Crowdstrike Racing with Riley Motorsports’ George Kurtz led flag-to-flag Sunday morning (Oct. 9) at a cold Indianapolis Motor Speedway to score his fourth GT America Powered by AWS weekend sweep of the year. It is Kurtz’s 10th overall win in 16 races and his fifth in a row.
“It was a great year, certainly a great team with the switch to Riley Motorsports,” Kurtz told SRO America’s Amanda Busick after the race. “They gave me a great car all season. We had some ups and downs in some of the other series like yesterday, but we did really well here [in GT America] and showcased our talents, our team effort and it was a breakout season [for me].”
By virtue of having the fastest lap in Race No. 1 on Friday, Kurtz started from the pole and managed to get a good jump on Jeff Burton. Similar to the first race on Friday, GMG Racing’s Kyle Washington spun his Porsche in the first chicane on the opening lap. Unlike Friday, he was able to resume without a yellow being called for.
At first, Burton was able to keep pace with Kurtz. Over time, he slowly but surely fell off of Kurtz and into the clutches of Mirco Schultis in the Callaway Corvette C7/GT3. Schultis was able to take second just before halfway with Andy Pilgrim following in his Ferrari 458 GT3. Pilgrim was able to take second away from Schultis with 10 minutes to go, but Schultis was able to come back and re-take the position in the closing laps.
Kurtz’s lead was as much as 10 seconds over Schultis and Pilgrim, but he began to slow in the final couple of laps. It is unclear whether the lack of pace was due to a mechanical issue, or if he cut back his pace intentionally. Regardless, Schultis got close enough on the final lap to make things interesting before Kurtz took the win.
Kurtz’s margin of victory was 1.782 seconds over Schultis. Pilgrim was third, then Burton. Jason Daskalos was fifth.
In GT4, The Heart of Racing’s Gray Newell started on pole in his Aston Martin, but the man on the move was Premier Racing’s Adam Adelson. Adelson started 10th after being eliminated in a crash early on Friday. He was still in championship contention and knew that he needed to win.
Adelson got an excellent start, swept around the outside of multiple cars in the first corner, and eventually made it all the way to the lead on the first lap. He did everything he needed to do with a 15-point deficit to Jason Bell.
Once in the lead, Adelson pulled out a lead of roughly two seconds over…
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