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2008 Northeast Grand Prix

Track map of Lime Rock Park

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.

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.

Race results

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

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

Statistics

Pole Position - #9 Patrón Highcroft Racing - 0:46.696
Fastest Lap - #1 Audi Sport North America - 0:48.007
Average Speed - 91.105 mph

References

(October 2010). "Michelin Ready to Attack Fresh Lime Rock Track". [[American Le Mans Series]].
(October 2010). "Victory for Brabham, Sharp at Lime Rock". [[American Le Mans Series]].
(2008-07-12). "2008 Race Results". [[International Motor Sports Association]].
(October 2010). "Lime Rock-Friday Qualifying".

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