AutoTechnic Racing’s Zac Anderson was able to get past Rennsport One’s John Capestro-Dubets on the final restart with eight minutes to go. From there, he held off Random Vandals Racing’s Kenton Koch to win Pirelli GT4 America SprintX Race No. 1 at Barber Motorsports Park Saturday (Sept. 7) with teammate Colin Garrett. It is Anderson and Garrett’s second win of the year.
“The amount of pickup and clag on the track was immense,” Anderson told SRO America’s Amanda Busick after the race. “I thought…that it was going to be a spicy restart. I calibrated for it and I knew [John Capestro-Dubets] would leave me a lane [if he was having trouble].”
Anderson and Garrett’s margin of victory was .446 seconds over Koch and Kevin Boehm. Smooge Racing’s Tyler Gonzalez and Corey Lewis were third, then Capestro-Dubets and Eric Filgueiras. NOLAsport’s Jason Hart and Matt Travis were fifth.
The top-four finishers overall were the top-four finishers in the Silver class. Fifth in Silver went to the Porsche of VPX Motorsports’ Danny Dyszelski and Alex Ellis.
Lewis, a last-minute replacement for recent ARCA winner Brent Crews, started on the overall pole in his Supra. However, he didn’t last long at the front.
The Heart of Racing’s Roman DeAngelis, debuting a new Aston Martin Vantage GT4 Evo, was able to hang on the outside of Lewis in turn 1 and managed to take the lead in the turns 2 and 3 complex. Once DeAngelis snatched the overall lead, both him and Lewis drove away from the pack.
Shortly before the mid-race pit window would have opened, TechSport Racing’s Johan Schwartz stalled on track due to fuel pump issues. This brought out the safety car. Schwartz was done for the day.
The caution brought the whole field into the pits for their driver changes. Most of the field maintained their positions, but there was a change for the Silver lead. Rennsport One was able to pit their car and get Capestro-Dubets into the car quicker than Smooge Racing was able to get Gonzalez into theirs.
OnlyFans Racing’s Matt Bell chose not to pit and restarted with the overall lead. It did not take long for Capestro-Dubets to get the run on Bell and take the lead away in turn 5.
Gray Newell was first off the pit lane in his Aston Martin, but was almost immediately overtaken on the restart by Capestro-Dubets. In the throng of traffic on the first lap after the restart, Hart was able to take the class lead.
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