2012 Baltimore Sports Car Challenge

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The 2012 Baltimore Sports Car Challenge presented by SRT was a multi-class sports car and GT motor race held on the streets of Baltimore in Maryland, United States on September 1, 2012. It was the eighth round of the 2012 American Le Mans Series season and the second race Baltimore Sports Car Challenge, and event co-located with the Grand Prix of Baltimore IndyCar race. The race was held over a two-hour time period, during which 67 laps of the 3.3 kilometre circuit were completed for a race distance of 218 kilometres.

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The race was won by Level 5 Motorsports duo of Scott Tucker and Christophe Bouchut driving a HPD ARX-03b. The race was dominated by the P2 class cars as trouble struck all three P1 class prototypes. When Conquest Endurance broke a gearbox in their Morgan LMP2 it set up the first outright victory by a P2 prototype since Andretti Green Racing's Franck Montagny and James Rossiter took victory at the 2008 Detroit Sports Car Challenge, also driving a HPD ARX. [1] Second place was also a Level 5 Motorsports HPD ARX-03b, driven by Tucker, Luis Díaz and Ricardo González.

Third was the first of the Prototype Challenge Oreca FLM09s, the CORE Autosport car of Alex Popow and Ryan Dalziel.

Even more notable the Level 5 Motorsports' 1–2 victory, the Team Falken Tire Porsche of Wolf Henzler and Bryan Sellers finished fourth, winning the GT class, finishing on the same lap as the Level 5 HPDs. They finished ahead of the factory Chevrolet Corvette of Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner, the Extreme Speed Motorsports Ferrari of Scott Sharp and Johannes van Overbeek, the BMW Team RLL BMW of Joey Hand and Dirk Müller, the Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche of Jörg Bergmeister and Patrick Long and the second Corvette of Jan Magnussen and Antonio García as GTs dominated the top ten finishers.

Thirteenth was the P1 class survivor, the Dyson Racing Team Lola B11/66 of Michael Marsal and Eric Lux.

GT Challenge was claimed when the TRG Porsche of Patrick Pilet and debutant Al Carter crossed the line in 19th position.

24 of the 30 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]

