Lehto, Werner win Mid-Ohio.(Competition)

JJ Lehto and Marco Werner won the American Le Mans Series race at Mid-Ohio, taking their first ALMS win as teammates. They drove the Champion team's Audi R8.

Werner and Lehto won by a lap over the Dyson Racing Lola-MG of Chris Dyson and Andy Wallace, which had led 35 laps early in the race. Lehto gained the lead during a pit stop just over an hour into the two-hour, 45-minute race.

Ron Fellows and Johnny O'Connell finished third overall and first in the GTS class in a Corvette C5-R. Johannes van Overbeek and Darren Law won the GT class driving a Porsche 911 GT3 RSR.

Penske: Meeting blown out of proportion

Roger Penske said last week's closed-door meeting with Champ Car owners Gerald Forsythe, Kevin Kalkhoven and Paul Gentilozzi (revealed on autoweek.com) got blown out of proportion by a media too eager to see the open-wheel split resolved. Penske said the four men only talked philosophically about ways to come to an agreement with Indy Racing League founder and president Tony George.

"I don't know what happened,'' Penske said. "It was a discussion, and from the publicity it got, it got a little bit blown out of proportion. It came out of the gun and made a much bigger bang than there needed to be.''

Penske said he agreed to meet with the group because Gentilozzi called Team Penske president Tim Cindric about a first-person story attributed to Penske that was published May 30 in The New York Times.