Welcome, everybody, to The Bull Ring, Lime Rock Park, in Lakeville, Connecticut. The sports car racing equivalent of a Saturday night short track slugfest for stock cars. We have seen these battles ensue in VP Challenge and in the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship GT Daytona classes already, today. There is one more race to be run on this sports car racing marathon Saturday for the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge, with a twist. Today's 100-mnute event is only slated to feature the TCR touring cars. It is their first ever standalone event without the company of the GS, GT4 spec sports cars. GS had their own standalone event on the streets of Detroit, Michigan, last month.
We have a field of 14 TCR cars, with all the usual teams and drivers, ready to go. Once again, this is the Lime Rock Park 100. Brian Till and Calvin Fish are here to call the action. Puffy clouds, sunshine, and 81 degrees ambient temperature with no rain. This is a TCR only race. That will change the dynamic of this race. The TCR cars fly around Lime Rock. We are into the second half of the year. So, we look at the points standings and see the #33 Bryan Herta Autosport Hyundai Elantra N TCR of Harry Gottsacker and Robert Wickens in the lead on 1,470 points, 20 markers ahead of their sister car, the #98 BHA Hyundai of Mason Filippi and Mark Wilkins. Only ten points out is the #17 Unitronic JDC Miller Motorsports Audi RS3 LMS TCR of Chirs Miller and Mikey Taylor.
In fourth, 120 points behind the leaders, the #5 KMW TMR Alfa Romeo Giulietta of Roy Block and Tim Lewis Jr. Then, in fifth, ten points behind the Alfa boys, the #73 LA Honda World Honda Civic driven by Mike LaMarra and Williams Tally. We have seen IMSA titles won without a win before. There is potential for a big swing in points. This only a 100 minute race critical for tire wear especially on the left side. Minimum drive time is 30 minutes. The tires are going to be knackered. Dillon Welch from the pit lane, reporting on L.A. Honda World.
They have Joe Boo, from the baseball comedy movie called "Major League". Hanna Newhouse, the other pit report, she mentions consistency has been a big deal for the #33 BHA Hyundai. They chose to qualify and start Robert Wickens, starting this race before handing off to Harry Gottsacker. This is the first time the TCR cars have done this alone. Lime Rock Park is the shortest track on the schedule at 1.5 miles and with one and only one left hand turn. TCR will be running the outside uphill straightaway and not the curve like the GT3 cars raced earlier today. The left side tires will be torn up. You run a lot of camber and stand the tires up and down to take away overheating of the inside shoulder.
Make sure the tires last to halfway at the 50-minute mark. Three warmup laps behind the safety car before we go racing. We are 100 miles from New York City. This is the Bull Ring. 99% right hand corners. Big Bend through turns one and two, Big Bend. Watch out for tuye curb. Through the esses. Then comes the uphill through turn five and we are not running the chicane for the TCR cars like the WeatherTech GTD Pro and GTD cars which are built to GT3 spec, did earlier this afternoon. They will whistle through there, through West Bend and down the downhill to finish off the lap. Here is a look at the manufacturer's breakdown.
Hyundai: 7
Honda: 3
Audi: 3
Alfa Romeo: 1
Mat Pombo and Ryan Eversley need all the luck. One hour and 40 minutes of racing. Green flag and TCR at Lime Rock is go! Down to turn one for the first time Mat Pombo leads but were they in column formation, and we have a car or two already dropping wheels in the dirt at the back of the queue! That's the #10 Audi RS3 LMS TCR of Preston Brown, aboard the first of the two Rockwell Autosport Development cars. Preston Brown sharing with Alex Rockwell. Greatstart by Pombo. Brian Ortiz is held off by Mark Wilkins early doors.
Stay cool and don't make a move too soon. Passing at a premium but don't bin it on the first lap. Bryan Herta Autosport loaded the deck putting their finishing drivers in to start. Three deep into Big Bend just isn't on and poor old Alex Rockwell got caught out there, in a cloud of dust. Dropping a wheel with big cornering loads you are going for a ride even with front wheel drive. A short lap at Lime Rock Park and you can lose a lap quickly. Mat Pombo leading the motor race running the original configuration with the uphill and without the chicane that we see in the GT3 cars for the WeatherTech Championship which was in their race earlier today.
