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SPORTS CAR RACING purest kind is endurance racing. 24H Le Mans, June in France is the very endurance event in Europe – Petit Le Mans, October at Road Atlanta is the very event in the USA. This year’s Petit Le Mans is going on now. Yesterday’s practice is promising another Audi vs. Panoz-battle with the fastest Panoz right under the rear wing of the best Audi.

Thursday’s practice suffered a set-back in practice today at the Road Atlanta circuit with the #50 Panoz suffering a heavy crash with David Donohue behind the wheel. Donohue was having his first stint for the weekend when the car turned right under braking at turn ten, heavily impacting the wall.

The impact inflicted heavy damage on the car and tore the right front wheel off. The car missed the night's evening practice while being repaired at the team's home base adjacent to the Road Atlanta track.

"We are not sure actually what happened, but we are reviewing the data to try and work out what went wrong," Team Manager, Andy Waldrep said.

"I'm not sure what happened, but it felt like it started to steer from the rear of the car," Donohue said.

The impact spoiled a strong day for the Panoz team, which had recorded the second fastest time of the practice session with Jan Magnussen behind the wheel of the #50 car.

THURSDAY PRACTICE #2
1. - Capello/Kristensen, Audi R8 - 1:12.154
2. - Magnussen/Brabham/Donohue, Panoz Motor Sports - 1:12.616
3. - Biela/Pirro, Audi R8 - 1:13.157
4. - Herbert/Johansson, Audi R8 - 1:13.332
8. - Herta/Auberlen/Jeannette, Panoz Motor Sports - 1:15.703
LMP675 - Goddard/David/Mefford, Reynard - 1:20.523
GTS - Fellows/O'Connell/Gavin, Corvette - 1:19.364
GT - Luhr/Maassen, Porsche - 1:24.156