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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">03/07/2004</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">Dumas Earns First Alms Pole In GT</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">Porsche Remain Top Of Class</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>Dumas Earns First Alms Pole In GT</B><BR> <BR> Romain Dumas, in his first full season of ALMS racing, won the GT class pole with a lap of 54.659 in the Alex Job Racing Porsche 911 GT3 RSR. The French driver, who will share the car with Marc Lieb of Germany, was happy to win his first pole but gave credit to the Job organization.<BR> <BR> "It was ok but the traffic was bad," said Dumas, who drove with the Job team in selected races last season. "I never could try to make one good lap. I couldn't believe I got the pole. I'm happy for the team. Last weekend we weren't lucky, but we have the same car and the same team. The car is better in traffic now than last weekend. Marc and I are a good team. We have the same style and it's a good car for the race."<BR> <BR> Lucas Luhr qualified second in the GT class in the BAM! Porsche he will share with Leo Hindery, while qualifying third in class was the other Job Porsche driven by Jorg Bergmeister and Timo Bernhard.<BR> <BR> Jeff Bucknum won his second consecutive LMP2 class pole in the Team Bucknum Racing Pilbeam MP91, posting a lap time of 51.701 in the car he will share with Chris McMurry and Bryan Willman. Last week at Mid-Ohio, he also won the pole but his car's ignition system failed on the first lap of the race.<BR> <BR> "It was very frustrating at the moment, I didn't know what to tell the crew," he said about the failure at Mid-Ohio. "It turned out to be a failure in the ignition switch on the dash. I could turn the starter motor, but it was as if I'd turned the switch off. <BR> <BR> "For the season, the (LMP2) class has come to us," he said. "We were chasing the MG Lolas for the past two years but now they were moved up a class and we've done a lot of work to make the cars faster. We hope that our good luck is ahead of us and we'll have a lot of good finishes."<BR> <BR> The Race Car Company's Lola B2K/40-Millington of Andy Lally and Ryan Eversley qualified second in the class for smaller, less-powerful Prototypes, while third in class was the Intersport Lola-Judd of Clint Field and Mike Durand.<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>