The Porsche GT Team has guaranteed positions seven and eight at the penultimate round of the current year’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
In an uneventful race with no alert stages, the plant drivers Laurens Vanthoor (Belgium) and Earl Bamber (New Zealand) needed to think about an absence of hold in the No. 912 Porsche 911 RSR, as did their image partners Patrick Pilet (France) and Nick Tandy (Great Britain) in the No. 911 sister vehicle. Making a beeline for the season finale at Road Atlanta (USA), Porsche still holds a persuading lead in the makers’ order. In the GTD class, Porsche has won the Sprint Cup title.
On race day at the Laguna Seca Raceway, the groups and drivers experienced diverse climate conditions contrasted with the past two practice days. The sun scarcely penetrated the thick haze, and the greatest temperature floated around 20 degrees Celsius. Under these changed conditions, the Porsche 911 RSR needed grasp and along these lines pace. With a view to the title, the Porsche GT Team settled on an okay technique. After a perfect presentation from the groups and drivers at Laguna Seca, Porsche handles “Petit Le Mans”, the last round of the period, with an important lead in the producers’ order. In the drivers’ title, Bamber/Vanthoor have expanded their lead over their image associates Pilet/Tandy to twelve.
In the interim, in the GTD class, Porsche has won the makers’ arrangement of the IMSA Sprint Cup. The two Canadians Zacharie Robichon and Scott Hargrove finished up the race in the No. 9 Porsche 911 GT3 R handled by Pfaff Motorsports on fourth place. With this outcome, Robichon, who is challenging his first IMSA season, has verified the drivers’ title in the Sprint Cup, which comprises of the seven briefest GTD races of the year. The race at Laguna Seca marks the last round of this Sprint Cup, with the last ten-hour race at Road Atlanta (“Petit Le Mans”) never again incorporated into the arrangement. Park Place Motorsports with production line drivers Patrick Long (USA) and his comrade Patrick Lindsey was not able challenge the race because of a mishap in qualifying.
The Porsche GT Team has verified a solid beginning situation in the passing session for the penultimate round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. In the chase for top occasions at Laguna Seca (USA), Laurens Vanthoor timed the fourth quickest time in the driver’s seat of the No. 912 Porsche 911 RSR. The Belgian presently drives the drivers’ order with his works driver partner Earl Bamber (New Zealand). Scratch Tandy was tormented by misfortune in the passing. The British racer spun in the renowned Corkscrew corner, which kept him from accomplishing a superior outcome than eighth spot.
Tandy, who won a year ago’s race at the Virginia International Raceway with Patrick Pilet (France), needed to assault in his subsequent lap. While transforming into the right-hander at the peak of the Corkscrew, he lost the back of the No. 911 Porsche 911 RSR. Tandy abstained from hitting the hindrances, yet after the turn, the tires never again offered adequate hold to post quick lap times. Vanthoor slowly got his tires up to temperature and made his best endeavor just in the 6th lap. Placing in a perfect drive in the 911 RSR, which depends on the superior Porsche 911 GT3 RS, the Belgian guaranteed the fourth matrix spot.
