Team Penske wins in Houston

Team Penske rolls to another victory in the ALMS Lone Star Grand Prix Saturday in Houston. Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas were first, Bryan Herta and Marino Franchitti were second in the Acura. The Audi of Capello and McNish finished third overall and first in their P1 class. Bernhard says he had to push to keep Herta behind him:

"The last 30 minutes were the toughest of my life, I can tell you," Bernhard said. "After the yellow there, I was concentrating so much on the restart warming up the brakes, warming up the tires, I said o, the last 30 minutes you have to push.' You could see the restart was good, and I was able to gain six, seven seconds in front of the 26 Herta/Franchitti) car. 

Then I thought maybe I could slow up a little bit and go slower, but then I caught traffic and he caught back up to me. Then I lost three more seconds on a bad move in traffic and he was there. Then I had to push. In the traffic, nothing is predictable, you just have to go."

With almost a month off, the ALMS cars travel to Salt Lake City, Utah for a race on May 19th.

Thanks to the Houston Chronicle for the quote.