Welcome to the first sprint race of the 2021 IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship, at yet another of the myriad of legendary venues visited by the championship. This is the Acura Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio. Three classes will feature in the race today with DPi, LMP3, and GT Daytona. No LMP2 or GT Le Mans cars, are entered for this first sprint race of 2021. It is an Acura front row lockout with the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing ARX-05 of Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque on the front row, alongside the #60 Meyer Shank Racing car of Dane Cameron and Olivier Pla.
Mazda has third place with the #55 RT-24P in the hands of the
British duo of Oliver Jarvis and Harry Tincknell, while in fourth spot, it is
the venerable #31 Whelen Engineering Racing, Action Express Cadillac Dpi-V.R to
be driven by Felipe Nasr and Pipo Derani.
Back in the early 1960s, sports car racing enthusiasts had a great idea
to build a track for sports car racing.
A sprint race is on tap, in the search for the checkered flag. It is a lovely afternoon and weekend here in
Lexington, Ohio. No rain expected in the
forecast. A dry race is what we shall
have. Acura are going for four wins in a
row.
Meyer Shank Racing is the hometown team, and the Wayne Taylor Acura will also be in contention. Lexus has had the same streak in GT Daytona at this track. LMP3 was introduced to IWSC competition this year and we have seen Riley Motorsports and CORE Autosports as winners. Robert Wickens has finally gotten behind the wheel of a Hyundai Veloster. Welcome back, Robert Wickens. Roger Penske will return to sports cars, with Porsche, in 2023 in the new LMDh division.
Several teams have had to regroup. Action Express had a few troubled races, and they want to come back into the fold, going for the win. Now, Chip Ganassi Racing has had several issues as well, and bad luck. They too, must try to come back. We will see one driver change, with two drivers, and only three or four pit stops. This is going to be a sprint. No question. The engines have fired and we are getting ready to roll. Lexus #14, they are hoping to go for the hat trick. Jack Hawksworth and Aaron Telitz have been on a streak of different winners in GT Daytona.
Wayne Taylor Racing still want to get the monkey off their back at Mid Ohio, and tick the win box. The cars are on track, now. As you pan back from the Dpi cars, we see the LMP3 cars. Gar Robinson starts the #74 Riley Motorsports automobile. Harry Tincknell and Mazda on the pole in Dpi. Survive first lap “Madness”, the section of corners on the backstretch. Watch for the undercut and identify traffic. Here’s how Mid-Ohio works out, between Columbus and Cleveland. Built in 1962, and not repaved since 2006.
Lots of elevation change. The Keyhole is the first overtaking spot. Low grip, and bumpy. Watch the concrete patch, to the long beach straight into turn 4. Watch out for China Beach. Madness, is the section from turns four to 12. Watch The Carousel, the final turn on the road. We saw The Carousel being a point of contention in the Michelin Pilot race yesterday. The drivers say there is lots more grip on some sections. Traffic is going to be a big deal.
Traffic is going to be awkward between GT Daytona and LMP3. Jarett Andretti, third in LMP3 is making his debut in the WeatherTech Championship sharing with Oliver Askew. We have a split start between the prototypes and the GTD cars. Through the Keyhole. Green flag down the back straight. Go! Sprint racing is underway, and Harry Tincknell gets the jump. Pipo Derani bashes Filipe Albuquerque going for the second place. Derani has the inside line but cannot quite get there as we watch the GTD start as well. Aaron Telitz leads the motor race ahead of Robby Foley and Daniel Morad. Side by side down the hill and some contact look, between Lexus and AMG Mercedes. Down the front straight for the first time. Clean start so far. We expected more argy bargy.
Tincknell in the Mazda is booking it as we watch Derani and Magnussen. Kevin Magnussen is being monstered here by Dane Cameron in the #60 MSR Acura, who did an engine change and a tire change. Cameron is also being monstered by Tristan Vautier in the #5 JDC-Miller Motorsports Cadillac. Only 3.5 seconds splits the Daytona Prototype International field as we can see the GT Daytona cars. Professional drivers and amateur drivers can compete in the same class, and that is what GT Daytona is all about as Romain De Angelis and Madison Snow scrap for position.
