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ALMS: Protest Against Winning Porsche Denied
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Long Beach, Calif.
 
Dumas and Bernhard scored an overall win with their LMP2-class Porsche. (LAT photo) ยป More Photos

IMSA stewards have ruled that a protest filed following Saturday's Long Beach Grand Prix was without merit. IMSA is the sanctioning body for the American Le Mans Series.

The protest concerned maximum driving times during the 100-minute race. The provisional results will stand, with Penske Motorsports' Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas retaining their overall victory.

The total time of the race used to calculate the maximum time allowed for any driver is the posted race time, not the actual time of the checkered flag. In this case the total posted (scheduled) time was 1 hour, 40
minutes (100 minutes), so the maximum time allowed in the car is 70 minutes. To calculate a driver's time in the car, the total time the car is in pit lane is not counted.

In essence, the race clock begins for everyone at the first green flag. When a car enters the pits (for a driver change) the time for the driver currently in the car ends when the car crosses the pit entry time line. The driver clock begins for the next driver when he exits the pits as determined by the pit out time line. The time in the pits, from time line to time line is not counted for either driver when a change occurs.