Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr made it two wins in two races for Muscle Milk Pickett Racing at Laguna Seca.
But the race at the front between Muscle Milk Pickett and Dyson Racing was overshadowed by a multi-way fight in the GT class – which saw Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner overcome a bad pitstop to emerge as winners of the six-hour race –.
Milner and Gavin’s Corvette teammates Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia were also in the fight, so were BMW Team RLL’s two BMW M3s and Porsche’s Flying Lizard and Team Falken Tire teams.
"It was so tight in our class. You could never let off and think 'I'm alright now'," Gavin noted.
In the end, Magnussen and Garcia came home second, despite an even worse pitstop than what Gavin and Milner experience. Bill Auberlen and Jörg Müller won the fight for the last step of the podium.
In P2, Level 5 Motorsports had such a good run, they even stole second place overall away from Dyson Racing's P1 team. Franck Montagny, in his debut ALMS race, Scott Tucker and Luis Diaz drove the class-winning HPD ARX-03b.
"The team is very prepared to fight for overall wins," Diaz confirmed.
Amusingly, or rather sadly, Montagny – who was driving both the team's cars – crashed No.055 prototype. Thanks to the work of the Level 5 mechanics, it still came home third behind Conquest's Morgan-Nissan, driven by Martin Plowman, David Heinemeier Hansson and Antonio Pizzonia.
Patrick Dempsey finished fourth aboard his team's brand-new Lola-Judd P2 prototype.
Colin Braun and Jon Bennet celebrated an in extremis win in the LMPC class, while Jeroen Bleekemolen, Bret Curtis and Emilio Di Guida won the GTC race.
Race results – Laguna Seca (ALMS)
1 - Luhr/Graf (HPD ARX-03a) - Pickett - 242 laps in 6h00min38.425s
2 - Tucker/Diaz (HPD ARX-03b) - Level 5 - 239
3 - Bennett/Braun (Oreca FLM09) - CORE - 236
4 - Junqueira/Drissi (Oreca FLM09) - RSR - 236
5 - Popow/Kimber-Smith (Oreca FLM09) - CORE - 236
6 - Guasch/Gidley/Hamilton (Oreca FLM09) - Pickett - 236
7 - Marcelli/Downs/Stirling (Oreca FLM09) - Merchant - 234
8 - Leitzinger/Dobson (Oreca FLM09) - PR1 - 232
9 - Gavin/Milner (Corvette ZR1) - Corvette - 232
10 - Magnussen/Garcia (Corvette ZR1) - Corvette - 232
11 - Mueller/Auberlen (BMW M3) - Rahal - 232
12 - Hand/Mueller (BMW M3) - Rahal - 232
13 - Sharp/Van Overbeek (Ferrari 458) - Extreme Speed - 232
14 - Bergmeister/Long/Lietz (Porsche 997) - Flying Lizard - 232
15 - Henzler/Sellers (Porsche 997) - Falken - 232
16 - Richard/Ende/Lewis (Oreca FLM09) - Dempsey - 231
17 - Fernandez/Turner/Mucke (Aston Martin Vantage) - Aston Martin - 230
18 - Neiman/Holzer (Porsche 997) - Flying Lizard - 230
19 - Miller/Maassen (Porsche 997 Cup) - Miller - 229
20 - Plowman/Hansson-Pizzonia (Morgan-Judd) - Conquest - 227
21 - Nicolosi/Vera (Oreca FLM09) - CORE - 225
22 - Brown/Cosmo (Ferrari 458) - Extreme Speed - 224
23 - Dyson/Smith/Mowlem (Lola B12/60-Mazda) - Dyson - 222
24 - Curtis/Bleekemolen/DI Guida - 219
25 - Sofronas/Welch/Villeneuve (Porsche 997 Cup) - GMG - 219
26 - Faieta/Avenatti/Wagner (Porsche 997 Cup) - Competition - 219
27 - MacNeil/Lazzaro (Porsche 997 Cup) - Alex Job - 216
28 - LeSaffre/Faulkner/Bleekemolen (Porsche 997 Cup) - Green Hornet - 211
29 - Tucker/Bouchut (HPD ARX-03b) - Level 5 - 207
30 - Dempsey/Cocker/Foster (Lola B12/87-Mazda) - Dempsey - 202
31 - Prendeville/Mitchell/Da Costa (Radical SR10) - Libra - 185
32 - Hedlund/Krohn/Tandy (Porsche 997 Cup) - 178
33 - Cumming/Marsh (Porsche 997 Cup) - JDX - 119
34 - Ducote/Downs/Burgess (Oreca FLM09) - Merchant - 100
35 - Sweedler/Bell (Lotus Evora) - Alex Job - 67
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But the race at the front between Muscle Milk Pickett and Dyson Racing was overshadowed by a multi-way fight in the GT class – which saw Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner overcome a bad pitstop to emerge as winners of the six-hour race –.
