2013 Petit Le Mans Review, Sean Edwards 1986-2013

As the title says a Petit Le Mans Review of the race. Last Round of the American Le Mans Series 2013 season at Road Atlanta. Also, the last ever round of the American Le Mans Series, as next season the ALMS will merge with Grand-Am series to create the all new United SportsCar Championship. WEC LMP1 regulars Rebellion Racing won the race overall and P1 class in their Lola-Toyota 3.4l V8 with drivers Neel Jani, Nicolas Prost and Nick Hiedfied. Six laps ahead of P2 class winners Level 5 Motorsports team in their HPD ARX-03b Honda 2.8l Turbo V6, of Scott Tucker, Ryan Briscoe and Marino Franchitti. While Extreme Speed Motorsports team in their HPD ARX-03b Honda 2.8l Turbo V6, of Scott Sharp Anthony Lazzaro and David Brabham finished in third place and second in P2 class.



In PC class (LMPC), CORE Autosport team with Kyle Marcelli, Chris Cumming and Stefan Johansson won the class and finished fifth overall. While in GT class, that was won by Team Falken Tire in their Porsche 997 GT3-RSR with Wolf Henzler, Bryan Sellers and Nick Tandy finished 8th overall. In GTC class was won by Flying Lizard Motorsports team of Nelson Canache, Jr., Spencer Pumpelly and Madison Snow in their Porsche 997 GT3 Cup and finished 22nd overall.

Meanwhile, Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr won the ALMS P1 class champions overall in their HPD ARX-03a Honda LM-V8 3.4 L V8 for Muscle Milk Pickett Racing team. P2 class champions overall was won by Scott Tucker. In PC class champion was Mike Guasch for PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports. GT class champions were Antonio García and Jan Magnussen with their Corvette Racing team backed Chevrolet Corvette C6.R. While GTC champions was Jeroen Bleekemolen and Cooper MacNeil in his Alex Job Racing backed Porsche 997 GT3 Cup.

Congratulations for the champions of each class in ALMS this season.

And a sad note to finish this post that Sean Edwards who was leading this years Porsche Supercup championship and won this years 24 Hours of Dubai; and Nürburgring 24 Hours was killed last Tuesday (15/10/13) in a crash during a private session at Queensland Raceway in Willowbank, Queensland, Australia as a passenger whilst instructing Will Holzheimer in a Porsche 996 Supercup car. He was 26 years old. Thoughts goes out to Sean Edwards family and friends at this period of time.



American Le Mans Series organisers did tribute Sean's life with a special livery Porsche 911 race car before the race started.



R.I.P. Sean Edwards