The Grand Prix of Baltimore got underway at 3:45.59 PM. At 3:46 PM, the red flag was thrown stopping the race. Behind the starting front rows, eight cars had violently come together, totally blocking the racetrack. It took more than an hour to clear the track before the race could resume. It ran for an hour and fourteen minutes, making it the shortest race in ALMS history. At the end, the #16 Thetford/RACER Dyson Racing entry with Chris Dyson and Guy Smith finished a hard-fought second.

Chris Dyson started the race. The first restart was waved off and at the second, Chris slotted into second behind the Muscle Milk entry. The race went yellow and Chris pitted on lap five for fuel and a driver change, with Guy Smith getting in the car. The #16 Lola Mazda had to then serve a stop-and-go penalty for jumping the start, which put it down to 21st place. Twenty laps later, Guy took the lead.

“It was a crazy race,” said the Englishman. “We had a good run but we got a penalty which dropped us out of contention at the restart, but we put our heads down, ran hard and got a run on the Muscle Milk car and I was able to get by him. The car was good, but the last couple of laps, there was a lot of GT traffic and he was able to repass me. I hung on as best as I could, but did not get another opportunity to take back the lead, and we finished a couple seconds back. We are here to win, but it is nice to be racing and pushing those guys and making them work for it.”