Rennsport One’s John Capestro-Dubets was able to get to the inside of Smooge Racing’s Tyler Gonzalez on the final lap entering turn 5. After a bunch of contact, Capestro-Dubets came out with the lead and held on to win Pirelli GT4 America SprintX Race No. 2 at Road America Sunday (Aug. 18).
“That was a heck of a time out there,” Capestro-Dubets told SRO America’s DJ Clark in victory lane. “Got a little physical, but we stuck in the fight.”
Capestro-Dubets and Filguerias’ margin of victory was .539 seconds over Gonzalez and Corey Lewis. The Heart of Racing’s Roman deAngelis and Gray Newell were third, then TechSport Racing’s Jonathan Neudorf and Johan Schwartz. Austin and Roland Krainz in the second Rennsport One Porsche were fifth.
Capestro-Dubets and Filguerias were also the winners in Silver over Gonzalez and Lewis. The Heart of Racing’s Hannah Greenemeier and Hannah Grisham were third, then JMF Motorsport’s Demi Chalkias and Jake Cowden. AutoTechnic Racing’s Zac Anderson and Colin Garrett ended up in a distant fifth.
AutoTechnic Racing’s Zac Anderson started from pole in his BMW with Saturday’s winner Kenton Koch giving chase. Much like Saturday, Koch was rather aggressive in his desire to move forward.
Three laps into the race, Koch got a run on Anderson exiting turn 3 and was able to draft past Anderson for the overall lead on the run to turn 5. Filguerias tried to follow past, but got pushed wide.
Pro-Am leader Kay van Berlo, who started seventh, inserted himself into the discussion with a move at turn 6 that moved him up to second. Later on, van Berlo was able to run down Koch and take the overall lead.
Just as the pit window opened, Rigid Speed’s Lucas Catania cut his left front tire. Instead of creeping back to the pits, Catania drove back rather quickly. As a result, the tire shredded, littering the track with debris.
The leaders all came in for their stops to switch drivers. Almost immediately after the stops, the safety car came out to clean up all of the debris.
Curt Swearingin won the race out of the pits in the ACI Motorsports Porsche, but Kevin Boehm was able to sweep around the outside of him in turn 1. The yellow came out before the teams exiting turn 1. At first, Swearingin was given the overall lead. However, after a review, Boehm was allowed to take the top spot.
At the time the yellow came out, six cars led by Blackdog Speed Shop’s Michael Cooper had not yet…
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