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2009 Sports Car Challenge of St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg Street Circuit

The 2009 Acura Sports Car Challenge of St. Petersburg was the second round of the 2009 American Le Mans Series season. It took place at the Streets of St. Petersburg, Florida on April 4, 2009. The Acura ARX-02a earned its first overall victory under the Patrón Highcroft Racing team after early leader de Ferran Motorsports suffered mechanical issues. Acura also won the LMP2 category with Lowe's Fernández Racing, while GT2 was won by the Porsche of Flying Lizard Motorsports.

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Qualifying

In qualifying solely for the GT2 category, due to the lack of GT1 class competitors for this event, Jaime Melo in the Risi Competizione Ferrari led the pack before a red flag stopped the session due to an incident involving eventual fifth place qualifier Patrick Long in the Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche. Farnbacher-Loles and the two BMWs completed the top of the GT2 grid.

In prototype qualifying the Acura of Simon Pagenaud dominated by earning de Ferran Motorsports a pole position by nearly a second over the other Acura of Patrón Highcroft Racing. Acura also led the LMP2 category as the Lowe's Fernández Racing car was piloted by Luis Díaz to third overall, beating the closest Dyson Lola-Mazda by three tenths of a second.

Qualifying result

Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.

Pos	Class	Team	Qualifying Driver
LMP1	#66 de Ferran Motorsports	Simon Pagenaud	1:03.776
LMP1	#9 Patrón Highcroft Racing	Scott Sharp	1:04.722
LMP2	#15 Lowe's Fernández Racing	Luis Díaz	1:05.178
LMP2	#16 Dyson Racing Team	Guy Smith	1:05.464
LMP2	#20 Dyson Racing Team	Marino Franchitti	1:05.666
LMP1	#37 Intersport Racing	Chapman Ducote	1:09.044
GT2	#61 Risi Competizione	Jaime Melo	1:12.892
GT2	#87 Farnbacher-Loles Racing	Wolf Henzler	1:13.173
GT2	#90 BMW Rahal Letterman Racing	Joey Hand	1:13.267
GT2	#92 BMW Rahal Letterman Racing	Dirk Müller	1:13.458
GT2	#45 Flying Lizard Motorsports	Patrick Long	1:13.465
GT2	#21 Panoz Team PTG	Dominik Farnbacher	1:14.109
GT2	#40 Robertson Racing	David Murry	1:14.281
GT2	#28 LG Motorsports	Eric Curran	1:14.633
GT2	#11 Primetime Race Group	Joel Feinberg	1:15.938
GT2	#22 Panoz Team PTG	Tom Sutherland	1:15.996
GT2	#44 Flying Lizard Motorsports	Seth Neiman	1:18.592

Race

Race result

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

Pos	Class	No	Team
DNF	14
DNF	15
DNF	16
DNF	17
DNF
LMP1	9	USA Patrón Highcroft Racing	AUS David Brabham
USA Scott Sharp	Acura ARX-02a		93
Acura AR7 4.0 L V8
LMP2	15	MEX Lowe's Fernández Racing	MEX Adrian Fernández
MEX Luis Díaz	Acura ARX-01B		93
Acura AL7R 3.4 L V8
LMP2	16	USA Dyson Racing Team	USA Chris Dyson
GBR Guy Smith	Lola B09/86		92
Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4
LMP2	20	USA Dyson Racing Team	USA Butch Leitzinger
GBR Marino Franchitti	Lola B08/86		91
Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4
GT2	45	USA Flying Lizard Motorsports	USA Patrick Long
DEU Jörg Bergmeister	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		88
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
LMP1	37	USA Intersport Racing	USA Jon Field
USA Clint Field
USA Chapman Ducote	Lola B06/10		88
AER P32C 4.0 L Turbo V8
GT2	92	USA BMW Rahal Letterman Racing	USA Tommy Milner
DEU Dirk Müller	BMW M3 GT2		86
BMW 4.0 L V8
GT2	21	USA Panoz Team PTG	GBR Ian James
DEU Dominik Farnbacher	Panoz Esperante GT-LM		86
Ford 5.0 L V8
GT2	28	USA LG Motorsports	USA Lou Giglotti
USA Eric Curran	Chevrolet Corvette C6		85
Chevrolet LS3 6.3 L V8
GT2	44	USA Flying Lizard Motorsports	USA Darren Law
USA Seth Neiman	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		84
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
GT2	40	USA Robertson Racing	USA David Robertson
USA Andrea Robertson
USA David Murry	Ford GT-R Mk. VII		83
Ford 5.0 L V8
GT2	87	USA Farnbacher-Loles Motorsports	DEU Wolf Henzler
DEU Dirk Werner	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		74
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
LMP1	66	USA de Ferran Motorsports	BRA Gil de Ferran
FRA Simon Pagenaud	Acura ARX-02a		66
Acura AR7 4.0 L V8
GT2	11	USA Primetime Race Group	USA Joel Feinberg
GBR Chris Hall	Dodge Viper Competition Coupe		38
Dodge 8.3 L V10
GT2	22	USA Panoz Team PTG	USA Tom Sutherland
USA Ryan Phinny	Panoz Esperante GT-LM		38
Ford 5.0 L V8
GT2	90	USA BMW Rahal Letterman Racing	USA Bill Auberlen
USA Joey Hand	BMW M3 GT2		28
BMW 4.0 L V8
GT2	62	USA Risi Competizione	BRA Jaime Melo
DEU Pierre Kaffer	Ferrari F430GT		27
Ferrari 4.0 L V8

References

(2009-04-04). "ALMS Qualifying". [[International Motor Sports Association]].
(2009-04-04). "ALMS Provisional Race Report". [[International Motor Sports Association]].

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