Rennsport One’s John Capestro-Dubets swept around the outside of Blackdog Speed Shop’s Tony Gaples with 19 minutes to go Sunday (May 5) to take the overall lead. From there, Capestro-Dubets pulled away to win Pirelli GT4 America SprintX Race No. 2 at Sebring International Raceway with teammate Eric Filguerias.
The victory counts as a weekend sweep for Rennsport One, their second one of the weekend. Earlier, Trent Hindman and Spencer Pumpelly wrapped a sweep of the two Fanatec GT World Challenge America powered by AWS races.
The only reason that this event counts as a weekend sweep for Rennsport One in Pirelli GT4 America SprintX is that the winners from TechSport Racing failed post-race inspection Saturday. They were moved to the rear of the field, resulting in Capestro-Dubets and Filguerias being awarded the win hours after the race.
Capestro-Dubets and Filguerias’ margin of victory was 3.124 seconds over AutoTechnic Racing’s Zac Anderson and Colin Garrett. TechSport Racing’s Jonathan Neudorf and Michai Stephens finished third, followed by Random Vandals Racing’s Kevin Boehm and Kenton Koch. Gaples and Maxwell Root ended up fifth.
The top-four finishers were the top Silver class finishers as well. Hanley Motorsports’ Daniel Hanley and Parker Thompson were fifth in Silver.
Root, driving in place of Michael Cooper, started on the overall pole in his Nissan. He spent much of the first half of the race running away from the field and setting quick laps.
Thompson started on pole in his Supra. Thompson was able to easily hang with Root in second overall. Meanwhile, Stephens, who won on Saturday, got nerfed off-course by The Heart of Racing’s Roman DeAngelis exiting turn 3 and dropped all the way to 19th overall.
Root had opened up a four-second lead overall and nearly eight seconds over DeAngelis in class. The advantage continued to expand to over six seconds by the time the mid-race pit stops came along.
The plan for Root was to go as long as possible before stopping. During the tops, JMF Motorsports’ Jake Cowden stalled on the Uhlmann Straight. While the safety car did not come out because of it, it did likely bring in some of the teams before they would have preferred to stop.
As a result, SRO America waited until everyone stopped before bring the safety car out. Gaples maintained the overall lead, but now had the top Silver class runners on his tail.
A lap after the restart, Capestro-Dubets…
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