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Greg
Sarni Photo |
Alan McNish clinched the ALMS title, sore back and all, with help from teammate Rinaldo Capello in the series and race dominating Audi R8. The Toyota F1 bound Scotsman aggravated his back while removing his ceremonial kilt! His first stint of 25 laps secured the series championship. He also ran the last sector, taking the checkered flag in a race win that looked all too easy. In honor of the race down under the car was painted to resemble a crocodile. Even though the car was crashed into the wall during the pre-race warm-up, the team of dedicated technicians from Audi Sport North America had the car ready to go at race start. The only other skin painted in the same livery had to be lifted from the Audi tent where it was on public display.
The Audi R8 of McNish and Capello finished 21 laps ahead of the second-place Lola Ford of German Franz Konrad, South Australian Alan Heath and American Charlie Slater. The Team Oreca GTS-class Chrysler Viper of Olivier Beretta, Karl Wendlinger and Dominique Dupuy finished third ahead of all the other prototype entries. Beretta wrapped up his second consecutive GTS driving title in the last race for the Viper. Next year Team Oreca plans to campaign Chrysler powered prototype cars.
The
other Team Oreca Viper driven by Ni Amorim of Portugal and Jean-Philippe Belloc
of France was fourth. American Dick Barbour’s Porsche 911 GT3 R, driven by Dirk
Muller and Sascha Maassen of Germany finished fifth. Muller clinched the GT driving
championship for the 2000 season.
Alan McNish clinched the ALMS title, sore
back and all, with help from teammate Rinaldo Capello in the series and race dominating
Audi R8. The Toyota F1 bound Scotsman aggravated his back while removing his ceremonial
kilt! His first stint of 25 laps secured the series championship. He also ran
the last sector, taking the checkered flag in a race win that looked all too easy.
In honor of the race down under the car was painted to resemble a crocodile. Even
though the car was crashed into the wall during the pre-race warm-up, the team
of dedicated technicians from Audi Sport North America had the car ready to go
at race start. The only other skin painted in the same livery had to be lifted
from the Audi tent where it was on public display.
The Audi R8 of McNish and Capello finished 21 laps ahead of the second-place Lola Ford of German Franz Konrad, South Australian Alan Heath and American Charlie Slater. The TeamOreca GTS-class Chrysler Viper of Olivier Beretta, Karl Wendlinger and Dominique Dupuy finished third ahead of all the other prototype entries.
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Greg
Sarni Photo |
Beretta wrapped up his second consecutive GTS driving title in the last race for the Viper. Next year Team Oreca plans to campaign Chrysler powered prototype cars.
The other Team Oreca Viper driven by Ni Amorim of Portugal and Jean-Philippe Belloc of France was fourth. American Dick Barbour’s Porsche 911 GT3 R, driven by Dirk Muller and Sascha Maassen of Germany finished fifth. Muller clinched the GT driving championship for the 2000 season.
