VOLT Racing’s Alan Brynjolfsson and Trent Hindman used an aggressive pit strategy to get themselves into the lead Saturday (April 30). From there, they made their fuel hold out to claim their first win of the year in the WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca 120.
“It’s sweet relief. It’s been a long time coming for the VOLT Racing team,” Hindman told NBC Sports’ Matt Yocum in victory lane. “We’ve had a lot of really good races and come close [to winning] plenty of times over the last two years. It’s a relief to finally be where we’ve belonged for quite a long time.”
Kenton Koch, driving for Murillo Racing in place of Jeff Mosing, who suffered a rib injury, started from the pole. Once he got through the first couple of corners, Koch was able to put some time between himself and Rennsport One’s Alexandre Premat. Further back, Kenny Murillo was able to get past Hugh Plumb for third in an extension of the strong form Murillo Racing showed in both practice and qualifying.
The first full course caution came out 19 minutes into the race when Riley Motorsports’ Anton Dias Perera spun at turn 6 and hit the barriers in his Supra. Dias Perera was ok, but done for the day.
The caution resulted in a split pit strategy in the Grand Sport class. Koch, Premat, KohR Motorsport’s Luca Mars and others chose to make their first stops here, 27 minutes into the race. Others, such as Murillo, Hugh Plumb, PF Racing’s James Pesek and Brynjolfsson, chose to stay out. There were a number of reasons why that decision was made, ranging from the minimum drive-time not being met to the stop simply coming too early to fit into strategy.
Shortly after the restart, PF Racing’s Sheena Monk was spun out of fifth in the Corkscrew by Absolute Racing’s Anderson Tanoto. Monk was able to resume, but not before waiting for the entire field to pass by. Tanoto was assessed a drive-through penalty for the contact.
Once the 40-minute minimum drive-time…
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