2013 American Le Mans Monterey

The 2013 American Le Mans Series Monterey was an auto racing event held at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, near Monterey, California on May 9–11, 2013. The four-hour race was the third round of the 2013 American Le Mans Series season. Germans Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr defended their 2012 Monterey win with overall victory for Muscle Milk Pickett Racing, while Luhr became the winningest driver in American Le Mans Series history.^[1] Scott Tucker and Marino Franchitti took P2 honors for Level 5 Motorsports, while Mike Gausch and Luis Díaz won the PC category. Corvette Racing's Jan Magnussen and Antonio García led GT and Henrique Cisneros, Jr. and Nick Tandy won in GTC.

Track map of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca

Background

Preview

Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, where the race was held.

American Le Mans Series (ALMS) president Scott Atherton confirmed the race was part of the schedule for the 2013 American Le Mans Series schedule in October 2012.^[2] It was the fifteenth consecutive year the event was held as part of the American Le Mans Series. The 2013 American Le Mans Monterey was the third of ten scheduled sports car races of 2013 American Le Mans Series. The event was held at the eleven-turn 2.238 mi (3.602 km) Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey County, California on May 11, 2013.^[3] The event was shortened from 6 hours to 4 hours.^[3]

Before the race, Nick Heidfeld and Neel Jani led the P1 Drivers' Championship with 40 points, ahead of Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr on countback with 40 points.^[4] With 92 points, Ryan Briscoe and Scott Tucker led the P2 Drivers' Championship over Marino Franchitti by 3 points.^[4] In PC, Mike Guasch led the Drivers' Championship with 40 points, ahead of Colin Braun.^[4] Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner led the GT Drivers' Championship with 34 points, ahead of Bill Auberlen and Maxime Martin on countback.^[4] With 37 points, Henrique Cisneros and Sean Edwards led the GTC Drivers' Championship, ahead of Nelson Canache Jr. and Spencer Pumpelly.^[4]

Qualifying

Qualifying result

Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.^[5]

Pos	Class	Team	Driver	Lap Time	Grid
1	P1	#12 Rebellion Racing	Neel Jani	1:13.429	1
2	P1	#16 Dyson Racing Team	Guy Smith	1:13.806	2
3	P1	#6 Muscle Milk Pickett Racing	Klaus Graf	1:13.954	3
4	P2	#551 Level 5 Motorsports	Marino Franchitti	1:16.642	4
5	P2	#552 Level 5 Motorsports	Ryan Briscoe	1:17.002	5
6	PC	#05 CORE Autosport	Colin Braun	1:18.382	6
7	P2	#02 Extreme Speed Motorsports	Johannes van Overbeek	1:18.591	7
8	PC	#81 DragonSpeed Mishumotors	Renger van der Zande	1:18.685	8
9	P2	#01 Extreme Speed Motorsports	Guy Cosmo	1:18.880	9
10	PC	#9 RSR Racing	Bruno Junqueira	1:19.076	10
11	PC	#51 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports	Luis Díaz	1:19.302	11
12	PC	#8 BAR1 Motorsports	Kyle Marcelli	1:19.436	12
13	PC	#18 Performance Tech Motorsports	Tristan Nunez	1:19.757	13
14	PC	#7 BAR1 Motorsports	Rusty Mitchell	1:19.762	14
15	P1	#0 DeltaWing Racing Cars	Katherine Legge	1:22.078	341
16	GT	#62 Risi Competizione	Matteo Malucelli	1:22.732	15
17	GT	#17 Team Falken Tire	Bryan Sellers	1:22.908	16
18	GT	#4 Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin	1:22.924	17
19	GT	#55 BMW Team RLL	Maxime Martin	1:22.990	18
20	GT	#3 Corvette Racing	Antonio García	1:23.042	19
21	GT	#23 Team West/AJR/Boardwalk Ferrari	Townsend Bell	1:23.217	20
22	GT	#56 BMW Team RLL	Dirk Müller	1:23.406	21
23	GT	#91 SRT Motorsports	Marc Goossens	1:23.615	22
24	GT	#48 Paul Miller Racing	Bryce Miller	1:23.743	23
25	GT	#93 SRT Motorsports	Kuno Wittmer	1:24.031	24
26	GTC	#22 Alex Job Racing	Jeroen Bleekemolen	1:27.296	25
27	GTC	#30 NGT Motorsports	Nick Tandy	1:27.407	26
28	GTC	#27 Dempsey Del Piero Racing	Andy Lally	1:27.495	27
29	GTC	#45 Flying Lizard Motorsports	Spencer Pumpelly	1:27.628	28
30	GTC	#11 JDX Racing	Jan Heylen	1:28.272	29
31	GTC	#44 Flying Lizard Motorsports	Dion von Moltke	1:28.424	30
32	GTC	#10 Dempsey Del Piero Racing	Andrew Davis	1:28.741	31
33	GTC	#66 TRG	Ben Keating	1:29.545	351
34	GTC	#99 Competition Motorsports	Cort Wagner	1:29.604	32
35	GTC	#68 TRG	Andrew Novich	1:30.151	33
–	GT	#06 CORE Autosport	Patrick Long	No Time2	36

