HOMESTEAD, Fla. A fourth-place finish Saturday meant a season championship for a Central Oregon resident and his auto-racing teammate.

Bends Jon Fogarty, 34, and teammate Alex Gurney, 35 and of Irvine, Calif., placed fourth in the Grand Prix of Miami, the season-ending race in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series. It was good enough to wrap up their second Daytona Prototype championship.

Fogarty and Gurney, driving the No. 99 GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing Pontiac Riley, finished six points ahead of Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas (337-331). Pruett and Rojas finished second in Saturdays race behind Joao Barbosa and Hurley Haywood.

In Fridays qualifying, Fogarty won his fifth consecutive pole and sixth in seven races.

Fogarty and Gurney also were Grand-Am Rolex Series champions in 2007.

Saturdays race ended under caution following a multiple-car spin on a restart with six minutes remaining in the 21/2-hour race.

Staff and wire reports