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Rebellion Racing wrote the final chapter in the history of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS), winning the season-ending 16th Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta.
Neel Jani and Nico Prost repeated as winners of the 1,000-mile race, joined by Nick Heidfeld in the No. 12 Rebellion Timepieces/Lemo Connectors/Speedy Garage Toyota-powered Lola B12/60. Jani took the checkered flag by six laps over P2 winner Ryan Briscoe, who helped co-driver Scott Tucker to his fourth consecutive championship.
The retirement of the P1 championship-winning No. 6 Muscle Milk Pickett Racing HPD ARX-03c-Honda five hours into the event over overheating problems opened the door for Rebellion, which spent the early hours battling to regain a lost lap resulting from an unnecessary contact penalty.
Muscle Milk's Lucas Luhr ended his ALMS career with a series-leading 49 victories, with the team carrying an eight-race winning streak into the finale that saw Luhr and teammate Klaus Graf clinch the driver, team and manufacturer titles.
Both the P2 and Prototype Challenge presented by Continental Tire (PC) titles went down to the wire, with Tucker and Chris Cumming earning the respective championships.
Team Falken Tire took a dramatic class victory in GT, while Corvette Racing's Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia took the drivers' title with a sixth-place finish.
Nick Tandy, Bryan Sellers and Wolf Henzler took their first triumph of the final season. Amazingly, the winning vehicle was a show car until it was pressed into service last month after an opening-lap incident in Baltimore damaged the team's primary car beyond repair.
A sixth-place finish for Garcia and Magnussen in the No. 3 Compuware Corvette C6 ZR1 co-driven by Jordan Taylor was good enough to capture the GT drivers' title, winning by six points over Dirk Muller.
A victory gave Flying Lizard Motorsports the GTC team title by 12 points over Alex Job Racing, while its drivers Jeroen Bleekemolen and Cooper MacNeil won the drivers' title with a fourth-place finish.
Next year the ALMS will combine with the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series as the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. The first scheduled activity for the unified series will be unofficial testing at Sebring International Raceway (Nov. 16-17) and Daytona International Speedway (Nov. 19-20), with the 2014 season opening with the Rolex 24 At Daytona on Jan. 25-26, 2014.
Race results - ALMS (Road Atlanta)
1 - Heidfeld/Jani/Prost (Lola B12/60 Toyota) - Rebellion - 394
2 - Tucker/Briscoe/Franchitti (HPD ARX-03b) - Level5 - 388
3 - Sharp/Lazzaro/Brabham (HPD ARX-03b) - Extreme Speed - 388
4 - Cosmo/Kane/Dumbreck (HPD ARX-03b) - Level5 - 387
5 - Marcelli/Cumming/Johansson (Oreca FLM09) - BAR1 - 380
6 - Rayhall/Negri (Oreca FLM09) - 8Star - 380
7 - Bennett/Kimber-Smith/Wilkins (Oreca FLM09) - CORE - 377
8 - Henzler/Sellers/Tandy (Porsche 911) - Walker - 375
9 - Müller/Edwards/Auberlen (BMW Z4) - Rahal - 375
10 - Beretta/Malucelli/Liddell (Ferrari 458) - Risi - 375
11 - Dyson/Burgess/McMurry (Lola B12/60 Mazda) - Dyson - 374
12 - Alzen/Martin/Müller (BMW Z4) - Rahal - 374
13 - Bomarito/Wittmer/Kendall (SRT Viper) - SRT - 373
14 - Magnussen/Garcia/Taylor (Corvette ZR1) - Corvette - 373
15 - Farnbacher/Goossens/Dalziel (SRT Viper) - SRT - 372
16 - Long/Braun/Christensen (Porsche 911) - CORE - 372
17 - Brown/van Overbeek/Bell (HPD ARX-03b) - Extreme Speed - 369
18 - Sweedler/Keen/Mowlem (Ferrari 458) - Alex Job - 369
19 - Gavin/Milner/Westbrook (Corvette ZR1) - Corvette - 369
20 - Drissi/Mitchell/French (Oreca FLM09) - BAR1 - 365
21 - Guasch/Cheng/Cameron (Oreca FLM09) - PR1 - 359
22 - Canache./Pumpelly/Snow (Porsche 911 Cup) - Flying Lizard - 357
23 - Dempsey/Lally/Foster (Porsche 911 Cup) - Dempsey/Del Piero - 357
24 - Hedlund/Heylen/Fogarty (Porsche 911 Cup) - JDX - 357
25 - MacNeil/Bleekemolen/Bleekemolen (Porsche 911 Cup) - Alex Job - 356
26 - Neiman/von (Porsche 911 Cup) - Flying Lizard - 344
27 - Keating/Faulkner/Stanton (Porsche 911 Cup) - TRG - 339
28 - Armindo/Nielsen/Benitez, (Porsche 911 Cup) - NGT - 339
29 - Junqueira/Ende/Menezes (Oreca FLM09) - PR1 - 295
30 - Putman/Espenlaub/Law (Porsche 911 Cup) - Dempsey/Del Piero - 277
31 - Meyrick/Legge (DeltaWing) - Panoz - 209
32 - Graf/Luhr/Dumas (HPD ARX-03c) - Pickett - 200
33 - Nunez/Shears (Oreca FLM09) - Perf.Tech - 121
34 - Miller/Holzer/Collard (Porsche 911) - Miller - 76
Rebellion Racing wrote the final chapter in the history of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS), winning the season-ending 16th Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta.
