7 october 2007
Romain
Dumas has won the LMP2 class at Road Atlanta. This victory means he has been
crowned the 2007 ALMS champion together with his co-driver, Timo Bernhard. In
addition, Romain came very close to another remarkable achievement at the wheel
of the Team Penske Porsche RS Spyder. Incredibly he finished the race just 9/10ths
of a second behind the winning Audi., which represents the smallest margin of
victory in the 10 year history of the race. It’s no exaggeration to say that
the fight for the overall win was very intense and that neither Audi nor Porsche
had it easy. Romain fought very hard right to the end on a track that was not
really favourable to the Porsche, and could have finished in first place but
the last Safety Car intervention and traffic prevented him. As well as the battle
between the No 7 Porsche and the No 1 Audi R10, there was another duel taking
place. The drivers title had to be settled between the two sister cars of Team
Penske. The No 6 Porsche RS Spyder was behind throughout practice. So Romain
has pocketed his first LMP2 title. The next and last round of the ALMS championship
will take place in twoo weeks time at Laguna Seca. romaindumas.com