About the Team



Team Sahlen competes in the Grand Am Koni Challenge and the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Special Reserve. The Nonnamaker family will share the team's stable of Corvettes with Joe Sahlen, driver and sponsor. Phoenix ProMotions, the company behind the campaign, has won the Grand Am Cup Team, Driver and Manufacturer championship in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. In addition to those four titles, Phoenix has also won championships in prior versions of the Koni Challenge in 1984, 1997, and 1999. Phoenix ProMotions, a car preparation shop and promotional firm, has been responsible for the past campaigns run under the names of Planet Earth Motorsports, HRPWorld.com Racing, and TheRaceSite.com Racing. Sahlen's joined in 2005 for their first season of partnership with Phoenix. Sahlen Packing Company was founded in 1869 in Buffalo, New York as a family business. Company founder Joseph Sahlen dedicated himself to one guiding principle: only the freshest and highest quality meat products would bear the proud Sahlen name. Today - in addition to being the name behind the Buffalo area's favorite hot dogs and holiday hams- Sahlen's has grown from their Western New York roots to offer our "Old Fashioned" Smokehouse Ham and Turkey Breast in over 15 states. The team campaigns their fleet of two HRPWorld.com designed Corvettes in the Grand American Rolex Series. In addition, Joe Sahlen and Will Nonnamaker will be sharing a Mazda RX-8 in the Koni Challenge Street Tuner class.