ALMS: BMW domina en Long Beach y Muscle Milk ganá en LMP

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The Muscle Milk Lola-Aston Martin was a dominant overall winner of the American Le Mans Series' two-hour Long Beach race, while Joey Hand and Dirk Muller came out on top for the Rahal Letterman Lanigan-run BMW squad in the ultra-competitive GT field.

Lucas Luhr attacked and passed the polesitting Dyson Lola-Mazda during the opening lap, and although Chris Dyson stayed on the Aston-powered car's tail at first, Muscle Milk was soon striding away, with Luhr able to hand over to team-mate Klaus Graf with a comfortable lead, which Graf extended to a minute before the race ended under yellow following a GTC crash.

In GT, Hand made an early break by passing a couple of LMPC tailenders to give himself a buffer over the chasing pack. But this disappeared when Paul Gentilozzi crashed his Jaguar to bring out the first caution of the event five minutes in.

Shortly after the restart, Bill Auberlen in the second BMW lost third in class to Patrick Long's Flying Lizard Porsche, and was passed by several more cars while wrong-footed. As he tried to regain momentum, Auberlen tangled with Tommy Milner's Corvette and spun in the fountain section. It took a painfully long time to get the car turned and ready to resume - and just as he pulled away, Auberlen inadvertently badly blocked his class-leading team-mate, who was about to put him a lap down.

That allowed Corvette's Oliver Gavin and Long's Porsche to pass the BMW, but Hand reclaimed the lead shortly afterwards with an amazing third-to-first move as the leaders lapped the GTC traffic.

Long struck back a few laps later, repassing the BMW, only to then slide into the wall while dicing with Scott Sharp's Extreme Speed Ferrari, which had just pitted.

With Long's Porsche too badly damaged to continue, Muller was left with a relatively peaceful run to the finish ahead of the Gavin/Jan Magnussen Corvette. Jaime Melo and Toni Vilander brought the Risi Ferrari through to third from the back of the grid after a qualifying incident. Further back, Bruno Junqueira and Cristiano da Matta achieved a breakthrough sixth in the RSR Jaguar.

Gunnar Jeanette and Ricardo Gonzalez (Core) defeated Intersport's Tomy Drissi and Kyle Marcelli to take LMPC honours and third overall. The Black Swan car of Jeroen Bleekemolen and Bill Pappas clinched the GTC win again.

Results - 83 laps:

Pos Cl Drivers Team/Car Time/Gap
1. P1 Luhr/Graf Muscle Milk Lola-Aston 2h01m23.764s
2. P1 Dyson/Smith Dyson Lola-Mazda + 24.624s
3. PC Jeannette/Gonzalez Core ORECA + 2 laps
4. PC Marcelli/Drissi Intersport ORECA + 2 laps
5. GT Muller/Hand BMW + 2 laps
6. GT Gavin/Magnussen Corvette + 2 laps
7. GT Melo/Vilander Risi Ferrari + 2 laps
8. GT Henzler/Sellers Falken Porsche + 3 laps
9. PC Lux/Julian Genoa ORECA + 3 laps
10. GT Beretta/Milner Corvette + 3 laps
11. PC Bennett/Montecalvo Core ORECA + 4 laps
12. GT Junqueira/da Matta RSR Jaguar + 4 laps
13. GT Auberlen/Werner BMW + 4 laps
14. GT Law/Neiman Flying Lizard Porsche + 5 laps
15. GTC Pappas/Bleekemolen Black Swan Porsche + 6 laps
16. GT Brown/Cosmo Extreme Speed Ferrari + 6 laps
17. GTC Sweedler/Keen Alex Job Porsche + 6 laps
18. PC Figge/Maroney PR1 Mathiasen ORECA + 6 laps
19. GTC Potter/Stanton Magnus Porsche + 7 laps
20. GT Pastorelli/Schwager West Lamborghini + 8 laps
21. GTC Ham/Blackett JDX Porsche + 12 laps

Retirements:

