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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">25/07/2004</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">Wallace Wins Pole For Grand Prix Of Portland</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">Now For The Race</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>Wallace Wins Pole For Grand Prix Of Portland</B><BR> <BR> Andy Wallace won his first American Le Mans Series pole position since 1999 when he drove the Dyson Racing Lola EX257-AER/MG to the pole Saturday for Sunday's Grand Prix of Portland at Portland International Raceway.<BR> <BR> The race marks the return of the American Le Mans Series to Portland for the first time since 2001.<BR> <BR> Wallace will co-drive with Chris Dyson as the two seek their first win of the 2004 season. His lap time of 1:04.750 beat the Dyson team car of James Weaver and Butch Leitzinger, which ran a lap of 1:04.823, as well as the ADT Champion Audi R8 of JJ Lehto and Marco Werner. Lehto and Werner have won three consecutive ALMS races this season and can set a series record of four straight with a win in the two-hour, 45-minute timed event on the 1.944-mile track.<BR> <BR> "I am thrilled," said Wallace, whose only previous ALMS pole had come in April of 1999 at Road Atlanta. "The American Le Mans series is fantastic, these are the best sports cars in the world. It seems that all year we have missed by only a little bit every session. You can be fast in every practice but not qualify fastest. We share information with the No.16 car on everything, right up until the end there. Even if they're our closest competition we share information which is great for both teams." <BR> <BR> Like all drivers and teams, Wallace qualified in conditions that saw temperatures near the 100 degree mark as a heat wave continued to linger in the Pacific Northwest. <BR> <BR> "The heat is actually helping our Goodyear tyres," said Wallace. "The engineers worked so hard to get the tyres to work better in the extreme heat and I think it's showing today."<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>