LEXINGTON, Ohio — Andy Lally put the No. 66 TRG CRG/Maxter Porsche GT3 in victory lane for the third time in the last four Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Special Reserve GT races Sunday in the EMCO Gears Classic presented by KeyBank at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
Lally held off Sylvain Tremblay in the two-and-a-half hour, 94-lap race for the GT competitors.
Lally, who took over from co-driver R.J. Valentine during a lap-one caution, took the lead from Leighton Reese on lap 61 and led by as many as 37 seconds before the race’s last caution flag.
Still, he beat Tremblay by 1.195 seconds.
The car was handling so well the team didn’t change tires on the final stop of the race. “We had no radio with 20 minutes to go, but TRG gave us the best car in the field again,” said Lally, who led a race-high 34 laps and averaged 84.297 miles per hour. “My guys did a super phenomenal job in getting everything going. Win No. 3 this year, and we’re moving up in the points. We set up a pretty neutral car, so it wasn’t too dramatic.”
Tremblay and No. 70 SpeedSource Mazdaspeed Mazda RX-8 co-driver Nick Ham, who said Saturday he felt the team was back to its early season form, showed speed all afternoon on the 2.258-mile, 13-turn track.
“Unfortunately, we didn’t have anything for them at the end,” said Tremblay. “We closed up, obviously. I took a lot of chances on the restart, but that’s all I had. We were very aggressive, but we don’t have enough for the Porsches right now. The Pontiac was coming at the end, but I snookered him on the restart and then we got going. We’re not done; we’ve still got work to do.”
After taking the pole at record speed Saturday, Kelly Collins partnered with Paul Edwards in the No. 07 Banner Racing/Banner Engineering Pontiac GXP.R to score their fourth podium of 2007.
Ian James and Tom Nastasi drove to fourth in the No. 15 Blackforest Motorsports USG Sheetrock-Guardian Insulation Ford Mustang GT.  Wolf Henzler and Eric Luz were fifth in a Tafel Racing Porsche GT3.