Send it up the hll and hope you are over the crest before the downhill. Did Mat Pombo change columns at the start? Mark Wilkins couldn't go anyplace. It seems like everything is fine with the stewards. Mat Pombo having things his way early doors. The new Honda Civic FL5 hatchback is supposedly so much better than the original version for TCR so either the FK7 or the FK8 model. It is more reliable, easier to drive, with the same 4 cylinder turbo engine. The driver sits more towards the center. Mat Pombo sharing with Ryan Eversley. They did not expect to earn pole but they sure did.
Everyone has had to compromise suspension setups with the camber through the turns here at Lime Rock. This is for tire life between half an hour and an hour and ten minutes to the end of the event. Wilkins tries Eversley on the outside. He is probing for a chance. The Hyundai has more pace than the Honda. Manage the tires though in this opening stint. #37 was cording tires in Free Practice on long runs. That isn't good. Save your tires but apply the pressure. The loads on these Michelin Pilot tires is a big deal. Who has the right strategy for Lime Rock Park? Read on to find out.
We can hear that distinctive chirp of the waste gate closing on the turbocharger. All these cars powered by 2 liter turbocharged 4 cylinder engines, proprietary motors from each manufacturer. Wilkins closing on Pombo and in third spot, lurking in the background, look, it is Bryan Ortiz at the whel of the #91 van der Steur Racing Hyundai Elantra sharing that car with Tyler Maxson. We are also watching the #90 sister car for van der Steur Racing, their other Elantra.
This is the car with GT4 and LMP3 standout Luca Mars now at the wheel of it, sharing alongside Rory van der Steur. Pombo almost a second ahead of Wilkins as the cars run mostly single file. Clean and green so far it appears. The fans on the hillside, enjouing all the racing action. No Grand Sport cars in this motor race of course. These TCR cars are 4/10ths quicker than what the Grand Sport pole was last year. These 2 liter 4 cylinder engines have about 330 horsepower and are front wheel drive as Denis Dupont runs 11th. Dupont was off the road wide in the grass through the sole left hand corner. Eric Rockwell, excuse me.
No grass in the radiator, thankfully. The splitter scythes the grass if you go off the road. No worries. Amore fun way to mow the lawn but not good for your radiator. Bryan Ortiz is doing very well so far, the driver from Puerto Rico. This race might just go green the whole way. It is a big adjustment without the Grand Sport cars, the coupes, here. Bryan Herta Autosport had brief radio communication troubles but that is fixed now. Mason Filippi and company wre behind Robert Wickens. Wickens at the start of the race could not get the car to shift either but I think that problem has been resolved, too.
Here are your current points as we get started with the race.
1. #98 Mark Wilkins & Mason Filippi Bryan Herta Autosport Hyundai Elantra N TCR 1,770 points
2. #33 Robert Wickens & Harry Gottsacker Bryan Herta Autosport Hyundai Elantra N TCR 1,720 points
3. #17 Chris Miller & Mikey Taylor Unitronic JDC-Miller Motorsports Audi RS3 LMS TCR 1,680 points
A 90 point spread between the top three and 50 points between first and second. Lime Rock Park is a high commitment track but with no worries about the multiple class dynamic and the overlap between the Grand Sport cars and the TCR cars, and we don't have that today. All these TCR cars are front wheel drive with 330 horsepower. Corner and apply the power with only the front tires. The tires are constantly under load. That is a lot of discipline and management on the driver's part.
Robert Wickens following Luca Mars in his TCR debut. How will the teams slice the pie? The finishing drivers might go deeper into the race for the second driver to bring it home. Car #1 has Michael Lewis qualifying and Taylor Hagler finishing the race today. Michael Lewis is a three-time champion, two with Taylor Hagler and one with Mark Wilkins. The team has not seen a podium yet in 2023 with argy bargy with Ryan Eversley at Watkins Glen and only one top five result. Gottsacker and Wickens lead the championship but have not won a race yet.
A good example of a team and car that have won races but are down in the points is the #5 KMW TMR Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce TCR for KMW Motorsports with TMR Engineering. They are fourth even though they've already won two races in 2023. Take the points you have. Mat Pombo and Ryan Eversley are doing all they can to turn their season around especially today at Lime Rock. Pombo leads by 1.7 seconds as we see a battle here between Chris Miller and Victor Gonzalez. Victor Gonzalez in the white and black #99 VGRT Honda Civic FK7 TCR he shares with Karl Wittmer. Chris Miller won TCR at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park last time out.
