David Brabham and Scott Sharp drove their Acura ARX-02a to a class win and an overall victory in the American Le Mans Series Mobil 1 Mosport Grand Prix in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada on August 30, increasing their points lead over LMP1 rivals Gil de Ferran and Simon Pagenaud with only two races left in the season.
The de Ferran car struggled with a gearbox oil leak, which forced de Ferran and Pagenaud to make extra pit stops.
The Intersport Lola of Jon and Clint Field made a strong early showing, leading the race until the Lola’s front splitter broke, forcing lengthy pit stop which set the team too far back to catch up.
In LMP2, Adrian Fernandez and Luis Diaz clinched the class championship with a win over Marino Franchitti and Butch Leitzinger, when their Dyson Racing Lola-Mazda burned a piston in the final minutes of the race. Chris Dyson lost control of the other Dyson car, apparently hitting a wet patch of pavement entering Turn One, hitting the wall backward and ending his race.
In GT2, Corvette Racing scored its first class victory. Johnny O’Connell, starting his 100th ALMS race, and co-driver Jan Magnusson fought their way past the Ferrari Risi Competizione’s Jaime Melo and Pierre Kaffer.
Oliver Gavin and Olivier Berretta brought the second Corvette home in third place in class, after briefly leading in class before sliding off while sparring with Kaffer in the Ferrari.
GT2 points leaders Jörg Bergmeister and Patrick Long finished fifth, slowed by accident damage.
Patrón Highcroft Profits From de Ferran’s Problem
Race day was cool and cloudy; interment drizzle dampened the track, increasing the difficulty for drivers on one of the fastest tracks on the ALMS schedule.
The de Ferran car struggled with a gearbox oil leak, which forced de Ferran and Pagenaud to make extra pit stops.
The Intersport Lola of Jon and Clint Field made a strong early showing, leading the race until the Lola’s front splitter broke, forcing lengthy pit stop which set the team too far back to catch up.
In LMP2, Adrian Fernandez and Luis Diaz clinched the class championship with a win over Marino Franchitti and Butch Leitzinger, when their Dyson Racing Lola-Mazda burned a piston in the final minutes of the race. Chris Dyson lost control of the other Dyson car, apparently hitting a wet patch of pavement entering Turn One, hitting the wall backward and ending his race.
In GT2, Corvette Racing scored its first class victory. Johnny O’Connell, starting his 100th ALMS race, and co-driver Jan Magnusson fought their way past the Ferrari Risi Competizione’s Jaime Melo and Pierre Kaffer.
Oliver Gavin and Olivier Berretta brought the second Corvette home in third place in class, after briefly leading in class before sliding off while sparring with Kaffer in the Ferrari.
GT2 points leaders Jörg Bergmeister and Patrick Long finished fifth, slowed by accident damage.
Patrón Highcroft Profits From de Ferran’s Problem
Race day was cool and cloudy; interment drizzle dampened the track, increasing the difficulty for drivers on one of the fastest tracks on the ALMS schedule.
