LEFT: On the grid prior to the start of the race.
BELOW LEFT: Sweet victory! Co-drivers Ron Fellows, Johnny OConnell, and Oliver Gavin earned their spot on the top of the GTS podium.
our chances for victory,
things that we never saw in all the testing we did. Weve come so close
and now we won and its great to get that monkey off our backs."
The factory-backed Corvette team went into the race heavily
favored but that meant little after last year, when they were also favored
but wound up finishing second and third to Konrad Motorsports Saleen
S7R.
Highly capable Franz Konrad and his star co-driver Terry
Borcheller were back again, this time with two of the ultra-fast Saleens,
but their efforts were hampered by weight and restrictor penalties