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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">26/02/2001</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">Richard Dean</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">In The Westward Panoz</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"> “I’m in for Texas,” confirmed Richard Dean this morning. He has been hoping to secure a seat in a Westward Panoz ever since it seemed likely that a drive in a Skea Porsche for 2001 wouldn’t happen. A permanent role for the year hasn’t yet been agreed, but he’s in for the first race of the ALMS.<BR> <BR> “It’s quite a turnaround for me. This time last year, I wasn’t driving in the ALMS at all, then a Skea drive came up for Laguna Seca. Now I’m in a Prototype.”<BR> <BR> He tested the Panoz at the ALMS Spring Training a week ago, and was suitably impressed. “The car is so well built – there’s been no expense spared there. Atlanta is a fairly daunting circuit, but with that much downforce, the car points, turns, brakes and stops much like the F3000 cars I’ve been used to. I really had to unlearn Road Atlanta from my GT3 experience, then learn it all over again.”<BR> <BR> His partner at Texas will be Jay Cochran. <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>