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2008 Detroit Sports Car Challenge

Car race

The Raceway on Belle Isle in 2008

The Detroit Sports Car Challenge presented by Bosch was the ninth round of the 2008 American Le Mans Series season. It took place at the Detroit Belle Isle street circuit, Michigan on August 30, 2008.

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Andretti Green Racing scored their first overall victory, as well as the second overall victory for the Acura program. Audi failed to win the LMP1 category for the first time all season after one car crashed and the other was disqualified for a rule infraction. Intersport Racing, the lone remaining LMP1 competitor, earned the class win. Flying Lizard managed to finish the race with all three of their Porsches in the top four in GT2 to help extend their lead over the Tafel Racing Ferraris, while Corvette Racing easily led the GT1 category.

This race marked the first time since the debut of the Porsche RS Spyder at the 2005 Monterey Sports Car Championships that Porsche failed to finish in a podium position in the LMP2 class; the Acuras of Highcroft Racing and de Ferran Motorsport completed the LMP2 and overall podium behind the Andretti Green Acura, and ahead of the #7 Penske Racing Porsche in fourth.

Race results

Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).

Pos	Class	No	Team
DNF	22	23	24
DNF	25
DNF	26
DNF	27
DNF	DSQ†
LMP2	26	USA Andretti Green Racing	FRA Franck Montagny
GBR James Rossiter	Acura ARX-01B		104
Acura AL7R 3.4 L V8
LMP2	9	USA Patrón Highcroft Racing	USA Scott Sharp
AUS David Brabham	Acura ARX-01B		104
Acura AL7R 3.4 L V8
LMP2	66	USA de Ferran Motorsports	BRA Gil de Ferran
FRA Simon Pagenaud	Acura ARX-01B		104
Acura AL7R 3.4 L V8
LMP2	7	USA Penske Racing	DEU Timo Bernhard
FRA Romain Dumas	Porsche RS Spyder Evo		104
Porsche MR6 3.4 L V8
LMP2	6	USA Penske Racing	USA Patrick Long
AUS Ryan Briscoe	Porsche RS Spyder Evo		104
Porsche MR6 3.4 L V8
LMP2	16	USA Dyson Racing	USA Chris Dyson
GBR Guy Smith	Porsche RS Spyder Evo		103
Porsche MR6 3.4 L V8
LMP2	8	USA B-K Motorsports	USA Gerardo Bonilla
GBR Ben Devlin	Lola B07/46		103
Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4
(E85 ethanol)
LMP2	20	USA Dyson Racing	USA Butch Leitzinger
GBR Marino Franchitti	Porsche RS Spyder Evo		102
Porsche MR6 3.4 L V8
GT1	4	USA Corvette Racing	GBR Oliver Gavin
MON Olivier Beretta	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R		100
Chevrolet LS7-R 7.0 L V8
(E85 ethanol)
GT1	3	USA Corvette Racing	USA Johnny O'Connell
DEN Jan Magnussen	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R		100
Chevrolet LS7-R 7.0 L V8
(E85 ethanol)
GT2	45	USA Flying Lizard Motorsports	DEU Jörg Bergmeister
DEU Wolf Henzler	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		98
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
GT2	46	USA Flying Lizard Motorsports	USA Johannes van Overbeek
FRA Patrick Pilet	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		98
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
GT2	62	USA Risi Competizione	BRA Jaime Melo
FIN Mika Salo	Ferrari F430GT		98
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
GT2	44	USA Flying Lizard Motorsports 44	USA Lonnie Pechnik
AUT Martin Ragginger	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		98
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
GT2	61	USA Risi Competizione	USA Harrison Brix
GBR Rob Bell	Ferrari F430GT		98
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
GT2	73	USA Tafel Racing	USA Jim Tafel
USA Alex Figge	Ferrari F430GT		95
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
GT2	11	USA Primetime Race Group	USA Joel Feinberg
GBR Chris Hall	Dodge Viper Competition Coupe		94
Dodge 8.3 L V10
GT1	008	USA Bell Motorsports	USA Terry Borcheller
USA Chapman Ducote	Aston Martin DBR9		93
Aston Martin 6.0 L V12
GT2	40	USA Robertson Racing	USA David Robertson
USA Andrea Robertson
USA David Murry	Ford GT-R Mk.VII		89
Ford 5.0 L V8
GT2	71	USA Tafel Racing	DEU Dominik Farnbacher
DEU Dirk Müller	Ferrari F430GT		88
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
GT2	21	USA Panoz Team PTG	USA Tom Milner, Jr.
USA Tom Sutherland	Panoz Esperante GT-LM		87
Ford (Élan) 5.0 L V8
LMP1	37	USA Intersport Racing	USA Jon Field
USA Clint Field
USA Richard Berry	Lola B06/10		83
AER P32C 4.0 L Turbo V8
(E85 ethanol)
LMP2	15	MEX Lowe's Fernández Racing	MEX Adrian Fernández
MEX Luis Díaz	Acura ARX-01B		83
Acura AL7R 3.4 L V8
GT2	54	USA Black Swan Racing	USA Tim Pappas
USA Anthony Lazzaro	Ford GT-R Mk.VII		49
Ford 5.0 L V8
GT2	18	DEU VICI Racing	NED Nicky Pastorelli
NED Francesco Pastorelli
DEU Marc Basseng	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		38
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
LMP1	2	USA Audi Sport North America	DEU Marco Werner
DEU Lucas Luhr	Audi R10 TDI		21
Audi TDI 5.5 L Turbo V12
(Diesel)
GT2	007	GBR Drayson-Barwell	GBR Paul Drayson
GBR Jonny Cocker	Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT2		1
Aston Martin 4.5 L V8
(E85 ethanol)
LMP1	1	USA Audi Sport North America	ITA Emanuele Pirro
SUI Marcel Fässler	Audi R10 TDI		104
Audi TDI 5.5 L Turbo V12
(Diesel)

† - The #1 Audi Sport North America entry was disqualified after the car failed post-race technical inspection. The car was under the minimum weight requirement for its class.

Statistics

Pole Position - #9 Patrón Highcroft Racing - 1:13.483
Fastest Lap - #9 Patrón Highcroft Racing - 1:15.540

References

(2008-08-30). "Detroit Domination: Acura, AGR win on Belle Isle". [[American Le Mans Series]]}} {{Dead link.
(2008-08-30). "ALMS Final Race Report". [[International Motor Sports Association]].
(2008-08-29). "ALMS Qualifying Report". [[International Motor Sports Association]].

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