Congrats to our local Northeast Acura ALMS team, Highcroft Racing. Highcroft not only took the pole but also an overall win in dramatic fashion. The race will be shown on Speed tomorrow, Sunday 7/13. Check out the new Lime Rock layout and see an American driver win an ALMS race for the first time in 3 years.
And thanks to Acura for sponsoring the NSXCA and providing us with a hospitality tent and catering for two days, NSX only corral parking, parade laps and a bird's eye view of the action to witness a great achievement by Acura to win and show up Audi and the Penske Porsches.
"David Brabham did it again. Another late-race pass meant victory in the American Le Mans Series, this time a historic first overall victory for Acura and Patrón Highcroft Racing. Brabham passed Penske Racing's Timo Bernhard with 90 seconds left Saturday to win the American Le Mans Northeast Grand Prix with Scott Sharp.
Brabham and Bernhard ran 1-2 for the last 50 minutes of the race, one that saw Brabham qualify on the overall pole position. The Patrón Highcroft Acura ran the final 1:26 on one tank of fuel and set of Michelin tires and coasted to the finish line in an attempt to save precious drops of fuel.
Brabham won overall for the first time since 2002 in Washington DC with Panoz, and Sharp won an overall race for the first time and the first American to win an overall series race since Butch Leitzinger in 2005. The pairing also won in class at Long Beach earlier this year. The victory came on Patrón Highcroft's home track with its headquarters 50 miles from the track in Danbury, Conn. "
And thanks to Acura for sponsoring the NSXCA and providing us with a hospitality tent and catering for two days, NSX only corral parking, parade laps and a bird's eye view of the action to witness a great achievement by Acura to win and show up Audi and the Penske Porsches.
"David Brabham did it again. Another late-race pass meant victory in the American Le Mans Series, this time a historic first overall victory for Acura and Patrón Highcroft Racing. Brabham passed Penske Racing's Timo Bernhard with 90 seconds left Saturday to win the American Le Mans Northeast Grand Prix with Scott Sharp.
Brabham and Bernhard ran 1-2 for the last 50 minutes of the race, one that saw Brabham qualify on the overall pole position. The Patrón Highcroft Acura ran the final 1:26 on one tank of fuel and set of Michelin tires and coasted to the finish line in an attempt to save precious drops of fuel.
Brabham won overall for the first time since 2002 in Washington DC with Panoz, and Sharp won an overall race for the first time and the first American to win an overall series race since Butch Leitzinger in 2005. The pairing also won in class at Long Beach earlier this year. The victory came on Patrón Highcroft's home track with its headquarters 50 miles from the track in Danbury, Conn. "
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