LIME ROCK PARK, CT - Koni Challenge drivers Matt Bell and VJ Mirzayan will start from the eighth spot in today's two-and-half hour ST race at Lime Rock Park. The duo are driving the #95 H&R Springs/Borla Exhaust BMW 330i, prepared by Turner Motorsport. The green flag for the ST race flies at 3:00p ET.

Bell and Mirzayan are both West Coast racers who had never been to the rolling Lime Rock track. Their time of 1:01.204 was the eighth fastest of 48 cars.

"We have a really good car here this weekend thanks to the efforts and experience of the Turner Motorsport team," says 330i driver Matt Bell. "We're starting from inside the top ten on a very competitive and busy track and looking forward to showing the crowd here what we're capable of."

Today's Koni Challenge ST race rolls off at 3:00p ET. Live Timing and Scoring is available on KoniChallenge.com.

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.