Germans Lucas Luhr and Klaus Graf earned their seventh straight win of the season, Saturday, went the checkered flag of the International Sports Car Weekend dropped on the Circuit of the Americas, in Austin, Texas.
Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia raced to a win of their own in the GT class.
Luhr and Klaus, who clinched the overall title in ALMS already in Baltimore, started from pole and built a two-lap advantage on Tony Burgess and Chris McMurry over the 83-lap contest.
In GT, the race was much closer as Magnussen and Garcia beat Jonathan Bomarito and Kuno Wittmer’s Dodge Viper SRT by a mere second. Their performance allowed them back to the top of the drivers’ standings in the race for the championship.
Ryan Briscoe and Chris Tucker led a Level 5 Motorsports 1-2 in the P2 category.
Kyle Marcelli and Chris Cumming won in LMPC, while Damien Faulkner and Ben Keating topped the GTC field.
Race results – Circuit of the Americas (ALMS)
1 - Graf/Luhr (HPD ARX-03c) - Pickett - 83 laps
2 - Burgess/McMurry (Lola B12/60 Mazda) - Dyson - 81
3 - Tucker/Briscoe (HPD ARX-03b) - Level 5 - 80
4 - Tucker/Franchitti/Cosmo (HPD ARX-03b) - Level 5 - 80
5 - Brown/Van Overbeek (HPD ARX-03b) - ExtremeSpeed - 79
6 - Sharp/Lazzaro (HPD ARX-03b) - ExtremeSpeed - 79
7 - Marcelli/Cumming (Oreca FLM09) - BAR1 - 79
8 - Guasch/Cameron (Oreca FLM09) - PR1 - 79
9 - Bennett/Kimber-Smith (Oreca FLM09) - CORE - 79
10 - Nunez/Shears (Oreca FLM09) - Preformance Tech - 78
11 - VD Zande/Schultis (Oreca FLM09) - PR1 - 78
12 - Heinemeier-Hansson/Junqueira (Oreca FLM09) - Rsports - 78
13 - Magnussen/Garcia (Corvette ZR1) - Corvette - 78
14 - Bomarito/Wittmer (SRT Viper) - SRT - 78
15 - Mueller/Edwards (BMW Z4) - Rahal - 78
16 - Auberlen/Hand (BMW Z4) - Rahal - 77
17 - Goossens/Farnbacher (SRT Viper) - SRT - 77
18 - Beretta/Malucelli (Ferrari 458) - Risi - 77
19 - Henzler/Sellers (Porsche 997) - Falken - 76
20 - Sweedler/Bell (Ferrari 458) - Alex Job - 75
21 - Keating/Faulkner (Porsche 997 Cup) - TRG - 72
22 - Cisneros-Edwards (Porsche 997 Cup) - NGT - 72
23 - Dempsey/Lally (Porsche 997 Cup) - Demsey/DelPiero - 72
24 - Hedlund/Heylen (Porsche 997 Cup) - JDX - 72
25 - Canache/Pumpelly (Porsche 997 Cup) - FlyingLizard - 72
26 - MacNeil/Bleekemolen (Porsche 997 Cup) - Alex Job - 71
27 - Neiman/Von Moltke (Porsche 911) - PR1 - 71
28 - Drissi/Mitchell (Oreca FLM09) - BAR1 - 69
29 - Meyrick/Legge (DeltaWing) - Panoz - 66
30 - Miller/Holzer (Porsche 997) - Miller - 56
31 - Long/Braun (Porsche 997) - PR1 - 53
32 - Pew/Dalziel (Oreca FLM09) - PR1 - 45
33 - Gavin/Milner (Corvette ZR1) - Corvette - 26
Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia raced to a win of their own in the GT class.
Luhr and Klaus, who clinched the overall title in ALMS already in Baltimore, started from pole and built a two-lap advantage on Tony Burgess and Chris McMurry over the 83-lap contest.
In GT, the race was much closer as Magnussen and Garcia beat Jonathan Bomarito and Kuno Wittmer’s Dodge Viper SRT by a mere second. Their performance allowed them back to the top of the drivers’ standings in the race for the championship.
Ryan Briscoe and Chris Tucker led a Level 5 Motorsports 1-2 in the P2 category.
Kyle Marcelli and Chris Cumming won in LMPC, while Damien Faulkner and Ben Keating topped the GTC field.
Race results – Circuit of the Americas (ALMS)
1 - Graf/Luhr (HPD ARX-03c) - Pickett - 83 laps
2 - Burgess/McMurry (Lola B12/60 Mazda) - Dyson - 81
3 - Tucker/Briscoe (HPD ARX-03b) - Level 5 - 80
4 - Tucker/Franchitti/Cosmo (HPD ARX-03b) - Level 5 - 80
5 - Brown/Van Overbeek (HPD ARX-03b) - ExtremeSpeed - 79
6 - Sharp/Lazzaro (HPD ARX-03b) - ExtremeSpeed - 79
7 - Marcelli/Cumming (Oreca FLM09) - BAR1 - 79
8 - Guasch/Cameron (Oreca FLM09) - PR1 - 79
9 - Bennett/Kimber-Smith (Oreca FLM09) - CORE - 79
10 - Nunez/Shears (Oreca FLM09) - Preformance Tech - 78
11 - VD Zande/Schultis (Oreca FLM09) - PR1 - 78
12 - Heinemeier-Hansson/Junqueira (Oreca FLM09) - Rsports - 78
13 - Magnussen/Garcia (Corvette ZR1) - Corvette - 78
14 - Bomarito/Wittmer (SRT Viper) - SRT - 78
15 - Mueller/Edwards (BMW Z4) - Rahal - 78
16 - Auberlen/Hand (BMW Z4) - Rahal - 77
17 - Goossens/Farnbacher (SRT Viper) - SRT - 77
18 - Beretta/Malucelli (Ferrari 458) - Risi - 77
19 - Henzler/Sellers (Porsche 997) - Falken - 76
20 - Sweedler/Bell (Ferrari 458) - Alex Job - 75
21 - Keating/Faulkner (Porsche 997 Cup) - TRG - 72
22 - Cisneros-Edwards (Porsche 997 Cup) - NGT - 72
23 - Dempsey/Lally (Porsche 997 Cup) - Demsey/DelPiero - 72
24 - Hedlund/Heylen (Porsche 997 Cup) - JDX - 72
25 - Canache/Pumpelly (Porsche 997 Cup) - FlyingLizard - 72
26 - MacNeil/Bleekemolen (Porsche 997 Cup) - Alex Job - 71
27 - Neiman/Von Moltke (Porsche 911) - PR1 - 71
28 - Drissi/Mitchell (Oreca FLM09) - BAR1 - 69
29 - Meyrick/Legge (DeltaWing) - Panoz - 66
30 - Miller/Holzer (Porsche 997) - Miller - 56
31 - Long/Braun (Porsche 997) - PR1 - 53
32 - Pew/Dalziel (Oreca FLM09) - PR1 - 45
33 - Gavin/Milner (Corvette ZR1) - Corvette - 26