<p class="story_page_headline" style="PADDING-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span id="title">MCNISH, CAPELLO MAKING WINNING RETURN TO PORTLAND[/quote]
<span id="introduction">Portland – Allan McNish passed teammate Frank Biela at the 70-minute mark for the lead and retook it on a Lucas Luhr pit stop with 40 minutes left as the diesel-powered Audi R10 TDI remained unbeaten in the American Le Mans Series with a win Saturday at the Portland Grand Prix.[/quote]
<span id="section1Text">McNish and Rinaldo Capello won overall for the fourth time this season and fifth time in class to extend their LMP1 championship lead. Their No. 2 Audi R10 TDI set a race record by completing 142 laps at Portland International Raceway and beat Biela and Emanuele Pirro's No. 1 Audi by 42 seconds across the finish line.
'It was a great race again,' Capello said. 'We should have won in Salt Lake City. Now we have here. It is always great to win. We knew that the Dyson and Porsche were really fast. We showed our car is fast and reliable but in the first stint something made it really hard to drive so we made some changes when Allan got in the car, so it's great to see the car come around.'
Dyson Racing's No. 20 Lola B06/10-AER of Chris Dyson and Guy Smith finished third overall.
Liz Halliday became the winningest female in Series history with her sixth career win as she and Clint Field gave Intersport Racing its third LMP2 victory of the season in LMP2. Halliday took the lead with seven minutes to go as Penske Racing's No. 6 Porsche RS Spyder sat helplessly in pitlane with a blown engine. Entering the race with a 1-point lead in the class drivers championship, they leave with a 5-point advantage.
Corvette Racing returned to victory circle in GT1 as Olivier Beretta and Oliver Gavin won at Portland for the second year in a row. Beretta started from the class pole as he, Gavin and the crew of the No. 4 Corvette C6.R ran faultlessly. Aston Martin Racing won the two previous Series rounds, halting an eight-race win streak by Gavin and Beretta that began here last year.
The pole-sitting Risi Competizione Ferrari F430GT came from the rear of the field after a first-lap collision sent Jamie Melo to the pits. But like they did last weekend at Miller Motorsports Park, Melo and Mika Salo returned from the back to pass Patrick Long of Petersen Motorsports/White Lightning Racing with 18 minutes remaining.
1. (3) Rinaldo Capello, Italy; Allan McNish, Scotland; Audi R10 TDI Power (1, P1), 142.
2. (5) Emanuele Pirro, Italy; Frank Biela, Germany; Audi R10 TDI Power (2, P1), 142.
3. (2) Guy Smith, England; Chris Dyson, Pleasant Valley, NY; Lola B06/10 AER (3, P1), 140.
4. (1) Butch Leitzinger, State College, PA; James Weaver, England; Lola B06/10 AER (4, P1), 138.
5. (8) Liz Halliday, Rancho Santa Fe, CA; Clint Field, Dublin, OH; Jon Field, Dublin, OH; Lola B05/40 AER (5, P2), 135.
6. (7) Duncan Dayton, North Salem, NY; Andy Wallace, England; Lola EX257 AER (6, P1), 134.
7. (10) Olivier Beretta, Monaco; Oliver Gavin, England; Corvette C6.R (7, GT1), 133.
8. (9) Chris McMurry, Phoenix, AZ; Bryan Willman, Kirkland, WA; Lola EX257 AER (8, P1), 133.
9. (12) Tomas Enge, Czech Republic; Darren Turner, England; Andrea Piccini, Italy; Aston Martin DBR9 (9, GT1), 133.
10. (11) Ron Fellows, Canada; Johnny O`Connell, Flowery Branch, GA; Corvette C6.R (10, GT1), 132.
11. (13) Pedro Lamy, Portugal; Stephane Sarrazin, France; Aston Martin DBR9 (11, GT1), 131.
12. (6) Sascha Maassen, Germany; Lucas Luhr, Germany; Porsche RS Spyder (12, P2), 128.
13. (14) Jaime Melo, Brazil; Mika Salo, Finland; Ferrari 430 GT Berlinetta (13, GT2), 128.
14. (15) Jorg Bergmeister, Germany; Patrick Long, Oak Park, CA; Porsche 911 GT3 RSR (14, GT2), 128.
15. (17) Bill Auberlen, Hermosa Beach, CA; Joey Hand, Sacramento, CA; BMW E46 M3 (15, GT2), 128.
16. (22) Wolf Henzler, Germany; Johannes van Overbeek, San Francisco, CA; Porsche 911 GT3 RSR (16, GT2), 127.
17. (20) Seth Neiman, Burlingame, CA; Darren Law, Phoenix, AZ; Porsche 911 GT3 RSR (17, GT2), 126.
18. (19) Tom Milner, Leesburg, VA; Gunnar Jeannette, Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Panoz Esperante GTLM (18, GT2), 126.
19. (16) Robin Liddell, Scotland; Mike Rockenfeller, Germany; Porsche 911 GT3 RSR (19, GT2), 126.
20. (21) Justin Marks, Sacramento, CA; Bryan Sellers, Centerville, OH; Martin Jensen, Denmark; BMW E46 M3 (20, GT2), 126.
21. (18) Scott Maxwell, Canada; David Brabham, Australia; Panoz Esperante GTLM (21, GT2), 125.
22. (4) Romain Dumas, France; Timo Bernhard, Germany; Porsche RS Spyder (22, P2), 116.
<center>Unofficial Points</center>LMP1
Allan McNish 119
Rinaldo Capello 119
James Weaver 80
Butch Leitzinger 80
Andy Wallace 38
Chris Dyson 36
Guy Smith 36
Emanuele Pirro 36
Frank Biela 36
Michael Lewis 35
Chris McMurry 35
Tom Kristensen 26
Duncan Dayton 16
Bryan Willman 12
LMP2
Liz Halliday 108
Clint Field 108
Sascha Maassen 103
Lucas Luhr 103
Romain Dumas 74
Timo Bernhard 74
Jamie Bach 40
Guy Cosmo 40
Jon Field 26
Emmanuel Collard 22
Alan Timpany 19
William Binnie 19
Rick Sutherland 19
Gunnar van der Steur 18
Ben Devlin 18
Elton Julian 16
Michael Vergers 16
Juan Barazi 16
Raphael Matos 14
GT1
Olivier Beretta 106
Oliver Gavin 106
Darren Turner 94
Tomas Enge 94
Ron Fellows 90
Johnny O`Connell 90
Stephane Sarrazin 88
Pedro Lamy 72
Jan Magnussen 26
Jason Bright 22
Nicolas Kiesa 19
Andrea Piccini 16
Max Papis 16
Jean-Philippe Belloc 14
Terry Borcheller 14
Tom Weickardt 14
GT2
Johannes van Overbeek 97
Wolf Henzler 83
Jaime Melo 78
Jorg Bergmeister 76
Patrick Long 66
Scott Maxwell 64
David Brabham 64
Mika Salo 59
Seth Neiman 51
Mike Rockenfeller 48
Klaus Graf 44[/quote]
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Portland International Raceway
Saturday's results</center>
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