• ^1 - The #0 DeltaWing and #66 Porsche were moved to the back of the grid for not using their elected driver during qualifying.^[6]
• ^2 - The #06 Porsche had its qualifying times disallowed after the car failed post-qualifying technical inspection.^[6]

Race

Race result

Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of their class winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC).^[7][8]

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Tire	Laps
					Engine
1	P1	6	Muscle Milk Pickett Racing	Klaus Graf Lucas Luhr	HPD ARX-03a	M	150
					Honda 3.4 L V8
2	P1	12	Rebellion Racing	Nick Heidfeld Neel Jani	Lola B12/60	M	150
					Toyota RV8KLM 3.4 L V8
3	P2	551	Level 5 Motorsports	Scott Tucker Marino Franchitti	HPD ARX-03b	M	146
					Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6
4	P2	552	Level 5 Motorsports	Scott Tucker Ryan Briscoe	HPD ARX-03b	M	146
					Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6
5	PC	52	PR1/Mathiesen Motorsports	Luis Díaz Mike Guasch	Oreca FLM09	C	145
					Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
6	PC	05	CORE Autosport	Jon Bennett Colin Braun	Oreca FLM09	C	145
					Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
7	PC	18	Performance Tech Motorsports	Tristan Nunez Charlie Shears	Oreca FLM09	C	144
					Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
8	PC	8	BAR1 Motorsports	Kyle Marcelli Chris Cumming	Oreca FLM09	C	144
					Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
9	GT	3	Corvette Racing	Jan Magnussen Antonio García	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	M	142
					Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
10	GT	17	Team Falken Tire	Bryan Sellers Wolf Henzler	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	F	1423
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
11	GT	56	BMW Team RLL	John Edwards Dirk Müller	BMW Z4 GTE	M	142
					BMW 4.4 L V8
12	GT	23	Team West/AJR/Boardwalk Ferrari	Townsend Bell Bill Sweedler	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Y	142
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
13	GT	91	SRT Motorsports	Marc Goossens Dominik Farnbacher	SRT Viper GTS-R	M	142
					SRT 8.0 L V10
14	PC	81	DragonSpeed Mishumotors	Mirco Schultis Renger van der Zande	Oreca FLM09	C	142
					Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
15	GT	48	Paul Miller Racing	Bryce Miller Marco Holzer	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	M	142
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
16	P2	01	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Scott Sharp Guy Cosmo	HPD ARX-03b	M	142
					Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6
17	PC	7	BAR1 Motorsports	Tomy Drissi Rusty Mitchell	Oreca FLM09	C	141
					Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
18	GT	06	CORE Autosport	Patrick Long Tom Kimber-Smith	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	M	140
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
19	GT	62	Risi Competizione	Olivier Beretta Matteo Malucelli	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	139
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
20	GTC	30	NGT Motorsport	Henrique Cisneros Nick Tandy	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	137
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
21	GTC	27	Dempsey Del Piero Racing	Patrick Dempsey Andy Lally	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	137
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
22	GTC	22	Alex Job Racing	Cooper MacNeil Jeroen Bleekemolen	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	137
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
23	GTC	66	TRG	Ben Keating Damien Faulkner	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	137
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
24	GTC	11	JDX Racing	Mike Hedlund Jan Heylen	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	137
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
25	GTC	10	Dempsey Del Piero Racing	Michael Avenatti Andrew Davis	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	137
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
26	GT	4	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	M	136
					Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
27	GTC	68	TRG	Andrew Novich Craig Stanton	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	135
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
28	GTC	45	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Spencer Pumpelly Seth Neiman Nelson Canache, Jr.	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	134
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
29	PC	9	RSR Racing	Bruno Junqueira Duncan Ende	Oreca FLM09	C	132
					Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
30	GTC	44	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Pierre Ehret Dion von Moltke	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	129
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
31	GTC	99	Competition Motorsports	Cort Wagner Ted Ballou	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	122
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
32 DNF	P1	0	DeltaWing Racing Cars	Katherine Legge Andy Meyrick	DeltaWing LM12	B	104
					Élan 1.9 L Turbo I4
33 DNF	GT	55	BMW Team RLL	Bill Auberlen Maxime Martin	BMW Z4 GTE	M	85
					BMW 4.4 L V8
34 DNF	P2	02	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ed Brown Johannes van Overbeek	HPD ARX-03b	M	64
					Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6
35 DNF	P1	16	Dyson Racing Team	Chris Dyson Guy Smith	Lola B12/60	M	21
					Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4 (Butanol)
36 DNF	GT	93	SRT Motorsports	Kuno Wittmer Jonathan Bomarito	SRT Viper GTS-R	M	12
					SRT 8.0 L V10

• ^3 - The #17 Porsche failed post-race technical inspection, forfeiting all championship points but still maintaining its finishing position in the race.^[7]