O trio Olivier Pla/Jonathan Bomarito/Harry Tincknell, no Mazda DPi #55 da Mazda Team Joest, venceu neste domingo (30/06) a Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen, no Watkins Glen International, sexta etapa do IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Foi a primeira vitória do Mazda DPi na categoria.
Pla/ Bomarito/Tincknell cruzaram a linha de chegada, após seis horas de disputa, e 221 voltas, com apenas 0s353 de vantagem sobre os parceiros de equipe Oliver Jarvis/Tristan Nunez/Timo Bernhard, no Mazda DPi #77, que alinhou na pole.
A dupla Dane Cameron/Juan Pablo Montoya (Acura Team Penske/Acura DPi) completou o pódio no geral, e na classe Prototype.
A dupla Renger Van Der Zande/Jordan Taylor (Konica Minolta/Cadillac DPi-V.R) terminou em quarto.
O brasileiro Hélio Castroneves (Acura Team Penske/Acura DPi), em dupla com Ricky Taylor, chegou em sexto.
Os brasileiros Felipe Nasr e Pipo Derani (Whelen Engineering Racing/Cadillac DPi), em trio com Eric Curran, terminou na oitava posição.
Pela classe LMP2 vitória do trio Matthew McMurry/Gabriel Aubry/Eric Lux (PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports/ORECA LMP2).
Pela classe GTLM vitória a dupla Nick Tandy/Patrick Pilet (Porsche GT Team/Porsche 911 RSR).
O trio Mario Farnbacher/Trent Hindman/Justin Marks (Meyer Shank Racing w/ Curb-Agajanian/Acura NSX GT3) venceu na classe GTD.
A brasileira Bia Figueiredo (Meyer Shank Racing w/ Curb-Agajanian/Acura NSX GT3), em trio com Katherine Legge/Christina Nielsen, terminou em quarto na classe GTD.
O brasileiro Felipe Fraga (Mercedes-AMG Team Riley Motorsports/Mercedes-AMG GT3), em trio com Ben Keating/Jeroen Bleekemolen, abandonou logo na primeira volta.
A próxima etapa, no Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, em Ontario, no Canadá, acontece no dia 07 de julho.
Final:
1 – Bomarito/Tincknell/Pla (Mazda DPi) – Joest – 211 voltas
2 – Jarvis/Nunez/Bernhard (Mazda DPi) – Joest – 0â€353
3 – Montoya/Cameron (Acura DPi) – Penske – 11â€783
4 – Van Der Zande/Taylor (Cadillac DPi) – Taylor – 24â€837
5 – Taylor/Castroneves (Acura DPi) – Penske – 38â€684
6 – Barbosa/Conway/Albuquerque (Cadillac DPi) – AXR – 2 voltas
7 – Nasr/Curran/Derani (Cadillac DPi) – AXR – 3
8 – Owen/Binder (Cadillac DPi) – Juncos – 5
9 – Trummer/Simpson/Miller (Cadillac DPi) – JDC Miller – 7
10 – McMurry/Aubry/Lux (ORECA LMP2) – PR1 – 10
11 – Goikhberg/Vautier/Piedrahita (Cadillac DPi) – JDC Miller – 12
12 – Pilet/Tandy (Porsche 911 RSR) – Porsche – 16
13 – Magnussen/Garcia (Chevrolet Corvette C7.R) – Corvette – 16
14 – Briscoe/Westbrook (Ford GT) – Ganassi – 17
15 – Hand/Mueller (Ford GT) – Ganassi – 17
16 – Krohn/Edwards (BMW M8 GTE) – RLL – 17
17 – Bamber/Vanthoor (Porsche 911 RSR) – Porsche – 17
18 – Farnbacher/Hindman/Marks (Acura NSX GT3) – Shank – 23
19 – Auberlen/Foley/Machavern (BMW M6 GT3) – Turner – 23
20 – MacNeil/Vilander/Westphal (Ferrari 488 GT3) – Scuderia Corsa – 23
21 – Legge/Nielsen/Figueiredo (Acura NSX GT3) – Heinricher – 23
22 – Heistand/Hawksworth/Frommenwiler (Lexus RC F GT3) – AIM – 23
23 – Hargrove/Robichon/Kern (Porsche 911 GT3 R) – Pfaff – 23
24 – Potter/Lally/Pumpelly (Lamborghini Huracan GT3) – Magnus – 23
25 – Morad/Mies/Feller (Audi R8 LMS GT3) – Land – 23
26 – Montecalvo/Bell/Telitz (Lexus RC F GT3) – AIM – 23
27 – Miller/Seefried/Werner (Porsche 911 GT3 R) – Black Swan – 25
28 – Gdovic/Eidson/Yount (Lamborghini Huracan GT3) – PPM – 26
29 – Chase/Dalziel/Skeen (Audi R8 LMS GT3) – Starworks – 26
30 – Cassels/Evans/Masson (ORECA LMP2) – PerfTech – 30
31 – Blomqvist/De Phillippi (BMW M8 GTE) – RLL – 52
32 – Bennett/Braun/Dumas (Nissan DPi) – CORE – 100
33 – Lindsey/Long/Boulle (Porsche 911 GT3 R) – Park Place – 125
34 – Sellers/Hardwick/Lewis (Lamborghini Huracan GT3) – Miller – 143
35 – Gavin/Milner (Chevrolet Corvette C7.R) – Corvette – 211 g
36 – Keating/Bleekemolen/Fraga (Mercedes-AMG GT3) – Riley – 211