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The list of choices includes the elite of the elite. It consists of drivers with at least 35 starts, five Series victories and/or one Series championship. Pick three drivers.

Voting will close at midnight on Wednesday, October 15 to coincide with the start of the Monterey Sports Car Championships. The Series will reveal the results during the weekend.

My favorite driver is Terry Borcheller from the GT1 Bell Motorsports team. I'm a fan of David Brabham and I like Jon Field's hard work.

http://www.americanlemans.com/news/Article.aspx?ID=4882

2008 drivers

http://www.americanlemans.com/driver...s/drivers.aspx

Potomac-Greg

McNish. When he wants to, he can make everyone else look like they've lost a cylinder.

(And how about those Corvette GT1 guys? They always seem to finish first or second!)

PS: Aren't there still two years left in the "decade"? Did the bailout package cancel racing.

DrJupeman

Decade of ALMS.

Chads996

BIG +1 I truly enjoy watching McNish's driving style. When he is on...HE IS ON!

C.

kingleh

terry borcheller?.... that dood has serious issues....... ive seen him almost run over a security guard because he was angry.. he also had kids in the back of the mini van he was driving....

and that was ina mini van on the street... on the track he is a hak.....

Potomac-Greg

When he is on a mission, he is the very definition of "the zone." When he took the R10 out two laps down because of HIS mistake, you knew he would perform a miracle.

We only saw the last 30 laps of his mastery, but he was probably doing it every lap he was behind the wheel. In those 30 laps, he turned my 10 year old son into a McNish fan for life.

Fred R. C4S

In the past when asked about a great on-track session, I would comment that I felt "like Jackie Icyx a lap down, with less than an hour to go at LeMans......I could pass anybody". Perhaps "like Allan McNish a lap down, with less than an hour to go at Petit Lemans" now conveys the same sense of domination.

What do you think?

JimB

You have to love the way Timo Bernard and Sasha Massen and later Timo and Romain Dumas took the fight to the mighty Audi's. They came very close to embarrassing the R10s right out of series.

Flying Finn

+1 That was hard fighting. Kudos to Audi drivers too though, especially McNish.

Same way the end of controverial Sebring 12 hrs was good stuff (even though most of the Porsche people don't think so).

Long & Van Overbeek are always one of my favourites.

And for JimB, J.J. is one of my favourites in ALMS.
(seriously, I think he did pretty damn good in ALMS)

Potomac-Greg

The Peugeot was supposed to be significantly quicker than the R10, but was disappointingly slow (1/10th ahead of R10).

Usually Audi has to rely on Peugeot's bumbling pit strategy and sketchy reliability in order to win. This time they won with a faster car (rebuilt right before the race) and amazing driving.

And I think the R10s are allowed to stay in the series if they lose a few (hell they lose plenty to the P2s!).

smlporsche

I think out of the current line up it would be hard to fault McNish.
I met Terry Borcheller a few years ago when he was winning in the Kodak car and was very impressed with his humility and his willingness to spend time with a nobody...

but

Tom Christianson (sp?) was so domineering that he's my #1 vote

Ritter v4.0

For just one race Ryan Briscoe/Helio Castroneves looked pretty damn good but I'd go with McNish.

blitz928

I'd have to go with McNish. Plus I think the Petit Le Mans Race( I was there!) Will be a fitting end to The R10. Even if they don't win at Laguna Seca. It's a shame they are planning to retire the R10. But something better is in the works...

Spyderidol

Couldn't agree more!
So much so that the ACO were forced to "castrate" the P2 cars twice in order to keep the "smaller" prototype class from trouncing the "bigger" class cars on the tighter American circuits.

Bob C.

Yup. He has a history of epic drives. In 2000 at Le Mans, after Audi proved that they could change the R8's rear end in five minutes, it was up to McNish to bring the car back into contention for the win. He triple-stinted in the morning and made up a lap but fell short at the finish. Then, on the heels of losses at both Sebring and Le Mans (and an accident at Nurburgring), he showed up at Sears Point seemingly with a point to make. He took pole by a half-second and then lapped the ENTIRE FIELD (including the sister Audi!) during his race stint. I've had the good fortune to witness excellence on a number of occasions at ALMS races, but on that day, I witnessed greatness. Very cool. McNish definitely gets my vote.