Laguna
Seca ALMS, 16 October 2004
Race
Second
place in return to ALMS
Audi
UK Press Release, 26th September 2004: Johnny
Herbert missed out on winning the Petit Le Mans 1,000-mile race
at Road Atlanta for a second consecutive year.
The
40-year-old three time Grand Prix winner finished second to
the “sister” ADT Champion Audi of JJ Lehto and Marco Werner
in Saturday’s 394-lap race, 9 hour 35mins race. Le Mans Endurance
Series champion Herbert, co-driving with Germany’s Kaffer, started
from the second row of the 34-car grid.
“We
incurred a stop-go penalty when Pierre touched a back-marker
which dropped us a lap behind the leading Audi,” remarked
Herbert.
“With
two hours remaining, I slid off on oil and then had to make
a couple of unscheduled pit-stops with a fuel leak. Having
finished second in the Le Mans 24 Hours I was looking to win
this one again but ‘Lady Luck’ didn’t smile on me.”
The
Lehto/Werner Audi took the chequered flag three-laps ahead of
the similar Audi R8 of Herbert/Kaffer with the Dyson Lola of
Chris Dyson/Jan Lammers a further eight-laps adrift.
The
pole-starting Lola of James Weaver/Andy Wallace/Butch Leitzinger
led for the opening hour but succumbed to the pressure of the
two Audis, later losing time with a gearbox problem and accident
damage.
The
front-row starting Creation DBA-Zytek (Minassian/Campbell-Walter)
retired with engine failure at one-third distance.
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