The first six cars were from the lighter, more nimble LMP2 class, which took advantage of their cornering abilities around the 15-turn, 3.048-mile, Miller circuit. Luhr and Marco Werner were placed seventh overall, but took LMP1 honours for the third consecutive race. After entering the round with a two-race overall winning streak, the #2 Audi lost time with a spin after contact with Lou Gigliotti's LG Motorsports Corvette C6, the incident also resulting in a slow puncture and late-race penalty.
"I think we showed a good race, and it was fun fighting for the overall lead," Luhr said, "When we came up to the top of the chicane, the #1 car made the pass for me in front of the slower #28 car, so I followed him. Then the driver had only one place to look, cut down into me and cut all the air. I spun and had to come in and get new tyres. Then we got a stop-and-go for that."
Intersport Racing's Lola B06/10-AER finished second in class, its best finish of the season. Jon Field led four laps early on before a couple of spins ruined the showing, and also briefly lost power steering, but still managed to come home ahead of Audi veterans Pirro and Frank Biela, who were third in class.
Corvette Racing's Johnny O'Connell and Jan Magnussen won their third GT1 race in four starts this season, the #3 Corvette C6.R finishing more than a minute up on Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta in the sister car. Beretta started from the pole, but O'Connell and Magnussen won the race in pit-lane when the #4 car experienced trouble with its refuelling system. In each of the previous three rounds, the pole-sitting car ended up as the race winner.
"The #4 car had some bad luck," said O'Connell, who drove part of his stint without air conditioning in the #3 Corvette, "But there were at least a half-dozen races last year that I thought we had the better car and caught a lot of bad luck. Racing is funny. It's very cyclical. We catch some good luck even on days we might not be the strongest but end up in front."
