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<body> <Table Width="550" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" cellpadding="0"><TR><TD Width="35"><IMG SRC="//www.totalmotorsport.com/images/spacer.gif" WIDTH="35" HEIGHT="1"></td><td> <CENTER><Table border="0" width="100%"> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="5">GRAND AMERICAN ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2">12/09/2001</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">Grand-Am Finale</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">Postponed</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="1">  </FONT></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2">Grand American Road Racing President Roger Edmondson has announced that the Grand-Am Finale scheduled for this weekend at Daytona International Speedway has been postponed until a date yet to be determined. The indefinite suspension of air travel has forced this decision.<BR> <BR> The test sessions scheduled for today and tomorrow have started as planned, and run again tomorrow. <BR> <BR> Janos Wimpffen adds a little more to this tale:<BR> <BR> This is a recognition of the fact that many teams, crews, and equipment have yet to reach Daytona, and continue to have difficulty doing so. This reported is still at home. I was scheduled to fly down yesterday and only heard of the horror when the airport shuttle service called me.<BR> <BR> A lone car took to the track during this morning's test session. It was Andy Wallace in the Champion Lola-Porsche, taking a few shakedown laps. Although the team is Florida based, they too had difficulty scrounging up personnel and bits. Kevin Jeannette's Gunnar Racing is enroute with two GT3R variants. They too are faced with improvisation as the Pennsylvania based Policastro family has to drive the long distance. Besides myself, the Fordahl Motorsports team is also from Seattle. Their cars and drivers are already there, with Hiskey and Bingham fortuitously flying down on Monday. However, they're scrambling to transport the crew as well. All in all, it will be interesting to see how this will be pieced together.<BR> <BR> One thing is clear. No one in the country, inside or outside of the racing community, has been untouched by all this. The Gunnar team is closely involved with sponsorship from the entertainment industry. Kevin Jeannette spoke of knowing a Warner Co. executive who lost his wife and her mother on one of the ill-fated planes. There are other emotions as well. Last night I spoke with a good friend in Chicago who is in the corporate offices of United Airlines. At this juncture he doesn't believe that he personally knows anyone who is lost. But among other things, he is upset about the fact that an industry he loves dearly, aviation, is under attack. So, I would say that it is important for us to return to the work at hand, to do the little things we do. Each of those are acts of defiance against a yet unseen enemy. In that spirit, let's applaud Andy Wallace for taking those first few steps.<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> </FONT></TD></TR> </TABLE><BR> </CENTER> <BR><CENTER><font size="1" color="#808080" face="Tahoma">Copyright ©2000-©2023 TotalMotorSport</font></CENTER> </td> </tr> </table> </body>