Nick Tandy and Mathieu Jaminet took the new Porsche 963's maiden win in the IMSA SportsCar Championship at Long Beach after Ricky Taylor crashed out trying to grab victory 🏁 Full report here on a chaotic race on the Californian street track ⬇️
The #6 Penske Porsche started sixth but ran the whole race on one set of tyres to save time in pitstops and avoid the slow tyre warm-up process, which proved a winning strategy in a wild 100-minute race around the 1.968-mile Californian street course.
In the chaos, the opportunistic Tandy was “in the right place at the right time” and leapt up to second, ahead of BMWs of Yelloly and Augusto Farfus, Felipe Nasr’s #7 Porsche and Alexander Sims . Significantly, the #60 Meyer Shank car fell off the lead lap as Blomqvist struggled to restart the car after its spin. Bourdais couldn’t restart at all, as the impact had registered a safety protocol in the complex electronics and refused to fire up the engine.
Tandy pitted in response but Porsche opted not to change tyres, and Jaminet rejoined 13s in front after the WTR Acura’s delay. The BMWs were last to pit, and after the pitstop cycle played out, there was a Porsche 1-2 with Jaminet’s #6 car leading Matt Campbell in the #7. Nose-to-tail contact sent a chunk of the Porsche’s bodywork flying and allowed De Phillippi to close, before Taylor passed Campbell by cutting the apex curb at Turn 9, and De Phillippi followed through.
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