ALMS
Road Atlanta: Porsche qualifying report
Alex Job Racing's Dumas Grabs Fourth ALMS GT Pole of the Season as Porsches Outrun Ferraris and Panoz at Hot, Slippery Road Atlanta --Frenchman Romain Dumas, driving the ...
Published: Sep 25, 2004, 3:06 PM
Copy link
Share on Viber
Alex Job Racing's Dumas Grabs Fourth ALMS GT Pole of the Season as Porsches Outrun Ferraris and Panoz at Hot, Slippery Road Atlanta
--Frenchman Romain Dumas, driving the #24 Alex Job Racing McKenna mail2web.com Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, captured his fourth ALMS GT pole of the season for tomorrow's Chevy presents Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta -
BRASELTON, Georgia - September 24, 2004 - Romain Dumas, from Ales, France, driving the #24 Alex Job Racing McKenna mail2web.com Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, has earned his fourth pole of the season and will start first on the GT grid for tomorrow's ten-hour, 1000-mile Chevy presents Petit Le Mans event at Road Atlanta.
Dumas, who co-drives with Germans Marc Lieb and Wolf Henzler, had a low-speed accident in testing at the track last weekend, but he said damage to the car was minimal, and the Alex Job crew made the car better than new.
"I won Petit Le Mans in an Alex Job Porsche last year, so I know the track and knew where I made my mistake last weekend, so when the crew fixed the car quickly, I forgot about the accident and got back to business," said Dumas, who ran only five laps in turning his fast time.
The track was slippery from debris scattered on the asphalt from previous races on Friday, and the hot weather (80 degrees F) made the surface slick, according to Dumas.
Sharing the front row in the second grid position will be the Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 RSR of Johannes van Overbeek, Darren Law and Patrick Huisman. Johannes qualified the car, and said that the increased size of the field adds to everyone's challenges.
"This is the most competitive GT class so far this year. It's a great showing here at Petit, but it means more traffic, which made it difficult to get a clean lap in qualifying," he said.
Law and van Overbeek are three points behind Timo Bernhard in Alex Job Racing Porsche for the points lead in the GT class. Bernhard, qualifying the car that he, Jorg Bergmeister, and Sascha Maassen will drive, was fourth after an alignment problem slowed down their efforts.
Third on the grid - their highest qualifying position on the year - was The Racer's Group Porsche of Patrick Long/Mike Rockenfeller/Cort Wagner, with Long performing the qualifying chores, while the two Ferraris in the field were fifth and sixth.
Porsches have won their class at Petit Le Mans five of the six years the event has run, and have scored a total of seven class wins.
The Chevy presents Petit Le Mans will be televised live on The Speed Channel starting at 11:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time on Saturday, September 25 (races commences at noon).
The live broadcast will be aired 11:30 AM - 3:30 PM; 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM; and 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM plus a post-race show.
-porsche-
We want your opinion!
What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?
Take our 5 minute survey.
- The Motorsport.com Team
Read and post comments
Read also :
Share Or Save This Story
Copy link
Share on Viber
Previous article Road Atlanta: ACEMCO Motorsports qualifying report
Next article Road Atlanta: Alex Job Racing qualifying report
Top Comments
There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?
View More & Comment
More from
Johannes van Overbeek
Laguna Seca IMSA: Victory for ESM Nissan, heartbreak for Mazda
IMSA
IMSA
Laguna Seca
Laguna Seca IMSA: Victory for ESM Nissan, heartbreak for Mazda
Derani dedicates Sebring victory to sick father
IMSA
IMSA
Sebring
Derani dedicates Sebring victory to sick father
Senna: “Our drive-through was not deserved. They took our race”
IMSA
IMSA
Road Atlanta
Senna: “Our drive-through was not deserved. They took our race”
More from
Alex Job Racing
Alex Job Racing quits pro racing to focus on historics
IMSA
IMSA
Alex Job Racing quits pro racing to focus on historics
WeatherTech Racing switches to PWC
SRO America
SRO America
WeatherTech Racing switches to PWC
Bomarito takes brilliant pole for Mazda
IMSA
IMSA
Road America
Bomarito takes brilliant pole for Mazda
Latest news
Tom Cruise wanted to race ARCA, per NASCAR CEO Steve O'Donnell
NASCAR Cup
NAS NASCAR Cup
Charlotte II
2 min
Tom Cruise wanted to race ARCA, per NASCAR CEO Steve O'Donnell
Gibbs, Spire and Gabehart argue over contempt and injunction
NASCAR Cup
NAS NASCAR Cup
Charlotte II
2 h
Gibbs, Spire and Gabehart argue over contempt and injunction
William Byron to run Jeff Gordon throwback Axalta scheme at Phoenix
NASCAR Cup
NAS NASCAR Cup
Charlotte II
3 h
William Byron to run Jeff Gordon throwback Axalta scheme at Phoenix
Alexander Rossi takes over IR-28 testing as IndyCar pushes new chassis to the limit at Sebring
IndyCar
Indy IndyCar 3 h
Alexander Rossi takes over IR-28 testing as IndyCar pushes new chassis to the limit at Sebring
Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.
From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.
You have 2 options:
- Become a subscriber.
- Disable your adblocker.
Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here
Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page
Manage Alerts
Subscribe