Sunday, 31st August 2008

Andretti Green Racing capitalised on the LMP2 class' superiority at Detroit's Belle Isle Raceway to claim its first American Le Mans Series win in more than a year.

Class leading team-mates Johnny O'Connell and Jan Magnussen eventually came home second, ahead of the Bell Motorsports' Aston Martin DBR9 of Terry Borcheller and Chapman Ducote, which finished third in the sparsely populated class for the third straight race.

Even though van Overbeek and Patrick Pilet saw their chance of GT2 success ended by the hit from Bernhard, the Flying Lizard Motorsports team still enjoyed its third 1-2 finish of the season as class leaders Jörg Bergmeister and Wolf Henzler came through to take the win.

Mosport winners Mika Salo and Jaime Melo finished third for Risi Competizione, denying Flying Lizard a clean sweep of the class podium, but there was trouble for the team's other car, as there was for the similar Tafel Racing Ferrari, which ran into early starter motor problems and could only muster 20th overall and eighth in class by the flag.

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