Justin Wetherill Wins Nashville GT America Race No. 2

Triarsi Competizione’s Justin Wetherill was able to dispatch of teammate Onofrio Triarsi with 19 minutes to go Sunday (Aug. 7).  From there, he was able to hold on in lapped traffic to win GT America Powered by AWS Race No. 2 on the Streets of Nashville.  It is Wetherill’s first career GT America victory and gives Triarsi Competizione the weekend sweep

“It was all about being consistent,” Wetherill told SRO America’s Amanda Busick after the race.  “Fortunately, we had a little bit of a gap [over the rest of the field] and it allowed me to push a little bit harder.”

After his victory on Saturday evening, Triarsi started from the pole and was able to outdistance his teammate Wetherill with ease.  Within a couple of laps, Triarsi had a couple of seconds on his teammate.

Unlike Saturday, that lead slowly eroded.  Just after halfway, Wetherill was able to run down Triarsi and take the overall lead in his own Ferrari.  Further back, the man on the move was Mirco Schultis in the only Callaway Corvette C7/GT3 in the field.  Schultis started eighth and quickly made his way up to fourth.

By halfway, he had run down the Audi of Jason Daskalos for third.  A battle broke out between the two drivers of vintage GT3 equipment.  After a few laps, Schultis was able to make the move work as Daskalos was struggling with a steering issue.  Crowdstrike Racing with Riley Motorsports’ George Kurtz followed past into fourth.

This battle was nearly 20 seconds behind Wetherill.  The end of the race got interesting as the Triarsi Competizione teammates caught a group of slower GT4 cars.  That gave Triarsi a chance to get the lead back and sweep the weekend, but Wetherill was able to hold on for the win.

Wetherill’s margin of victory was just .342 seconds over Triarsi.  Schultis finished third for his best run of the year.  Kurtz was fourth, while Daskalos was fifth.

In GT4, Saturday’s winner Robb Holland claimed the pole and set off into the lead.  However, there was trouble behind.

Chouest-Povoledo Racing’s Ross Chouest was able to get past Chris Cagnazzi at the first corner to take second.  Cagnazzi was able to get to the gas first and ended up running into the back of Chouest.  This contact spun Chouest around and into the wall.  Chouest was able to get back underway and drove back to the pits, but he was done for the day.

The crash and resulting stackup resulted in GMG Racing’s Jason Bell moving up to second.  Holland was able to…