Ferrari Wins for 1st Time in GT

Ferrari scored its first-ever GT class win in the ALMS with Anthony Lazzaroand Ralf Kelleners winning by one lap in the Risi Competizione Ferrari 360Modena. The win was also the first in the ALMS for the two drivers andsnapped a 21-race GT class winning streak in the ALMS for Porsche that datedback to the first event of the 2002 season.The J3 Racing Porsche 911 GT3 RSR driven by Tim Sugden led most of thefirst half of the race after many of the top cars pitted to take on raintires when a brief shower hit the track at the start. The J3 and Risi carsremained on slick tires and that proved to be the winning decision as therest of the contending cars were never able to make up the lap they lostchanging back to slicks under green. The J3 car fell out of contention onpit stop strategy."This win has been a long time coming," said Lazzaro, who has co-drivenwith Kelleners in the GT Ferrari since the 2002 season. "We’ve had a lot ofpodium finishes but could never get to that top step.""It was a team decision to not change to rain tires," he said. "We foundsome local people who were standing behind the fence near our pits and theytold us the rain wasn’t going to last long. We trusted that information andthey were right."Johannes van Overbeek and Darren Law finished second in the Flying LizardMotorsports Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, followed by Romain Dumas and Marc Lieb inthe Alex Job Racing Porsche.

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