It was the closest finish in the history of the American Le Mans Series. After four hours of racing today at Road America, Guy Smith finished a tenth of a second (.112) behind the #6 Aston Martin. Smith set the fastest race lap ten laps from the end in the #16 G-OIL ModSpace Construct Corps Lola Mazda after more than two hours in the car. The fastest lap of 1:52.517 was only a tenth off his qualifying time. "The car was awesome at the end," recounted Smith. "The last set of Dunlop tires was fantastic. A couple of times #6 would get really good breaks in traffic and we would drop five or six seconds back but I kept charging and would catch up again, only to have to repeat it again as we went through traffic. I am disappointed because it was so close, but it shows that even after four hours of hard racing, how strong the Mazda is."

Steven Kane had an equally strong race beginning in the #20 Oryx Dyson Racing entry. He led the first nineteen laps and an additional thirteen laps five laps later. He passed the #6 car on the first lap under braking going into turn three and repeated the move two more times in his hour and a half in the car. "The stint went very well. We were able to fight back every time the Aston got close and when he passed I fought back right away and kept him at bay. It is great to be competitive and we are doing better than our expectations were to start off with."

Humaid Al Masaood took over from Kane on lap thirty-six, but nine laps later, a water leak necessitated a radiator change that put them down the order. Their race ended prematurely three hours into the event when the car ran wide and slid off the track. Humaid noted that "Unfortunately having the radiator fail today was totally out of any ones hands, but performance wise, it is hard to fault this weekend."