Runner-up in the GT class was other Alex Job Racing car, with German drivers JORG BERGMEISTER and TIMO BERNHARD on board, who turned the fastest GT race in #23 McKenna/web2mail Porsche 911 GT3 RSR. The second place finish was enough to give Bernhard the GT class championship.
The only female racing this weekend was LIZ HALLIDAY. This was her second race in ALMS. Her first was with The Racer's Group in the Grand American Series, and this weekend she is racing her second race with PK Sport in the #60 Yokohama Porsche 911 GT3 RSR. Her co-driver was PIERS MASARATI. The car stopping on course with electrical problems brought out the first caution at lap 138. They retired and finished 21st, twelfth in class.
Halliday learned to drive from her father, DON, who was a club racer. She started out with a Datsun 510 in club racing and has also raced a
BMW. She's always raced closed cars and has been driving sportscars since last year.
Halliday has lived in England the past five years, pursuing her love of professional horse competition events including dressage. She finds that England, which in her opinion has the best equine competition in the world, is where she can pursue all kinds of horsepower events - those with engines and those with four legs. Halliday thinks there are similarities between the two kinds of racing - she can better feel what a car is doing based on her riding and feeling what the horse is doing.
Her goal is to make the 2008 US Olympic equine team. Halliday also wants to continue ALMS racing and/or LMES in Europe.
Next season, ALMS will run ten events on road courses with no new venues, starting with the 53rd Twelve Hours of Sebring in March and ending the season at Laguna Seca with another four-hour race in October. There is a six-week hiatus in May and June to allow teams to participate in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
