Champion wins Lime Rock

Werner's R8 beat Leitzinger's Dyson Racing Lola-MG to the finish line by 1.429s after a late-race caution period set up a five-minute dash to the finish in the two-hour, 45-minute event. Lehto, who drove the first 45 minutes of the race, and Werner led 105 of the race's 165 laps, while Leitzinger and co-driver James Weaver led 59.

Both cars had a topsy-turvy race, with each falling a lap off the lead at separate points during the event. But the key was the penultimate caution of five such periods in the race when Werner was able to make the Audi's final stop under yellows, shortly after Leitzinger had been forced to pit under green. Leitzinger closed within striking distance again but Werner won the final shootout.

"That was a lot of pressure on me," said Werner. "I knew he [Leitzinger] was close for the last restart and he had been running fast. I lost a race to that team last year like that and didn't want it to happen again."

"We got out of sequence which was in our favour for a while, but that last yellow put us a lap down," said Leitzinger. "From then we had to crawl back. We made little dents, but it wasn't quick enough. The Audi got caught in horrible traffic and from then I could judge his progress. But with that last yellow lasting a long time, we just didn't have enough time to get it done."

Le Mans winners Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta won the GTS class in the Corvette Racing Chevrolet Corvette C5-R, beating Pratt & Miller team-mates Ron Fellows and Johnny O'Connell by 3.627s. It was the first ALMS win this season for the pairing, Fellows and O'Connell having won the first two races.

Beretta led much of the first portion of the race, but the team lost nearly a lap in the pits to the other C5R, which stayed on track. Gavin was able to make up some of the distance during his stint, and then the race's next-to-last caution brought them back together. Beretta got back in the winning car and passed Fellows for the win with an inside move into turn one with just over 25 minutes remaining.

"The safety car didn't work in our favour, we ended up 55s down, we seemed to keep losing time to the safety car," said Gavin. "It was a great win for us. We've been given a glimmer of hope for the championship."

Terry Borcheller and Johnny Mowlem finished third in the ACEMCO Saleen S7R.

Ian James and James Gue had a trouble-free race and won the LMP2 class by eight laps in the Miracle Motorsports Lola B2K/40-Nissan while Ferrari scored its first-ever GT class victory in the ALMS with Anthony Lazzaro and Ralf Kelleners winning by one lap in the Risi Competizione Ferrari 360 Modena. Their win broke a 21-race GT class-winning streak in the ALMS for Porsche that dated back to the first event of the 2002 season.