Championship Leaders at The Head of Their Classes



GT1

Olivier Beretta: 60 starts, 31 wins (all-time career record), 53 top 3s, 20 pole positions, 20 fast laps. Pole positions and fast laps are also all-time career records. Oliver Gavin: 47 starts, 22 wins, 40 top 3s, 12 poles, 15 fast laps.

GT2

Jaime Melo: 9 starts, 6 wins, 8 top 3s, 4 poles, 4 fast laps Mika Salo: 10 starts, 7 wins, 8 tops 3s, 3 poles, 1 fast lap.

JOHNNY IN THE (TOP) SPOT: The American Le Mans Series record book is sprinkled liberally with Johnny O’Connell’s name. The Oakwood, Ga., resident ranks among the leaders in virtually every statistical category in Series history including career starts (first - 76), wins (third - 26), podium finishes (tie for first - 56), top-five finishes (first - 69) and top-10 finishes (first - 77).

O’Connell also is second in consecutive starts with 57, which is the longest active streak in the Series paddock. He and Jan Magnussen enter the Utah Grand Prix off a convincing GT1 victory last month at Houston.

“Running with Jan has been great, ” said O’Connell, who teamed with Magnussen in 1999 with the factory Panoz prototype program. “We’ve found our rhythm and are doing well. I’m very, very pleased with how things are going. ”

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