JJ Lehto and Johnny Herbert scored their second American Le Mans Series win of the season Sunday by driving the ADT Champion Racing Audi R8 to a one-lap win in the Road America 500 presented by the Chicago Tribune.
Their car led 51 of the 79 laps run in the two-hour, 45-minute timed sports car race on the 4.048-mile track. Herbert took the lead on lap 29 by passing the polesitting Infineon Team Joest Audi R8 of Marco Werner and the car never lost the lead again.
Werner and co-driver Frank Biela fell out of contention due to a problem with the starter box on their car, but still managed to finish third in the LMP 900 class to allow the two to maintain their lead in the series driver standings. Butch Leitzinger, who led the first six laps in the Dyson Racing Lola EX257-MG, crashed after tangling with the Panoz LMP01 driven by David Saelens.
"It [the win] is something we really needed," said Lehto. "Joest had a big problem and lost a lot of laps, and still finished third. I was expecting them to finish fifth because there were a lot of prototypes ahead of them. But in the end they still finished third.
"But we were able to catch the points a little, and we're closer now. The fight is on. It will be a tough fight the next three races, these last three races we have to win all the time basically. We learned a lot about the car at Mosport. The car is getting better and better and the team is getting better and better. If you want to win championships, you need to everything 110 percent."
![JJ Lehto [left] and Johnny Herbert celebrate their win in the Road America 500 [Pic credit: ALMS/Rick Dole]](http://pix.crash.net/thumbs/63739.jpg )
