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SALINAS, Ca — Simon Pagenaud and Gil de Ferran closed out the American Le Mans (ALMS) Series season with a sensational, near wire-to-wire victory in their Acura ARX-02a, at the Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway. The Pagenaud-deFerran team led the entire race with the exception of three laps and beat the second place overall  and LMP2 winning Lowes Fernandez Acura.

It was the last race for de Ferran, who has announced his retirement to focus time on developing his race team.

In GT2 it was a race to the finish between the No. 3 Corvette of Johnny O’Connell and Jan Magnussen and the Jorg Bergmeister-Pat Long Porsche 911. On the last Jan Magnussen got under Bergmeister in the last turn, and out dragged him to the finish line– but Bergmiester laid a little NASCAR bump and run on the Vette and Magnussen went hard into the wall on the right side of the track as the Porsche took the checkers and the Vette was second in class.

SALINAS, Ca — It was an all Acura show Friday afternoon at qualifying for the Monterey Sports Car Championship as Gil de Ferran in Acura ARX 02a led the field as he has all week with the top time of the day. de Ferran, who announced in August his retirement from active driving to concentrate on building his race team, turned a 1:11.206 for the 2.238 mile track.

His nearest competition was the other Acura P1 car, the David Brabham-Scott Sharp Petron Sponsored was second, only .092 of a second behind. In third was the Lowes Fernandez Acura ARX-01B, only .104 seconds off the top time. 

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