After making a valiant effort for 6 races in this years ALMS, Team Rahal Letterman’s BMW M3 finally took the #1 and #2 spot in the GT2 class held in Road America .

Both M3s qualified 1st and 2nd with the #90 car taking the pole position after all the misfortunes it had during the series. Joey Hand and Bill Auberlain never let off their top spot against the new Corvettes and that all conquering Flying Lizard Porsches. The other #92 BMW M3 driven by Muller and Milner also maintained it’s compusure finishing right behind their team mates. They’ve been very consistent and certainly a force in the whole series.

Credit goes to the whole crew for getting both cars dialed in the crowded track.

Cool shot right here below. The #90 car on top of the #92 just like in the podium.

Once the green flags drops, they took advantage of their top spots to dominate the early half of the race. They did got a lucky bump in the standings when the first all caution yellow flag went up as the overall leader from the protoptypes went in the pits with the BMW teams sandwiched between it and another prototype racecar. The BMW M3s received a 9/10 lap lead against the other GT2 cars due to this rule. I’m not fluent with the ALMS regualtions and such but hey sounds good to me, LOL.





Was their first ever win a pure luck? There is a hint of it but you can’t deny that both BMW M3s were the fastest in the class all through out the weekend. Congrats to the whole team!

I won’t be surprised if the officials dumps another restrictors to both cars. But one car they should do this to is the Flaying Lizard Prosche. Did any of you saw that pass they made on the new corvettes in the straight away? They pulled and passed them as if the V8s were only firing 1/2 the cylinders?!

Anyway, next race is in Mosport in 2 weeks!!

Here is the Overall official results.

1 9 P1 David Brabham Acura ARX-02a 71
2 66 P1 Gil de Ferran Acura ARX-02a 71
3 15 P2 Adrian Fernandez Acura ARX-01B 71
4 20 P2 Butch Leitzinger Lola B09 86 Mazda 71
5 6 P2 Klaus Graf Porsche RS Spyder 71
6 37 P1 Jon Field Lola B06/10 AER 71
7 48 P1 Johnny Mowlem Ginetta-Zytek 09HS 70
8 12 P1 Bryan Willman Lola B06/10 AER 70
9 90 GT2 Joey Hand BMW E92 M3 69
10 92 GT2 Dirk Mueller BMW E92 M3 68
11 3 GT2 Johnny O’Connell Corvette C6.R 68
12 45 GT2 Patrick Long Porsche 911 GT3 RSR 68
13 62 GT2 Pierre Kaffer Ferrari F430 GT 68
14 4 GT2 Oliver Gavin Corvette C6.R 67
15 40 GT2 David Robertson Doran Ford GT MK 7 65
16 44 GT2 Darren Law Porsche 911 GT3 RSR 65
17 57 C Martin Snow Porsche 911 GT3 Cup 62
18 11 GT2 Joel Feinberg Dodge Viper Comp Coupe 62
19 02 C Nick Parker Porsche 911 GT3 Cup 62
20 36 C Bob Faieta Porsche 911 GT3 Cup 61
21 47 C Guy Cosmo Porsche 911 GT3 Cup 60
22 08 C Bill Sweedler Porsche 911 GT3 Cup 60
23 P 87 GT2 Wolf Henzler Porsche 911 GT3 RSR 56
24 21 GT2 Dominik Farnbacher Panoz Esperante GTLM
25 P 16 P2 Chris Dyson Lola B09 86 Mazda 50

photo source: speedtv.com