Lamborghini vs. Aston Martin through the left hander cresting the hill coming to the final turn. The elevation change on this track is something else. Kevin Magnussen in the pit lane for a drive through penalty. Magnussen botched the start of the motor race, moving out of line too early. So, he visits the sin bin. Kevin Magnussen is a new driver to IMSA. In the middle of last year, a new rule was introduced about restarts. Don’t get anxious and unfortunately, that’s what Magnussen did. Harry Tincknell leads the motor race.
Traffic ahead. He is working his way through the GT Daytona automobiles. Aaron Telitz still leads GT Daytona. Tincknell slices and dices past the GT Daytona traffic and so does Filipe Albuquerque. We have drivers like Teltiz, Robby Foloey, Daniel Morad, Frankie Montecalvo, and more, scrapping for position in GTD. Dane Cameron moving through GTD traffic is in hot pursuit of Pipo Derani in the #31 Whelen Action Express Cadillac. The fans love this track at Mid-Ohio. It’s an amphitheater type track where there are no grandstands, and you sit on a hillside.
Harry Tincknell is bish bash boshing it right now, as Mazda will bow out of prototype racing at the end of the year in 2021. The race pace could suit the Mazda boys, but the Acura’s and Cadillac’s are chasing. The Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac has struggled so far this season. Daytona and Sebring, both, were races they would rather forget. Tincknell now leads the motor race over Felipe Albuquerque by 4.6 seconds and Pipo Derani by 7.8 seconds. We watch Gar Robinson leading LMP3 over Jarret Andretti, and Brad Goldburg.
Tincknell is moving around Gar Robinson and speaking of LMP3, Lance Willsey has spun the LMP3 entry for Sean Creech Motorsports, car #33. No damage but clean the clag off the tires. There was a spin there but thankfully did not spin into the gravel trap. In Dpi and GTLM it is a ten minute window. In LMP3 and GTD, 45 minutes is the maximum. In LMP3, it is a real gap between the Am and the Pro drivers. It’s like a game of chicken because the cars are so fuel efficient, and can go 65 minutes on a stint on full fuel tanks.
LMP3 cars could all hit the lane at the same time. Gar Robinson leads Jaret Andretti and Brad Goldburg in LMP3. Meanwhile in GT Daytona, Madison Snow has his hands full with Roman De Angelis. Lamborghini vs. Aston Martin, as we ride along with the #39 CarBahn with Peregrine Racing Audi R8 being shared by Richard Heistand and Jeff Westphal in this team’s first WeatherTech Championship sprint outing. This is a team we have seen before in Michelin Pilot Challenge with a GT4 spec Audi R8. Roman de Angelis is right on Madison Snow’s six, look. He wants this position in class. But these blokes are a wee bit behind the GTD leaders.
Overall leader, Filipe Albuquerque, (actually, second), he is pushing hard as well. Pipo Derani is dropping back, scrapping with Tristan Vautier in the #5 Cadillac. Daniel Morad tags Pipo Derani and sends him wiggling through the corner! Action Express are trying hard to press the reset button and it has been really frustrating for this team. Feeling the pressure. In the meantime, threading the needle in LMP3 past GT Daytona cars. Jarett Andretti has run in GT4 in the SRO series as well.
Felipe Nasr and Pipo Derani want to turn their season around. Derani says he and the team have reset. Last year, Ricky Taylor and Helio Castroneves had to rebound. Now, Action Express may be in the same boat. Pipo Derani is fifth of six cars in DPi. Meanwhile, in GT Daytona it remains a four-way scrap. Lamborghini vs. Audi vs. Aston Martin vs. Porsche. Dan Goldburg is putting all kinds of pressure on Gar Robinson in LMP3 as well, look. These two need to stay clean and not make a pig’s breakfast out of their battle as Jarett Andretti closes in.
All the LMP3 cars, evenly matched. That is the #16 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3R of Ryan Hardwick and Patrick Long ahead. Hardwick, I believe, started the car, on his return to racing after a concussion he suffered at Daytona at the start of the year. In racing, the further you get behind, trying to recover, can dig you into a hole. The pressure to perform is always there. Dan Goldburg, in the #38 car for Performance Tech has taken the LMP3 lead as Harry Tincknell continues to lead the motor race, being patient in traffic, half an hour into this race.
Dane Cameron is chasing Filipe Albuquerque. Acura vs. Acura for the front of the DPi class. Fresh tires, half an hour into the motor race, is beneficial. Three wide ‘round Jaret Andretti who has taken the LMP3 lead. Meyer Shank Racing has their team located close by in Petascala, Ohio. Meyer Shank Racing would like to win. The #31 Cadillac pits for four tires, fuel, and a driver change. No real damage to the car if there was contact. Felipe Nasr is back on the road. This is an exceedingly early driver change because of the cooler conditions.
