Contact: Ed Triolo Dick Barbour Racing Director, Communications Barbour Team Enjoys Sears Point Podium Yet Not Satisfied With The Finish Click here to see photos Sonoma, Ca. (July 22, 2001) – They made it to the podium and they outdistanced over a third of the normally faster LMP 900 prototypes, but the team still wasn't satisfied with the results of Sunday's ALMS race at Sears Point. John Graham set the tone in his post-qualifying interview, "Am I happy with my time? No, not necessarily. The first time at qualifying I should have been a half second quicker," said the Canadian. Still at the end of the day, he was joined on the podium with co-pilots Milka Duno and Didier de Radiguès and got to share the champagne that comes from Dick Barbour's pioneering LMP 675 effort. After a miscue in the opening laps, Graham, who qualified the car 10th overall, found himself 21st in a 26-car field. He promptly began cutting back up through the pack and weaving through traffic only to be forced into the pits for fresh tires on lap 17 due to heavy wheel vibration caused by the tires picking up rubber shards that lay all over the circuit off the driving line. The stop put him back in 24th place, while the dominant Audis ran one-two separating them from the rest of the pack. A little less than an hour into the two hour and 45 minute sprint, in 23rd position, Graham handed off driving duties to Milka Duno. Milka advanced two spots within the next 10 laps and picked up the pace, aggressively seeking to unlap herself from the two GTS factory Corvettes. She passed the Pilgrim/Collins Corvette immediately and set her sights on the Fellows/O'Connell Corvette; taking it down on lap 45. Driving a great stint and making up lap time, Milka moved into 17th overall at the 2-hour mark. In fact, by the time she pitted at 2 hours and 10 minutes, she notched the longest stint of the three drivers and was lapping within a few seconds of the leaders' times. With just 35 minutes left, Didier took over from Milka in a smooth pit stop. Twenty minutes later, Didier had reeled in a pair of GT cars to take over 15th position. And that is where he remained until just minutes prior to the waving of the checkered flag, he passed Terry Borcheller in the GTS pole-winning Saleen, thus taking a lucky 13th place and a class win in LMP 675.