Rennsport One’s Trent Hindman chose an alternate strategy Saturday (July 13) and took the lead when leader Jaden Conwright stopped for fuel under the final caution. From there, Hindman made his fuel hold off to win the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge Canadian Tire Motorsport Park 120 with Stevan McAleer.
“IMSA wins are so special,” Hindman told NBC Sports’ Ryan Myrehn after the race. “Stevan’s first stint was mega [to get us up] to second and hanging with the leaders. What a great call from the guys on the pit box. They made my job very easy today.”
Hindman and McAleer’s margin of victory was 2.537 seconds over Van der Steur Racing’s Scott Andrews and Rory van der Steur. TeamTGM’s Paul Holton and Matt Plumb were third, then CarBahn Motorsports with Peregrine Racing’s Sean McAlister and Jeff Westphal. Turner Motorsport’s Robby Foley and Francis Selldorff were fifth.
Hattori Motorsports’ Jack Hawksworth started from pole and got a huge jump on the field. He was unable to make much use of it.
In turn 2 on the first lap, Winward Racing’s Bryce Ward was hit from behind by Czabok-Simpson Motorsport’s Sebastian Carazo. Ward then spun and nosed into the wall to bring out the first caution of the race.
Ward was able to drive his Mercedes back to the pits. However, the contact was enough to puncture the radiator, ending his day.
Once the green came back out, Hawksworth slowly inched away from McAleer. Eventually, Motorsports In Action’s Michael de Quesada got past to take second.
For the next 20 minutes, Hawksworth and de Quesada traded quick laps. The overall effect was that Hawksworth maintained a 1.5-second lead.
Both leaders made their pit stop 55 minutes into the race. Conwright and Jesse Lazare got into the cars in place of Hawksworth and de Quesada. Overall, their stops were right in the middle of the sequence, while others stopped earlier and later.
Once the sequence was complete, Conwright came out of the pits with the lead. He held that until TWOth Autosport’s Justin Di Benedetto ran out of fuel and coasted to a halt on the Mario Andretti Straightaway. That brought out another yellow.
The leaders all dashed into the pits for a splash of fuel to guarantee that they could make it to the end. Lazare was able to jump Conwright in the pits. Meanwhile, Trent Hindman, who was 24 seconds behind at the time of the caution and stopped one lap after de Quesada and Hawksworth, chose to stay out…
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