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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">01/03/2001</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">Dick Barbour</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">Now Here’s A Surprise</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><img border="1" src="Storage/bourNow%20AME.jpg"></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"> <BR> No Dick Barbour Porsche at Texas? Two Dick Barbour Reynards in the ELMS at Donington – and Le Mans, and the ALMS thereafter.<BR> <BR> The cars are Reynard 01Qs, fitted with the new Judd 3.4 litre KV675 V8, for the 675 class. “It’s a logical progression for me and my team,” explained Dick Barbour. “I’m anxious to flex my team’s muscles, so to speak, with the prototype group. After being away for twenty years, I thought it prudent to spend my first season back ‘getting up to speed’ - which we did very successfully with the amazing Porsche 911 GT3Rs.”<BR> <BR> The driver line up currently has Milka Duno and John Graham in one car, Didier de Radigues and TBA in the other. The fourth driver will be announced at Sebring, a month before the cars race for the first time at Donington Park.<BR> <BR> This news reinforces the view that the 675 class is a potentially very exciting and (fairly) cost effective category – not to say filled with immensely quick cars too. There are other projects just waiting to escape from the ‘drawing board’ in Europe, but Reynard seem to have got the jump on everybody else with their purpose built car (developed from the ROC cars of last year).<BR> <BR> “To team with both Reynard and Judd is like a racer’s dream come true,” said Dick Barbour. Mark Smithson, who will be driving a Reynard himself in the SRl class of the FIA SCC, explained that his company will be “assisting the team with a comprehensive support engineering programme and we hope that, working together, there will be success for the team this year.”<BR> <BR> John Graham reckons that, "it's a great program and with the Reynard support I really think that we can win the (ALMS) championship. I think it can again come down to the Dick Barbour cars fighting it out. Le Mans is the only race I want DBR to come second!" - where John will again be in a Multimatic entry, in the same class.<BR> <BR> <BR> Dick Barbour, welcome back. Do you get the feeling that Donington is the start of something very significant?<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>