2001 Barber Dodge Pro Series

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2001 Barber Dodge Pro Series season
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The 2001 Barber Dodge Pro Series season was the sixteenth season of this racing series. The championship was decided in the final round. Nicolas Rondet won the championship over Sepp Koster and Matt Plumb. Rafael Sperafico won the Rookie of the Year title.

Nicolas Rondet is a former Barber Dodge Pro Series and Atlantic Championship driver from Melle, Deux-Sèvres, France.

Josephus (Sepp) Koster is a former Dutch racing driver. Koster made appearances in various racing classes throughout Europe and North-America.

Matt Plumb is a racing driver who has previously competed in the Barber Dodge Pro Series and currently races in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge. Matt Plumb is also team manager of Rum Bum Racing, a sportscar and GT racing team.

Drivers

All driver use Dodge powered Michelin shod Reynard 98E chassis.

Dodge is an American brand of automobile manufactured by FCA US LLC, based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Dodge vehicles currently include performance cars, though for much of its existence Dodge was Chrysler's mid-priced brand above Plymouth.

Michelin is a French tyre manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes région of France. It is the second largest tyre manufacturer in the world after Japanese Bridgestone and larger than both American Goodyear and German Continental. In addition to the Michelin brand, it also owns the BFGoodrich, Kleber, Tigar, Riken, Kormoran and Uniroyal tyre brands. Michelin is also notable for its Red and Green travel guides, its roadmaps, the Michelin stars that the Red Guide awards to restaurants for their cooking, and for its company mascot Bibendum, colloquially known as the Michelin Man.

No.	Driver	Note
3	Sepp Koster
4	Matt Plumb
8	Roger Yasukawa
9	Alexandre Sperafico
11	Jon Morley	"Big Scholarship" winner
12	Keith Dusko
14	David Wieringa
16	Davy Cook
17	Giandomenico Brusatin
18	Peter Boss
19	Sara Senske
20	Daynom Templeman
21	Rafael Sperafico	"Big Scholarship" winner
22	Jay Ricci
23	Brian Rivera
24	Nicolas Rondet
26	Rhonda Trammell
27	Akihira Okamoto
28	Juan Manuel Polar
31	Ryan Hunter-Reay	2000 Barber Dodge Pro Series Rookie of the Year
32	John Hall
33	Jon Vannini
66	Tom Fogarty
94	Marc Breuers
	Christian Szymczak
	Rene Bauer
	German Quiroga
	Ron van Toren

Race calendar and results

Round	Circuit	Location	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Headline event
1^[1]	Sebring International Raceway	Sebring, Florida	March 17	Alexandre Sperafico	Alexandre Sperafico	Alexandre Sperafico	12 Hours of Sebring
2^[2]	Phoenix International Raceway	Phoenix, Arizona	April 21	Nicolas Rondet	Nicolas Rondet	Nicolas Rondet	Rolex Sports Car Series
3^[3]	Lime Rock Park	Lime Rock, Connecticut	May 26	Sepp Koster	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Lime Rock Grand Prix
4^[4]	Lime Rock Park	Lime Rock, Connecticut	May 28	Davy Cook	Nicolas Rondet	Sepp Koster	Lime Rock Grand Prix
5^[5]	Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix	Detroit, Michigan	June 17	Matt Plumb	Matt Plumb	Matt Plumb	Grand Prix of Detroit
6^[6]	Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport	Cleveland, Ohio	June 30	Sepp Koster	Sepp Koster	Sepp Koster	Grand Prix of Cleveland
7^[7]	Exhibition Place	Toronto	July 15	Matt Plumb	Matt Plumb	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Molson Indy Toronto
8^[8]	Chicago Motor Speedway	Cicero, Illinois	July 28	Nicolas Rondet	Sepp Koster	Nicolas Rondet	Target Grand Prix
9^[9]	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio	August 12	Matt Plumb	Sepp Koster	Nicolas Rondet	Miller Lite 250
10^[10]	Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin	August 19	Sepp Koster	Nicolas Rondet	Sepp Koster	Motorola 220
11^[11]	BC Place	Vancouver	September 1	Nicolas Rondet	Sepp Koster	Roger Yasukawa	Molson Indy Vancouver
12^[12]	Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca	Monterey County, California	October 13	Matt Plumb	Tim Traver	Matt Plumb	Grand Prix of Monterey

Final standings

Color	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	4th & 5th place
Light Blue	6th–10th place
Dark Blue	11th place or lower
Purple	Did not finish
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Brown	Withdrawn (Wth)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
Blank	Did not participate (DNP)
	Driver replacement (Rpl)
	Injured (Inj)
	No race held (NH)

