July 21, 2008
Penske Racing DHL Porsche Wins At Mid-Ohio, Extends Championship Lead
Penske Racing
LEXINGTON, Ohio
Last week, it was the David Brabham/Scott Sharp Acura that ran down the No. 7 Penske Porsche RS Spyder with 90 seconds left to score a victory at Lime Rock Park, but the roles were reversed Saturday in the Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course as Romain Dumas (France) held off Brabham to score the Porsche tandem’s fourth win in six American Le Mans Series races and extend their LMP2 driver points lead to 28.
Dumas, who felt constant pressure from Brabham for the last 30 minutes of the race, could pull away from the Acura when he had an open track, but was slowed traffic around the course, cutting his lead to less than a second several times before the end. The final margin of the LMP2 victory for the Porsche was six-tenths of a second. The two Audi R-10 TDI diesels finished first and second overall and won the LMP1 class.
“These races with the Acura have been very tight since the beginning of the year,” said Dumas, who, with teammate Timo Bernhard (Germany), is looking for the third consecutive LMP2 title for the Penske team. The pair also won the LMP2 championship with their Penske Porsche RS Spyders in 2007, including eight overall wins in 11 races and class podium finishes in every event.
The Penske Racing tandem of Sascha Maassen and Patrick Long finished fourth in class at Mid-Ohio.
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