The No. 15 Lowe's Fernandez Acura ARX-01b finished seventh in Saturday's American Le Mans Acura Sports Car Challenge at St. Petersburg.

The team of Luis Diaz and Adrian Fernandez battled handling issues throughout the weekend. Diaz began the race and Fernandez was running in fourth toward the end of the race when he experienced an on-track incident with an LMP1 car. The contact cost the team a podium finish.

The LMP2 class was won by Penske Racing's Porsche, driven by Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas.

ADRIAN FERNANDEZ (No. 15 Lowe's Fernandez Racing Acura ARX-01b): "We had a problem with the car in the first practice on Friday, and we never really had a grip level that Luis and I liked. We could never catch up this weekend. The Lowe's Acura seemed to slide more that we wanted. I don't know what happened with the Audi out there. It was difficult with the Audi hitting me from behind. I had to pit for a new rear wheel, and that put us a couple of laps behind. At least we finished. Now we are anxious to have a good finish at Long Beach."

LUIS DIAZ (No. 15 Lowe's Fernandez Racing Acura ARX-01b): "The Lowe's Acura wasn't as good as we would have liked today. But we were in the top five late in the race with Adrian. It is unfortunate that he had that contact with the Audi. Overall, we need to improve the handling of the Lowe's Acura for Long Beach. We are still new to the Acura chassis after running the Lola last year. So we need to work on some additional settings with the chassis. But I know we are really looking forward to the Long Beach race."