The Last Turn Clubhouse has a great post-race review on Laguna Seca. It’s another response to great/unfortunate GT2 finish debate.
A Single Class Returns
This race was good in spite of itself. We’ve been pessimistic this season (other than at Sebring and Petit le Mans), frequently pointing out that a thin field exposes a race to the risk of a cruise-to-the checkered flag if just one or two entries is lost. The latter happened, but thankfully, the former did not.
Simon Pagenaud was running away early after a slow prototype got in between the de Ferran Acura ARX-02a and David Brabham’s Patrón Highcroft duplicate machine. Within just a few laps the margin was on the far side of thirty seconds with Brabham’s No. 9 in third. Of course, a full course caution would correct that, if only for a while. Other problems intervened, and the expected challenger finished four laps down. But then the unexpected happened. The race’s fourth – and last – full course caution fell at just about halfway, and when the green was given to the closed-up field, a prototype race at the front was on.
Looking for more? Have a look below.
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- ALMS: Flying Lizard and Corvette Racing’s GT2 play-by-play action from Laguna Seca 2009
- ALMS: Fliying Lizard Motorsports race report from a tough Mosport
- Pobst Goes Two-For-Two With SPEED GT Pole in Monterey
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