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It was the end of an era as the American Le Mans Series raced for the fifteenth and last time at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park (CTMP) this past weekend.
Next year ALMS will merge with the Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series to form the new United Sports Car Series - which has yet to announce whether their race card will include CTMP.
It was a perfect finale, the oppressive heat having lifted for a glorious day of exciting racing at the former Mosport circuit located east of Toronto.
Scoring their fourth consecutive ALMS LMP1 victory was Muscle Milk Pickett Racing, driven by Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr. Only the crowd favourite, the No. 0 DeltaWing driven by Andy Meyrick and Katherine Legge even came close to threatening Muscle Milk's total class domination early in the race, until engine trouble forced it to drop out.
Asked to comment on the recent changes to the track's surface Graf remarked that if anything, the "new asphalt patches gave them a lot of grip so they were much faster", yet he didn't feel that the track was any more dangerous thanks to all the extra safety measures.
Graft said the demanding circuit was a favourite among the drivers. "Obviously, we don't know the schedule yet, but we really hope for us, for the fans and for our colleague Ron Fellows that we come back to this great track."
The GT class provided the most excitement of the race, with the battle for first raging right down to the wire. The No. 4 Corvette driven by Tommy Milner and Oliver Gavin, charged ahead of the No. 91 Viper GTS-R driven by Dominik Farnbacher and Marc Goossens to take the win by only 0.267 seconds.
It was an impressive showing by the SRT Viper team, returning from a ten-year hiatus to take the second and third place finishes.
Level 5 Motorsports took their third straight win in the LMP2 class with Marino Franchitti and Scott Tucker driving the No. 551 HPD ARX-03b. They finished second overall, 4 laps down the winning Muscle Milk LMP1 car.
CORE Autosport scored the podium in PC, driven by Colin Braun and Jon Bennett.
Taking the top honours in GTC class was Alex Job Racing's No 23 WeatherTech Porsche 911 GT3 driven by Jeroen Bleekemolen and Cooper MacNeil.
Next year ALMS will merge with the Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series to form the new United Sports Car Series - which has yet to announce whether their race card will include CTMP.
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| HPD ARX-03a Muscle Milk (Photo: René Fagnan) |
It was a perfect finale, the oppressive heat having lifted for a glorious day of exciting racing at the former Mosport circuit located east of Toronto.
Scoring their fourth consecutive ALMS LMP1 victory was Muscle Milk Pickett Racing, driven by Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr. Only the crowd favourite, the No. 0 DeltaWing driven by Andy Meyrick and Katherine Legge even came close to threatening Muscle Milk's total class domination early in the race, until engine trouble forced it to drop out.
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| DeltaWing LM12 (Photo: René Fagnan) |
Asked to comment on the recent changes to the track's surface Graf remarked that if anything, the "new asphalt patches gave them a lot of grip so they were much faster", yet he didn't feel that the track was any more dangerous thanks to all the extra safety measures.
Graft said the demanding circuit was a favourite among the drivers. "Obviously, we don't know the schedule yet, but we really hope for us, for the fans and for our colleague Ron Fellows that we come back to this great track."
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| Corvette C6 ZR1 (Photo: René Fagnan) |
The GT class provided the most excitement of the race, with the battle for first raging right down to the wire. The No. 4 Corvette driven by Tommy Milner and Oliver Gavin, charged ahead of the No. 91 Viper GTS-R driven by Dominik Farnbacher and Marc Goossens to take the win by only 0.267 seconds.
It was an impressive showing by the SRT Viper team, returning from a ten-year hiatus to take the second and third place finishes.
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| HPD ARX-03b P2 (Photo: Lesley Wimbush) |
Level 5 Motorsports took their third straight win in the LMP2 class with Marino Franchitti and Scott Tucker driving the No. 551 HPD ARX-03b. They finished second overall, 4 laps down the winning Muscle Milk LMP1 car.
CORE Autosport scored the podium in PC, driven by Colin Braun and Jon Bennett.
Taking the top honours in GTC class was Alex Job Racing's No 23 WeatherTech Porsche 911 GT3 driven by Jeroen Bleekemolen and Cooper MacNeil.
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| SRT Viper GTS-R (Photo: Lesley Wimbush) |