IMSA Throwback: 2012 ALMS Race at Road America

Ahead of the 2017 Continental Tire Road Race Showcase, relive the epic 2012 battle between Guy Smith and Lucas Luhr at Road America that resulted in the 10th closest finish in IMSA history.

[@tayloresswein]

Bring the road America 4 hour race back!!! It was awesome going to those races every year knowing the racing would always be great and really close!!

[@jrehn82]

Totally agree, they need a longer race

[@javiersilva1577]

This type of racing is so much better than NASCAR I don’t know why it isn’t mkfe popular. 2nd place had an open cockpit. Was it in a different class than 1st place? The cars looked pretty even to me.

[@joaquingonzalez834]

​@@javiersilva1577they were both lmp1s, if you want something like this, then watch peugeot vs audi from 2007-2010

[@johnsullivan937]

@@javiersilva1577 I think back then lmp2 had both open cockpit and closed cockpit entries. Unlike now where they are basically the exact same, with the same engine. Especially now that the series basically devolved into an oreca 07 one make series. This was definitely the golden era of lmp2, when the cars actually felt different from each other and had different engines. I wish open cockpit prototypes would come back, but it probably never will for safety reasons.

[@javiersilva1577]

Thanks for the info. F1 cars are open cockpits but now they have the halo. Maybe LMH cars could adopt that if they ever want to do open cockpits again

[@DavidLand91]

P1 was so awesome!

[@DriftingWolf19Gaming]

Hi David Love Your Channel Surprised when I saw you here

[@MrBurgerphone1014]

That P1 battle was leagues ahead in excitement compared to todays LMP1 class races.

[@BigPlus-xh3px]

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[@masonhenry8455]

Crazy how much has changed in a relatively short amount of time

[@RobertMartino98]

Mason Henry ikr

[@RomanGalon]

Can not imagine adrenaline of those two drivers :) Amazing fight and all that traffic omg, good race and i cant wait to visit road america again .RA is super clean place with friendly people , amazing track .

[@meltered441]

I miss the 458 and the M3

[@rodriguez4363]

FlyingTrains 1 me too.

[@StirlingMossDrives]

FlyingTrains 1 Now they sound like vacuum cleaners. Sports car racing will be dead once the Corvette and Porsche get rid of their engines too.

[@koraxi8958]

That's a really horrible future. I hope vette's get to keep there v8's same for Mercedes and McLaren and the V10's in the huracan and r8. Why would they touch prosche's GTLM V6 though? because it sounds better now?! what assholes!

[@takenoprisoners6604]

FlyingTrains 1 I miss the m3 too and how awesome that livery was. Also miss when corvette had interesting liveries and new one every year around this period.

[@fasterandnoiser]

the M3 had good engine sound.

[@EVENMETAL]

ALMS was so great. I was there for this race. Amazing finish

[@KinuGrove]

Great finish awesome re post

[@ski567]

THANK YOU !

[@larry8030]

"SPORTS CAR RACING IS BOR---"

[@muhammadwahyuhidayat21498]

"Hold My beer"

[@user-cj7mx4lg1v]

Love those races of ALMS

[@glennthunderer1685]

Wow! What a finish!!!!

[@paulreilly3904]

Wow. The excellent Lucas Luhr gave it everything but was just out dragged by the Mazda of Guy Smith. Thank you to both.

[@Samson518]

Fantastic. Man possessed.

[@Si1verRaven]

Wow what a finish

[@AustinLaPlante]

Disclaimer: This finish was during the 2012 Road Race Showcase at Road America...

[@16Tango]

Man I miss ALMS.

[@BeaudoinMotorsports]

Insane

[@ijast2]

When will you upload another full archived race like 1999 Mosport?

[@nsc337]

That race if i remember correctly is over on the ALMSOfficialVideos channel.

[@anthonyleo6819]

much better than imsa

[@STANGKILLASS]

where can i find full race replays from the C6R era? (05-13)

[@jacobluck5291]

don't know about the c6r but just look at the sights and sounds from last year from road America to see the amazing win from the c7r and other races last year

[@VulcanSphere]

Looks at ALMSOfficialVideos channel.

[@brocky]

What car was Lucas on? Fantastic race btw

[@jasonlamgt180evo8]

brocky HPD 03

[@tyheimbrown2904]

I went to that race

[@sebastianvettel7363]

that black Porsche 911 witnessed a great finish

[@mrinterested]

Hey newb here. Why are there front engine cars like bmw and corvette in the same race?

[@imsaofficial]

It's sports car racing. That's the beauty of it. Multiple manufacturers on track at the same time.

[@mrinterested]

@@imsaofficial Thanks for explaining! Like 2 races in 1. More bang and excitement for your buck

[@johnvandeventer8668]

Lucas tried but it was not enough

[@fasterandnoiser]

The Lola was a garbage at the corners but fast on straights.

[@MrBurgerphone1014]

Yup, crazy how the cars back then were so different yet so competitive while todays cars are so regulated and plagued by BOP that there isn't anything that lets them stand out like the older cars.

[@laksamanasuhendra5868]

Me, a NFS Shift professional: wtf why don't someone just speed off and get past these slow ass cars? (Its a damn joke ok)