Murillo Racing’s Kenton Koch took the lead away from Kelly-Moss Road & Race’s Alec Udell with just under five minutes to go in turn 8. From there, he held on to give himself and Eric Foss the overall victory in the Road America 240. It is Foss’ third win of the year and the second for Koch (Foss’ third win came with Marc Miller as his teammate at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park).
“I was a man on a mission,” Koch told NBC Sports’ Matt Yocum in victory lane. “I was doing everything that I could to fend off the [drivers] behind me. With this being the last race that I will be driving with [Murillo Racing] for this year, I wanted to just send it and do my best.”
Koch has been driving the No. 56 Mercedes alongside Foss in a substitute role ever since regular driver Jeff Mosing suffered a rib injury. Foss described this injury in a recent interview with Frontstretch that we will be running soon. Mosing plans to be back in the No. 56 at VIR.
Saturday’s race will more than likely be best remembered for the sheer number of incidents, especially in the first half of the race.
The trouble started even before the race did. Rebel Rock Racing’s Frank DePew, fresh off of his victory at Lime Rock, cut his right front tire on the pace laps and had to make an unscheduled stop. If that isn’t bad luck, it is unclear what bad luck would be. The pit stop forced DePew to start from the pit lane.
KohR Motorsports’ Luca Mars started from the pole and opened up a small gap on the pack. Teammate Billy Johnson was able to nudge his way past Murillo Racing’s Kenton Koch to move himself up to second.
On the second lap of the race, the day came to an early for NOLAsport. Matt Travis ran in the back of Turner Motorsport’s Dillon Machavern under braking for turn 5. The contact busted one of the radiators on Travis’ Porsche, ending his day.
What was already shaping up to be a tough day for Rebel Rock Racing got exponentially worse 20 minutes into the race when DePew dropped a wheel exiting turn 13. This spun out the sole Chevrolet Camaro GT4.R in the field and put DePew hard into the wall to bring out the race’s first full course caution. DePew was ok, but he was out for the day. In an interview with NBC Sports’ Matt Yocum, DePew indicated that he had burned up the front tires in traffic and understeered, resulting in the
The caution resulted in a split pit strategy as Johnson led a decent chunk of the field onto the…
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