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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">06/07/2004</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">Gavin, Beretta Win GTS Class At Lime Rock</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">Nothing Between The Two Corvettes</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>Gavin, Beretta Get First ALMS Win Together For Corvette</B><BR> <BR> Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta won the GTS class in the Corvette Racing Chevrolet Corvette C5-R, beating another Corvette driven by Ron Fellows and Johnny O’Connell by 3.627 seconds. It was the first ALMS win this season for the two, as Fellows and O’Connell had won the first two events of the season.<BR> <BR> Beretta had led much of the first portion of the race, but the team lost nearly a lap to the other Corvette after pitting while the other car stayed on the track. Gavin was able to make up some of the distance during his stint, and then the race’s next-to-last caution brought them back together. Beretta got back in the car and passed Fellows for the win with an inside move into turn one with just over 25 minutes remaining.<BR> <BR> “The safety car didn’t work in our favour, we ended up 55 seconds down, we seemed to keep losing time to the safety car,” said Gavin. “It was a great win for the No.4 car. We’ve been given a glimmer of hope for the championship. We need to keep focusing on our job.”<BR> <BR> “It’s really easy for our engineers because both of us want exactly the same thing,” said Beretta, who scored his 15th career ALMS win but the first since 2000. “It is like only one man driving the car. When we got one lap behind, Oliver (Gavin) and I pushed very hard. When I finally caught Ron (Fellows) I made a good move to overtake him. We put on a good show and it was a great day for the No.4 car. Even though this is my fourth race with Corvette, I feel at home.”<BR> <BR> Gavin had an unusual incentive to win as his mother had to be hospitalized last week while visiting from England in an attempt to see Gavin race for the first time in four years.<BR> <BR> “My mother has arthritis and her elbows were replaced,” he said. “She got an infection when she arrived in America and had to have an immediate operation. She just got out of the hospital yesterday and desperately wanted to get to the race. She organized the trip here to see me race but couldn’t come. I won for her today.”<BR> <BR> Terry Borcheller and Johnny Mowlem finished third in the ACEMCO Saleen S7R.<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>