***4 vehicles had been moved to final place of their respective lessons as a result of minimal drive-time infractions: No. 120 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R (Jan Heylen), No. 04 CrowdStrike by APR Oreca 07 Gibson (Colin Braun), No. 70 Inception Racing McLaren 720S GT3 (Frederik Schandorff) and No. 80 Lone Star Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo (Scott Andrews).
***Heylen, Braun and Andrews missed the adjusted minimal drive time of 69 minutes, as a result of crimson flag stoppage, by lower than eight minutes, whereas Schandorff solely accomplished 32 minutes of drive time within the race.
***It’s understood IMSA accomplished a prolonged audit course of on drive instances instantly following the race and had promptly introduced the penalties for the Nos. 04 and 120 vehicles effectively earlier than podium ceremonies. Each vehicles had crossed the road in second within the LMP2 and GTD lessons, respectively.
***No replace has been supplied by Iron Lynx, when reached by Sportscar365, as of the time of the publishing on Sarah Bovy. IMSA confirmed she was transported to a hospital for additional analysis following her race-ending accident within the No. 83 Iron Dames Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2.
***Porsche Penske Motorsport scored its third IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship victory of the season, with Felipe Nasr and Dane Cameron turning into the primary repeat driver pairing to go to victory lane to this point this season within the GTP class.
***The duo prolonged their championship result in 93 factors over the No. 01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac pairing of Renger van der Zande and Sebastien Bourdais, with Porsche Penske teammates Mathieu Jaminet and Nick Tandy third within the standings, an extra 39 factors behind.
***It marked Nasr and Cameron’s fifth podium end out of six races this season.
***Porsche Penske managing director Jonathan Diuguid hailed the race as a “banner day” for the workforce, one 12 months after shedding the Watkins Glen victory over a technicality with the skid block thickness for the No. 6 Porsche, which completed third on Sunday.
***Diuguid mentioned: “Our vehicles had been extremely quick within the race. The workforce did an important job beneath changeable circumstances. I’m notably happy that our No. 7 superior to the highest of the general leaderboard due to this victory. We now have an extended break till the subsequent race at Highway America. It’s good to move into this break with a victorious feeling.”
***Nasr mentioned he felt IMSA made the suitable name to crimson flag the race as a result of quantity of standing water on the observe on the time. “You possibly can barely keep inside 60 km/h,” he mentioned. “You possibly can see the vehicles aqua-planing. I feel it was the suitable name. Because it’s heat, it didn’t take lengthy for the observe to dry. At that time it was important.”
***Renger van der Zande mentioned his No. 01 Cadillac V-Sequence.R didn’t have the top-end pace to match the competitors within the class through the race. He mentioned: “It was very clear from the get-go that each time I went to energy, there was simply not sufficient energy to assault. Third gear, fourth gear, fifth gear, the hole was at all times rising on each straight.”
***The Dutchman, nonetheless, praised IMSA for persevering with to supply shut racing, falling wanting criticizing the Steadiness of Efficiency. “I’ve to say hats off for this championship to get to the place it’s,” mentioned van der Zande. “It’s tremendous equal, lap time-wise, very equal. Large praise from that. We might [just] prefer to race a bit extra.”
***The No. 25 Staff RLL BMW M Hybrid V8 completed sixth after ranging from the pit lane as a result of a chassis change following Connor De Phillippi’s accident in second apply. The spare automotive, the workforce’s check automotive, solely arrived on the observe from RLL’s store in Indianapolis at 1:30 a.m. on Sunday morning, and required various the parts, together with the drivetrain, to be transferred to the automotive per IMSA laws.
***BMW M Motorsport director Andreas Roos mentioned: “The herculean effort of BMW M Staff RLL and the BMW M Motorsport crew in rebuilding the No. 25 BMW M Hybrid V8 was outstanding and deserves nice recognition. Thanks to all concerned for his or her incredible dedication!”
***The No. 31 Motion Specific Racing Cadillac had a race to neglect, with two separate spins by Jack Aitken, whereas the automotive sustained injury with Pipo Derani on the wheel that required an unscheduled cease for a nostril change that put them a lap down en path to an eighth place consequence.
***The No. 63 Iron Lynx Lamborghini SC63 of Matteo Cairoli and Andrea Caldarelli, which ran as excessive as third within the race, retired with cooling-related points with simply over two hours to go. Racing director Emmanuel Esnault mentioned: “It was unhappy to finish the weekend with a difficulty, particularly after Le Mans the place we confirmed nice reliability. Nonetheless, we may be happy with the progress we’re making by way of efficiency.”
***Gar Robinson’s four-race win streak at Watkins Glen got here to an finish with a runner-up class end in LMP2 in his No. 74 Riley Oreca 07 Gibson that he shared with Felipe Fraga and Josh Burdon. Robinson had been undefeated in IMSA competitors at The Glen courting again to the 2021 double-header.
***Fraga and Robinson, nonetheless, have taken over the lead of the LMP2 factors standings following clutch failure for the No. 18 Period Motorsport Oreca of Ryan Dalziel, Dwight Merriman and Connor Zilisch, which got here after Merriman spun round on the opening lap.
***The No. 04 CrowdStrike Oreca of George Kurtz was not penalized for contact with the No. 47 Cetilar Racing Ferrari 296 GT3 of Roberto Lacorte within the opening hour, which despatched the GTD automotive into the wall. IMSA race management decided no additional motion as a result of weaving of the Ferrari previous to the incident.
***Ross Gunn and Alex Riberas delivered the primary win for the Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo in North American sports activities automotive competitors. The updated-for-2024 automotive claimed its maiden win in international competitors earlier this 12 months in SUPER GT with D’station Racing.
***A fifth place class end for Seb Priaulx and Laurin Heinrich has seen their GTD Professional factors lead scale back to 49 factors over Vasser Sullivan’s Jack Hawksworth and Ben Barnicoat, with Gunn having closed into third within the standings, simply 60 factors behind the AO Racing duo.
***The No. 62 Risi Competizione Ferrari, which began on GTD Professional pole, ended up retiring from the race on the ultimate restart after sustaining toe hyperlink injury from an off-course second through the earlier downpour with Davide Rigon on the wheel. The workforce initially deliberate to make repairs however in the end ran out of time.
***Staff supervisor Anna Lenzi defined: “In the course of the heavy rain when practically all vehicles had been racing on slicks and everybody was going off-track, Rigon went off observe in Flip 1 going very slowly, perhaps simply 50 or 60 kilometers per hour, and he hit the wall. It ended up being a tough hit that bent the left rear toe hyperlink.”
***With their fourth win in 5 races, Winward Racing’s Philip Ellis and Russell Ward have expanded their commanding factors result in 305 factors over the Turner Motorsport duo of Patrick Gallagher and Robby Foley with 5 races to go.
***An all-time document attendance for an IMSA occasion at Watkins Glen Worldwide was introduced by observe president Daybreak Burlew on the pre-race grid. It continued the streak of attendance information at IMSA races this 12 months.
***Whereas the GTP class doesn’t return to motion till Highway America in August, LMP2 will function the headline class for the WeatherTech Championship’s journey North of the Border to Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, alongside GTD Professional and GTD entries on July 12-14.