The DPi cars are moving around the GT Daytona cars right now. Mid-Ohio is a very busy track. Kevin Magnussen stays in the #01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac. Tires and fuel. Meyer Shank Racing will pit next time by. Kevin Magnussen has just uncorked fastest lap. Not sure of the time. Dane Cameron now wants to get around Filipe Albuquerque. Cameron tries his best t carry more speed into the turn on Filipe Albuquerque as the GT Daytona scrum continues. Madison Snow continues to fend off the challenge from Roman De Angelis.
Dan Goldburg is still holding off Gar Robinson in LMP3 as well, look. No dice and Goldburg stays in front as Richard Heistand is running very, very well in the CarBahn Audi with Jeff Westphal debuting in the Sprint Cup in GT Daytona. The battles are all over this 2 and a quarter mile track at Mid-Ohio. Right in the queue, we can see GT Daytona cars and LMP3 cars in their own battles. The internecine battle of the Acura’s continues for second spot. Albuquerque’s margin over Cameron is growing slightly. He is putting daylight (Albuquerque), between himself, and the MSR machine.
Mazda #55 in the lane from the lead of the motor race. Tincknell leads by 12 seconds over Filipe Albuquerque. Tires, fuel, and a driver change, as Oliver Jarvis will get into the automobile. Each class has a minimum fuel fill, per the rules. The #96 Turner Motorsports BMW M6 GT3 is in the lane sharing with Bill Auberlen. Foley just missed pole in qualifying to Aaron Telitz, yesterday. The Acura scrap rages as Filipe Albuquerque is in the lead of the motor race right now. 45 minutes is the minimum drive time for both GTD and LMP3. Maximum for LMP3 and GTD is an hour and 55 minutes.
Pit stop time too for both Acura teams, pitting together. Albuquerque and Cameron. Both in, and there will be a driver change to Olivier Pla. Wayne Taylor Racing also searching for a win at Mid-Ohio for the first time. Maybe there was less fuel for Filipe Albuquerque as the #01 of Kevin Magnussen on hot tires, moves past Olivier Pla. Felipe Nasr has moved up to second behind Harry Tincknell, 5.3 seconds behind. Zacharie Robichon and Laurens Vanthoor were penalized for ride height after qualifying, but they are making their way through the GTD pack, for Porsche and Pfaff Motorsports.
Pit stop time now, too, for the #54 CORE Autosport LMP3 car. This is the car driven by Colin Braun and John Bennett as we also see a flurry of activity in the lane for GTD. Wright Motorsports, Vasser Sullivan Lexus, they are both in for fuel and tires and perhaps driver changes as well. This is the #14 Jack Hawksworth and Aaron Telitz car. Jack Hawksworth is now in the #14 Lexus who has won the last two races, going for the hat trick.
The sister #12 Lexus is coming in as Frankie Montecalvo will be relieved by hometown driver, Zach Veach. Colin Braun and Jon Bennett, had to serve a drive through penalty for running over equipment in the pit lane, as Kevin Magnussen is pouring on the steam trying to move back to the front. Handling troubles for the Lexus boys and new Michelin tires will help that cause. Roman De Angelis in the lane and Ross Gunn will take over the #23 The Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3. We also see the #66 Gradient Racing Acura NSX GT3 in the lane for Till Bechtolsheimer and Marc Miller. Poor old Jon Bennett is off the road and back on as he is chasing Oliver Askew.
Check that. It is Colin Braun. Rob Ferriol is pressing on in the #88 EBM Team Hardpoint Porsche 911 GT3R in the hands of Rob Ferriol. Ferriol sharing with Katherine Legge. The Acura’s built around the Oreca chassis, with Mid-Ohio, has a smooth surface and is front tire dependent. Acura’s can keep the balance in the race car longer than some of the other DPi cars such as the Mazda and the Cadillac, although Mazda has the lead of the motor race so far.
The Acura and Cadillac scrap intensifies as we watch the #5 JDC-Miller automobile with Loic Duval and Tristan Vautier. Madison Snow continues to lead GT Daytona and Zach Robichon is chasing. Snow is the rabbit, Robichon is the hound, and Richard Heistand as well, in the #39 CarBahn Audi, he is bang on the money right now as well. Olivier Pla in the #60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura runs sixth in class in DPi. MSR are looking for track position as their fuel strategy is a target.