PosClassNoTeamDriversChassisTireLaps
Engine
1P2055 Flag of the United States.svg Level 5 Motorsports Flag of the United States.svg Scott Tucker
Flag of France.svg Christophe Bouchut
HPD ARX-03b D 67
Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6
2P295 Flag of the United States.svg Level 5 Motorsports Flag of the United States.svg Scott Tucker
Flag of Mexico.svg Luis Díaz
Flag of Mexico.svg Ricardo González
HPD ARX-03b D 67
Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6
3PC06 Flag of the United States.svg CORE Autosport Flag of Venezuela.svg Alex Popow
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Ryan Dalziel
Oreca FLM09 M 67
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
4GT17 Flag of the United States.svg Team Falken Tire Flag of Germany.svg Wolf Henzler
Flag of the United States.svg Bryan Sellers
Porsche 997 GT3-RSR F 67
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
5GT4 Flag of the United States.svg Corvette Racing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Oliver Gavin
Flag of the United States.svg Tommy Milner
Chevrolet Corvette C6.R M 67
Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
6GT01 Flag of the United States.svg Extreme Speed Motorsports Flag of the United States.svg Scott Sharp
Flag of the United States.svg Johannes van Overbeek
Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 M 67
Ferrari 4.5 L V8
7GT56 Flag of the United States.svg BMW Team RLL Flag of the United States.svg Joey Hand
Flag of Germany.svg Dirk Müller
BMW M3 GT2 D 67
BMW 4.0 L V8
8GT45 Flag of the United States.svg Flying Lizard Motorsports Flag of Germany.svg Jörg Bergmeister
Flag of the United States.svg Patrick Long
Porsche 997 GT3-RSR M 67
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
9GT3 Flag of the United States.svg Corvette Racing Flag of Denmark.svg Jan Magnussen
Flag of Spain.svg Antonio García
Chevrolet Corvette C6.R M 67
Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
10PC9 Flag of the United States.svg RSR Racing Flag of Brazil.svg Bruno Junqueira
Flag of the United States.svg Tomy Drissi
Oreca FLM09 M 67
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
11GT44 Flag of the United States.svg Flying Lizard Motorsports Flag of the United States.svg Seth Neiman
Flag of Germany.svg Marco Holzer
Flag of the United States.svg Patrick Long
Porsche 997 GT3-RSR M 67
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
12GT55 Flag of the United States.svg BMW Team RLL Flag of Germany.svg Jörg Müller
Flag of the United States.svg Bill Auberlen
BMW M3 GT2 D 67
BMW 4.0 L V8
13P120 Flag of the United States.svg Dyson Racing Team Flag of the United States.svg Michael Marsal
Flag of the United States.svg Eric Lux
Lola B11/66 D 67
Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4
(Isobutanol)
14GT48 Flag of the United States.svg Paul Miller Racing Flag of the United States.svg Bryce Miller
Flag of Germany.svg Sascha Maassen
Porsche 997 GT3-RSR D 66
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
15GT23 Flag of the United States.svg Lotus / Alex Job Racing Flag of the United States.svg Bill Sweedler
Flag of the United States.svg Townsend Bell
Lotus Evora GTE Y 66
Toyota-Cosworth 3.5 L V6
16PC25 Flag of the United States.svg Dempsey Racing Flag of France.svg Henri Richard
Flag of the United States.svg Duncan Ende
Oreca FLM09 M 66
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
17GT02 Flag of the United States.svg Extreme Speed Motorsports Flag of the United States.svg Ed Brown
Flag of the United States.svg Guy Cosmo
Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 M 66
Ferrari 4.5 L V8
18
DNF
GT93 Flag of the United States.svg SRT Motorsports Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Marc Goossens
Flag of the United States.svg Tommy Kendall
SRT Viper GTS-R M 65
Dodge 8.0 L V10
19GTC68 Flag of the United States.svg TRG Flag of the United States.svg Al Carter
Flag of France.svg Patrick Pilet
Porsche 997 GT3 Cup Y 65
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
20GTC22 Flag of the United States.svg Alex Job Racing Flag of the United States.svg Cooper MacNeil
Flag of the United States.svg Leh Keen
Porsche 997 GT3 Cup Y 65
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
21GTC34 Flag of the United States.svg Green Hornet Racing Flag of the United States.svg Peter LeSaffre
Flag of Ireland.svg Damien Faulkner
Porsche 997 GT3 Cup Y 65
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
22GTC66 Flag of the United States.svg TRG Flag of the United States.svg Marc Bunting
Flag of the United States.svg Spencer Pumpelly
Porsche 997 GT3 Cup Y 65
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
23P116 Flag of the United States.svg Dyson Racing Team Flag of the United States.svg Chris Dyson
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Guy Smith
Lola B12/60 D 65
Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4
(Isobutanol)
24
DNF
P16 Flag of the United States.svg Muscle Milk Pickett Racing Flag of Germany.svg Lucas Luhr
Flag of Germany.svg Klaus Graf
HPD ARX-03a M 62
Honda 3.4 L V8
25PC7 Flag of the United States.svg Merchant Services Racing Flag of the United States.svg Lucas Downs
Flag of the United States.svg Matt Downs
Oreca FLM09 M 58
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
26
DNF
P237 Flag of the United States.svg Conquest Endurance Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Martin Plowman
Flag of Denmark.svg David Heinemeier Hansson
Morgan LMP2 D 56
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
27GTC11 Flag of the United States.svg JDX Racing Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Chris Cumming
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Michael Valiante
Porsche 997 GT3 Cup Y 49
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
28
DNF
PC8 Flag of the United States.svg Merchant Services Racing Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Kyle Marcelli
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Tony Burgess
Oreca FLM09 M 43
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
29
DNF
PC05 Flag of the United States.svg CORE Autosport Flag of the United States.svg Jon Bennett
Flag of the United States.svg Colin Braun
Oreca FLM09 M 31
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
30
DNF
PC18 Flag of the United States.svg Performance Tech Motorsports Flag of Brazil.svg Raphael Matos
Flag of the United States.svg Rodin Younessi
Oreca FLM09 M 0
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8

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