Milner and Gavin’s Corvette teammates Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia were also in the fight, so were BMW Team RLL’s two BMW M3s and Porsche’s Flying Lizard and Team Falken Tire teams.
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"It was so tight in our class. You could never let off and think 'I'm alright now'," Gavin noted.
In the end, Magnussen and Garcia came home second, despite an even worse pitstop than what Gavin and Milner experience. Bill Auberlen and Jörg Müller won the fight for the last step of the podium.
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In P2, Level 5 Motorsports had such a good run, they even stole second place overall away from Dyson Racing's P1 team. Franck Montagny, in his debut ALMS race, Scott Tucker and Luis Diaz drove the class-winning HPD ARX-03b.
"The team is very prepared to fight for overall wins," Diaz confirmed.
Amusingly, or rather sadly, Montagny – who was driving both the team's cars – crashed No.055 prototype. Thanks to the work of the Level 5 mechanics, it still came home third behind Conquest's Morgan-Nissan, driven by Martin Plowman, David Heinemeier Hansson and Antonio Pizzonia.
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Patrick Dempsey finished fourth aboard his team's brand-new Lola-Judd P2 prototype.
Colin Braun and Jon Bennet celebrated an in extremis win in the LMPC class, while Jeroen Bleekemolen, Bret Curtis and Emilio Di Guida won the GTC race.
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Race results – Laguna Seca (ALMS)
1 - Luhr/Graf (HPD ARX-03a) - Pickett - 242 laps in 6h00min38.425s
2 - Tucker/Diaz (HPD ARX-03b) - Level 5 - 239
3 - Bennett/Braun (Oreca FLM09) - CORE - 236
4 - Junqueira/Drissi (Oreca FLM09) - RSR - 236
5 - Popow/Kimber-Smith (Oreca FLM09) - CORE - 236
6 - Guasch/Gidley/Hamilton (Oreca FLM09) - Pickett - 236
7 - Marcelli/Downs/Stirling (Oreca FLM09) - Merchant - 234
8 - Leitzinger/Dobson (Oreca FLM09) - PR1 - 232
9 - Gavin/Milner (Corvette ZR1) - Corvette - 232
10 - Magnussen/Garcia (Corvette ZR1) - Corvette - 232
11 - Mueller/Auberlen (BMW M3) - Rahal - 232
12 - Hand/Mueller (BMW M3) - Rahal - 232
13 - Sharp/Van Overbeek (Ferrari 458) - Extreme Speed - 232
14 - Bergmeister/Long/Lietz (Porsche 997) - Flying Lizard - 232
15 - Henzler/Sellers (Porsche 997) - Falken - 232
16 - Richard/Ende/Lewis (Oreca FLM09) - Dempsey - 231
17 - Fernandez/Turner/Mucke (Aston Martin Vantage) - Aston Martin - 230
18 - Neiman/Holzer (Porsche 997) - Flying Lizard - 230
19 - Miller/Maassen (Porsche 997 Cup) - Miller - 229
20 - Plowman/Hansson-Pizzonia (Morgan-Judd) - Conquest - 227
21 - Nicolosi/Vera (Oreca FLM09) - CORE - 225
22 - Brown/Cosmo (Ferrari 458) - Extreme Speed - 224
23 - Dyson/Smith/Mowlem (Lola B12/60-Mazda) - Dyson - 222
24 - Curtis/Bleekemolen/DI Guida - 219
25 - Sofronas/Welch/Villeneuve (Porsche 997 Cup) - GMG - 219
26 - Faieta/Avenatti/Wagner (Porsche 997 Cup) - Competition - 219
27 - MacNeil/Lazzaro (Porsche 997 Cup) - Alex Job - 216
28 - LeSaffre/Faulkner/Bleekemolen (Porsche 997 Cup) - Green Hornet - 211
29 - Tucker/Bouchut (HPD ARX-03b) - Level 5 - 207
30 - Dempsey/Cocker/Foster (Lola B12/87-Mazda) - Dempsey - 202
31 - Prendeville/Mitchell/Da Costa (Radical SR10) - Libra - 185
32 - Hedlund/Krohn/Tandy (Porsche 997 Cup) - 178
33 - Cumming/Marsh (Porsche 997 Cup) - JDX - 119
34 - Ducote/Downs/Burgess (Oreca FLM09) - Merchant - 100
35 - Sweedler/Bell (Lotus Evora) - Alex Job - 67