The 2012 Baltimore Sports Car Challenge presented by SRT was a multi-class sports car and GT motor race held on the streets of Baltimore in Maryland, United States on September 1, 2012. It was the eighth round of the 2012 American Le Mans Series season and the second race Baltimore Sports Car Challenge, and event co-located with the Grand Prix of Baltimore IndyCar race. The race was held over a two-hour time period, during which 67 laps of the 3.3 kilometre circuit were completed for a race distance of 218 kilometres.

The race was won by Level 5 Motorsports duo of Scott Tucker and Christophe Bouchut driving a HPD ARX-03b. The race was dominated by the P2 class cars as trouble struck all three P1 class prototypes. When Conquest Endurance broke a gearbox in their Morgan LMP2 it set up the first outright victory by a P2 prototype since Andretti Green Racing's Franck Montagny and James Rossiter took victory at the 2008 Detroit Sports Car Challenge, also driving a HPD ARX. Second place was also a Level 5 Motorsports HPD ARX-03b, driven by Tucker, Luis Díaz and Ricardo González.

Third was the first of the Prototype Challenge Oreca FLM09s, the CORE Autosport car of Alex Popow and Ryan Dalziel.

Even more notable the Level 5 Motorsports' 1–2 victory, the Team Falken Tire Porsche of Wolf Henzler and Bryan Sellers finished fourth, winning the GT class, finishing on the same lap as the Level 5 HPDs. They finished ahead of the factory Chevrolet Corvette of Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner, the Extreme Speed Motorsports Ferrari of Scott Sharp and Johannes van Overbeek, the BMW Team RLL BMW of Joey Hand and Dirk Müller, the Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche of Jörg Bergmeister and Patrick Long and the second Corvette of Jan Magnussen and Antonio García as GTs dominated the top ten finishers.

Thirteenth was the P1 class survivor, the Dyson Racing Team Lola B11/66 of Michael Marsal and Eric Lux.

GT Challenge was claimed when the TRG Porsche of Patrick Pilet and debutant Al Carter crossed the line in 19th position.

24 of the 30 entries were running at races conclusion.

Race

Race result Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of their class winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC).

Pos Class No Team Drivers Chassis Tire Laps Engine 1 P2 055 Level 5 Motorsports Scott Tucker Christophe Bouchut HPD ARX-03b 67 Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6 2 P2 95 Level 5 Motorsports Scott Tucker Luis Díaz Ricardo González HPD ARX-03b 67 Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6 3 PC 06 CORE Autosport Alex Popow Ryan Dalziel Oreca FLM09 67 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 4 GT 17 Team Falken Tire Wolf Henzler Bryan Sellers Porsche 997 GT3-RSR 67 Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 5 GT 4 Corvette Racing Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner Chevrolet Corvette C6.R 67 Chevrolet 5.5 L V8 6 GT 01 Extreme Speed Motorsports Scott Sharp Johannes van Overbeek Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 67 Ferrari 4.5 L V8 7 GT 56 BMW Team RLL Joey Hand Dirk Müller BMW M3 GT2 67 BMW 4.0 L V8 8 GT 45 Flying Lizard Motorsports Jörg Bergmeister Patrick Long Porsche 997 GT3-RSR 67 Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 9 GT 3 Corvette Racing Jan Magnussen Antonio García Chevrolet Corvette C6.R 67 Chevrolet 5.5 L V8 10 PC 9 RSR Racing Bruno Junqueira Tomy Drissi Oreca FLM09 67 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 11 GT 44 Flying Lizard Motorsports Seth Neiman Marco Holzer Patrick Long Porsche 997 GT3-RSR 67 Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 12 GT 55 BMW Team RLL Jörg Müller Bill Auberlen BMW M3 GT2 67 BMW 4.0 L V8 13 P1 20 Dyson Racing Team Michael Marsal Eric Lux Lola B11/66 67 Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4(Isobutanol) 14 GT 48 Paul Miller Racing Bryce Miller Sascha Maassen Porsche 997 GT3-RSR 66 Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 15 GT 23 Lotus / Alex Job Racing Bill Sweedler Townsend Bell Lotus Evora GTE 66 Toyota-Cosworth 3.5 L V6 16 PC 25 Dempsey Racing Henri Richard Duncan Ende Oreca FLM09 66 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 17 GT 02 Extreme Speed Motorsports Ed Brown Guy Cosmo Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 66 Ferrari 4.5 L V8 18DNF GT 93 SRT Motorsports Marc Goossens Tommy Kendall SRT Viper GTS-R 65 Dodge 8.0 L V10 19 GTC 68 TRG Al Carter Patrick Pilet Porsche 997 GT3 Cup 65 Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 20 GTC 22 Alex Job Racing Cooper MacNeil Leh Keen Porsche 997 GT3 Cup 65 Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 21 GTC 34 Green Hornet Racing Peter LeSaffre Damien Faulkner Porsche 997 GT3 Cup 65 Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 22 GTC 66 TRG Marc Bunting Spencer Pumpelly Porsche 997 GT3 Cup 65 Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 23 P1 16 Dyson Racing Team Chris Dyson Guy Smith Lola B12/60 65 Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4(Isobutanol) 24DNF P1 6 Muscle Milk Pickett Racing Lucas Luhr Klaus Graf HPD ARX-03a 62 Honda 3.4 L V8 25 PC 7 Merchant Services Racing Lucas Downs Matt Downs Oreca FLM09 58 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 26DNF P2 37 Conquest Endurance Martin Plowman David Heinemeier Hansson Morgan LMP2 56 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 27 GTC 11 JDX Racing Chris Cumming Michael Valiante Porsche 997 GT3 Cup 49 Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 28DNF PC 8 Merchant Services Racing Kyle Marcelli Tony Burgess Oreca FLM09 43 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 29DNF PC 05 CORE Autosport Jon Bennett Colin Braun Oreca FLM09 31 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 30DNF PC 18 Performance Tech Motorsports Raphael Matos Rodin Younessi Oreca FLM09 0 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8

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