Muscle Milk Victory In New ALMS Territory At VIR
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The American Le Mans Series (ALMS) travelled to the Virginia International Raceway for the inaugural VIR 240 enduro; marking the penultimate event on the 2012 calendar.
With the sportscar world still adjusting to the news of the merger between Grand-Am and the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) the immediate reaction has been overwhelmingly positive from both sides of the divide that will be bridged in 2014.
The Grand-Am Rolex Series and American Le Mans Series have made official the merging of the two championships for the 2014 season.
Team Falken Tire drivers Wolf Henzler and Bryan Sellers dominated the Baltimore Sports Car Challenge to clinch GT class victory for the second year running the city’s temporary street circuit.
Level 5 Motorsports’ two LMP2 HPD cars scored a 102 finish at the end of a chaotic American Le Mans Series (ALMS) Baltimore Sports Car Challenge race on the street track in the Maryland city.
According to reports from Speed TV rival US sportscar series the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) and the Grand-Am run Rolex Series could be on the brink of merging, perhaps as soon as the 2014 season.
Following the epic race at Road America last season, the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) once again delivered again to produce the closest ever finish in the championship’s history – only 0.083 covered the top two cars in LMP1 after over four hours of racing.
Flying Lizard Motorsport lead the most laps in the GT class at Road America, but ultimately had to settle for second in class at the most recent American Le Mans Series race.
Team Falken Tire’s strong run of results in the American Le Mans Series came to an end at Road America last weekend.
JDX Racing enjoyed their third consecutive podium finish at Road America last weekend.
Series organisers are in the final stages of adding a GT-Am class to the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) for next season.
On a day of bad luck for the two BMW Team RLL teams the pair of M3s finished fifth and sixth in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) race at Lime Rock Park.
Despite promising results in testing during the break between rounds Team Falken Tire battled with increased tyre wear on their Porsche at Lime Rock Park, leaving them in seventh place in the GT class at Connecticut track.
Joerg Bergmeister and Patrick Long notched up the first American Le Mans Series (ALMS) victory of the year for Porsche, holding off the Corvettes at the end of the American Le Mans Northeast Grand Prix at Lime Rock Park.
Though final caution that brought the race to an end under yellow flags may have prevented a move for the lead in the closing laps Corvette Racing still left Lime Rock Park and the American Le Mans Northeast Grand Prix with their best finish since 2008.
Both of Dyson Racing’s Lola-Mazda suffered problems on the shortest track on the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) calendar at Lime Rock Park.
Sporting a stars and stripes livery just a few days after Independence Day Muscle Milk Racing drivers Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr fought back from as far as five laps down to take cross the line first to win the American Le Mans Northeast Grand Prix at Lime Rock Park.
