©2010 | THAWLEYWednesday was another glorious day for the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón. Series President and CEO Scott Atherton, and Corvette Racing’s Johnny O’Connell were part of the contingent on-hand to make official the announcement of the new Baltimore Grand Prix playing host to the Series on Labor Day Weekend 2011.

The venue, which features a 12-turn circuit partially running alongside the picturesque Inner Harbor, marks the American Le Mans Series’ return to the Eastern Seaboard. The last race in the Baltimore area was the 2002 Washington Grand Prix.

© 2010 | THAWLEYThe penultimate round of the 2010 American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón featured one of the biggest crowds for Series event at Mosport International Raceway. What it witnessed was three days of dominance by Muscle Milk Team CytoSport and Porsche as Klaus Graf and Romain Dumas kept the LMP championship in play heading to the final round at Road Atlanta.

Porsche had a banner weekend with wins overall, GT and of course GT Challenge. Flying Lizard’s duo of Patrick Long and Jörg Bergmeister got back on the winning track with a hard-fought GT victory. Shane Lewis, Lawson Aschenbach and Velox Racing all won for the first time in GTC, a class ORBIT/Paul Miller Racing dominated up until a vicious crash for Luke Hines that eventually brought an early end to the race.

The final round of the 2010 American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón is Petit Le Mans powered by MAZDA2 at Road Atlanta. The 1,000-mile/10-hour race is set for 11:15 a.m. ET on Saturday, October 2. SPEED will air the race starting at 11 a.m., with live radio coverage available on American Le Mans Radio presented by Porsche – a production of Radio Show Limited – as well as Sirius Channel 127 and XM Channel 242. Americanlemans.com will stream qualifying live starting at 3:15 p.m. ET on Friday, October 1. Visit the Series’ schedule page for ticket and accommodation information. Live Timing and Scoring, track schedule, entry list and much, much more will be available on Racehub at americanlemans.com.

Jonny Cocker went from fourth to first in the last four laps Sunday as Drayson Racing won its first race in the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón. Cocker passed Muscle Milk Team CytoSport’s Klaus Graf with two turns left at Road America and won the American Le Mans Series powered by eStar by 1.051 seconds in the Lola-Judd coupe that he shares with Paul Drayson.

Cocker was 6.295 seconds quicker than Graf, who drove with Timo Bernhard, on the final lap. The young Brit passed the Porsche RS Spyder when leading prototype balked while low on fuel during the final lap. Drayson Racing became the fifth entrant to win overall in one season, the most in American Le Mans Series history. Chassis manufacturer Lola won for the second straight race and Judd power won overall for the first time since 1999, the second race of the Series’ now 116 events.

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