Looking forward to some good action today from Long Beach! Since GT1 is all Corvette again… snore! GT2 should be hot with the Lizards, Risi and even the local boys (to me), Panoz, were showing some speed in the warm-up!
The Grand Prix of Long Beach, Round 3 of the 2007 American Le Mans Series, is scheduled for 4:05 p.m. PT on Saturday, April 14. SPEED will provide same-day broadcast coverage from 8 to 10:30 p.m. ET. MotorsTV in Europe, SPEED Latin America and 7TV in Russia will carry the race live. American Le Mans Radio and IMSA’s Live Timing & Scoring will be available at americanlemans.com.
The stage is set for the Grand Prix of Long Beach and the American Le Mans Series’ first race at the historic southern California venue. Marco Werner turned in the best lap in Saturday morning’s 20-minute warmup session for Audi and its diesel-powered R10 TDI. The German’s time of 1:14.346 came on his final lap of the session and beat out Penske Motorsports’ lead Porsche RS Spyder by 0.224 seconds.
The session saw a number of changes at the top of the timing sheet. Acura, Porsche and Audi all were quickest at one point with the P2 Acuras and Porsches sitting 1-2 overall before Werner’s lap in Audi’s lead P1.
Romain Dumas was the quickest driver for Penske, less than 0.2 seconds ahead of Butch Leitzinger in Dyson Racing’s Porsche RS Spyder, the best showing for a Dyson car this weekend. Third in P2 and fourth overall was this afternoon’s pole-sitting Andretti Green Racing Acura ARX of Bryan Herta at 1:14.906. Teammate Dario Franchitti qualified first overall Friday.
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