Wednesday 21st July 2004

Best Ever Result for Lambo

Murciélago R-GT finishes second in ALMS race

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The Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT produced its realised the best-ever result for the Lamborghini marque in international motor racing this weekend, being placed second in the GTS class at the fourth round of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) at Infineon Raceway, California.

The podium placed Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT was driven by the Krohn-Barbour Racing team pairing of Tracy Krohn and David McEntee (standing in for Scott Maxwell) both racing the Lamborghini for the first time,  with Krohn in his first-ever ALMS race.

The other Krohn-Barbour Racing Lamborghini, of David Brabham and Peter Kox, was running fourth in the GTS class when Kox was forced to retire the car 25 minutes into the race with mechanical problems.

The Amprex Motorsports Murciélago R-GT was also in action this weekend in the fourth round of the Japan GT championship. The team, with Kuala Lumpur-based Japanese driver-owner, Genji Hashimoto, and second driver German Norman Simon, qualified a second ahead of the main opposition, the Ferrari 550 GTS of Prodrive.

In the race, the R-GT finished in 15^th place at Tokachi Speedway, Hokkiado, after suffering minor accident damage from an off-course excursion during the race, but once again coming home in front of the Prodrive Ferrari.

Links

• www.krohn-barbourracing.com
• www.americanlemans.com
• Lamborghini Links

[Nuro]

I don't want to sound negative...

I really like this car and I wish it all the best. Give me one and I'll drive it all day, but this looks like a biased press-release from Krohn-Barbour as even though the Lambo came second in the GTS, it got trumped by no less than 8 GT cars...

No mention of who won the race or the class either. Anyway here are the results - all the way down to 16th.

Infineon Grand Prix of Sonoma:



Ps Ql No Driver(s) Class Team Car Laps Notes

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1 1 38 JJ Lehto; P1 Champion Rcg Audi R8 107

Marco Werner

2 3 20 Chris Dyson; P1 Dyson Racing LolaEX257 AER 107

Andy Wallace

3 2 16 James Weaver; P1 Dyson Racing LolaEX257 AER 104

Butch Leitzinger

4 5 3 Ron Fellows; GTS Corvette Rcg Corvette C5-R 102

Johnny O'Connell

5 6 30 Clint Field; P2 Intersport LolaB2K44 Judd 102

Robin Liddell; Jon Field

6 12 10 John Macaluso; P2 Miracle Mtsp LolaB2K40 Nissa 100

Ian James; James Gue

7 8 56 Jeff Bucknum; P2 Team Bucknam PilbeamMP91Wilm 98

Bryan Willman; Chris McMurry

8 14 23 Timo Bernhard; GT Alex Job Rcg Porsche911GT3RS 98

Jorg Bergmeister

9 19 45 J van Overbeek; GT Flying Lizard Porsche911GT3RS 98

Darren Law

10 13 24 Romain Dumas; GT Alex Job Rcg Porsche911GT3RS 98

Marc Lieb

11 21 35 Ralf Kelleners; GT Risi Comp Ferrari360Moden 97

Anthony Lazzaro

12 16 66 Patrick Long; GT Racers Group Porsche911GT3RS 96

Cort Wagner

13 22 79 Justin Jackson; GT J3 Racing Porsche911GT3RS 95

Tim Sudgen

14 23 60 Peter Boss; GT P K Sport Porsche911GT3RS 92

Hugh Plumb

15 17 44 Lonnie Pechnik; GT Flying Lizard Porsche911GT3RS 92

Seth Neiman

16 24 6 Tracy Krohn; GTS KrohnBarbour Lamborghini R-G 90

Dave McEntee

[hansgerd]

And if the 2nd Corvette didn't have the fire accident then the Lambo would have been third.

[Murcielago]

But a result is a result and it came 2nd. Good to see a Murci doing well.....of course I would say that wouldn't I

[gary_tholl]

I'm going to be at Mosport Park just outside Toronto in 2 1/2 weeks to watch the ALMS race. I'm really looking forward to seeing these beasts rip around the track, not to mention wandering through the open pit and, hopefully, chatting with some of the teams.

The Speed Channel touring car and GT series are going to be there as well. All for the grand total of $50CAN for the entire weekend.

If you can't tell, I'm damn excited about this.

Gary

[vetteheadracer]

:hansgerd said:

And if the 2nd Corvette didn't have the fire accident then the Lambo would have been third.

The "fire accident" was actually in morning warmup and was the #8 (3rd Corvette) which was being driven by Dale Earnhardt Jnr. at the time and he was due to share the car with Boris Said. The #64 (2nd Corvette) was leading until Olly Gavin stuffed it into the Lambo (whilst lapping it) and it lost a whole load of laps fixing the front.

However, your comment about 3rd being the best the Lambo would have achieved is basically true, but as with all things you capitalise on others failings so congratulations to them for their best ever result in the GTS class. If it wasn't for them GTS would be incredibly boring as there would be no competition to the Corvettes. I just wish the Prodrive Ferraris were still there to get beaten!

Totally agree about the Lambo "Press Release"! Not exactly unbiased reporting........

Slightly less biased race report here:

www.americanlemans.com/News/Article.aspx?NewsID=273

Full Race result here:

www.americanlemans.com/paddock/2004/infineon/ALMS_infineon_finalrace.pdf

>> Edited by vetteheadracer on Wednesday 21st July 16:26