The winning Mazda

The Baltimore ALMS winning Oryx Mazda driven by Steven Kane and Humaid al Masaood.

BALTIMORE, Md. — Racing luck can change in the blink of an eye — and the results from the Baltimore American Le Mans event where Dyson Oryx Racing’s Steven Kane and Humaid al Masaood scored their first career American Le Mans Series victory on the harbor street course there. Series leading Dyson Mazda, the sister team to the winners were second, but had qualified number one for the event and were leading the race until an extra long pit stop in which they had troubles restarting the car allowed the Oryx team to take the lead.

The Dyson Mazda’s cheif competition, the Muscle Milk Aston Martin, winner’s of three of the last four events, were lucky to finish fourth in the class after a wiring harness infarction that apparently happened early in practice kept them from being able to fully compete.

Just when one might have thought that the Muscle Milk Aston Martin might begin to assert itself into the points competition its fourth place finish pushed them four points deeper into the point race with just two races left.

Kane finished the Baltimore event, which was witnessed by an estimated 50,000 race fans, 6.961 seconds ahead of the Dyson Mazda, but was chased to the finish line by his own car gremlins, in which the steering begean giving him trouble.

In the GT class it was the Falken Tire shod Porsche of Wolf Henzler and Bryan Sellers that had the cleanest and in the end the fastest drive for their second victory of the ALMS season.

Henzler pushed his car to the lead thanks in part to the two Corvettes rubbing paint (or plastic as the case may be). The team dropped to third momentarily during the mid-race pit stop but Sellers was more than up for the challenge and took advantage of more on-the-course scuffling, this time between the No. 3 Corvette of Tommy Milner and the No. 56 BMW of Bill Auberlin, which was leading the class at the time.

Milner was flagged with a stop-and-hold penalty and the Beamer went from first to fifth in the GT class and that was all that Sellers needed to roll to a one lap over the second place and points-leading BMW of Dirk Muller and Joey Hand.