American Le Mans Series Grand Prix of Portland

THE AMERICAN LE MANS SERIES
The Grand Prix of Portland
PIT NOTES: Page 7
SUNDAY AUGUST 5, 2001

At 2:14, car #2-P Audi R8 into the pits. Tires and fuel, driver change: Emanuele Pirro.

At 2:16, car #26-GTS Saleen S7R, class leader, into the pits. Tires and fuel, driver change: Terry Borcheller, problems with right front lug nut. Car #3-GTS Chevrolet Corvette C5-R (Fellows) takes the lead in class.

Frank Biela (#2-P Audi R8) (about race conditions) “There’s lots of rubber on the racetrack, I couldn’t go flat out.”

At 2:20, car #51-P Panoz LMP1 Roadster S, overall leader, into the pits. Tires and fuel, driver change: Franck Lagorce. Car #1-P Audi R8 (Kristensen) takes the overall lead.
At 2:24, car #11-P675 Lola B2K/40/Judd into the pits. Tires and fuel, driver change: Steven Knight. There will be a 20-second penalty on the next stop for too many people helping the driver over the wall.
At 2:25, car #42-GT BMW M3 GTR into the pits. Tires and fuel, driver change: Jörg Müller.
At 2:27, car #22-GT Porsche 911 GT3-RS into the pits. Tires and fuel, driver change: Randy Pobst.
At 2:27, car #30-GT Porsche 911 GT3-RS into the pits. Tires and fuel, driver change: Johnny Mowlem.
At 2:28, car #6-GT BMW M3 GTR into the pits. Tires and fuel, driver change: Boris Said.
At 2:28, car #30-GT Porsche 911 GT3-RS into the pits. Tires and fuel, driver change: Timo Bernhard.
At 2:29, car #23-GT Porsche 911 GT3-RS into the pits. Tires and fuel, driver change: Lucas Luhr.
At 2:29, car #69-GT Porsche 911 GT3-R into the pits. Tires and fuel, driver change: Joe Foster.
At 2:29, car #44-GTS Dodge Viper GTS-R into the pits. Tires and fuel, no driver change.

JJ Lehto (#42-GT BMW M3 GTR) (about race conditions) “Rubber build up is not too bad, pretty normal for this course. There was a silver Porsche dopping oil on the racing line. The track was very good for the first 10 or 15 laps, but slowly getting greasier and greasier.”

At 2:35, car #10-GT BMW M3 GTR into the pits. Tires and fuel, driver change: Niclas Jönsson. There will be a stop and go penalty for speeding in the pits.

At 2:37, car #43-GT BMW M3 GTR, class leader, into the pits. Tires and fuel, driver change: Fredrik Ekblom. Team reports changing rear tire compounds to a softer tire. Retains the lead in class.

At 2:37, car #3-GTS Chevrolet Corvette C5-R, leader in class, into the pits. Tires and fuel, driver change: Johnny O’Connell. Car #26-GTS Saleen S7R takes the lead in class. The #26-GTS car is smoking from the rear when slowing for corners.

At 2:37, car #4-GTS Chevrolet Corvette C5-R into the pits. Tires and fuel, driver change: Kelly Collins.

Ron Fellows (#3-GTS Chevrolet Corvette C5-R) “There’s a lotta slippin and slidin goin on out there.”

At 2:40, car #45-GTS Dodge Viper GTS-R into the pits. Tires and fuel, driver change: Jeff Altenburg.
At 2:43, car #10-GT BMW M3 GTR (Jonsson) into the pits for the stop and go penalty.

At 2:45 (with one hour remaining), top three in class: #1-P (Kristensen) 82 laps, #50-P, #51-P; #57-P675 (Duno) 77 laps, #11-P675 (Knight) 73 laps; #26-GTS (Borcheller) 75 laps, #3-GTS (O’Connell), #4-GTS (Collins); #43-GT (Ekblom) 74 laps, #42-GT (Müller), #23-GT (Luhr).

At 2:46, car #50-P Panoz LMP1 Roadster S (Brabham) has closed to 3.116 seconds behind leader #1-P Audi R8 (Kristensen).
At 2:43, car #26-GTS Saleen S7R (Borcheller), class leader), into the pits. Added fuel, looked under the car, found oil leak, but sent the car back out. Car #3-GTS Chevrolet Corvette C5-R (O’Connell) takes the lead in class.