This Honda is last year's FK7 version compared to the new FL5. Miller is in the new Audi RS3. They have come within 30 points of the championship lead after winning in Canada. Mikey Taylor will take over for the second half and Karl Wittmer will do likewise. Four different winners in five races in TCR. Gottsacker and Wickens lead the championship but with no victories yet. Consistency wins championships. Wickens has encountered a gearbox issue. VGRT were slated to get a new Honda and they will debut the new car in 2024. They have had specific part failures so far this year and want a good finish.
Roy Block runs ninth in the #5 Alfa Romeo. Tim Lewis Jr. says that they need to keep a gap to the leaders and amange the tires. That is their game plan. Tires can go for 45 minutes. The team made changes but could sacrifice speed. Trouble and three wheels on me wagon for the #70 Hyundai. Jacob Deily in the #70 Hyundai Elantra N TCR has just broken the left front stub axle. Sparks fluing and Jacon Deily thankfully kept the car under control on the uphill. You'd think he would have clobbered the wall on driver's left and thankfully that didn't happen. He is in the runoff for West Bend. We could see a yellow. Oh boy. Trouble in paradise too for the #90 of Luca Mars and Rory van der Steur.
They dove for the lane. I must correct myself and confirm that the second car for van der Steur Racing is not a Hyundai Elantra but a Hyundai Veloster N TCR, the three-door hatchback as opposed to the four-door sedan. This again is Rory van der Steur and Luca Mars. That is the older Hyundai of course. Mars is racing a front wheel drive car for the first time at Lime Rock Park and you get a lot of laps because of the short lap distance. The team tested at Pittsburgh Motorsports Complex before they came here to Lime Rock. When you start messing with the strategy sometimes it just doesn't work right. AYouw ill have to pit again and do a driver change.
No one else took the bait. Mat Pombo leading, Mark Wilkins second, Michael Lewis third, Robert Wickens fourth, going past Bryan Ortiz. The starting drivers will have to god eeper into the race. The starting driver will be complaining on the radio of an evil handling race car. Hang on for as long as you can. Mat Pombo leads the motor race after a brilliant qualifying effort. Pombo, the leader in traffic. He tires it in the uphill and gets the door slammed in his face by Preston Brown in the Audi. No Road Shagger Racing #61 Audi in this race with Jon Morley and Gavin Ernstone. We have not seen them for a while. We have been racing now for half an hour. An hour and ten minutes now remaining.
Mat Pombo still leading. You have not missed a thing. We have passed the point for driver changes for now. Watch out for that left front tire being heavily loaded on these cars with the front wheel drive. Luca Mars has dopped like a stone and is a lap down and did have wheel spin in the pit lane which is a safety issue. The tire changer ran around to the right front and thankfully, the wheel did not start spinning. The marshals called it as wheelspin which is exactly what it was. Wickens and Lewis are battling. Robert Wickens wants to push and win the race, going for position. Don't take your teammate out. The number one cardinal rule in motor racing.
Don't hold up your teammate because the team car is the championship leader. Michael Lewis is a polite gentleman until you get him behind the wheel of a race car. Then he becomes a monster. He and Taylor Hagler have just not had the season they wanted. Mat Pombo and Ryan Eversley have had the bad luck this year as well. Hagler and Lewis are 280 points down in the standings. You can hear the wheel spin at the top of the hill The traction control is some relief but it bites you. Miller coming to the pit lane and slowing down, losing pace, Victor Gonzalez nearly runs over the top of Chris Miller! Mikey Taylor will take over the car.
The tires now will be fresh but will have to last for 65 minutes. The driver change was the holdup. 26 seconds for a half tank of fuel. Wickens steaming through traffic, gets balked, and Lewis gets a run. He pulled way out of the way and needed fresh air for the tires and the radiators. Running nose to tail, the temperature gauge will climb. Wickens now up to P3, behind ex-co-driver Mark Wilkins. Use your teammates to your advantage and Mat Pombo does just that with Mike LaMarra. LaMarra gets dusted by Mark Wilkins. The gap says one second. Not hardly. Wilkins closing on Pombo hand over fist. One hour to go. The leaders split a lapped car diving for the pit lane entrance, or he could have been diving for the lane but is now off the road and back on.