Turn one here at Mid-Ohio for a DPi car is incredible, carrying loads of speed. Porsche #88 for Team Hardpoint EBM is in the lane for service. Katherine Legge is into the car, after Rob Ferriol, team principal, finishes his stint. Team principal, along with Porsche veteran driver, Earl Bamber. Katherine Legge is getting up to speed in her stint. Also, into the lane, the #39 Audi. Richard Heistand, out, and Jeff Westphal, into the car. Make sure the driver is comfortable in the car as they take over. Westphal makes his way back onto the circuit.
Kevin Magnussen in the #01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac is in hot pursuit of a similar car, the #5 JDC-Miller Motorsports entry for Tristan Vautier, the Sebring winner. Pfaff Motorsports in the Porsche in the lane for fuel, tires, and a driver change. It looks like Laurens Vanthoor has now taken over from Zacharie Robichon. Just over an hour and a half left in the motor race. Harry Tincknell still leads this motor race by 11 and a half seconds over Felipe Nasr. Ross Gunn has been nominated as the full-season driver alongside Roman De Angelis at The Heart of Racing.
Kevin Magnussen continues to chase Tristan Vautier, and we have a broken suspension, a broken tie rod on the #14 Vasser Sullivan Lexus for Jack Hawksworth! Dear oh dear! This is another group that has been on the back foot and they will have a fraught day today unless they can get this problem fixed and we are only an hour and ten minutes in with an hour and a half left on the board. Mo flat tire, but there’s a wobble wheel. The wheel nut could have been loose and maybe something with the suspension is broken for the Lexus team, the #14 car.
They will take the car back to the garage, in damage limitation mode. These curbs are very gentle, allowing motorcycles to also race here at Mid-Ohio. Robby Foley takes the GTD lead in the #96 Turner Motorsports BMW leading the sister Vasser Sullivan Lexus of Zach Veach. No four in a row for the #14 Lexus in GTD as BMW leads in class. Pit stop time for the #31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac and Pipo Derani will take over the car, along with a change of four tires and fuel. The #5 JDC-Miller Motorsports Cadillac is now in the lane as well.
Loic Duval should take over from Tristan Vautier as we have just over an hour and 20 minutes of racing left. What a beautiful track Mid-Ohio is. Harry Tincknell continues to lead ahead of Filipe Albuquerque and Kevin Magnussen. Tincknell in the lane. Now, we have not seen a Full Course Yellow in the motor race yet. Oliver Jarvis will take over the Mazda to the end of the race. We are halfway home now. Magnussen got a nerf a short time ago from Andy Lally in the #44 Magnus Racing Acura NSX GT3, the Speed Racer liveried car.
A confirmed rear suspension failure for the #14 Vasser
Sillivan Lexus, working on the suspension of the car. Lally sharing with John Potter. The other Acura NSX GT3’s in this race are
the Gradient car we’ve mentioned, the Bechtolsheimer/Miller car and the #76
Compass Racing Acura NSX GT3 of Jeff Kingsley and Mario Farnbacher. Jeff Westphal passes Marc Miller. Farnbacher had a birthday recently. He does not have a full season ride, but has
this opportunity with Compass and they ran a McLaren last year in 2020. Good scrap here between Farnbacher and
Michael de Quesada in the #28 Alegra Motorsports Mercedes.
Into the lane, the #60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura from the
race lead. Olivier Pla in the car and he
will stay there as this is a fuel and tire stop. Filipe Albuquerque resumes in the lead. Pla has Oliver Jarvis and Felipe Nasr
following. Now, our leader is in. Filipe Albuquerque out of the #10 handing
over to Ricky Taylor. Michelin does an
amazing job with the tires. Their tires
can indeed be pushed to the limit. Mario
Farnbacher had an off-course excursion and ran into the dust. He is off the road another time as well,
look. Robby Foley is 25 seconds up the
road from both Zach Veach and Ross Gunn.
This car that Farnbacher is driving, is the same Acura NSX
GT3 he drove in 2019. This is his fourth
straight year driving an Acura NSX GT3. Oliver
Jarvis is back in the lead of the motor race with Felipe Nasr chasing him
down. Nasr is just 1.4 seconds
in-arrears. Action Express has done the
undercut. Nasr is closing in on Jarvis,
little by little. Nasr is working
through traffic having had the Action Express team put him out on a clear track,
mentioning some of the team, including team owner, Bob Johnson, and team
managers Gary Nelson and Tim Keane.
