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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">16/03/2001</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">Sospiri</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">Is Back</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><img border="1" src="Storage/piriIs%20BAME.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"> "It feels so good to be back," said Sospiri, referring to his drive in a Kelly-Moss Porsche at tomorrow’s Sebring 12 Hours. This will be his first drive for 18 months – a long, frustrating period for the racer, who has been recovering from a complicated shoulder operation, the legacy of an injury earlier in his career.<BR> <BR> It looked as though he would return last August, in a Panoz at the Donington SRWC event. He had to pull out of that drive, after suffering severe pain in testing.<BR> <BR> Sospiri was a back to back winner of the ISRS / SRWC in 1998 and 1999, and drove for Toyota at Le Mans in ’99.<BR> <BR> "I have a lot of experience in endurance racing but Sebring will be a new experience for me: I am very excited by the challenge. My injury is much better now and all my training has gone so well that I like to think at this 12 hours as proof of my fitness."<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>