IMSA News: Penske Porsche scores a 1-2 at Road America
Porsche Penske Motorsport scored a one-two overall finish today at the IMSA SportsCar Weekend at Road America. It is the fourth victory of the 2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for the Porsche factory program and is the second one-two sweep of the year.
The No. 6 Porsche hybrid prototype shared by Mathieu Jaminet (France) and Nick Tandy (United Kingdom) led their teammates Dane Cameron (Huntersville, North Carolina) and Felipe Nasr (Brazil) in the No. 7 factory Porsche 963 across the finish line at the Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin-area track.
Today’s victory in the two-hour, 40-minute race – the final “sprint round of the GTP class season – was the second win for the No. 6 team following its first victory of 2024 at Detroit in June. The No. 7 has overall GTP class wins in the 24 Hours At Daytona and the Six Hours of The Glen and currently leads the team and driver point standings. Porsche leads the way in the GTP manufacturer rankings with two races – both endurance rounds – remaining for the GTP class.
Mathieu Jaminet took the No. 6 Porsche 963 to a narrow 0.390-second win over the No. 7 entry of Felipe Nasr after inheriting the lead of the race due to a late-race pit stop for the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Acura ARX-06 of Ricky Taylor.
Taylor, who had led the majority of the two-hour and 40-minute contest along with the sister No. 40 Acura, rejoined the GTP field in ninth and quickly carved his way through the field on the final restart with 16 minutes to go.
The No. 10 WTRAndretti Acura ended up finishing third, ahead of the fourth-placed No. 31 Action Express Racing Cadillac V-Series.R of Jack Aitken and Pipo Derani, which was also on a similar strategy to the two Penske Porsches.
Conquest Stretches Fuel Mileage for Maiden GTD Pro Win
Daniel Serra stretched the fuel mileage of his No. 35 Conquest Racing Ferrari 296 GT3 to claim top honors in GTD Pro, making only a single pit stop over the course of the race.
The Ferrari factory driver, who shared the Prancing Horse with Giacomo Altoe, showed pace in addition to efficiency, leading the majority of the way.
It came in only the second GTD Pro outing for the Eric Bachelart-led squad and was the team’s first top-series IMSA win since 2012.