| Emanuele Pirro and Frank Biela drove the winning Joest Audi R8. Their teammates, Tom Kristensen and Rinaldo Capello, didn’t fare as well. Their car was damaged at corner seven during the first practice session and retired early in the race when Kristensen went off the track at turn one. |
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It was an easy LMP675 victory for Milka Duno, John Graham and Scott Maxwell in Dick Barbour’s Reynard 01Q. The second Barbour entry, driven by the new class champion Didier de Radigues, and the ROC Reynard 2KQ retired early in the race. |
| The No. 8 Cadillac LMP 01 was involved in an incident on the pace lap. As the field approached the green for the start Max Angelelli in the Cadillac hit Jon Field in his Lola B2K/10B which forced him to retire. Angelelli and his teammates Wayne Taylor and Christophe Tinseau were able to continue and finished fourth in class. |
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James Weaver, Elliott Forbes-Robinson and Butch Leitzinger drove the No. 16 Riley & Scott Mk IIIC entered by Rob Dyson. The team qualified eighth overall and in LMP900 but completed only ninety-four laps before retiring. |
| Capturing second in LMP900 was Stefan Johansson and Patrick LeMarie in the Gulf Oil Audi R8. The pair qualified fourth overall and in class. At the checkered flag they were three laps behind the winning Joest entry. |
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Second in LMP675 was the Nissan powered Lola B2K/40 driven by Ben Devlin, Andrew Davis and Jason Workman. The team qualified fifth in class and was able to move up the finishing order when some of the quicker LMP675 cars retired. |
| Completing the Audi sweep of the LMP900 podium was the Champion entered R8. Johnny Herbert and Andy Wallace drove the car. |
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A new scoring system implemented in 2001 by ALMS made it very difficult for teammates to share the Driving title. Frank Biela, on the right, enjoys the overall and class win on the victory podium but Emanuele Pirro was also able to celebrate the LMP900 Driver’s championship. |
