Inter Europol Competition by PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports’ Tom Dillmann took the lead after the final pit stops Sunday (July 14). He was able to hold on after a late restart to win the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Chevrolet Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park with teammate Nick Boulle.
“The [final stint was a bit difficult since I had to overtake lapped cars,” Dillmann told NBC Sports’ Ryan Myrehn in victory lane. “The final restart…I knew that that we had a lot of pace, so I wasn’t worried.”
Boulle and Dillmann’s margin of victory was .658 seconds over Riley Motorsports’ Felipe Fraga and Gar Robinson. TDS Racing’s Scott Huffaker and Steven Thomas were third, then the two United Autosports entries. The No. 2 of Ben Hanley and Ben Keating were fourth, while the No. 22 of Filipe Albuquerque and Dan Goldburg were fifth.
AO Racing’s PJ Hyett started from pole in his ORECA 07-Gibson and led early. However, he made a mistake and changed lanes prior to the start-finish line on the start.
Even though Hyett started from pole, he has to maintain his positioning until the line. As a result, Hyett had to serve a drive-through penalty for the second straight race. The penalty took the pole sitter out of the hunt. Hyett and Louis Deletraz would eventually finish eighth.
Hyett’s penalty gave the lead over to Goldburg in the United Autosports No. 22. He had Nick Boulle right behind him. After a short battle, Boulle was able to take the overall lead.
22 minutes into the race, High Class Racing’s Dennis Andersen slid into the tires in turn 9. That brought everyone into the pits before the full course caution came out. For Andersen, it was his second trip to the tires this weekend. He crashed in turn 2 during qualifying Saturday.
Unfortunately for Andersen, this crash hurt his No. 20 ORECA 07-Gibson a little more than the qualifying crash did. He was done for the day.
Shortly after the restart, Andrew Wojteczko Autosport’s Orey Fidani was hit by from behind by Paul Miller Racing’s Bryan Sellers exiting turn 3 and spun hard into the tires in his Corvette. Fidani was ok and walked to the ambulance, but was out of the race. Sellers was given a penalty for the contact.
The restart was a mess at the front as GTD cars came out of the pits in the midst of the battle for the overall. Robinson and Kurtz had contact in turn 2 while fighting for second, resulting in Robinson going into the runoff…
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