GT Sharp/van Overbeek Extreme Speed Ferrari 70 laps
GTC von Moltke/Gaughan TRG Porsche 70 laps
GT Miller/Maassen Miller Porsche 68 laps
P2 Tucker/Bouchut Level 5 Lola-Honda 45 laps
GTC Ende/Pumpelly TRG Porsche 36 laps
GT Bergmeister/Long Flying Lizard Porsche 31 laps
GT Jones/Gentilozzi RSR Jaguar 2 laps
GTC Curtis/Sofronas GMG Porsche 2 laps
P2 Tucker/Diaz Level 5 Lola-Honda 0 laps
PC Nicolosi/Boon Performance Tech ORECA 0 laps



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Porsche works driver narrowly misses podium result

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Stuttgart. At round two of the American Le Mans Series in Long Beach, California, Porsche works driver Wolf Henzler (Germany) narrowly missed out on claiming his first podium result of the season. At the wheel of the Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, he secured fourth place in GT class on the famous street circuit with his American teammate Bryan Sellers. “The race went well for us,” he said at the finish. “We’re on the right path with the team.”

Patrick Long (USA) also put in a strong performance in Flying Lizard Motorsports’ 911 GT3 RSR. However, the winner from last year did not reach the flag: One lap after he overtook the front-running BMW to slip into the lead at this eventful race he ended up in the wall. The front suspension of his car was so badly damaged that he was forced to retire.

“That was a really tough street race. We were giving the BMWs and Corvettes a good run for their money,” said Patrick Long, reigning GT champion with his works driver teammate Jörg Bergmeister (Germany). “I’d just taken the lead when a Ferrari came out of the pits with cold tyres in front of me. I thought he’d let me and Joey Hand pass because after all we were fighting for class victory. But he blocked us. When I tried to overtake him I came onto the dirt beside the ideal line, lost grip and crashed into the wall.”

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For a time, Sascha Maassen also held the lead. The former Porsche works driver used the first caution phase of the race to make a quick refuelling stop and after 48 laps, whilst most of his opponents were pitting, he snatched the lead position. Five laps later he handed the 911 GT3 RSR fielded by Paul Miller Racing over to his teammate Bryce Miller, who brought it over the finish line in twelfth.

Double Porsche Supercup champion, Jeroen Bleekemolen (Netherlands) slipped into the lead of the GTC class just after the half-way mark of the race and went on to claim the second victory of the season for the Black Swan Racing squad with Tim Pappas.

Round 3 of the American Le Mans Series takes place on 9 July in Lime Rock, Connecticut.

Statistics: 2nd race in Long Beach, CA

Result GT class
1. Müller/Hand (D/USA), BMW M3 GT, 81 laps
2. Gavin/Magnussen (GB/DK), Chevrolet Corvette, 81
3. Melo/Vilander (BRA/SF), Ferrari F458, 81
4. Henzler/Sellers (D/USA), Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, 80
5. Beretta/Milner (MC/USA), Chevrolet Corvette, 80
6. da Matta/Junqueira (BRA/BRA), Jaguar XKR, 79
8. Law/Neiman (USA/USA), Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, 78

Result GTC class
1. Pappas/Bleekemolen (USA/NL), Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, 77 laps
2. Sweedler/Keen (USA/USA), Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, 77
3. Potter/Stanton (USA/USA), Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, 76

Points’ standings GT class
Drivers
1. Dirk Müller, Joey Hand, BMW, 50 points
2. Oliver Gavin, Jan Magnussen, Chevrolet, 36
3. Olivier Beretta, Tommy Milner, Chevrolet, 31
4. Dirk Werner, Bill Auberlen, Andy Priaulx, BMW, 30
5. Augusto Farfus, BMW, 26
6. Jaime Melo, Toni Vilander, 25
9. Darren Law, Seth Neiman, Porsche, 19

Manufacturers
1. BMW, 50 points
2. Chevrolet, 39
3. Ferrari, 26
4. Porsche, 21

Teams
1. BMW Team RLL, BMW, 50 points
2. Corvette Racing, Chevrolet, 39
3. Risi Competizione, Ferrari, 25
4. Flying Lizard Motorsports, Porsche, 21

Points’ standings GTC class
1. Tim Pappas, Porsche, 50 points

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