Rank	Driver	SEB	PIR	LRP1	LRP2	DET	CLE	TOR	CHI	MDO	ROA	VAN	LAG	Points
1	Nicolas Rondet	3	1	10	5	5	7	5	1	1	3	2	4	155
2	Sepp Koster	22	2	18¹	1	16	1	2	6	3	1	4	2	151
3	Matt Plumb	20	21	2	6	1	2	3	5	2	6	5	1	151
4	Roger Yasukawa	4	7	3	10	2	6	4	8	5	2	1		128
5	Ryan Hunter-Reay	2	9	1	2	15	19	1	20	4	9	3	18	114
6	Marc Breuers	9	6	9	9	7	3	6	13	7	11	16	6	91
7	Rafael Sperafico	6	3	4	7	14	16	18	10	12	12	8	3	84
8	Jon Morley	7	4	7	19	17	4	14	3	11	10	12	8	81
9	Davy Cook	8	5	20	4	19	10	7	7	20	4	17	5	79
10	Akihira Okamoto	10	12	8	8	4	11	20	9	9	18	9	10	70
11	Christian Szymczak	11	8	13	18	18	5	16	14	6	5	10	7	65
12	Alexandre Sperafico	1	13	11	3	3	17	15	19	21	23			58
13	Peter Boss	5	10	5	14	6	8	8	12					58
14	Sara Senske	12	15	6	11	9	18	12	2	10	19	13	14	58
15	David Wieringa	21	17	12	13	11	9	17	4	16	21	11	9	43
16	Tom Fogarty							10	15	13	20	7	12	23
17	Rene Bauer	23	20	19	20	8	15	9	11	18	16	15		22
18	A. J. Allmendinger									22	7	6		19
19	Jon Vannini	13	14	16	16	20	14	13	17	15	15	14	11	19
20	Leonardo Maia									8	8			16
21	Jay Ricci	16	19			12	12		18	19	13		13	14
22	Giandomenico Brusatin	14	11			10								13
23	Rhonda Trammel	15	16	15	15	13	13	19	16	17	17	18	17	9
24	Daniel Di Leo							11						5
25	Brian Rivera			17	12									4
26	Keith Dusko	17	18	14	17									2
27	Ricardo Imery										14			2
28	Tophie Stewart									14				2
29	Brian Johnson												15	1
30	John Hall	18												0
31	Juan Manuel Polar	19												0
32	Tim Traver										22		16	0

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Notes

^1 Sepp Koster exceeded track limits after he had puncture. As he broke the rules by exceeding track limits he was classified in last place.

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↑ "2001 BARBER DODGE PRO SERIES RACE". Barber Dodge Pro Series. Archived from the original on August 9, 2001. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
↑ "2001 BARBER DODGE PRO SERIES RACE". Barber Dodge Pro Series. Archived from the original on June 28, 2001. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
↑ "2001 BARBER DODGE PRO SERIES RACE". Barber Dodge Pro Series. Archived from the original on August 7, 2001. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
↑ "Cleveland results". motorsport.com. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
↑ "2001 BARBER DODGE PRO SERIES RACE". Barber Dodge Pro Series. Archived from the original on August 25, 2001. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
↑ "2001 BARBER DODGE PRO SERIES RACE". Barber Dodge Pro Series. Archived from the original on August 7, 2001. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
↑ "2001 BARBER DODGE PRO SERIES RACE". Barber Dodge Pro Series. Archived from the original on August 31, 2001. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
↑ "Road America results". motorsport.com. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
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↑ "Laguna Seca results". motorsport.com. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
↑ "Final points standing". motorsport.com. Retrieved 5 March 2014.

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[1] "Sperafico Takes First Victory". Barber Dodge Pro Series. Archived from the original on December 31, 2001. Retrieved 4 March 2014.

[2] "2001 BARBER DODGE PRO SERIES RACE". Barber Dodge Pro Series. Archived from the original on August 31, 2001. Retrieved 4 March 2014.

[3] "2001 BARBER DODGE PRO SERIES RACE". Barber Dodge Pro Series. Archived from the original on August 9, 2001. Retrieved 4 March 2014.

[4] "2001 BARBER DODGE PRO SERIES RACE". Barber Dodge Pro Series. Archived from the original on June 28, 2001. Retrieved 5 March 2014.

[5] "2001 BARBER DODGE PRO SERIES RACE". Barber Dodge Pro Series. Archived from the original on August 7, 2001. Retrieved 5 March 2014.

[6] "Cleveland results". motorsport.com. Retrieved 5 March 2014.

[7] "2001 BARBER DODGE PRO SERIES RACE". Barber Dodge Pro Series. Archived from the original on August 25, 2001. Retrieved 5 March 2014.

[8] "2001 BARBER DODGE PRO SERIES RACE". Barber Dodge Pro Series. Archived from the original on August 7, 2001. Retrieved 5 March 2014.

[9] "2001 BARBER DODGE PRO SERIES RACE". Barber Dodge Pro Series. Archived from the original on August 31, 2001. Retrieved 5 March 2014.

[10] "Road America results". motorsport.com. Retrieved 5 March 2014.

[11] "Vancouver results". motorsport.com. Retrieved 5 March 2014.

[12] "Laguna Seca results". motorsport.com. Retrieved 5 March 2014.

[13] "Final points standing". motorsport.com. Retrieved 5 March 2014.

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