Wright Motorsports’ Adam Adelson and Elliott Skeer led flag-to-flag Sunday (April 7) to score the Fanatec GT World Challenge America powered by AWS weekend sweep at Sonoma Raceway. It is the duo’s third overall victory in the series.
“It’s a dream come true,” Adelson told SRO America’s Amanda Busick after the race. “To think that I’d be racing in the Pro class in my second year of GT3 racing, I didn’t even think that I’d even be here. To sweep the weekend in our first go-around [in the Pro class] is just incredible.”
Adelson and Skeer’s margin of victory was 13.513 seconds over CrowdStrike Racing by Riley’s Colin Braun and George Kurtz. ST Racing’s Samantha Tan and Neil Verhagen were third, then DXDT Racing’s Bryan Sellers and Scott Smithson. Bill Auberlen and Varun Choksey were fifth in the second ST Racing BMW.
In the Pro class, Adelson and Skeer won by 33.013 seconds over Auberlen and Choksey. Racers Edge Motorsports’ Luca Mars and Zach Veach were third.
Skeer started from pole in his Porsche and immediately ended up in an overall lead battle with Braun. Braun is a very strong driver, but Skeer was able to roll with the punches.
After the initial fight, Skeer was able to pull away to a small advantage over Braun. Meanwhile, he had a fairly substantial lead over Auberlen in the Pro class.
Skeer waited until the last possible moment to pit for tires and a change to Adelson. With the size of their lead in the Pro class at the time, they were all about the overall win at this point.
After the stops, Adelson was able to put significant distance on Kurtz. What was a two-second lead became seven. Ultimately, Adelson was never seriously threatened en route to victory.
In Pro-Am, Braun started from pole in his Mercedes. His attempts to try to snag the overall lead away from Skeer allowed him to pull away from Verhagen.
Like Skeer, Braun stayed out as late as possible and stopped just before the 50-minute deadline to swap over to Kurtz. The stop was only a couple of tenths of a second slower than Wright Motorsports and kept the CrowdStrike Mercedes in the Pro-Am lead.
However, during that stop, the CrowdStrike Racing by Riley crew had a tire roll away into the middle of the pit lane. That drew a five-second post-race penalty.
Behind Kurtz, a strong run by Sellers in the first half of the race brought DXDT Racing’s No. 08 Mercedes up to second in class. Smithson maintained a steady pace,…
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