BRASELTON, Georgia—The American Le Mans Series season finale, the ten-hour/1000-mile Petit Le Mans endurance race, is well under way. After only two short caution periods, the leaders have completed 177 laps of the 2.54-mile Road Atlanta racecourse; 217 laps remain.
After four hours of racing Nicolas Prost in the #12 LMP1 Rebellion Lola Toyota leads Dario Franchitti in the #055 LMP2 Level 5 HPD-Honda, with Martin Plowman in the #37 LMP2 Conquest Morgan-Nissan in third.
The #95 Level 5 HPD, which is trying to capture the P2 title, is circulating safely in sixth.
Gunnar Jeanette is fifth overall with the unclassified DeltaWing, on only its second set of tires.
Jani has four laps on the field. Plowman, Franchitti, and Mark Patterson in the #20 Dyson Lola-Mazda (not the hybrid) are all four laps down on the leader, and the DeltaWing is five laps behind.
The #6 P1 Muscle Milk HPD-Honda, fighting for a class win, lies 38th, 52 laps down after getting hit by the #34 Green Hornet Porsche one hour into the race.
One place behind the Muscle Milk car is the #16 Dyson Lola-Mazda Hybrid; the Dyson machine lost 54 laps to electrical problems.
The P1 championship battle is wide open: Muscle Milk has to complete 70 percent of the race distance to clinch the championship, which should still be possible, but any further delays could open the door to the Dyson car, which will have to score ten more points than Muscle Milk to take the P1 title.
