Elkhart Lake, August 21, 2005



The winning streak of the Audi R8 continues: One week after Allan McNish and Stéphane Ortelli won the 1000-kilometre race at Silverstone, Frank Biela and Emanuele Pirro secured the 60th victory for the most successful Le Mans Prototype at Road America (USA). With their third consecutive victory, Biela/Pirro extended their lead in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS). Their Team ADT Champion Racing team-mates JJ Lehto and Marco Werner were leading the race for a long time but eventually had to settle for third position following a stop-and-go penalty. Biela/Pirro took the lead in the last third of the race during the final sequence of pit-stops. They defended the lead despite a late safety car period reduced their margin from 20 seconds to a single second.

Results and points

1 Frank Biela/Emanuele Pirro

2 Chris Dyson/Andy Wallace

3 JJ Lehto/Marco Werner

4 Oliver Gavin/Olivier Beretta

5 Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell

Positions after 7 of 10 rounds:

1 Biela and Pirro

3 Wallace, 109; 4 Dyson

5 Lehto and Werner

Next race
Mosport (CDN), 4 September

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