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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 The Braselton News Page 3B Road Atlanta - continued from page IB only realized when I crossed the line that I knew Romain was the closest car to me. If the yellow had not have come out, I don’t think I could have caught him. He had a very good pace. In the second half of the race, they became very, very fast and gave us a hard time.” Dumas, Timo Bernhard and Patrick Long won in LMP2 but it could have been a landmark win for a Penske and Porsche effort that had taken the previous eight overall wins. It very well could have been nine were it not for the last caution period. “The target was to do 70 per cent of the race to take the points for the championships,” Dumas said. “Unfortunately the safety car came out and took away our gap. We won Mosport with luck and today the luck was on the other side. I tried to keep pres sure on Dindo. It was a great race and a good race.” Dumas drove the last hour on a single set of tires and tank of fuel in a heroic effort that also clinched the P2 championship for the two Porsche factory driv ers. It is the first for Dumas and second for Bernhard. Dumas finished eight laps up on the No. 20 Dyson Racing Porsche of Chris Dyson and Guy Smith, who recorded their best finish of the season. Third in class and fourth overall was the fac tory Zytek No. 5 of Jan Charouz, Stefan Mucke and Danny Watts. Next was the No. 88 Creation Autosportif entry of Jamie Campbell-Walter, Harold Primat and Christophe Tinseau, which finished second in Pi. Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta wrapped up their third straight GT1 championship with a class victory in the No. 4 Corvette C6.R with Max Papis. The trio survived the carnage as both the No. 3 Corvette and Lista Doran Racing’s pole-sitting Maserati MCI2 went out of the race with accidents. “At the start of the race I was behind Jan (Magnussen) which was interesting because we had a pretty good race until he was punted by the 26 car,” Gavin said. “From then on we were managing ourselves against the Maserati. The traffic was sui cidal at some points today, peo ple making some bold moves. Fortunately everyone in the No. 4 car kept it on the road.” Gavin, Beretta and Papis repeat ed their 12-hour win at Sebring with a smooth and consistent run. Their scariest moment was a tap by the No. 2 Audi going through the esses, which sent the Audi off track and into the outside wall. “Today was a very tough day in terms of traffic,” said Papis, who was in the Corvette at the time. “We had our plan set up in the beginning and drive as hard as we could to fight with the No. 3 car. I was pretty upset when I saw the accident with Jan and my semi-accident with the Audi. There is no room to pass there and there’s no way you should stick your nose in there. I think the prototype driver was caught out by the speed of the Corvette. We have corner speeds that are similar to some of the prototypes. I was pretty disappointed to see the situation.” The early Corvette accident also eliminated Flowery Branch driver Johnny O’Connell’s streak of 58 consecutive starts come to It was another victory at the Petit Le Mans for Audi, as the diesel powered racer, piloted by Scottish driver Allan McNish and Italian Dindo Capello made a late pass in the 10 th running of the sports car classic. It was the duo’s second straight Petit victory. Photo by Lyn Sengupta. an end even before he was able to get into the car. Flying Lizard Motorsports led a Porsche parade in GT2 as Jorg Bergmeister, Johannes van Overbeek and Marc Lieb drove the No. 45 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR to a three-lap victory over the Tafel Racing entry of Dominik Farnbacher and Wolf Henzler. “Our car performed pretty well here thanks to the long straights,” said Bergmeister, who won at Petit Le Mans for the fifth year in a row. “Laguna is going to be a lot tougher than here because it suits the Ferrari very well. I don’t think it looks like we can win the driver championship.” The final round of the 2007 American Le Mans Series is the Monterey Sports Car Championships atMazda Raceway Laguna Seca in California. The four hour event will be held on Saturday, October 20. Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta grabbed the GT1 class victory, and their third straight championship for the Corvette team Saturday in the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. 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