Neel Jani and Nico Prost repeated as winners of the 1,000-mile race, joined by Nick Heidfeld in the No. 12 Rebellion Timepieces/Lemo Connectors/Speedy Garage Toyota-powered Lola B12/60. Jani took the checkered flag by six laps over P2 winner Ryan Briscoe, who helped co-driver Scott Tucker to his fourth consecutive championship.
The retirement of the P1 championship-winning No. 6 Muscle Milk Pickett Racing HPD ARX-03c-Honda five hours into the event over overheating problems opened the door for Rebellion, which spent the early hours battling to regain a lost lap resulting from an unnecessary contact penalty.
Muscle Milk's Lucas Luhr ended his ALMS career with a series-leading 49 victories, with the team carrying an eight-race winning streak into the finale that saw Luhr and teammate Klaus Graf clinch the driver, team and manufacturer titles.
Both the P2 and Prototype Challenge presented by Continental Tire (PC) titles went down to the wire, with Tucker and Chris Cumming earning the respective championships.
Team Falken Tire took a dramatic class victory in GT, while Corvette Racing's Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia took the drivers' title with a sixth-place finish.
Nick Tandy, Bryan Sellers and Wolf Henzler took their first triumph of the final season. Amazingly, the winning vehicle was a show car until it was pressed into service last month after an opening-lap incident in Baltimore damaged the team's primary car beyond repair.
A sixth-place finish for Garcia and Magnussen in the No. 3 Compuware Corvette C6 ZR1 co-driven by Jordan Taylor was good enough to capture the GT drivers' title, winning by six points over Dirk Muller.
A victory gave Flying Lizard Motorsports the GTC team title by 12 points over Alex Job Racing, while its drivers Jeroen Bleekemolen and Cooper MacNeil won the drivers' title with a fourth-place finish.
Next year the ALMS will combine with the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series as the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. The first scheduled activity for the unified series will be unofficial testing at Sebring International Raceway (Nov. 16-17) and Daytona International Speedway (Nov. 19-20), with the 2014 season opening with the Rolex 24 At Daytona on Jan. 25-26, 2014.
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| Team Falken Tire (Photo: Road Atlanta) |
Race results - ALMS (Road Atlanta)
1 - Heidfeld/Jani/Prost (Lola B12/60 Toyota) - Rebellion - 394
2 - Tucker/Briscoe/Franchitti (HPD ARX-03b) - Level5 - 388
3 - Sharp/Lazzaro/Brabham (HPD ARX-03b) - Extreme Speed - 388
4 - Cosmo/Kane/Dumbreck (HPD ARX-03b) - Level5 - 387
5 - Marcelli/Cumming/Johansson (Oreca FLM09) - BAR1 - 380
6 - Rayhall/Negri (Oreca FLM09) - 8Star - 380
7 - Bennett/Kimber-Smith/Wilkins (Oreca FLM09) - CORE - 377
8 - Henzler/Sellers/Tandy (Porsche 911) - Walker - 375
9 - Müller/Edwards/Auberlen (BMW Z4) - Rahal - 375
10 - Beretta/Malucelli/Liddell (Ferrari 458) - Risi - 375
11 - Dyson/Burgess/McMurry (Lola B12/60 Mazda) - Dyson - 374
12 - Alzen/Martin/Müller (BMW Z4) - Rahal - 374
13 - Bomarito/Wittmer/Kendall (SRT Viper) - SRT - 373
14 - Magnussen/Garcia/Taylor (Corvette ZR1) - Corvette - 373
15 - Farnbacher/Goossens/Dalziel (SRT Viper) - SRT - 372
16 - Long/Braun/Christensen (Porsche 911) - CORE - 372
17 - Brown/van Overbeek/Bell (HPD ARX-03b) - Extreme Speed - 369
18 - Sweedler/Keen/Mowlem (Ferrari 458) - Alex Job - 369
19 - Gavin/Milner/Westbrook (Corvette ZR1) - Corvette - 369
20 - Drissi/Mitchell/French (Oreca FLM09) - BAR1 - 365
21 - Guasch/Cheng/Cameron (Oreca FLM09) - PR1 - 359
22 - Canache./Pumpelly/Snow (Porsche 911 Cup) - Flying Lizard - 357
23 - Dempsey/Lally/Foster (Porsche 911 Cup) - Dempsey/Del Piero - 357
24 - Hedlund/Heylen/Fogarty (Porsche 911 Cup) - JDX - 357
25 - MacNeil/Bleekemolen/Bleekemolen (Porsche 911 Cup) - Alex Job - 356
26 - Neiman/von (Porsche 911 Cup) - Flying Lizard - 344
27 - Keating/Faulkner/Stanton (Porsche 911 Cup) - TRG - 339
28 - Armindo/Nielsen/Benitez, (Porsche 911 Cup) - NGT - 339
29 - Junqueira/Ende/Menezes (Oreca FLM09) - PR1 - 295
30 - Putman/Espenlaub/Law (Porsche 911 Cup) - Dempsey/Del Piero - 277
31 - Meyrick/Legge (DeltaWing) - Panoz - 209
32 - Graf/Luhr/Dumas (HPD ARX-03c) - Pickett - 200
33 - Nunez/Shears (Oreca FLM09) - Perf.Tech - 121
34 - Miller/Holzer/Collard (Porsche 911) - Miller - 76