DANVILLE, Va. (RacingWire) - Scott Pruett was making it look easy during the last half of the Grand-Am Rolex Series Bosch Engineering 250 at Virginia International Raceway. That was until late race contact with a GT car damaged much of his rear spoiler.

“It was just holding on after the issue with the spoiler,” said Pruett. “Literally just holding on to the car. I mean it was sideways everywhere and it just lost a lot of down force. I knew the only advantage was straight line speed. So I knew if I could get up and off the turn well I'd be very difficult to pass in a straight line and that is really the only place you can make a good pass here.”

Pruett held on for the win with Burt Frisselle in the AIM Autosport Ford/Riley pushing him hard in the final laps. Frisselle was also being hunted by third place finisher Max Angelelli in the SunTrust Racing Ford/Dallara.

The first two hours of the race were fairly uneventful. The first full course caution came on lap 55 for debris in turns seven, eight and nine.

The first half of the race was dominated by Memo Rojas and Pruett in the No.01 Ganassi Racing BMW/Riley. Gainsco Racing's Chevrolet/Riley of Alex Gurney held steady in second with Darren Law in the Brumos Porsche/Riley rounding out the top three.

The GT class was paced early by Todd Lamb in the No.30 IDEMITSU/3Dimensionial.com Mazda RX-8. In second at halfway was Sylvain Tremblay in the No.70 Mazda and Paul Edwards' Corvette was third.

After the first full course caution Frisselle put up a spirited fight with Pruett breathing down his neck. Frisselle held off Pruett for several laps before Pruett slipped past to pick up the lead on lap 63.

Andy Lally, who was making his 10oth Rolex Series start, took advantage of a great strategy call by TRG team owner Kevin Buckler to stay out while most of the rest of the GT leaders pitted during the caution period. Lally's No.66 AXA Porsche GT3 took the GT class lead on Lap 56.

That led to a battle between Lally and Bill Auberlen in the No.94 Turner Motorsports BMW M6. Lally in his underpowered Porsche struggled to keep Auberlen in check. Auberlen tried an outside pass with two laps remaining. Lally and Auberlen came together taking Auberlen out of contention for the win.

“I have all the respect in the world for Bill (Auberlen),” said Lally. “We raced as clean as we could. We've done that before in the past with me coming out on the wrong side of it. I just held my ground I wasn't going to give more than an inch.”

“I've raced against Lally, he's very good, very tough, usually very clean,” Auberlen said. “I thought I had a pass clear on the left but I could still see him or hear him on my right in the corner. So I didn't drift over. I tried to give him the racing room and we got to the next corner which is even tighter again and pretty soon he's hitting me in the right rear. Is he out of room, did I pinch him? I don't exactly know. Usually we can run side-by-side and not have an issue so it is kind of odd that we had an issue like that.”

Lally and teammate Ted Ballou came away with the GT class win. Emil Assentato and Jeff Segal finished second in the FXDD Mazda RX-8 with Paul Edwards and Scott Russell rounding out the top three in the Airjax.com/Mobil 1 Corvette.