Bill Lester wins Grand-Am event

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    Bill Lester became the first black driver to win a Grand-Am Road Racing event, teaming with Jordan Taylor to top the Rolex Series' GT class Saturday in the Bosch Engineering 250 at Virginia International Raceway.

    "We're ecstatic," Lester said. "Everything came together for us. We knew at the beginning of the season that this team had a lot of potential."

    The breakthrough victory in the Autohaus Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro came in the hometown of auto racing pioneer Wendell Scott, the only black driver to win a NASCAR Sprint Cup race.

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