ST. PETERSBURG, Fla—The American Le Mans Series brought its high-speed, high-tech road show to the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida for the second race of the ALMS season. The deafening thunder of high-performance racing engines shook the normally quiet bayfront streets of this Gulf Coast city, as sleek racing machines screamed through the narrow thoroughfares where tourists would shop and sip their coffee on any other weekend morning.
St. Petersburg is one of two races held on city streets closed off and converted into racing courses (the other is Long Beach, California.) The St. Petersburg course is tight and twisty in section but still offers long straights where the fastest prototypes can hit 175 mph.
