2012 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge

The 2012 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge was a multi-class sports car and GT motor race held at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Ohio, United States on August 4, 2012. It was the sixth round of the 2012 American Le Mans Series season and the 41st race in the combined history of sportscar races associated with the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge. The race was held over a two hour and 45 minute time period, during which 123 laps of the 3.6 kilometre circuit were completed for a race distance of 447 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 won by over a lap from their season long P1 class rivals, the Dyson Racing Team run Lola B12/60 sports car. It was the fifth consecutive victory for Luhr and Graf.^[1] It was Luhr third outright win at Mid-Ohio and Graf's second. The second Dyson Racing Team Lola-Mazda was in third place near the end of the race when the gearbox failed.^[2]

Level 5 Motorsports took their fifth win of the season taking a seven second win in their HPD ARX-03b over their season long rivals, the Conquest Endurance team Morgan LMP2. It was Scott Tucker's fifth win of the season and Christophe Bouchut's fourth win.^[1]

Fifth was the second Level 5 Motorsports HPD-Honda ahead of the Prototype Challenge class winners, the PR1/Mathiasan Motorsports pair of Rudy Junco and Marino Franchitti in their Oreca FLM09. It was the team's third victory in the Prototype Challenge class adding to wins at Road America and Road Atlanta in 2011.

Eleventh outright was the GT class winners, Corvette Racing pair of Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner in their Chevrolet Corvette. Gavin had to endure twenty minutes of pressure from Jörg Bergmeister in the Flying Lizard Motorsports. The margin of victory was just 0.2 seconds.^[1]

The GT Challenge class winners, Tim Pappas and Jeroen Bleekemolen, claimed JDX Racing's first win of the year. It was Bleekemolen's second win after the year after winning in Monterey in May with TRG. TRG was second in class with new driver Al Carter and Spencer Pumpelly.

29 of the 32 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).^[3]

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Tire	Laps
					Engine
1	P1	6	Muscle Milk Pickett Racing	Lucas Luhr Klaus Graf	HPD ARX-03a	M	123
					Honda 3.4 L V8
2	P1	16	Dyson Racing Team	Chris Dyson Guy Smith	Lola B12/60	D	122
					Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4 (Isobutanol)
3	P2	055	Level 5 Motorsports	Scott Tucker Christophe Bouchut	HPD ARX-03b	D	121
					Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6
4	P2	37	Conquest Endurance	Martin Plowman David Heinemeier Hansson	Morgan LMP2	D	121
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
5	P2	95	Level 5 Motorsports	Scott Tucker Ricardo González	HPD ARX-03b	D	120
					Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6
6	PC	52	PR1/Mathiasan Motorsports	Rudy Junco, Jr. Marino Franchitti	Oreca FLM09	M	118
					Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
7	PC	06	CORE Autosport	Alex Popow Ryan Dalziel	Oreca FLM09	M	118
					Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
8	PC	8	Merchant Services Racing	Kyle Marcelli Antonio Downs	Oreca FLM09	M	116
					Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
9	P2	27	Dempsey Racing	Patrick Dempsey Joe Foster Dane Cameron	Lola B12/87	M	116
					Judd-BMW HK 3.6 L V8
10	PC	9	RSR Racing	Bruno Junqueira Tomy Drissi	Oreca FLM09	M	115
					Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
11	GT	4	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	M	115
					Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
12	GT	45	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Jörg Bergmeister Patrick Long	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	M	115
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
13 DNF	P1	20	Dyson Racing Team	Michael Marsal Eric Lux	Lola B11/66	D	114
					Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4 (Isobutanol)
14	GT	55	BMW Team RLL	Jörg Müller Bill Auberlen	BMW M3 GT2	D	114
					BMW 4.0 L V8
15	PC	25	Dempsey Racing	Henri Richard Duncan Ende	Oreca FLM09	M	114
					Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
16	GT	17	Team Falken Tire	Wolf Henzler Bryan Sellers	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	F	114
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
17	GT	56	BMW Team RLL	Joey Hand Dirk Müller	BMW M3 GT2	D	114
					BMW 4.0 L V8
18	GT	01	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Scott Sharp Johannes van Overbeek	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	113
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
19	GT	44	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Seth Neiman Marco Holzer	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	M	113
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
20	GT	02	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ed Brown Guy Cosmo	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	112
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
21	PC	05	CORE Autosport	Jon Bennett Colin Braun	Oreca FLM09	M	112
					Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
22	GT	48	Paul Miller Racing	Bryce Miller Sascha Maassen	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	D	112
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
23	GT	91	SRT Motorsports	Kuno Wittmer Dominik Farnbacher	SRT Viper GTS-R	M	111
					Dodge 8.0 L V10
24 DNF	GT	23	Lotus / Alex Job Racing	Bill Sweedler Townsend Bell	Lotus Evora GTE	Y	109
					Toyota-Cosworth 3.5 L V6
25	GT	93	SRT Motorsports	Marc Goossens Tommy Kendall	SRT Viper GTS-R	M	109
					Dodge 8.0 L V10
26	GTC	11	JDX Racing	Tim Pappas Jeroen Bleekemolen	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	108
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
27	GTC	66	TRG	Al Carter Spencer Pumpelly	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	107
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
28	GTC	33	Green Hornet Racing	Bob Faieta Patrick Huisman	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	107
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
29	GTC	22	Alex Job Racing	Cooper MacNeil Leh Keen	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	107
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
30	GTC	34	Green Hornet Racing	Peter LeSaffre Damien Faulkner	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	106
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
31	GT	3	Corvette Racing	Jan Magnussen Antonio García	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	M	105
					Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
32 DNF	PC	7	Merchant Services Racing	Tony Burgess James Kovacic	Oreca FLM09	M	88
					Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8

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