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SASCHA MAASSEN PLOTS POINTS COMEBACK IN ALEX JOB RACING MCKENNA
PORSCHE 911 GT3 RS AS ALMS STOPS AT MONTEREY’S LAGUNA SECA RACEWAY

-With four “points in hand” from the European races and five extra
points to earn from the final event at Road Atlanta, Porsche drivers
hope to stand pat at Laguna-

MONTEREY, Calif. –  Sept. 6, 2001 –  Although the shoe is on the
other foot this year, Alex Job Racing McKenna Porsche driver Sascha
Maassen is planning for two good finishes to end the 2001 American
Le Mans Series season and bring him the championship which got
away a year ago.

“With a good points lead going into the last event in 2000, all we had
to do is finish in the top five to win the title,” said Maassen, who
co-drove a Dick Barbour Porsche with the late Bob Wollek.

“We had finished in the top three all year, winning many of the
events, but lost the clutch near the end of the Adelaide race,
losing the title.  Now I am behind by 11 points with two events to go,
but I have the same chance to overtake the leaders, and there are
some extra advantages on my side,” said Maassen.

One of those advantages is the win that he and co-driver Lucas Luhr
scored at the European Le Mans event at Donington Park in April.  The
team can substitute those 25 points for one of its lesser finishes
in the U.S. series.  Current points leader and BMW driver Jorg Muller
can only substitute 21 points (from his second-place finish from
Jarama in Spain), so Maassen has a built-in four point advantage in
the final point totals.

Also, the ten-hour Petit Le Mans event in October at Road Atlanta –
the ALMS finale – has traditionally been a strong Porsche event, with
Alex Job Racing winning there in 1999.  Because of the length of
that race, ALMS awards an extra five points to all finishing totals.

Sascha Maassen, the German-born driver now living in Belgium, put
his Porsche on the pole at Laguna Seca Raceway at year ago, but a
BMW won the event.  This year, he hopes to repeat the pole
performance, and upset the BMWs in the winner’s circle with
co-driver Lucas Luhr in their #23 Alex Job Racing McKenna
Porsche 911 GT3 RS.  Maassen/Luhr have scored three wins this
year - the 12 Hours of Sebring, the Grand Prix of Texas, and the
European Le Mans event at Donington Park in England.

With Randy Pobst and Christian Menzel sharing the driving, the #22
Alex Job Racing McKenna Porsche 911 GT3 RS entry, which scored
an impressive third place at the most recent event at Mid-Ohio,
should also be in the GT class hunt, especially since Pobst has
raced a lot of miles at Laguna Seca.

The #30 Petersen Motorsports/White  Lightning Porsche 911 GT3 RS
will have two winning drivers at the helm as 1999 ALMS Laguna GT
winner Johnny Mowlem pairs with 20 year-old German Timo Bernhard,
who won a Porsche Carrera Cup race just two weeks ago at the famed
Nurburgring.  Bernhard, who has won the last three Carrera Cup
races there, leads that series in Europe.

Kevin Buckler, from Sonoma, Calif., owns a two-car Porsche 911
GT3 RS team called The Racers Group, and he is fielding both
entries with Northern California drivers. The #66 car will be
driven by Buckler and Tyler McQuarrie, from Walnut Creek, while
the #67 Porsche will be shared by Robert Orcutt from Santa Cruz
and Tony Colicchio from Berkeley.

Other Porsche 911 GT3 RS entries include the 2001 Le Mans-winning
team – Canadian-based Seikel Motorsports – with Tony Burgess from
Toronto and Andrew Bagnall from New Zealand sharing the driving
chores (the Italian drivers Rosa/Babini/Drudi won Le Mans in the
car); a Dick Barbour Racing entry with Randy Wars from Mexico City
and Mark Neuhaus, from Sun Valley, ID; and the Kyser Racing entry
of Kye Wankum from Toronto and Joe Foster from Atlanta.

Practice starts on Friday afternoon, September 7, with final
qualifying for the ALMS Monterey Sports Car Championships taking
place Saturday at 4:50 PM PDT for Sunday’s event.

The ALMS Monterey Sports Car Championships will be telecast
live on the NBC television network starting at 4:00 PM Eastern
Daylight Time on Sunday, September 9 (check local listings for
the exact time and channel in your area).  The race, along with
qualifying sessions starting September 8, will be broadcast live
on the American Le Mans Radio Network, which can be accessed on the
Web at www.americanlemans.com.  That same American Le Mans Series Web
site will also have live timing and scoring during qualifying and
the race event.

The official Porsche Web site – www.porsche.com – will have qualifying
information on the ALMS Monterey Sports Car Championships for all
the Porsches entered, and will file stories and photos during and
after the race.  Porsche Web site users should choose “North
America” on the home page when prompted to choose a country, then
choose “motorsports,” then “motorsport news” to find the ALMS updates.

Other Web sites that will follow the overall event include the American
Le Mans site mentioned above, TotalMotorsport (www.totalmotorsport.com);
The Race Site (www.theRaceSite.com), the Speedvision site
(www.speedvision.com), Motorsport.com (www.motorsport.com) and the
CompuServe site (www.motorsportsforum.com).

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