That is the #74 Deily Motorsports Hyundai Elantra N TCR being shared by Jordan Wisely and Cabot Bigham. Mat Pombo sends it into the uphill with the tires squealing in protest. Wisely, wisely got out of the way of the two leaders. Ooh. Good pun. #74 into the pit lane. Pombo sends it down the inside as Jordan Wisely is trying to turn in! That was scary! Wisely dives for the pit lane like a little kid being scared by something (a monster, a shadow, a thunderstorm), and yelling, "I want my mommy!" Mat Pombo was committed and now, Mark Wilkins is glued to the decklid of the #37 Honda Civic FL5 andf there is traffic ahead. Victor Gonzalez in sixth is about to be lapped. Gonzalez hlding the leaders up. Wilkins eases up through the downhill but is going to try getting the run off turn seven, the final corner on the circuit.
Wilkins gets by Pombo who is stymied behind Gonzalez. Wilkins says "I've had enough of your nonsense and I'm going by!" Bish, bash, bosh, one fell swoop, and he does. With those two squabbling over position, guess who is on the doorstep? Yes, you've guessed it, it is indeed Robert Wickens. Traffic giveth. Traffic taketh away. Wickens committed t the inside and muscles his way past Pombo. Pombo should go for five more minutes. They don't think they can go 56 minutes on tires. For Mark Wilkins they have another ten or so minutes to be good on their tires. We will be at halfway in five minutes.
Mikey Taylor has to run for 68 minutes to the finish. Luca Mars now behind Pombo and Pombo says, this ain't workin', I'm bailing out. So, he will pit for new tires, fuel, and a driver change to Ryan Eversley, and then, poor old Eversley is going to be stuck before the end of the race with a knackered set of tires that will turn to jelly by the end of the stint before we see the checkered flag here this afternoon. It is simple. If you lose grip, you will overload the tire whether you like it or not. Ryan Eversley has been told that there is a vibration in the car and he will have to manage that. It won't be easy to make that work.
They need a good result or a win. Mario Biundo, the team owner, cannot be here, as his son, Enzo celebrates his 15th birthday. The #5 Alfa Romeo is in the lane. Driver change there too. Mark Wilkins got caught behind the Alfa Romeo of Roy Block before Block came into the lane and Wilkins was right on his flank! Yikes! That was bananas! Still 52 minutes of racing remaining. Wilkins leads to the tune of 3.333 seconds. Michale Lewis is the only other car in the race that is still on the lead lap. The #10 Audi is now i the pit lane as well for Rockwell Autosport Development and I think Alex Rockwell will take the car to the finish.
Meanwhile, Rau Eversley is a lap down chasing down Michael Lewis for third place. Eversley right on his tail into the downhill. The Hyundai dives for the pit lane, car #98. Mark Wilkins hands off to Mason Filippi. Robert Wilkins handing the #33 car over to Harry Gottsacker. The #98 cars goes out. Halfway home. 50 minutes down, 50 to go. You can hear the chirp of the turbocharger waste gate/ Light hands over the top, no steering input as you land. Less rear grip will not overload the front tires on a front wheel drive car.
Car #1 in the car now. Taylor Hagler taking over from Michael Lewis. They went a lap longer than their teammates going for the overcut. The undercut worked for Eversley and he will assume the race lead. Trouble on the air jack hose. That will cost time. So, Taylor Hagler is going to take the car to the flag in 46 minutes and change. Ryan Eversley eight and a half seconds to the good over Mason Filippi. Eversley now has to manage the race, manage the gap. Conserve fuel but don't push harder than what you need to. If a Full Course Yellow comes out, your lead evaporates. So, Ryan Eversley now in the lead of this motor race officially.
His gap to Mason Filippi has ballooned to nine and a half seconds. Seven cars, half the field, on the lead lap. The sun is beginning to set, the shadows growing long here at Lime Rock Park. Eversley and Pombo have had bad luck all year and they are hoping things can come good and they can break their duck. At this point, we look at the points and there is a tie, as they run between the Hyundai teammates. Fillipi and Wilkins leading, tied with their teammates Gottsacker and Wickens on 1,770 points and then in third, the #17 Unitronic JDC-Miller Motorsports Audi with Chris Miller and Mikey Taylor 80 points out at 1,690 points.
Still a whole stint left, 41 minutes. Robert Wickens says you want to be faster than the guys around you. He tried pulling second gear on the start and it didn't work. The stint came back to him. It is not easy but things seem to be working out well. They will get to where things need to be and need enough tire before the end. There's a whole lot of strategy playing out before the end of this one. The Hyundai's tires might just have more in them before the race ends compared to the Honda's. Robert Wickens alluded to it.
