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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">07/01/2001</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">Champion Audi</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">To Be Confirmed At Detroit</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"> OnTrackOnline report that Champion’s Dave Maraj has purchased an Audi R8 and will run it in the ALMS. Confirmation should come at Detroit this week, along with Bentley and Cadillac announcements.<BR> <BR> So this is the first (almost) definite news in the long running privateer Audi saga. Don Panoz has been encouraging the factory (ies) to release cars to private teams for months, and this is the first fruit of that desire. Panoz himself is expecting to see two of his 2000 cars on the grid in the hands of Lanesra Racing, racing against his LMP07 (s).<BR> <BR> With Cadillac out of the picture for now, and the prototype BMWs retired, it’s going to be a Panoz – Audi battle among the ‘manufacturer’ cars.<BR> <BR> Stefan Johansson is still though to be chasing his own deal with Audi.<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>