Champion Racing  - 2003 ALMS Road Atlanta

26-27 June - Partying and testing

   
Thursday evening local Atlanta Audi Dealer Jim Ellis Audi held an Audi party, featuring drivers from both Champion R8 and RS6 teams, as well as Joest R8 drivers. Champion put Randy Pobst's RS6 and R8 chassis 405 on display for the occcasion
   
Johnny Herbert and JJ Lehto clown  for the camera
   
Friday Morning - Bernd Zimmerman of Audi Sport and Champion Technical Director Brad Kettler discuss systems issues.
   
ex-Bentley Boy Johnny Herbert gets used to sitting in an open-top car again...he's decided he wants a MUCH larger steering wheel...
   
JJ Lehto - Fastest among the Champion drivers in testing, second-fastest on the day by thousandths of a second.
   
Johnny Herbert gets his first ADT/Champion R8 seat time since 2003's season-closing Petit Le Mans...
   
Johnny Herbert through turn 5 at Road Atlanta
   
Near the end of the test session, the crew make small changes to suspension settings