MONTREAL  — Canadian Mark Wilkins and Brian Frisselle won the Montreal 200 in the closest finish in Grand-Am Rolex Series history today, beating Christian Fittipaldi and Antonio Garcia by 0.064 seconds at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

Frisselle, 24, is a former Maui resident who graduated from Seabury Hall. He now lives in Aspen, Colo.

Wilkins piloted AIM Autosport's No. 61 Ford Riley — the lone Canadian-owned team in the series — to victory after leader Darren Law's No. 58 car ran out of fuel and slowed about 100 yards from the finish on the 2.71-mile, 14-turn course on Isle Notre Dame.

The first-time series winners led only the final yards. They averaged 92.402 mph for 69 laps in the two-hour race in front of about 50,000 fans.

"I said, 'What happened? Are these the guys? Did that really happen?'" said Wilkins, from Toronto. "After the last couple of races we had, it's great to have some luck come our way."

Fittipaldi and Garcia, also out of fuel at the end, drove Cheever Racing's Pontiac Coyote. Law and David Donohue finished third in Law Brumos Racing's Porsche Riley.

The winning No. 61 got off to a bad start, spinning after contact with the championship-leading Daytona Prototype on just the second corner of the event.

Frisselle made pass after pass before he turned the car over to Wilkins, who kept the forward progress straight through to the closing laps. He put the car in podium position on the second to last lap, then made the winning move on the final front stretch as the leading cars sputtered out of fuel.

"This feels fantastic and is exactly the result this team deserved!" Frisselle said. "We've been really strong and led the last few races, but just didn't have the luck that we needed to break through. You hate it for the 58 guys running out of fuel like they did, but today was just our day and this feels great.

"Our Ford was great on fuel and I don't think anyone passed more cars than we did today, so it's great to bring them their first win this season."