Sascha Maassen - Laguna Seca victory

Sascha Maassen enjoyed a near-perfect race weekend, as he led the charge in
the American Le Mans Series debut of the new Penske Porsche RS Spyder. 
Maassen, of Raeren, Belgium, took the LMP2 class pole position with a 
record lap time of one minute 15.606 seconds on the 2.238-mile Laguna 
Seca Raceway road course in Monterey, Calif. He started the four-hour 
race from the class pole and fifth overall. He held the class lead and 
raced as high as second overall during his two-hour 51-minute stint. 
Maassen then handed off to Lucas Luhr of Monaco, who logged the fastest 
LMP2 lap of the race, a record 1:17.136, and maintained the pace for an 
eight-lap class margin of victory.
 

"We had a great qualifying, a great race, a great weekend. I'm really
impressed with everything – the car, the team, everything worked perfectly.
I was waiting for the moment when something goes wrong, but it didn't,"
Maassen said.
 

He noted only one small problem during the race: "Our windshield was getting
dirty, so I couldn't look through it when the sun was setting. I had to look
over it and I was stretching my head for half an hour. But this is the only
problem we had and I think we can solve that. Now we're going to test more
and make the car even quicker, hopefully."