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Frank Biela (No. 78)

„When I heard on the radio that I’m no longer on pole position I attacked again.
The car was handling very well and my third lap was clear and good. I am very

content having qualified on pole position.”

Emanuele Pirro (No. 78)

„We have sorted out the problems we had with our car (#78) at Sears Point. I
am very optimistic for the race, but I hope it’s not going to rain. You would’nt

even wish rain on your worst enemy on this track.”

Rinaldo Capello (No. 77)

„After my first trial I switched the tyres on the left side with the tyres on the
right side. Unfortunately the handling was affected badly by this. Despite that I
was on a very fast lap when I made a little mistake. Otherwise I definitely

would have been able to move onto the front row.”

Allan McNish (No. 77)

„Qualifying has shown that the American Le Mans Series is very competitive.
We have got the first three cars covered by one tenth of a second. The car has
a very good balance, but we know there is a very big fight ahead of us

tomorrow.

Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich, Head of Audi Sport

„It has happened what I expected: Panoz went a lot quicker and one of them
was even able to split our two cars. It will be no easy job to get by the Panoz

as overtaking is extremely difficult here.”

Reinhold Joest, Team Director Audi Sport North America

„It is our philosophy to alternate from race to race who is going to qualify our
cars. This is good for their motivation. I am especially pleased that Frank took

the pole position.”

1 78 P 1 Biela/Pirro Audi R8 1:08.432
2 1 P 2 Brabham/Magnussen Panoz LMP-1 1:08.507
3 77 P 3 Capello/McNish Audi R8 Audi 1:08.539
4 2 P 4 Katoh/O'Connell Panoz LMP-1 1:09.764
5 42 P 5 Lehto/Müller BMW V12 LMR 1:10.036
6 36 P 6 Johansson/Smith Reynard 2KQ/Judd 1:10.767
7 0 7 de Radigues/Schiattarella Lola B2K/10 1:12.314
8 43 P 8 Auberlen/Gounon BMW V12 LMR 1:11.502
9 8 P 9 Schubott/Bourbonnais Lola B2K/10/Ford 1:13.469
10 39 P 10 Matthews/Simo Reynard 2KQ/Judd 1:13.762
Mosport Race Track
Frank Biela in the #78-P Audi R8
Frank Biela in the #78-P Audi R8 qualifying for pole
Rinaldo Capello
Reinhold Joest and Dr. Ullrich

Bowmanville, 5 August, 2000

Audi driver Frank Biela qualified on pole
position for the sixth round of the American Le
Mans Series (ALMS) in a thrilling qualifying at
Mosport, Canada. During the final session the
fastest Panoz had set the provisional Pole time
before Biela went even faster shortly before the
end of the session. Thanks to this effort the
latest generation Audi R8 maintained his
perfect qualifying record: After qualifying on
pole position for Sebring, Le Mans,
Nuerburgring and Sears Point the 610 hp
sports car took its fifth pole position in its fifth

race.


Also Rinaldo Capello improved his time with the other Audi R8. The Italian missed a place on the front row

by just 0.032 seconds.

The race at Mosport runs over a distance of 2:45 hours and starts on Sunday at 1 pm local time.

1 77 P 1 Capello/McNish Audi R8 1:10.025
2 78 P 2 Biela/Pirro Audi R8 1:10.384
3 1 P 3 Brabham/Magnussen Panoz LMP-1 1:11.297
4 36 P 4 Johansson/Smith Reynard 2KQ/Judd 1:11.453
5 42 P 5 Lehto/Müller BMW V12 LMR 1:12.046
6 43 P 6 Auberlen/Gounon BMW V12 LMR 1:12.683
7 0 P 7 Schiattarella/de Radigues Lola B2K/10 1:12.842
8 39 P 8 Matthews/Simo Reynard 2KQ/Judd 1:14.452
9 2 P 9 Katoh/O'Connell Panoz LMP-1 1:14.685