Lowe s Fernandez Racing looked set to celebrate its second podium of the season with less than five minutes remaining in the American Le Mans Series debut at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.
Unfortunately, a gamble on fuel strategy brought the team s bid to an abrupt end on the final lap of the race as Adrian Fernandez coasted to the finish with the #15 Lowe s Acura Lola out of fuel.
Luis Diaz started the race in seventh position [fifth in the LMP2 class], and stayed out of trouble and on pace running fourth in class and sixth overall. The team took advantage of a full-course caution just after the 30-minute mark to make their mandatory driver change and Fernandez resumed in 11th position, seventh in class.
While several of the frontrunners still had to pit for driver changes, the team felt they were good to go to the end banking on at least one additional full-course yellow on the tight and challenging street circuit.
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