The 2010 American Le Mans Northeast Grand Prix was held at Lime Rock Park on July 24, 2010. It was the fifth round of the 2010 American Le Mans Series season.
The qualifying session saw David Brabham give Highcroft Racing another overall pole. Christophe Bouchut took LMPC pole for Level 5 Motorsports, Pat Long took the GT pole for Flying Lizard Motorsports and Jeroen Bleekemolen took GTC pole for Black Swan Racing, meaning the Black Swan Porsche has been on GTC pole in all three races they have raced so far.
Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold. [1] [2]
Pos | Class | Team | Driver | Lap Time | Grid |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | LMP | #1 Patrón Highcroft Racing | David Brabham | 0:58.106 | 1 |
2 | LMP | #6 Muscle Milk Team Cytosport | Klaus Graf | 0:58.746 | 2 |
3 | LMP | #16 Dyson Racing Team | Guy Smith | 0:59.951 | 3 |
4 | LMP | #8 Drayson Racing | Jonny Cocker | 1:00.092 | 4 |
5 | LMP | #37 Intersport Racing | Jon Field | 1:02.922 | 5 |
6 | LMPC | #55 Level 5 Motorsports | Christophe Bouchut | 1:03.020 | 6 |
7 | LMPC | #89 Genoa Racing | Kyle Marcelli | 1:03.587 | 7 |
8 | GT | #45 Flying Lizard Motorsports | Patrick Long | 1:03.904 | 8 |
9 | LMPC | #52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports | Alex Figge | 1:04.082 | 9 |
10 | GT | #17 Team Falken Tire | Wolf Henzler | 1:04.378 | 10 |
11 | GT | #62 Risi Competizione | Jaime Melo | 1:04.391 | 11 |
12 | GT | #3 Corvette Racing | Jan Magnussen | 1:04.563 | 12 |
13 | GT | #61 Risi Competizione | Mika Salo | 1:04.929 | 13 |
14 | GT | #4 Corvette Racing | Oliver Gavin | 1:05.011 | 14 |
15 | GT | #01 Extreme Speed Motorsports | Johannes van Overbeek | 1:05.064 | 15 |
16 | GT | #02 Extreme Speed Motorsports | Guy Cosmo | 1:05.346 | 16 |
17 | LMPC | #95 Level 5 Motorsports | Scott Tucker | 1:05.617 | 17 |
18 | GT | #92 BMW Rahal Letterman Racing | Bill Auberlen | 1:06.907 | 18 |
19 | GT | #40 Robertson Racing | David Murry | 1:07.005 | 19 |
20 | LMPC | #36 Genoa Racing | Tom Sedivy | 1:07.584 | 20 |
21 | GT | #75 Jaguar RSR | Ryan Dalziel | 1:07.661 | 21 |
22 | GT | #44 Flying Lizard Motorsports | Seth Neiman | 1:07.892 | 22 |
23 | GTC | #54 Black Swan Racing | Jeroen Bleekemolen | 1:08.129 | 23 |
24 | GTC | #63 TRG | Andy Lally | 1:08.733 | 24 |
25 | GT | #90 BMW Rahal Letterman Racing | Joey Hand | 1:08.876 | 25 |
26 | GTC | #88 Velox Motorsports | Shane Lewis | 1:09.689 | 26 |
27 | GTC | #32 GMG Racing | James Sofronas | 1:09.837 | 27 |
28 | GTC | #23 Alex Job Racing | Romeo Kapudija | 1:11.135 | 28 |
29 | GTC | #48 ORBIT | Bryce Miller | 1:11.648 | 30 |
30 | LMPC | #99 Green Earth Team Gunnar | Elton Julien | 1:18.455 | 29 |
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of their class winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC). [3]
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