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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">AMERICAN LE MANS SERIES</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2">23/06/2004</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">Lamborghini Makes Race Debut With Krohn-Barbour Racing</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">Top Driver Line Up</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"><B>Lamborghini Makes Race Debut With Krohn-Barbour Racing</B><BR> <BR> A legend in world sports car racing is returning to the American Le Mans Series this weekend after a two-year absence, and he’s bringing a legendary sports car marque with him. Dick Barbour, one of the sport’s best drivers and team owners, is returning to competition as manager of Krohn-Barbour Racing, a new team that’s going to give US race fans their first sight of the glamorous Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT. <BR> <BR> Barbour established Krohn-Barbour Racing earlier this year with Texan businessman Tracy Krohn. The team will run two Lamborghinis in all eight remaining rounds of the nine-race ALMS, starting at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on June 25-27. One Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT will be driven by Australian David Brabham and Dutchman Peter Kox, the other by Krohn and Canadian Scott Maxwell. <BR> <BR> The Lamborghini race cars are entered in the GTS (Grand Touring Sport) class for cars that are production-based but highly modified. Because these 200mph racers are readily identifiable with their road going counterparts, they’re a favourite with the crowds. Competition in the GTS class comes from a broad mix of exotic machinery, including the Chevrolet Corvette, Ferrari 550 Maranello, Saleen S7R and Dodge Viper. <BR> <BR> Dick Barbour said: “I’d been looking for a way to return to the ALMS, but only with a serious chance of winning. We know we can’t match the GM Racing Corvettes on budget or technical resources, but we’ve gathered a massive amount of talent and experience at Krohn-Barbour Racing. We’ve got some of the best sports car drivers in the world, a great engineer in John Bright, and a car with huge potential. It’s really exciting to be making a return to racing with a name like Lamborghini.”<BR> <BR> Krohn-Barbour Racing has already narrowly won its first race, against time, to deliver the Lamborghinis to Mid-Ohio for this weekend. The two cars were built on behalf of Automobili Lamborghini by Reiter Engineering in Germany. Tight production schedules meant that both cars were air-freighted to the US this week. One arrived in Miami on Monday and was taken by truck to the team’s workshop in Braselton, GA; the other was flown out of Frankfurt on Monday night and was due to be taken directly to the race track, naked of race livery. <BR> <BR> Barbour cautioned: “We’ve got to be realistic going into this weekend. The Corvette C5-R has more than a year of development behind it and its predecessor raced for several years before that, whereas the Lamborghini has only raced once [in Valencia, Spain, this April, where it finished third in an FIA GT race]. We have to view Mid-Ohio as a settling-in exercise, a chance to get to know the car and how to set it up for best performance. Lime Rock next weekend will probably be much the same. But we’ve another six races after that, and much as I like the guys who race the Corvettes, there’s nothing I’d like more than to put them on the trailer.” <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>