate Bryan Ortiz, in his first event at Lime Rock, who gave the home-town Turner team their second pole in as many seasons. His time of 58.663 was the fastest among the 35 cars entered for Monday’s Koni Challenge GS race. It also broke the qualifying lap record, set in 2007 with Will Turner driving the same car.

Matt Alhadeff and Bill Auberlen in the #96 Motul Lubricants/H&R Springs BMW M3 will start the GS race from the 21st position.

About Turner Motorsport. Turner Motorsport is the leading BMW tuner in North America, bringing technology and expertise from the racetrack to the street. Turner Motorsport is not about clever marketing tricks or gimmicks. Those don’t belong on the racetrack where results speak for themselves. The Turner Motorsport team has won five championships in two different series since 2003 and remains the only team to win in the Koni Challenge series with the E46 M3 – ten times. This storied success is passed into every component that Turner Motorsport designs and sells through their website catalog. Our R&D engineers and Sales team work alongside our race team, allowing practical knowledge and state-of-the-art engineering to flow in both directions. Few companies in North America can claim such a close relationship to what they sell and what they race.

H&R Special Springs is a German based suspension company that has been built on a foundation of superior quality, true performance and the best customer service. H&R has established a proven heritage of unsurpassed industry respect and customer confidence, all of which gives H&R the definitive edge in suspension tuning and design. All H&R products are crafted in Germany and exceed ISO 9001 quality assurance standards. H&R maintains a U.S. facility located in Bellingham, Washington, where additional testing and research are conducted. For more information, visit www.hrsprings.com or call (888) 827-8881.