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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">GRAND AMERICAN ROAD RACING ASSOCIATION</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2">02/05/2001</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">Grand Am Planning</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">For 2002</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"> This news is two days old now, but Grand Am have been working on their 2002 programme, with a number of changes in prospect.<BR> <BR> Grand American President Roger Edmondson and Special Projects Manager Patrick Murphy completed a series of visits to automobile manufacturers last week that saw the pair offering a preview of Grand-Am's plans for next year. They visited Audi, Daimler / Chrysler and General Motors, while an earlier trip saw meetings with Honda / Acura, Toyota / Lexus, Mazda and Nissan.<BR> <BR> ”We got the chance to let these companies know what changes we see in our schedule and class line up for next season and beyond,” said Roger Edmondson. “At the same time, we had the opportunity to hear their views on racing-related topics. It went very well.”<BR> <BR> Discussions covered the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series, the Grand-Am Cup Street Stock Series and 'other new competition formats set to roll out within the next two years'.<BR> <BR> The Rolex Sports Car Series will see some changes. “(It) will still include races ranging in length from a couple of hours up to the big one - the Rolex 24 At Daytona. The difference will be that we are going to encourage our event promoters to consider six-hour or five-hundred mile formats wherever possible," Edmondson added.<BR> <BR> The relative performance of the current SportsRacing Prototype and GTS classes will be adjusted next year, bringing the GTS cars closer to the SRPs. This will be very straightforward for the Porsche 911 GT1s. The target is to offer fans ‘wheel-to-wheel excitement between the open-top SRPs and the production-styled GTS cars’. This sounds as though it will take Grand Am further away from current class structures elsewhere around the world.<BR> <BR> The 2002 schedule may also expand up to as many as 12 events, with at least one new race anticipated next year in California. The Grand-Am Finale at Daytona International Speedway will move from its September date this year to November.<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>