August 31, 2008- Jönsson and the Krohn Racing team faced the challenging track conditions at New Jersey Motorsports Park. This new track had its effect on the results of the two-car Krohn Racing final results in Millville, New Jersey for the penultimate race of the 2008 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.

Jönsson and teammate Ricardo Zonta had to settle for 13th position after debris in the radiator caused the car to overheat and required an additional five pit stops to the anticipated two-stop race plan. Five cautions for 27 laps and six different cars lead the two and three-quarter hour race.


Quotes from Jönsson:

“The team did a great job again this weekend to get a very good car underneath us. My stint was very easy for me to just go out and drive for about a half-hour. I took it very easy and was able to move up from fifth to third. I think we had the quickest car out there today. I think we showed that both in my stint and Ricardo’s stint. Unfortunately, we had some debris hit the radiator and we had to pit seven times, I think, instead of two. That ruined the race for us. But the Proto-Auto Lola is coming along. The engineers, along with the crew guys, have done a fantastic job this year. I’m very proud to be a part of the Krohn group. We need a little bit of luck, or at least no bad luck. I think if we have no bad luck, we can do the rest on our own. I think we’ve proved that a lot of times this year. But we’ll go to Miller and get another shot. It will be the last chance this year to see if we can get another podium there and hopefully win. But we have to put this behind us and just go to Miller and try to achieve the best results we can and keep working hard this winter and come back out next year and go for the championship.”

Quotes from David Brown, Krohn Racing Team Manager:

"The 76 car had a slightly worse day in that we think we got a water leak soon after Ricardo got in the car. We got hit by a piece of debris, which we think has gone through the radiator. From then on we had a water leak which we were battling for the rest of the race. We think we had a car quick enough to be right at the front of the race and I think we demonstrated that with our lap times during the race. We had to keep pitting to put water in the car. While we are quite disappointed to not to achieve the results we think we deserve, we’ll go to Miller and we’ll have another go at achieving a good race result this year. And the result the team deserves after the effort they have put in.”

Jönsson's next race will be in Grand-Am Rolex Series' round 14 of 14 will be the Sunrichgourmet.com 1000 race at Miller Motorsports Park in Toole, Utah on Saturday, September 20, 2008. Visit Race Schedule to view Nic's busy 2008 schedule. For more information, please see www.grand-am.com  and www.krohnracing.net

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Photos by Regis Lefebure: www.regislefebuephoto.com