2008 Northeast Grand Prix

The 2008 American Le Mans Northeast Grand Prix was the fifth round of the 2008 American Le Mans Series season. It took place at Lime Rock Park, Connecticut on July 12, 2008. It was the first event to take place at Lime Rock since portions of the track were redesigned and the entire surface repaved.[1]

Race summary

Acura scored their first overall win in the American Le Mans Series since they debuted their ARX-01 program in 2007. The #9 Highcroft Racing Acura of Scott Sharp and David Brabham managed to accomplish the feat with Brabham making a late charge and taking the overall lead in the final 90 seconds of the race, passing the #7 Penske Racing Porsche RS Spyder of Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas.[2]

Race results

Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).[3]

Pos Class No Team Drivers Chassis Tire Laps
Engine
1 LMP2 9 Patrón Highcroft Racing Scott Sharp
David Brabham		 Acura ARX-01B M 168
Acura AL7R 3.4 L V8
2 LMP2 7 Penske Racing Timo Bernhard
Romain Dumas		 Porsche RS Spyder Evo M 168
Porsche MR6 3.4 L V8
3 LMP2 6 Penske Racing Patrick Long
Sascha Maassen		 Porsche RS Spyder Evo M 168
Porsche MR6 3.4 L V8
4 LMP1 2 Audi Sport North America Marco Werner
Lucas Luhr		 Audi R10 TDI M 167
Audi TDI 5.5 L Turbo V12
(Diesel)
5 LMP2 15 Lowe's Fernández Racing Adrian Fernández
Luis Díaz		 Acura ARX-01B M 166
Acura AL7R 3.4 L V8
6 LMP2 26 Andretti Green Racing Franck Montagny
Marco Andretti		 Acura ARX-01B M 165
Acura AL7R 3.4 L V8
7
DNF		 LMP2 20 Dyson Racing Butch Leitzinger
Marino Franchitti		 Porsche RS Spyder Evo M 164
Porsche MR6 3.4 L V8
8 GT1 3 Corvette Racing Johnny O'Connell
Jan Magnussen		 Chevrolet Corvette C6.R M 157
Chevrolet LS7-R 7.0 L V8
(E85 ethanol)
9 GT2 45 Flying Lizard Motorsports Jörg Bergmeister
Wolf Henzler		 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR M 154
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
10 LMP1 37 Intersport Racing Jon Field
Clint Field
Richard Berry		 Lola B06/10 D 154
AER P32C 4.0 L Turbo V8
(E85 ethanol)
11 GT2 87 Farnbacher-Loles Motorsports Richard Westbrook
Dirk Werner		 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR M 153
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
12 GT2 62 Risi Competizione Jaime Melo
Mika Salo		 Ferrari F430GT M 153
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
13 GT2 71 Tafel Racing Dominik Farnbacher
Dirk Müller		 Ferrari F430GT M 152
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
14 LMP2 66 de Ferran Motorsports Gil de Ferran
Simon Pagenaud		 Acura ARX-01B M 151
Acura AL7R 3.4 L V8
15 GT2 21 Panoz Team PTG Tommy Milner
Tom Sutherland		 Panoz Esperante GT-LM D 150
Ford (Élan) 5.0 L V8
16
DNF		 GT1 4 Corvette Racing Oliver Gavin
Olivier Beretta		 Chevrolet Corvette C6.R M 146
Chevrolet LS7-R 7.0 L V8
(E85 ethanol)
17 GT2 61 Risi Competizione Patrick Friesacher
Harrison Brix		 Ferrari F430GT M 145
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
18
DNF		 GT2 46 Flying Lizard Motorsports Johannes van Overbeek
Patrick Pilet		 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR M 144
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
19 GT2 54 Black Swan Racing Tim Pappas
Anthony Lazzaro		 Ford GT-R Mk.VII F 142
Ford 5.0 L V8
20 GT2 73 Tafel Racing Jim Tafel
Alex Figge		 Ferrari F430GT M 142
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
21 LMP1 1 Audi Sport North America Rinaldo Capello
Emanuele Pirro		 Audi R10 TDI M 137
Audi TDI 5.5 L Turbo V12
(Diesel)
22
NC		 GT2 11 Primetime Race Group Joel Feinberg
Chris Hall		 Dodge Viper Competition Coupe H 107
Dodge 8.3 L V10
23
DNF		 LMP2 16 Dyson Racing Chris Dyson
Guy Smith		 Porsche RS Spyder Evo M 94
Porsche MR6 3.4 L V8
24
DNF		 GT2 44 Flying Lizard Motorsports 44 Darren Law
Seth Neiman		 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR M 81
Porsche 3.8 L Flat-6
25
DNF		 LMP2 8 B-K Motorsports Gerardo Bonilla
Ben Devlin		 Lola B07/46 Y 74
Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4
(E85 ethanol)
26
DNF		 GT1 008 Bell Motorsports Terry Borcheller
Chapman Ducote		 Aston Martin DBR9 D 61
Aston Martin 6.0 L V12
27
DNF		 GT2 007 Drayson-Barwell Paul Drayson
Jonny Cocker		 Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT2 D 24
Aston Martin 4.5 L V8
(E85 ethanol)
DNS GT2 40 Robertson Racing David Robertson
Andrea Robertson
David Murry		 Ford GT-R Mk.VII D -
Ford 5.0 L V8

Statistics
  • Pole Position - #9 Patrón Highcroft Racing - 0:46.696[4]
  • Fastest Lap - #1 Audi Sport North America - 0:48.007[3]
  • Average Speed - 91.105 mph[3]

References
  1. "Michelin Ready to Attack Fresh Lime Rock Track". American Le Mans Series. 2008-07-08. Retrieved 2008-07-13.
  2. "Victory for Brabham, Sharp at Lime Rock". American Le Mans Series. 2008-07-12. Retrieved 2008-07-13.
  3. "2008 Race Results" (PDF). International Motor Sports Association. 2008-07-12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-09-20. Retrieved 2008-07-13.
  4. "Lime Rock-Friday Qualifying". Retrieved 2008-07-13.
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