BAM! - Mid-Ohio qualifying

25s ...

BAM! (British American Motorsport) will start 12th on the GT grid for 
Sunday's American Le Mans Series race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Peter Baron 
qualified the No. 43 YES Network Porsche 911 GT3 RSR in one minute 25.710 seconds 
on the 2.25-mile road course. He and Leo Hindery, Jr. will share driving duty 
in the two-hour 45-minute race. Baron is now the co-owner of BAM!, so he has 
driven in only one race in eight months.

"I'm still rusty, but things were a lot better today than they were 
yesterday," he said. "If we could have posted this time yesterday and then built off 
that, we would be in the hunt. We have a setup that should be pretty comfortable 
on the tires, so we should have good tire wear. If we are able to run 25s 
[1:25 lap times] tomorrow for a stint, that should be a respectable time."

FANatic Forum

Leo Hindery, Jr. participated in the ALMS FANatic Forum at Mid-Ohio on 
Saturday, an open discussion with racers and fans. Champion Audi driver JJ Lehto and 
Intersport driver Clint Field were also on the panel, as were Porsche 
Motorsport North America president Uwe Brettel and ALMS CEO Scott Atherton. Hindery 
was impressed with the fans who attended.

"I thought the fan forum was spectacular because of the quality of the 
questions and the diversity of the fans, who came from all over the country for this 
race," he said. "It shows what you can do if you put a good race on a nice 
track with great cars and drivers. The questions were as entertaining and fun 
and informed as any I've ever encountered. It was a privilege to sit up there 
with JJ and Clint and listen to Uwe Brettel, who had a lot to say about the 
class I'm most interested in, which is GT. I was humbled by the quality of the 
questions and the fans and how far they'd come to see this race."

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Sylvia Proudfoot
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403 287 3945