2012 Grand Prix of Mosport

Canadian Tire Motorsport Park

The 2012 Mobil 1 presents the Grand Prix of Mosport was a multi-class sports car and GT motor race held at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Ontario, Canada on July 22, 2012. It was the fifth round of the 2012 American Le Mans Series season and the 30th Grand Prix of Mosport. The race was held a two hour and 45 minute time period, during which 117 laps of the 3.9 kilometre circuit were completed for a race distance of 463 kilometres.

The race was won by the Muscle Milk Pickett Racing team. German drivers Lucas Luhr and Klaus Graf driving a HPD ARX-03a Honda sports car took an eleven second victory over the Dyson Racing Team run Lola B12/60 sports car. It was the fourth consecutive victory for Luhr and Graf^[1] and also for both drivers it was their third victories in the Grand Prix of Mosport.

Third place, and first in the P2 division was Conquest Endurance team of Martin Plowman and David Heinemeier Hansson in their Morgan LMP2. It was their first victory in the class and the first time Level 5 Motorsports had not won in the 2012 season. Any chance Level 5's HPD ARX-03b had of victory ended when Christophe Bouchut acquired a stop-go penalty late in the race crossing the blend-line at the exit of pit lane.^[1]

Fifth was the second Dyson Racing Team Lola-Mazda ahead of the PC class winners, the RSR Racing pair of Bruno Junqueira and Tomy Drissi in their Oreca FLM09. It was the team's first victory in the Prototype Challenge class.

Tenth outright was the GT class winners, Extreme Speed Motorsports pair of Scott Sharp and Johannes van Overbeek in their Ferrari 458 Italia. It was the first win of the year for Ferrari and the fourth different manufacturer to win in GT in five races. It was also Extreme Speed's debut ALMS win. The Ferrari crossed the finish line in second position, just behind the Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche of Jörg Bergmeister and Patrick Long but the Porsche failed post-race scrutineering. Van Overbeek only moved into the race winning position on the last lap after Jan Magnussen's Chevrolet Corvette slide wide while attacking Bergmeister for the lead of the class.^[1]

Back in 19th were the GT Challenge class winners, TRG driver Emilio Di Guida and Spencer Pumpelly.

22 of the 26 entries were running at races conclusion.

Race

Race result

Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of their class winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC).^[2]

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Tire	Laps
					Engine
1	P1	6	Muscle Milk Pickett Racing	Lucas Luhr Klaus Graf	HPD ARX-03a	M	117
					Honda 3.4 L V8
2	P1	16	Dyson Racing Team	Chris Dyson Guy Smith	Lola B12/60	D	117
					Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4 (Isobutanol)
3	P2	37	Conquest Endurance	Martin Plowman David Heinemeier Hansson	Morgan LMP2	D	117
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
4	P2	055	Level 5 Motorsports	Scott Tucker Christophe Bouchut	HPD ARX-03b	D	117
					Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6
5	P1	20	Dyson Racing Team	Tony Burgess Eric Lux	Lola B11/66	D	115
					Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4 (Isobutanol)
6	PC	9	RSR Racing	Bruno Junqueira Tomy Drissi	Oreca FLM09	M	115
					Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
7	PC	05	CORE Autosport	Jon Bennett Colin Braun	Oreca FLM09	M	114
					Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
8	PC	06	CORE Autosport	Alex Popow Ryan Dalziel	Oreca FLM09	M	113
					Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
9	PC	25	Dempsey Racing	Henri Richard Duncan Ende	Oreca FLM09	M	112
					Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
10	GT	01	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Scott Sharp Johannes van Overbeek	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	112
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
11	GT	3	Corvette Racing	Jan Magnussen Antonio García	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	M	112
					Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
12	GT	56	BMW Team RLL	Joey Hand Dirk Müller	BMW M3 GT2	D	111
					BMW 4.0 L V8
13	GT	17	Team Falken Tire	Wolf Henzler Bryan Sellers	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	F	111
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
14	GT	48	Paul Miller Racing	Bryce Miller Sascha Maassen	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	D	110
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
15	GT	44	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Seth Neiman Andy Lally	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	M	110
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
16	GT	55	BMW Team RLL	Jörg Müller Bill Auberlen	BMW M3 GT2	D	110
					BMW 4.0 L V8
17	GT	23	Lotus / Alex Job Racing	Bill Sweedler Townsend Bell	Lotus Evora GTE	Y	110
					Toyota-Cosworth 3.5 L V6
18	GT	02	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ed Brown Guy Cosmo	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	109
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
19	GTC	66	TRG	Emilio Di Guida Spencer Pumpelly	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	104
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
20	GTC	22	Alex Job Racing	Cooper MacNeil Leh Keen	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	104
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
21 DNF	GTC	11	JDX Racing	Chris Cumming Michael Valiante	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	98
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
22 DNF	PC	8	Merchant Services Racing	Kyle Marcelli Antonio Downs	Oreca FLM09	M	97
					Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
23	GT	4	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	M	91
					Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
24 DNF	PC	52	PR1/Mathiasan Motorsports	Marino Franchitti Ken Dobson	Oreca FLM09	M	26
					Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
25 DNF	GTC	34	Green Hornet Racing	Peter LeSaffre Damien Faulkner	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	23
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
26 EXC	GT	45	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Jörg Bergmeister Patrick Long	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	M	112
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
OFFICIAL RACE RESULTS[3]

References

External links

• 2012 Grand Prix of Mosport Race Broadcast (American Le Mans Series YouTube Channel)