BOWMANVILLE, ON, Sunday, August 29, 2010: Patrón Highcroft Racing kept its perfect podium season intact with second place today at the latest round of the American Le Mans Series at Canada's Mosport International Raceway.

David Brabham and Simon Pagenaud will now only need to finish 6th or better in the LMP2 class at the final race of the year at Petit Le Mans to clinch back-to-back championships for the Danbury, Connecticut-based squad.

After eight races in 2010, the Highcroft team has been a model of consistency with three wins, four second places and a single third place finish.

While the team was pleased with another strong points tally today, if it wasn't for a fortunate run with safety cars, quick thinking on mid race car changes and a great run through traffic by Pagenaud - the team would have actually finished the race more than a lap adrift of its chief title rival - the Porsche RS Spyder of Klaus Graf.

Joined by Romain Dumas for this weekend, Graf's Porsche has enjoyed a 25kg weight break since the third round at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

That performance advantage came to the fore here at Mosport where the Porsche was fastest in every session, led every lap and came close to lapping the entire field.

David Brabham began the race in his 100th ALMS start and actually moved up a spot early from third with the Dyson Mazda starting from the back of the grid due to having to change two tires.

Off the start however, the Highcroft squad struggled with the car set-up in the opening stint - Brabham dropping back and eventually falling to fourth.

He moved back to second after stops by Chris Dyson and Jon Field and headed for the pits himself on lap 52 to swap for Simon Pagenaud.

The team made tire pressure changes and a rear wing adjustment on the stop and temporarily dropped a lap to the race leader.

One minute later, the yellow flag safety car period the team was looking for finally appeared. Dumas pitted from the lead under yellow and Pagenaud was able to get the lap back - but was only a handful of cars ahead in the restart line.

After a long 17 minute yellow, the race restarted with Pagenaud holding off Graf to stay on the same lap.

The duo waged a battle through traffic with the Frenchman using the straight-line speed advantage of the low downforce Le Mans aero kit of the HPD ARX-01c to keep the Porsche at bay.

With 46 minutes to go, the Highcroft team got luckier with a yellow flag and Pagenaud was able to drive around to the back of the pack as the pacecar picked up Graf.

Both made their final pitstops, Graf taking fuel only and Pagenaud armed for the final fight with fuel and new Michelin tires.

If the race had restarted, Pagenaud would have only been three cars behind Graf on the start with plans to use his fresh rubber to try and chase down the title rival.

However, the source of the yellow - a huge crash by Porsche GTC driver Luke Hines after contact with the Drayson Lola on the back straight - inflicted severe damage on the back straight safety fence.

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