Rinaldo Capello (#1)
“I had a very good start but some problems in the first corner. I lost
some places and dropped behind a Panoz. Stefan passed me when I
got into traffic. It was a very hard race, because we did almost the same
speed. I did not lose to him nor could I gain on him.”
Tom Kristensen (#1)
“I have to give a lot of credit to Stefan. He gave us really good
competition and I was preparing to have a nice fight with him. But when I
got into the car, we were in the lead. There was nobody left I had to fight
with. Therefore it was a very easy race for me.”
Frank Biela (#2)
“I tried to close the gap to Tom, but it was impossible. Of course I am
not happy, because we do not want to be the eternal second. Emanuele
had a superb start and some great first laps. We were a bit unlucky with
the stop-and-go-penalty.”
Emanuele Pirro (#2)
“For the third time this year we were having the fastest car and we did
not win. This is really disappointing, because we needed a win for the
championship. Now I hope we will get the luck at Le Mans. I still don’t
know where the yellow flag was that I missed. When you overtake
people in traffic, sometimes it is not so easy to see the flag.”
Stefan Johansson (#7)
“Something must have hit and damaged the brake line. I was
completely in control of the race today. I was driving a sensible pace,
saving the tyres, saving the fuel. And I was still able to pull out a small
gap. This was really our race but we were unfortunate.“
Guy Smith (#7)
“The car was very good. We would have been able to win or at least
easily finish second. We had bad luck, but we are coming closer to our
first victory.“
Reinhold Joest, Team Director Audi Sport North America
“I have a lot of respect for Stefan Johansson. He drove a great race. But
we stayed close to him and were a little bit more lucky in the end. We
achieved another success for Audi and proved once more that we have
reliable cars - which is especially important for Le Mans.”
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