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Audi Tops In ALMS Event At Mid-Ohio

Lexington, Ohio – Lucas Luhr and Marco Werner pushed their Audi R10 TDI to victory in the Acura Sports Car Challenge race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

On a very hot day, a large crowd gathered to watch the seventh American LeMans Series race of the season.
The victors came from the ALMS LMP1 class.

Jumping into the lead early on, Luhr and Werner weren’t to be denied as they pushed their factory Audi to victory at the Ohio road course.
Werner started the 2 hour and 45 minute race and Luhr finished it.

“You can’t plan this, but it was our race to win,” Werner said. “I pushed hard at the beginning but the yellow flags changed our strategy. When you win at a track where you haven’t won before and you didn’t expect to win, it is good. It was a true Audi day.”

Added Luhr, “It was an exciting race. The key to our win was on the last restart. I pushed like crazy to get a gap and once it in the lead, the traffic got easier for us.”

For Luhr, the victory marked the 28th of his accomplished career and Werner won for the 22nd time. For Audi, it was the company’s second 1-2 finish of the season.

Second overall went to an identical Audi driven by Dindo Capello and Emanuele Pirro.

Third overall and the LMP2 winner was the Porsche RS Spyder driven by Romain Dumas and Timo Bernhar

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Fourth overall and second in LMP2 was the Acura ARX-01B of David Brabham and Scott Sharp.

The GT1 victory went to the Chevrolet Corvette driven by Johnny O’Connell and Jan Magnussen. A sister Corvette took second in class.

The pair 13 laps behind the winners due to a pit-lane incident between the two cars. They came together in the pits and continued bumping each other as they exited pit road. Officials brought them in for an extended penalty, showing their displeasure with the incident.

Dominik Farnbacher and Dirk Mueller drove their Ferrari 430GT to victory in the GT2 class.

In a scary pit-road incident, Simon Pagenaud pulled away from his pit stall with the fuel hose attached, triggering a fire in the pits. Fire teams and race teams put the fire out quickly but one unidentified crew member was airlifted to a Columbus hospital. His condition was unknown when the race concluded.

Pagenaud co-drives the Acura ARX-01B with team owner Gil de Ferran.

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