Weekend Recap: IMSA at Road America, GT America in Nashville
Catch up on a busy weekend of North American sports car racing...
Action Express Racing claimed victory in Sunday’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship round at Road America, with Pipo Derani capitalizing on a late-race splash of fuel for the No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-05.
Derani took his No. 5 Whelen Engineering-sponsored Cadillac DPi-V.R to a 1.594-second win over the No. 55 Mazda RT24-P of Harry Tincknell in a two-hour and 40-minute contest that came down to a fuel mileage race.
Dane Cameron, who led the second half of the race in the MSR Acura after undercutting the DPi field early, was forced to pit with three-and-a-half minutes to go, handing the win to Derani and co-driver Felipe Nasr.
It marked the Brazilian duo’s second consecutive victory after breaking through for their first win in nearly two years in last month’s WeatherTech 240 at Watkins Glen.
Other class winners included Era Motorsport (LMP2), CORE autosport (LMP3), WeatherTech Racing (GTLM) and Pfaff Motorsports (GTD).
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Auberlen, Machavern Tame Wet Conditions to Win for Turner in Michelin Pilot Challenge
Bill Auberlen and Dillon Machavern mastered tricky wet conditions to win round seven of the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge season at Road America for Turner Motorsport.
The BMW pair took their second victory in three races after a tense run to the line for Auberlen, who drove the last 76 minutes of the two-hour race on the same tank of fuel amid progressively heavier rainfall and diminishing visibility around the four-mile circuit.
Winward Racing’s Mercedes-AMG GT4s finished second and third, with Alec Udell and Bryce Ward coming through 15.7 seconds behind the winning No. 95 BMW M4 GT4.
Turner and Winward filled out the top four places, as Indy Dontje and Russell Ward completed the podium in their AMG ahead of Robby Foley and Vin Barletta’s BMW entry.
Machavern and Foley built up a large lead after breaking away from an early three-way battle with the fellow Watkins Glen-winning Notlad Racing by RS1 Aston Martin Vantage GT4 and the No. 4 Winward Mercedes of Dontje and Ward.
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Marcelli, Formal Sweep Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America Weekend
Prestige Performance with Wayne Taylor Racing’s Danny Formal and Kyle Marcelli swept the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America round at Road America by winning a shortened Race 2.
The drivers of the No. 1 Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo Evo built on their first win of the season on Saturday by controlling Sunday’s 50-minute contest from pole, up to a full course caution period with 10 minutes remaining that ultimately decided the results.
Marcelli led away from Jacob Eidson, who kept the WTR driver honest through the opening stint after passing Jeroen Mul for second into the Turn 5 left-hander on lap one.
Marcelli stayed out one lap longer than Eidson during the pit window, and managed to hand the lead over to his co-driver Formal despite getting caught behind a backmarker on his in-lap.
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Thompson Wins Porsche Carrera Cup North America Race 2; Points Leader Van Berlo Penalized
Parker Thompson claimed his second Porsche Carrera Cup North America presented by The Cayman Islands victory of the season in a controlling drive in Race 2 of the weekend at Road America.
The JDX Racing driver broke Kay van Berlo’s three-race win streak in Sunday’s hard-fought 45-minute contest that saw the Pro class championship leader handed a post-race drive-through penalty for incident responsibility.
Thompson weaved his way into the lead on the opening lap after a three-wide attempt into Turn 1 that dropped van Berlo to third and briefly saw Riley Dickinson lead in the No. 53 Team Hardpoint EBM Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car.
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Redemption for Curtis Second GT America Race on Streets of Nashville
After crashing out of the lead in the closing moments of Saturday’s race, Bret Curtis bounced back to claim victory in the second GT America powered by AWS round of the weekend on the streets of Nashville.
Curtis took his No. 62 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 to top overall honors in the 40-minute scheduled race, which ended under a full course caution due to an accident by the No. 26 Prive Motorsports/ Topp Racing McLaren 570S GT4 of Thomas Surgent.
Having started from pole, Curtis took the early lead ahead of a four-wide move triggered by the No. 191 Rearden Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo of Jeff Burton, which forced both the No. 14 GMG Racing Audi R8 LMS ultra of James Sofronas and Charlie Luck’s No. 45 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R into the run-off area.
A heavy crash for the No. 8 GMG Audi R8 LMS GT2 of Elias Sabo moments later brought out the first caution, with the field restarting with 17 minutes to go prior to the race-ending yellow with ten minutes left on the clock.
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IMSA Aligns GTD Pro, GTD Regs
2022 WeatherTech Schedule Released
Challenge, Single Make Calendars Revealed
IMSA LMP3 Future Beyond 2022 Undecided
Pfaff Planning GTD Pro Effort for 2022