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Neither of their two rivals could stop Muscle Milk Pickett Racing's Lucas Luhr and Klaus Graf from scoring their third consecutive victory of the season, at this weekend's Lime Rock Northeast Grand Prix.
Chris Dyson and Guy Smith put on a decent fight during the first hour of the race, at the wheel of their Dyson Racing Lola-Mazda, but their hopes of victory eventually faded as the duel turned into a one-horse race.
Luhr and Graf eventually brought their HPD ARX-03c home some six laps ahead of Smith and Dyson.
Third place of the P1 category went to Andy Meyrick and Katherine Legge, despite their DeltaWing abruptly losing water pressure, and retiring, on lap 102.
BMW won the GT race from Corvette, as pole-sitters John Edwards and Dirk Muller led Antonio Garcia and Kevin Magnussen by a mere nine tenths at the finish line. The win extended Muller's lead in the drivers' championship.
Ryan Briscoe and Scott Tucker finished first in P2, but race officials only rewarded them with third-place points for the way Briscoe overtook Guy Cosmo (Extreme Speed Motorsports) near the end of the race.
Second place Cosmo and co-driver Scott Sharp got the maximum 20 points for their performance.
Bruno Junqueira (RSR Racing) won in PC, whereas Spencer Pumpelly backed his GTC pole from Friday with the class win.
Race results - ALMS Northeast Grand Prix (Lime Rock)
1 - Graf/Luhr (HPD ARX-03c) - Pickett - 184 laps
2 - Dyson/Smith (Lola B12/60 Mazda) - Dyson - 178
3 - Tucker/Briscoe (HPD ARX-03b) - Level 5 - 178
4 - Sharp/Cosmo (HPD ARX-03b) - ExtremeSpeed - 178
5 - Junqueira/Ende (Oreca FLM09) - Rocketsports - 177
6 - Bennett/Braun (Oreca FLM09) - CORE - 177
7 - Tucker/Briscoe (HPD ARX-03b) - Level 5 - 176
8 - Nunez/Booth (Oreca FLM09) - Preformance Tech - 176
9 - Brown/Van Overbeek (HPD ARX-03b) - ExtremeSpeed - 176
10 - Marcelli/Cumming (Oreca FLM09) - BAR1 - 175
11 - Van der Zande/Schultis (Oreca FLM09) - CORE - 174
12 - Guasch/Cheng (Oreca FLM09) - PR1 - 172
13 - Mueller/Edwards (BMW Z4) - Rahal - 172
14 - Magnussen/Garcia (Corvette ZR1) - Corvette - 172
15 - Kimber-Smith/Long (Porsche 997) - CORE - 172
16 - Auberlen/Martin (BMW Z4) - Rahal - 171
17 - Bomarito/Wittmer (SRT Viper) - SRT - 171
18 - Gavin/Milner (Corvette ZR1) - Corvette - 171
19 - Drissi/Mitchell (Oreca FLM09) - BAR1 - 170
20 - Miller/Holzer (Porsche 997) - Miller - 169
21 - Henzler/Sellers (Porsche 997) - Falken - 169
22 - Sweedler/Bell (Ferrari GTS3 458) - Alex Job - 168
23 - Beretta/Malucelli (Ferrari GTS3 458) - Risi - 167
24 - Canache/Pumpelly (Porsche 997 Cup) - FlyingLizard - 164
25 - Hedlund/Heylen (Porsche 997 Cup) - JDX - 162
26 - Keating/Faulkner (Porsche 997 Cup) - TRG - 161
27 - Stanton/Ostella (Porsche 997 Cup) - TRG - 161
28 - MacNeil/Bleekemolen (Porsche 997 Cup) - Alex Job - 159
29 - Neiman/Von Moltke (Porsche 997 Cup) - FlyingLizard - 159
30 - Dempsey/Lally (Porsche 997 Cup) - Demsey/DelPiero - 158
31 - Cisneros/Armindo (Porsche 997 Cup) - NGT - 145
32 - Legge/Meyrick (DeltaWing) - Panoz - 102
33 - Goossens/Farnbacher (SRT Viper) - SRT - 25
Chris Dyson and Guy Smith put on a decent fight during the first hour of the race, at the wheel of their Dyson Racing Lola-Mazda, but their hopes of victory eventually faded as the duel turned into a one-horse race.