Ryan Eversley is hungry for a win and has won TCR championships before. There has been just one podium for L.A. Honda World this whole year in 2023. Tyler Maxson going to the finish in the #91 van der Steur Racing Hyundai Elantra and Bryan Ortiz trying to save tires, the rears would not rotate and the front tires need to be saved. Hopefully he can claw back time. Ortiz was hitting the numbers but the front Michelin Pilot tires that came off the car on the last stop were totally corded. It makes me wonder if you shouldn't start with fresher fronts and more worn rears. If you change the fronts and leave the used rear tires on, it will loosen the rear end and help the car turn, alleviating the front tire wear as well. Strategy, play it right. It is so important.
Only five cars on the lead lap and only one retirement from this race. The #70 Hyundai Elantra N TCR of Jacob Deily and Robert Megennis departed the race a wee while ago. Tim Lewis Jr. in the #5 Alfa Romeo is now the meat in a Hyundai sandwich. Mikey Taylor makes a pass for position on Tyler Maxson as Ryan Eversley dives through the downhil and onto the frontstretch. The gap to Mason Filippi is closing at 6/10ths to 7/10ths of a second a lap. This is going to be a long half hour for Eversley to hang on after doing the undercut.
The Honda Civic is two inches shorter in wheelbase than the Hyundai Elantra. It makes the car more nimble. The longer wheelbase car will have more understeer. We just saw three cars side by side. That's bonkers. It is very narrow. Mikey Taylor splits the difference for position trying to pass Tyler Maxson who was trying to get out of the way, or, throwing the block. Mikey Taylor tightening his safety belts down the downhill. Wow. Tyler Maxson wants a yellow so he does not have to push too hard to stay on the lead lap. They need a Full Course Yellow because the tires are going away.
We are seeing the corded Michelin Pilot tires. Ryan Eversley's lead has shrunk to less than three and a half seconds over Mason Filippi who is closing down the Honda driver in a big hurry. Eversley's gap has dropped to just under two seconds. Filippi is motoring and applying the blowtorch. He is coming fast closing at a rate of knots. Cue the "Jaws" music. Tim Lewis Jr. is also in the frame trying to get back on the lead lap and hoping for a Full Course Yellow. Ryan Eversley has been in fuel save mode. Push as hard as you can now is what Eversley is being told. He may also have to pit for a splash and a dash.
That is an added wrinkle. These TCR cars nearly pop a wheelie over the top of the hill. Let the front end pull. Fuel save can also save tires. Eversley definitely in management mode but is still pushing. A few tenths here at Lime Rock won't lose you too much. He is pciing the pace back up over Mason Filippi. Eversley is going to go as fast as he needs to to nurse the car to the end. Go fast but save fuel. How on earth do you do that? That's a real conundrum. Some argy bargy between #91 and #74. There is damage to the car of Caleb Bigham and Tyler Maxson hanging on in a power slide, keep your foot in it and pull it straight. Eversley leading over Filippi who may have some slight engine temperature issues.
No fuel concerns I don't think. Just get out of the warmer air to get fresh air to the radiator. Everysley sliding through the uphill. 20 minutes to go before this race is done and dusted. Mike LaMarra passes Cabot Bigham. Ryan Eversley still pushing to hold off the challenge of Mason Filippi. Not sure why there would be afuel issue. If he is in trouble, Mikey Taylor and Tyler Maxson too, since they pitted around the same time, could also be dealing with fuel starvation. Eversley is a speedy driver with a great personality. He likes driving these front wheel drive cars but can drive anything, like a Prototype Challenge car or a GT3 car.
Filippi has closed up again with 17 minutes to go. Filippi has to decide if he is going for points or if he is going to send it and go for the victory. Looking ahead the next race of the championship is at another great circuit at Road America. Eversley, good timing to get past the lapped car through West Bend. Ryan Eversley's team did not get the car full of fuel on the pit stop. So, they are short and do they risk running the car dry and flying Plummet Airways down the leaderboard? Or do they do a splash and dash to the end? 15 minutes to go. Roll the dice. They arenot in championship contention. Mikey Taylor is fourth, 29 seconds down. They could do a spplash and hang onto third. But why not push it?
