Laguna Seca ALMS, 16 October 2004 Race Second place in return to ALMS Audi UK Press Release, 26th September 2004: Johnny Herbert missed out on winning the Petit Le Mans 1,000-mile race at Road Atlanta for a second consecutive year. The 40-year-old three time Grand Prix winner finished second to the ?sister? ADT Champion Audi of JJ Lehto and Marco Werner in Saturday?s 394-lap race, 9 hour 35mins race. Le Mans Endurance Series champion Herbert, co-driving with Germany?s Kaffer, started from the second row of the 34-car grid. ?We incurred a stop-go penalty when Pierre touched a back-marker which dropped us a lap behind the leading Audi,? remarked Herbert. ?With two hours remaining, I slid off on oil and then had to make a couple of unscheduled pit-stops with a fuel leak. Having finished second in the Le Mans 24 Hours I was looking to win this one again but ?Lady Luck? didn?t smile on me.? The Lehto/Werner Audi took the chequered flag three-laps ahead of the similar Audi R8 of Herbert/Kaffer with the Dyson Lola of Chris Dyson/Jan Lammers a further eight-laps adrift. The pole-starting Lola of James Weaver/Andy Wallace/Butch Leitzinger led for the opening hour but succumbed to the pressure of the two Audis, later losing time with a gearbox problem and accident damage. The front-row starting Creation DBA-Zytek (Minassian/Campbell-Walter) retired with engine failure at one-third distance. Every effort is made to ensure factual accuracy but no
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