It's interesting that lots of people have cited 2001 as a terrible race - and it was:
- they spent hours under full course caution, with everyone pirouetting off,
- the Corvettes parked for over an hour to aviod running after the Saleen was done - and they ended up behind the winning GT,
- Panoz tried their new LMP07 which had shown pace at Texas, but it was absolutely thwarted,
But the race had some other noteables, including the debut of the Dallara with Mopar power, the MG-EX257s at the front, the Callaway in GT and the first year of the Bentley.
And of course it was immortalized by those Belgian Frontmen...
I'm sure from a spectator's point of view it was terrible to be at, and the rain really spoiled what could have been an entertaining race. But the race itself wasn't destined to be awful on the face of it. Only weather prevailed.