The #6 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 LMDh machine took the general win with Felipe Nasr behind the wheel within the very rain soaked Sahlen’s 6 Hours of the Glen final night time in gruelling dash to the end line after a purple flag restart. Dane Cameron joined Nasr on the highest step on the rostrum turning into the primary staff of the 2024 IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship to take two total wins within the GTP class.
The #6 Porsche Penske beat the #2 Cadillac Racing V-Sequence R pushed by Renger van der Linde and Sebastien Bourdais by 0.7 seconds over the end line after a sequence of rain storms that induced large shake-up within the racing order.
Nasr was put in into the cockpit throughout the remaining purple flag restart with quarter-hour left on the clock, it was there he managed to sneak previous the pole-sitting #40 WTRAndretti Acura ARX-06 of Louis Deletraz who struggled to familiarize yourself on his new tires within the wet climate.
It additionally turned a double Porsche Penske podium because the #6 Porsche 963 took third place within the arms of Mathieu Jaminet and Nick Tandy in the meantime the #40 WTRAndretti Acura dropped to fourth total.
The #25 Workforce RLL BMW M Hybrid V8 of Connor De Phillippi and Nick Yelloly accomplished the highest 5, nevertheless, they had been pressured to start out from the pitlane initially of the race because of an in a single day chassis change.
The #24 Workforce RLL BMW M Hybrid V8 got here throughout the road in sixth adopted by the #5 Proton Competitors Porsche 963 in seventh and the #31 Wheelen Motion Specific Racing Cadillac V-Sequence R in eighth. A five-minute stop-and-hold penalty was handed for Richard Westbrook within the #85 JDC-Miller Motorsport Porsche 963 after hitting a board on the pit exit. The automobile was main the race within the early hour with Phil Hanson behind the wheel.
Ricky Taylor within the #10 WTRAndretti Acura ARX-06 was pressured to retire with half-hour to go, he got here to a cease on the monitor whereas underneath full-course yellow after shedding the automobile’s right-rear wheel, delaying the race’s restart process on the similar time.
One other retirement got here for the Iron Lynx ran Lamborghini SC63 because it suffered cooling points across the two hour mark of the race.
2024 Le Mans winner Nielsen steered the AF Corse to the end line in LMP2
Within the LMP2 class, it was the #88 Richard Mille AF Corsa ORECA 07 machine pushed by final week’s 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans total winner, Dane Nicklas Nielsen who got here out on prime after the restart and led the category by a very good margin of 38 seconds because the checkered flag was waved.
Nielsen managed to come back out from the restart mayhem unhurt as he prevented being collected by the #74 Riley Motorsport of Felipe Fraga at flip 7, the place the #2 United Autosports of Ben Hanley bought spun round and bought rear-ended by the #04 Crowdstrike Racing by APR of Colin Braun.
Luis Perez Companc, who together with Lilou Wadoux shared the spoils togheter with Nielsen on the prime step whereas the #04 regardless of having entrance injury managed to come back house in second place. Third place went to Fraga and the #74 Riley Motorsport automobile.
Coronary heart of Racing steals GTD Professional honours on the ultimate lap
It was shut fight between the #23 Coronary heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo and #4 Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsport Z06 GT3.R from the purple flag restart to the second-to-last lap the place the #4 automobile pushed by Tommy Milner was pressured to make a pitstop to get splash of gasoline, this result in the GTD Professional win was given to the Aston Martin drivers of Ross Gunn and Alex Riberas.
#9 Pfaff Motorsports McLaren 720S GT3 Evo additionally be part of the prepare throughout the remaining laps of the race which handed the second place end to Marvin Kirchhofer and Corvette Racing managed to get third place with the sister #3 automobile with Antonio Garcia behind the wheel.
Over within the GTD, it was the #57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo of Russell Ward and Philip Ellis that got here out on prime after not taking a pitstop throughout the purple flag restart. Which means the motive force pairing continues to be persevering with their profitable streak within the class.
The #120 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R of Jan Heylen was usually going to finish second at school however was later penalized post-race with a drive-time infringement which promoted #34 Conquest Racing Ferrari 296 GT3 of Albert Costa Balboa, Manny Franco, and Cedric Sbirrazzuoli to second and becoming a member of the rostrum in third was #44 Magnus Racing Aston Martin.
