K-PAX Racing’s Michele Beretta ran down and passed Racers Edge Motorsports’ Ashton Harrison with 33 minutes to go Sunday (May 22). From there, he pulled away to give himself, teammate Andrea Caldarelli and K-PAX Racing the weekend sweep at NOLA Motorsports Park in Fanatec GT World Challenge America powered by AWS competition.
“Honestly, I didn’t expect [this weekend] to be so…perfect,” Beretta told SRO America’s Amanda Busick. “We missed [it] a little bit with Andrea [yesterday]. He did a very good job in the first part of the race. He closed the gap to the cars in front and we undercutted the field. There is nothing better than this.”
Qualifying on Saturday resulted in a jumbled starting grid. The start of the race was even more wild as rain resulted in half the track being wet and half being dry. US RaceTronics’ Loris Spinelli started on pole in his Mercedes with Pro-Am teams in between him and the other drivers in the Pro class. TR3 Racing’s Giacomo Altoe started alongside and a big scramble broke out on the first lap due to the conditions. That allowed Racers Edge Motorsports’ Mario Farnbacher to take the Pro-Am class lead and move up to second overall. Meanwhile, Spinelli, who was fastest in the second practice session on Friday, started to pull away from the pack.
The rain that resulted in the mixed conditions at the start stopped quickly. Given NOLA Motorsports Park’s location in Southern Louisiana, the fierce sunshine dried up whatever actually fell.
The mid-race pit stop completely changed the look of the race. Spinelli pitted from the overall lead with a six-second lead. He had been the class of the field for the entire race, then problems emerged with the wheel gun. The team had problems getting the new left front wheel affixed to the car. When the tire changer tried to change the right front tire, it just plain didn’t work. Eventually, another new tire was put onto the right front of the…
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