Another championship performance by Allan McNish and Rinaldo Capello has delivered just that. The two Audi factory drivers clinched the American Le Mans Series' LMP1 championship with a victory Sunday at the Grand Prix of Mosport, their sixth of the season.
The title is the first for Capello and second for McNish. With Sunday's 2.794-second win over Dyson Racing's Chris Dyson and Guy Smith, the Capello-McNish pairing leads Dyson's James Weaver and Butch Leitzinger by 49 points, the amount available for winning the final two Series rounds. So even if Weaver and Leitzinger win at Petit Le Mans and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca – and McNish and Capello score none – the Audi drivers would win the tiebreaker by having more victories than their rivals.
"I had a lot of success before – wins at Le Mans, at Sebring, at Petit Le Mans – but never the championship," said Capello, who watched McNish win the Series title in 2000 as his teammate. "Now to get that, it is really special. When I started with Allan he didn't have a lot of experience in North America, and we both grew together. Now six years later we are still here and winning races. That says a lot because you can lose competitiveness and lose patience, but we're still here and now we have this championship."
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