The 2008 American Le Mans Northeast Grand Prix was the fifth round of the 2008 American Le Mans Series season. It took place at Lime Rock Park, Connecticut on July 12, 2008. It was the first event to take place at Lime Rock since portions of the track were redesigned and the entire surface repaved.

Race summary

Acura scored their first overall win in the American Le Mans Series since they debuted their ARX-01 program in 2007. The #9 Highcroft Racing Acura of Scott Sharp and David Brabham managed to accomplish the feat with Brabham making a late charge and taking the overall lead in the final 90 seconds of the race, passing the #7 Penske Racing Porsche RS Spyder of Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas.

Race results

Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Tire	Laps
					Engine
1	LMP2	9	Patrón Highcroft Racing	Scott Sharp David Brabham	Acura ARX-01B		168
					Acura AL7R 3.4 L V8
2	LMP2	7	Penske Racing	Timo Bernhard Romain Dumas	Porsche RS Spyder Evo		168
					Porsche MR6 3.4 L V8
3	LMP2	6	Penske Racing	Patrick Long Sascha Maassen	Porsche RS Spyder Evo		168
					Porsche MR6 3.4 L V8
4	LMP1	2	Audi Sport North America	Marco Werner Lucas Luhr	Audi R10 TDI		167
					Audi TDI 5.5 L Turbo V12 (Diesel)
5	LMP2	15	Lowe's Fernández Racing	Adrian Fernández Luis Díaz	Acura ARX-01B		166
					Acura AL7R 3.4 L V8
6	LMP2	26	Andretti Green Racing	Franck Montagny Marco Andretti	Acura ARX-01B		165
					Acura AL7R 3.4 L V8
7 DNF	LMP2	20	Dyson Racing	Butch Leitzinger Marino Franchitti	Porsche RS Spyder Evo		164
					Porsche MR6 3.4 L V8
8	GT1	3	Corvette Racing	Johnny O'Connell Jan Magnussen	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R		157
					Chevrolet LS7-R 7.0 L V8 (E85 ethanol)
9	GT2	45	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Jörg Bergmeister Wolf Henzler	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		154
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
10	LMP1	37	Intersport Racing	Jon Field Clint Field Richard Berry	Lola B06/10		154
					AER P32C 4.0 L Turbo V8 (E85 ethanol)
11	GT2	87	Farnbacher-Loles Motorsports	Richard Westbrook Dirk Werner	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		153
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
12	GT2	62	Risi Competizione	Jaime Melo Mika Salo	Ferrari F430GT		153
					Ferrari 4.0 L V8
13	GT2	71	Tafel Racing	Dominik Farnbacher Dirk Müller	Ferrari F430GT		152
					Ferrari 4.0 L V8
14	LMP2	66	de Ferran Motorsports	Gil de Ferran Simon Pagenaud	Acura ARX-01B		151
					Acura AL7R 3.4 L V8
15	GT2	21	Panoz Team PTG	Tom Milner Tom Sutherland	Panoz Esperante GT-LM		150
					Ford (Élan) 5.0 L V8
16 DNF	GT1	4	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin Olivier Beretta	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R		146
					Chevrolet LS7-R 7.0 L V8 (E85 ethanol)
17	GT2	61	Risi Competizione	Patrick Friesacher Harrison Brix	Ferrari F430GT		145
					Ferrari 4.0 L V8
18 DNF	GT2	46	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Johannes van Overbeek Patrick Pilet	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		144
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
19	GT2	54	Black Swan Racing	Tim Pappas Anthony Lazzaro	Ford GT-R Mk.VII		142
					Ford 5.0 L V8
20	GT2	73	Tafel Racing	Jim Tafel Alex Figge	Ferrari F430GT		142
					Ferrari 4.0 L V8
21	LMP1	1	Audi Sport North America	Rinaldo Capello Emanuele Pirro	Audi R10 TDI		137
					Audi TDI 5.5 L Turbo V12 (Diesel)
22 NC	GT2	11	Primetime Race Group	Joel Feinberg Chris Hall	Dodge Viper Competition Coupe		107
					Dodge 8.3 L V10
23 DNF	LMP2	16	Dyson Racing	Chris Dyson Guy Smith	Porsche RS Spyder Evo		94
					Porsche MR6 3.4 L V8
24 DNF	GT2	44	Flying Lizard Motorsports 44	Darren Law Seth Neiman	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		81
					Porsche 3.8 L Flat-6
25 DNF	LMP2	8	B-K Motorsports	Gerardo Bonilla Ben Devlin	Lola B07/46		74
					Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4 (E85 ethanol)
26 DNF	GT1	008	Bell Motorsports	Terry Borcheller Chapman Ducote	Aston Martin DBR9		61
					Aston Martin 6.0 L V12
27 DNF	GT2	007	Drayson-Barwell	Paul Drayson Jonny Cocker	Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT2		24
					Aston Martin 4.5 L V8 (E85 ethanol)
DNS	GT2	40	Robertson Racing	David Robertson Andrea Robertson David Murry	Ford GT-R Mk.VII		-
					Ford 5.0 L V8

Statistics

• Pole Position - #9 Patrón Highcroft Racing - 0:46.696
• Fastest Lap - #1 Audi Sport North America - 0:48.007
• Average Speed - 91.105 mph

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