Porsche Penske Motorsport’s Matt Campbell led Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta at one-quarter distance, following an action-packed start to the IMSA SportsCar Championship title decider.
Acura’s Louis Deletraz led the 54-car field to the green around the undulating 2.54-mile road course in Georgia but Sebastien Bourdais took little time in taking the lead, sweeping his Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac around the Wayne Taylor Racing ARX-06 outside at Turn 1 and quickly pulling clear. But the race quickly went under caution as Ari Balogh crashed the #8 Tower Motorsports LMP2 car for the second time , that he shares with IndyCar star Scott McLaughlin, in the third minute of the race.
” More madness occurred under caution at pit out, as the #31 AXR Cadillac of Alexander Sims was rear-ended by the #25 BMW of Sheldon van der Linde as they happened upon a red light at the end of the pit lane. The chaos played into Bourdais’s hands this time, hitting the front from the JDC Miller Porsche of Mike Rockenfeller, the surviving works PPM 963 of Matt Campbell and the #24 BMW of Marco Wittmann, which briefly ran second but fell backwards.
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