Luhr and Graf eventually brought their HPD ARX-03c home some six laps ahead of Smith and Dyson.
Third place of the P1 category went to Andy Meyrick and Katherine Legge, despite their DeltaWing abruptly losing water pressure, and retiring, on lap 102.
BMW won the GT race from Corvette, as pole-sitters John Edwards and Dirk Muller led Antonio Garcia and Kevin Magnussen by a mere nine tenths at the finish line. The win extended Muller's lead in the drivers' championship.
Ryan Briscoe and Scott Tucker finished first in P2, but race officials only rewarded them with third-place points for the way Briscoe overtook Guy Cosmo (Extreme Speed Motorsports) near the end of the race.
Second place Cosmo and co-driver Scott Sharp got the maximum 20 points for their performance.
Bruno Junqueira (RSR Racing) won in PC, whereas Spencer Pumpelly backed his GTC pole from Friday with the class win.
Race results - ALMS Northeast Grand Prix (Lime Rock)
1 - Graf/Luhr (HPD ARX-03c) - Pickett - 184 laps
2 - Dyson/Smith (Lola B12/60 Mazda) - Dyson - 178
3 - Tucker/Briscoe (HPD ARX-03b) - Level 5 - 178
4 - Sharp/Cosmo (HPD ARX-03b) - ExtremeSpeed - 178
5 - Junqueira/Ende (Oreca FLM09) - Rocketsports - 177
6 - Bennett/Braun (Oreca FLM09) - CORE - 177
7 - Tucker/Briscoe (HPD ARX-03b) - Level 5 - 176
8 - Nunez/Booth (Oreca FLM09) - Preformance Tech - 176
9 - Brown/Van Overbeek (HPD ARX-03b) - ExtremeSpeed - 176
10 - Marcelli/Cumming (Oreca FLM09) - BAR1 - 175
11 - Van der Zande/Schultis (Oreca FLM09) - CORE - 174
12 - Guasch/Cheng (Oreca FLM09) - PR1 - 172
13 - Mueller/Edwards (BMW Z4) - Rahal - 172
14 - Magnussen/Garcia (Corvette ZR1) - Corvette - 172
15 - Kimber-Smith/Long (Porsche 997) - CORE - 172
16 - Auberlen/Martin (BMW Z4) - Rahal - 171
17 - Bomarito/Wittmer (SRT Viper) - SRT - 171
18 - Gavin/Milner (Corvette ZR1) - Corvette - 171
19 - Drissi/Mitchell (Oreca FLM09) - BAR1 - 170
20 - Miller/Holzer (Porsche 997) - Miller - 169
21 - Henzler/Sellers (Porsche 997) - Falken - 169
22 - Sweedler/Bell (Ferrari GTS3 458) - Alex Job - 168
23 - Beretta/Malucelli (Ferrari GTS3 458) - Risi - 167
24 - Canache/Pumpelly (Porsche 997 Cup) - FlyingLizard - 164
25 - Hedlund/Heylen (Porsche 997 Cup) - JDX - 162
26 - Keating/Faulkner (Porsche 997 Cup) - TRG - 161
27 - Stanton/Ostella (Porsche 997 Cup) - TRG - 161
28 - MacNeil/Bleekemolen (Porsche 997 Cup) - Alex Job - 159
29 - Neiman/Von Moltke (Porsche 997 Cup) - FlyingLizard - 159
30 - Dempsey/Lally (Porsche 997 Cup) - Demsey/DelPiero - 158
31 - Cisneros/Armindo (Porsche 997 Cup) - NGT - 145
32 - Legge/Meyrick (DeltaWing) - Panoz - 102
33 - Goossens/Farnbacher (SRT Viper) - SRT - 25