Speaking of pushing it, Mason Filippi is closing again. Eversley playing chameleon. They trim the grass on the outside of the road through the downhill to statt another lap. If it just a splash, roll the dice. What will we do? Are we going to roll the dice? Ryan Eversley hanging on by his fingernails with Mason Filippi all over him like cheap suit. Filippi right up on Eversley's tail! Filippi makes the pass for the lead! Oh man! Now this is going to get spicy! You know Eversley will want to do something. Just like that, things can change.
Eversley was told, "if we are going to make it, let Filippi go." So, Eversley is on fuel save. This could put the Hyundai boys into the championship lead. They would have to have more than a splash and a dash and would have to put a few gallons, a few glugs of fuel into the tank. They might have their hand forced. Maxson to P4 past Mikey Taylor, 34 seconds in-arrears. Now, you are caught between a rock and a hard place. Mike LaMarra did not help is teammate. They talked about a draft and they mght actually be working on something. LaMarra is now right in front of Eversley. He could back up and drag him around but he can't push him across the line. Bump drafting is not pushing and pushing is not bump drafting.
Pushing when you are out of gas is frowned upon for obvious reasons. Gottsacker and Wickens could go 1-2 for Bryan Herta Autosport and Hyundai. They could get a second win and they could get another podium. Team manager Phil Howard looking on. Filippi's lead has been extended to ten and a ahlf seconds and Eversley is in front of Gottsacker and Maxson is closng as well. Never mind. That is the lapped car of Taylor Hagler. Tyler Maxson though, he could still close in. Gottsacker goes by Ryan Eversley, not running full throttle to save fuel. He has to lift and coast.
Maybe he can put it in neutral and coast. You can get fuel save here at Lime Rock by rolling through corners like West Bend but Eversley will still be dropping like a stone, but has a 32 second buffer to Maxson with less than five minutes of racing remaining. Points as they run right now would have Wilkins and Filippi in the lead by ten over Wickens and Gottsacker with Miller and Taylor 140 behind.
1. #98 Wilkins/Filippi Bryan Herta Autosport Hyundai Elantra N TCR 1,800 points
2. #33 Wickens/Gottsacker Bryan Herta Autosport Hyundai Elantra N TCR 1,790 points
3. #17 Miller/Taylor Unitronic, JDC-Miller Motorsports Audi RS3 LMS TCR 1,660 points
He can back off by five or six seconds. Save gas and be gentle on the throttle. Lift and coast into Big Bend. Hagler is a lap down in her Hyundai. Eversley four seconds off of Filippi's pace and six seconds off the #37's fastest lap at 54.344 which is still the fastest lap recorded today. Gottsacker is almost 14 seconds behind Filippi. Gottsacker is caught in a scrum with lapped traffic he does not need to be in. Gottsacker is in management mode. None of these placings are for overall positions as Tim Lewis goes by in the Alfa Romeo and that is not for position either. Gottsacker is just hanging behind Mike LaMarra. I don't know why he is being defensive.
He thankfully moves aside and lets the leader go. Taylor Hagler, too, a lap down in the #1 and Denis Dupont also a lap down. No skin in the game for them at all. Rory van der Steur is now right on Taylor Hagler's decklid. Hagler is loose coming to the downhill. Can she keep it together? No. Time was running out and there is a big donut on the rear door. She is stranded at the exit of West Bend. Less than a minute to go. Filippi could park the car and coast across the finish line on the starter motor. Mark Wilkins and Mason Filippi have had a flawless race today.
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Mark Wilkins is an incredible team leader. White flag. Final lap of the motor race. Wilkins is a class act, a clean racer. Find a way to win and well, #98 have done that. Mason Filippi and Mark Wilkins win their second race of 2023! Bryan Herta Autosport run 1-2 and Ryan Eversley has not taken the checkers yet. Will he hold on for third spot? He is slowing down. There he is and he thankfully holds on for a podium, for third spot.
Overall/TCR: #98 Wilkins/Filippi Bryan Herta Autosport with Curb Agajanian Hyundai Elantra N TCR
Tenth win for Mark Wilkins, fifth for Mason Filippi. 20th win in Michelin Pilot competition for Bryan Herta Autosport. Michelin Pilot Challenge, another race is in the bag. The next event of the championship will reunite the TCR cars with their Grand Sport brethren with the big GT4 sports cars at Road America, the 4 mile recently repaved ribbon of asphalt that is another legendary speed palace and we will be there the first weekend in August, so just two weeks from now. Please do join us for what is sure to be another epic Michelin Pilot Challenge contest. For now, so long everybody. Take care.
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