Pit stop time for the #1 Paul Miller Racing
Lamborghini. This is the car being
shared by Madison Snow and Bryan Sellers.
In as well, the #96 Turner Motorsports BMW M6 GT3, the Auberlen/Foley
car. Spin there, ah, for the #16 Wright
Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3R. Patrick
Long is in the gravel trap. He is hung
up in the sand. Ah. He gets balked by Michael de Quesada, and he
had contact, too, with Laurens Vanthoor.
Poor old Vanthoor wanted no part of it and the tire came right off the
rim of the #16 car. Jeepers
creepers! Full Course Yellow, now. #31 in the lane. Tim Keane makes the call, and they will have
fuel and track position. It appears the
Wright Motorsports Porsche, the #16 car is now back on the road. Patrick Long is limping around as the tire is
delaminating. Back in 1963, the first
race run here was an SCCA event won by the legendary, late, great Ken Miles.
Oliver Jarvis is in the lane now and so are the other contenders. We have the #10, the #55, the #01, the #31, and the #60 in the lane. Down and away for all of these cars. The #31 responded and did a splash and dash before so they are topped up and there will be one more round of pit stops. We watch the replay of the fracas with the #16, and that was a pig’s breakfast to say the least. GTD cars to the pit lane. Alegra Mercedes, Pfaff Porsche, and others. A driver change in the Mercedes camp. Is it Daniel Morad or is it Michael de Quesada?
The Pfaff Porsche is down and away. Wright Motorsports, mercifully, also enters the lane. A little something for their trouble. NASCAR owns IMSA, and NASCAR has borrowed some of the technology from sports car racing with an undertray, a sequential gearbox, independent suspension, and more. Seven road courses on the Cup Series circuit. All the DPi cars are going to restart together. 51 minutes to go. We also look forward to what is to come in LMDh. Roger Penske will race LMDh with Porsche. This is the most recent announcement of the new cars.
Roger Penske took a Porsche RS Spyder out, driving it. Penske will be in charge of Porsche in LMDh and LMH in Europe, for Porsche. The #31 is in the lead of the motor race as Patrick Long is now stopped off the track. Maybe there is a driveline issue. Another lap under yellow. Now, the #16 Porsche is driving again, so they have not lost drive. What will the marshals and IMSA say about that? Will there be a splash and dash in DPi? The concern is that if there isn’t a split between DPi, LMP3, and GTD. 45 minutes left and we are back to green.
Felipe Nasr leads the motor race ahead of Ricky Taylor and Oliver Jarvis. These Michelin tires are like snowballs and keep picking up the clag. Renger van der Zande screams past Loic Duval and move his way through the queue. Ricky Taylor moves around Felipe Nasr for the lead. 43 minutes to go. Nasr is now six tenths of a second behind as Andy Lally is pressing Jeff Westphal. Ross gunn leads Jeff Westphal, Andy Lally, and more. Auberlen leads the clas over Zach Veach, Bryan Sellers, and Mario Farnbacher.
40 minutes to go. What a great scrap in GTD. So many different cars. Audi, Aston Martin, Acura, Porsche, BMW. Felipe Nasr is keeping Ricky Taylor honest right now.; Fuel strategy, saving petrol, and looking at track position. These are the keys to how to win. Felipe Nasr is reeling in the Acura. Oliver Jarvis lurking in the distance, but 2.3 seconds in-arrears. The leaders are trapped behind GTD cars of Katherine Legge and the beleaguered #14 Lexus which is back on track. More lapped traffic ahead as Oliver Jarvis will be closing in on these two leaders.
Taylor has Nasr all over him as Jarvis is moving in. GT Daytona traffic is massive and here comes Nasr! Jarvis is now going to be balked by GTD cars. Lots of time left on the board and these boys will need a splash and dash before the end. Oliver Jarvis and Renger van der Zande have their own battle for third spot. We watch the #28 Alegra Motorsports Mercedes as well and the scrum in GTD between Vanthoor and Gunn for fifth in class. Back to the lead battle. Taylor leading Nasr. Vanthoor in GTD closes up on the Compass Racing Acura of Mario Farnbacher.
