DXDT Racing’s Alec Udell was able to take advantage of Wright Motorsports’ Adam Adelson going wide in turn 1 Sunday (Aug. 18) to take the overall lead. From there, he pulled away to score the weekend sweep in Fanatec GT World Challenge America powered by AWS Race No. 2 at Road America with teammate Tommy Milner. It is the duo’s third straight Pro weekend sweep and the fifth overall win in six races.
“Tommy [Milner] had a great first stint, but he got caught in a little bit of dirty air,” Udell told SRO America’s DJ Clark in victory lane. “We had a little bit of a battle with Adam [Adelson] in the opening laps of the stint. Then, there were some cars coming out of the pit lane; a traffic jam, if you will. I was able to take advantage of that [to take the lead] and held on to the finish.”
Milner and Udell’s margin of victory was 6.655 seconds over teammates Bryson Morris and Bryan Sellers. Adelson and Elliott Skeer were third in their Porsche, then ST Racing’s Samantha Tan and Neil Verhagen. Racers Edge Motorsports’ Luca Mars and Zach Veach were fifth.
Turner Motorsport’s Robby Foley started from the overall pole in his BMW. Behind Foley, Skeer was able to get past Milner to take the Pro lead in turn 1.
For much of the first half of the race, the field stuck together fairly well. Skeer was unable to get away from Milner.
After the pit stops, Adelson came out with the class lead with Udell right on his tail. Udell pressured Adelson for the lead, but could not get by.
The majority of the Pro-Am cars coming out of the pits at the end of pit window significantly affected the race. Adelson came up on them quickly, then swept to the outside of turn 1 to get past them.
Adelson ended up going way too wide and ended up in the runoff. That allowed Udell to take over the class lead. Barely a lap later, Udell was in the overall lead.
In Pro-Am, Foley led the race from pole. The top-seven cars were all within eight seconds of each other a half-hour into the race. That included Tom Sargent, who ran fourth in his Porsche for nearly his entire stint in the car.
Sargent settled in roughly three seconds behind Foley and was able to match pace with Foley. When Foley made his pit stop, Sargent chose to stay out for an extra lap.
Turner Motorsport’s stop was not the best. That, and some quick laps from Sargent and Sellers resulted in Justin Rothberg ending up third.
A few laps into Rothberg’s stint in the…
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