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Muscle Milk Lola-Aston dominates at Mosport Park

The Muscle Milk Lola-Aston Martin of Lucas Luhr and Klaus Graf notched up its second American Le Mans Series race win of the year at Mosport Park

Luhr absolutely dominated the opening stages, stretching out a 54-second advantage over Chris Dyson's Dyson Lola-Mazda in the first half hour.

But Luhr then fell down the order by pitting later than the rest of the field under the first yellow - the team adamant that the call to open the pits had come too late for it to bring the car in at the same time as the other frontrunners, leaving it among the LMPC cars for a while.

That gave Dyson a spell in the lead, but the Lola-Aston was too quick to be held back today, and just before the halfway mark Luhr was able to retake the lead and then pull away from Dyson's Guy Smith. The second Dyson car of Steven Kane and Humaid Al Masaood was third, with the inexperienced Al Masaood having run close behind Dyson in the first stint.

BMW was finally defeated in the GT class for the first time in 2011, as Jan Magnussen and Oliver Gavin won for Corvette, just ahead of the Jaime Melo/Toni Vilander Risi Ferrari.

The BMWs had still led much of the race, with Joey Hand in front until a troubled first pitstop that ended with a penalty for pitlane contact with the Risi Ferrari.

Dirk Werner and Bill Auberlen then hit the front in the other BMW, until they were given a penalty for tapping the GTC-leading TRG Porsche into a spin, dropping them to third.

Porsche did challenge for the victory, and even led for a while, before Flying Lizard's Jorg Bergmeister spun in traffic while running first in class. The car was later delayed by a long pit visit for power steering repairs.

CORE Autosport's Gunnar Jeanette and Ricardo Gonzalez dominated the LMPC class, as GTC came down to another thrilling last-lap battle in which Spencer Pumpelly narrowly overcame TRG team-mate Dion von Moltke to win in the car he shared with Duncan Ende, having fought back brilliantly after the clash with Werner.

Results - 129 laps:

Pos  Cl   Drivers              Team/Car                    Time/Gap
 1.  P1   Luhr/Graf            Muscle Milk Lola-Aston  2h46m12.067s
 2.  P1   Dyson/Smith          Dyson Lola-Mazda           + 28.420s
 3.  P1   Al Masaood/Kane      Dyson Lola-Mazda            + 2 laps
 4.  PC   Jeannette/Gonzalez   CORE FLM                    + 4 laps
 5.  PC   Bennett/Montecalvo   CORE FLM                    + 6 laps
 6.  PC   Lux/Zugel            Genoa FLM                   + 6 laps
 7.  PC   Field/Vera           Intersport FLM              + 7 laps
 8.  GT   Gavin/Magnussen      Corvette                    + 8 laps
 9.  GT   Melo/Vilander        Risi Ferrari                + 8 laps
10.  GT   Auberlen/Werner      BMW                         + 8 laps
11.  GT   Mueller/Hand         BMW                         + 8 laps
12.  GT   Henzler/Sellers      Falken Porsche              + 9 laps
13.  PC   Nicolosi/Boon        Performance Tech FLM       + 10 laps
14.  GT   Beretta/Milner       Corvette                   + 10 laps
15.  GT   Murry/Lazzaro        Robertson Doran Ford       + 10 laps
16.  GT   Neiman/Holzer        Flying Lizard Porsche      + 11 laps
17.  UNC  James/Sanstrom       Panoz                      + 12 laps
18.  GT   Sharp/van Overbeek   Extreme Speed Ferrari      + 12 laps
19.  GT   Miller/Maassen       Miller Porsche             + 12 laps
20.  GT   Jones/Moran          RSR Jaguar                 + 13 laps
21.  GT   Bergmeister/Long     Flying Lizard Porsche      + 16 laps
22.  GTC  Ende/Pumpelly        TRG Porsche                + 17 laps
23.  GTC  von Moltke/Bunting   TRG Porsche                + 17 laps
24.  GT   Brown/Cosmo          Extreme Speed Ferrari      + 17 laps
25.  GTC  Pappas/Faulkner      Black Swan Porsche         + 18 laps
26.  GTC  Sweedler/Wong        Alex Job Porsche           + 18 laps
27.  GTC  Ham/Cumming          JDX Porsche                + 18 laps
28.  GT   Robertson/Robertson  Robertson Doran Ford       + 20 laps
29.  GT   Junqueira/Wilden     RSR Jaguar                 + 32 laps

Retirements:

     PC   Marcelli/Ducote      Intersport FLM               48 laps
     P1   Burgess/McMurry      Autocon Lola-AER             39 laps

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