Under a half hour remaining in the motor race. Laurens Vanthoor went off the road in the Porsche. Holy smokes! He lifted and ran over the curbs and Mario Farnbacher threw dirt in Vanthoor’s face. Target fixation. Ricky Taylor leads Felipe Nasr by just one second. In terms of managing fuel, Pipo Derani says the simulator is used for fuel saving, to run the lap time, with not using up too much petrol. Felipe Nasr has probably reached his fuel target either before their final stop or before the end of the motor race.
It sounds like Action Express is happy with the pace. For the Mazda camp, they have not had the pace to keep up with the leaders, running to a fuel number for the splash and dash. The #5 Mustang Sampling Cadillac of Loic Duval has been saving fuel. They are on a fuel saving strategy, the Sebring winners. Nasr will be right on Ricky Taylor’s six now. #54 spins with damage but keeps going! Holy cow! In the last half hour, if there is a Full Course Yellow, pit lane is not open. Watch out for the tooleys on the outside of the track. Ricky Taylor divebombs around Felipe Fraga in the #74 Riley Motorsports LMP3 car! Nasr is still extremely close.
Some argy bargy there, look, between the #01 Cadillac and the #55 Mazda. Whoa. That was close. This motor race has been a barn burner so far. Will the leaders have to pit? Will Loic Duval be able to move in on fuel saving? The #5 team believes they are in the pound seats to go for the victory after winning at Sebring. Now, they believe too, that they have called a great strategy if the leaders falter. Duval will still need to save petrol, though.
Olivier Pla, ahead of Loic Duval, in Acura #60, he does not have enougn fuel or tires. Can he move in? Bill Auberlen, leading GT Daytona, chasing Felipe Fraga’s LMP3 car. Auberlen leads Zach Veach, Bryan Sellers, Ross Gunn, and Mario Farnbacher. 15 minutes to go now. The #12 Vasser Sullivan Lexus is second in class in GTD after the sister car was forced to retire. Zach Veach is transitioning from IndyCar to sports cars and GT racing. Bryan Sellers is applying the blowtorch to Veach, though.
Should the leaders pit, Duval may be vulnerable, but could also get on the podium. Ricky Taylor leads Felipe Nasr by 1.4 seconds. The #31 will be close on fuel. Nasr is told to save more petrol. We are coming down to the end of the motor race. Nasr clears the lapped traffic and now has a chance to close up on Ricky Taylor. GTD traffic has played somewhat of a part, but not significantly. The gap between Taylor and Nasr is a second and a half. Nasr has been told to back off a smidgen to save petrol.
Fuel saving is still the deal. Both Wayne Taylor Racing and Action Express want to save fuel so they don’t have to take an extra lap. Both cars are 3-3.5 seconds off their best laps. Four or so, five actually, laps to go. The pace won’t slow down. This is going to be close. Felipe Nasr brakes deep into the Keyhole. Bill Auberlen continues to lead in GT Daytona and is ahead by 3.5 seconds, from a lead that was up around five seconds earlier on. Felipe Fraga leads LMP3.
Pit stop time for Olivier Pla. He needs a splash and a dash. The #10 Acura could also be close on gas. 2.8 seconds between Taylor and Nasr. Nasr has time on his hands. But the team may have enough confidence to get to the end. Felipe Nasr is being told to push. The gap is closing. 1.7 seconds. Taylor has been on a tear. Lapped traffic in the way for Nasr. LMP3 and GTD. Pit stop time, splash and dash for the #01 Ganassi Cadillac. One lap to go next time by.
Rasmus Lindh in the #38 Performance Tech car is a lap down and he is cleared. One more lap to go. Nasr reeling in Taylor. What is going to happen? Traffic ahead. Ricky Taylor wins it, holding off Felipe Nasr. Felipe Fraga and Gar Robinson win LMP3 and in GT Daytona, it is the #96 Turner Motorsports BMW M6 GT3 of Bill Auberlen and Robby Foley.
Overall/DPi: #10 Taylor/Albuquerque Acura ARX 05
LMP3:
#74 Robinson/Fraga Ligier JS P320
Nissan
GT Daytona: #96 Auberlen/Foley BMW M6 GT3
That is all folks, from Mid-Ohio. The next race on the calendar is a race that
did not happen last year due to the pandemic.
It will be another sprint, a street fight at Belle Isle Park in the
Motor City, Detroit, Michigan, coming up in mid-June. Join us there. So long, for now, and take care, everybody.
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