photo by John Thawley Braselton, Ga. – At the end of another grueling American Le Mans Series race, Intersport Racing was classified with fifth and sixth place results in the 1000-mile Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. The Dublin, Ohio-based team showed moments of brilliance with its two LMP1 class Lola prototypes, despite facing stiff competition from Europe entrants.

Team owner, and former Le Mans class champion Clint Field, once again teamed with father, Jon, and Richard Berry in the No. 37 Lola B06/10 AER. The trio, who were fresh off class victory in the last round at Detroit, put in a promising performance all weekend, qualifying the Very Berry Exotics machine in the top-10 overall. The trio wound up classified sixth in the category after a hard days worth of racing.

Intersport's sister No. 30 car also had its fare share of dramas, but Ryan Lewis, Luke Hines and George Forgeois all shared the wheel of the team's new Judd-powered prototype. Lewis made an impressive recovery after stopping on-track in the first lap with electrical gremlins. The former Atlantic star stayed calm and got the Kumho-shod machine back to the pits for repairs. From there, Hines, making his prototype debut, turned impressive lap times, and Forgeois steered the car into the sunset.  The trio was classified in the fifth position by the end of the race.

"We had an encouraging weekend with some good runs in practice," Clint explained. "We would have liked to finish a little higher as we knew both cars had the speed, but that's how it goes sometimes. It's great to see more competition in the P1 class for a change, and we're looking forward to facing them again at Laguna Seca in a few weeks."

The final round of the 2008 American Le Mans Series is the Monterey Sports Car Championships from Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The four-hour race into darkness is scheduled to start at 2:45 p.m. PT on Saturday, October 18. NBC Sports will air the race from 2 to 4 p.m. ET on Sunday, October 19. XM Satellite Radio's Channel 144 will air the race from 4 to 8 p.m. ET on the same day. Live video of qualifying will be available on americanlemans.comstarting at 3 p.m. PT on Friday, October 17. American Le Mans Radio will have live coverage on americanlemans.com, which also will feature Live Timing & Scoring.

Very Berry Exotics specializes in buying and selling some of the world's more exotics and hard to find automobiles. Not only do they sell cars already in the inventory, Very Berry Exotics will search for automobiles that are their customer's dream cars. Company owner Richard Berry founded Very Berry Exotics in 2004 and is himself a racer.

The American Le Mans Series is the premium brand of motorsport in North America, featuring high-tech sports cars from the most prestigious automobile manufacturers in the world. With its direct link to the world famous 24 Hours of Le Mans in France, its unique four classes of competition showcase exotic prototypes (LMP1 and LMP2 classes) and sophisticated production-based GT cars (GT1 and GT2 classes), all competing on the track at the same time. With a 12-race schedule in 2008, the American Le Mans Series competes at premier road racing tracks across North America and at selected temporary street circuits in major urban markets. With a television package that includes five network broadcasts on ABC and NBC as well as seven live telecasts on SPEED, plus live broadcasts across Europe, the Series delivers a global marketing platform that is unmatched in motorsports. The Series, founded in 1999 by Georgia entrepreneur Don Panoz, represents a mirror image to the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world's most famous and authentic automobile race. The American Le Mans Series features elite marques such as Acura, Aston Martin, Audi, Corvette, Dodge, Ferrari, Ford, Mazda, Panoz and Porsche, and premium brands such as Michelin, Yokohama, Kumho, Lowe's, EPIC, Shell, DHL, Hyatt Hotels, XM Radio and many others. The teams competing in the Series range from top professional teams such as Penske Racing, Andretti Green Racing and Rahal Letterman Racing to top-level independent teams such as Dyson Racing and Intersport Racing.

The American Le Mans Series features technical rules that not only allow new technology, but actually encourage auto manufacturers to introduce new innovations into the racing environment as a means of rapid development for production car application. The Series is the only motorsports body in the world that features multiple street-legal alternative fuel sources - clean diesel, E10 gasoline and E85 cellulosic (non-feedstock) ethanol. Through partnerships with diesel fuel supplier Shell, VP Racing Fuels and EPIC (Ethanol Promotion and Information Council), the American Le Mans Series has taken the global leadership role in motorsports for the development of alternative fuel technology and its practical use in production cars.