The only Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo in the GTD Pro category in the second round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season finished a distant ninth in class in the hands of Serra, Davide Rigon and team newcomer Eddie Cheever III.
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Brazilian driver Serra had narrowly outpaced TR3 Racing Lamborghini rival Mirko Bortolotti to claim pole by just 0.017s, and spent the opening hour of the race dicing with the Italian driver for the lead.
Both cars fell behind Corvette Racing’s solo C8.R after the opening round of stops, but the Risi Ferrari remained firmly in the hunt until the third hour, when the car had to be taken behind the wall with power steering issues that left the team eight laps down.
Subsequent caution periods allowed the team to recover some of the lost laps, but in the end the Ferrari wound up five laps behind the winning Corvette.
“It was a difficult race,” said Serra. “I think we had the team and the car to be fighting for a victory, but we had the…
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