The 2014 Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen was a sports car race sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) held on the Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York on June 29, 2014. The event served as the seventh of thirteen scheduled rounds of the 2014 United SportsCar Championship.
International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) president Scott Atherton confirmed that the race was part of the 2014 United SportsCar Championship schedule in October 2013. [1] It was the first year the event was held as part of the Tudor United SportsCar Championship. The 2014 Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen was the seventh of thirteen scheduled sports car races of 2014 by IMSA, and it was the third round held as part of the North American Endurance Cup. [1] The event was held at the eleven-turn 3.450 mi (5.552 km) Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York on June 29, 2014. [1]
Before the race, Jordan Taylor and Ricky Taylor led the Prototype Drivers' Championship with 160 points, 7 points clear of João Barbosa and Christian Fittipaldi in second, and Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas with 145 points. [2] With 133 points, PC was led by Jon Bennett and Colin Braun with a six-point advantage over Renger van der Zande. [2] In GTLM, the Drivers' Championship was led by Bill Auberlen and Andy Priaulx with 123 points; the duo held a five-point gap over Antonio García and Jan Magnussen. [2] Bill Sweedler and Townsend Bell led the GTD Drivers' Championship with 111 points, 1 point ahead of Leh Keen and Cooper MacNeil. [2] Chevrolet, Porsche, and Ferrari were leading their respective Manufacturers' Championships, while Wayne Taylor Racing, CORE Autosport, BMW Team RLL, and AIM Autosport were their respective Teams' Championships. [2]
Fifty-five cars were officially entered for the Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen, with the bulk of entries in the Prototype (P) and Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) classes. [3] Action Express Racing (AER) fielded two Chevrolet Corvette DP cars while VisitFlorida Racing (VFR) and Wayne Taylor Racing (WTR) fielded one. Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR) and Michael Shank Racing (MSR) entered one Ford-powered Riley MkXXVI. Speedsource had two Lola B12/80 while Extreme Speed Motorsports (ESM) entered two HPD ARX-03b cars and OAK Racing entered one Morgan LMP2 chassis with Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 engine. [4] The DeltaWing car after skipping the Belle Isle round. [4] The Prototype Challenge (PC) class was composed of ten Oreca FLM09 cars: two from Starworks Motorsport and RSR Racing. BAR1 Motorsports, CORE Autosport, JDC-Miller MotorSports, Performance Tech, PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports, and 8Star Motorsports entered one car each. [5] GTLM was represented by eleven entries from five different brands. [3] In the list of GTD entrants, twenty-one GT-specification vehicles were represented by six different manufacturers. [3]
There were three practice sessions preceding the start of the race on Sunday, two on Friday and one on Saturday. The first two one-hour sessions were on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. The third on Saturday afternoon lasted an hour. [6]
Saturday afternoon's 80-minute four-group qualifying session gave 15-minute sessions to all categories. Cars in GTD were sent out first before those grouped in GTLM, PC, and Prototype had three separate identically timed sessions. Regulations stipulated teams to nominate one qualifying driver, with the fastest laps determining each classes starting order. IMSA would arranged the grid to put all Prototypes ahead of the PC, GTLM, and GTD cars. [6]
Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold and by ‡. P stands for Prototype, PC (Prototype Challenge), GTLM (Grand Touring Le Mans) and GTD (Grand Touring Daytona).
| Pos. | Class | No. | Team | Driver | Time | Gap | Grid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | P | 42 |  OAK Racing |  Alex Brundle | 1:37.902 | _ | 1‡ |
| 2 | P | 5 |  Action Express Racing |  Christian Fittipaldi | 1:38.560 | +0.658 | 2 |
| 3 | P | 90 | Spirit of Daytona Racing |  Michael Valiante | 1:38.692 | +0.790 | 3 |
| 4 | P | 01 | Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates | Scott Pruett | 1:38.738 | +0.836 | 4 |
| 5 | P | 1 | Extreme Speed Motorsports | Scott Sharp | 1:39.005 | +1.103 | 5 |
| 6 | P | 10 | Wayne Taylor Racing | Ricky Taylor | 1:39.055 | +1.153 | 6 |
| 7 | P | 2 | Extreme Speed Motorsports | Johannes van Overbeek | 1:39.143 | +1.241 | 7 |
| 8 | P | 9 | Action Express Racing | Jon Fogarty | 1:39.454 | +1.552 | 8 |
| 9 | P | 60 | Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian | Oswaldo Negri Jr. | 1:40.128 | +2.226 | 9 |
| 10 | P | 0 | DeltaWing Racing Cars | Katherine Legge | 1:40.538 | +2.636 | 10 |
| 11 | PC | 54 | CORE Autosport | Colin Braun | 1:40.562 | +2.660 | 11‡ |
| 12 | PC | 25 | 8Star Motorsports | Tom Kimber-Smith | 1:40.823 | +2.921 | 12 |
| 13 | PC | 8 | Starworks Motorsport |  Renger van der Zande | 1:40.955 | +3.053 | 13 |
| 14 | PC | 7 | Starworks Motorsport |  John Martin | 1:41.041 | +3.139 | 14 |
| 15 | P | 31 | Marsh Racing | Eric Curran | 1:41.341 | +3.439 | 15 |
| 16 | PC | 52 | PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports | Gunnar Jeannette | 1:41.509 | +3.607 | 16 |
| 17 | PC | 38 | Performance Tech | David Ostella | 1:41.897 | +3.995 | 17 |
| 18 | PC | 09 | RSR Racing | Bruno Junqueira | 1:42.076 | +4.174 | 18 |
| 19 | PC | 88 | BAR1 Motorsports | Martin Plowman | 1:42.268 | +4.366 | 19 |
| 20 | P | 07 | Speedsource | Joel Miller | 1:43.788 | +5.886 | 20 |
| 21 | GTLM | 55 | BMW Team RLL | Andy Priaulx | 1:44.084 | +6.182 | 21‡ |
| 22 | GTLM | 3 | Corvette Racing |  Jan Magnussen | 1:44.376 | +6.474 | 22 |
| 23 | GTLM | 56 | BMW Team RLL |  Dirk Müller | 1:44.377 | +6.475 | 23 |
| 24 | GTLM | 912 | Porsche North America | Michael Christensen | 1:44.482 | +6.580 | 24 |
| 25 | GTLM | 93 | SRT Motorsports | Jonathan Bomarito | 1:44.606 | +6.704 | 25 |
| 26 | GTLM | 91 | SRT Motorsports | Dominik Farnbacher | 1:44.755 | +6.853 | 26 |
| 27 | GTLM | 4 | Corvette Racing | Tommy Milner | 1:44.783 | +6.881 | 27 |
| 28 | GTLM | 62 | Risi Competizione | Pierre Kaffer | 1:44.950 | +7.048 | 28 |
| 29 | GTLM | 17 | Team Falken Tire | Bryan Sellers | 1:45.134 | +7.232 | 29 |
| 30 | GTLM | 911 | Porsche North America | Patrick Pilet | 1:45.219 | +7.317 | 30 |
| 31 | P | 70 | Speedsource | Sylvain Tremblay | 1:45.825 | +7.923 | 31 |
| 32 | GTD | 22 | Alex Job Racing | Leh Keen | 1:48.831 | +10.929 | 32‡ |
| 33 | GTD | 94 | Turner Motorsport | Dane Cameron | 1:49.023 | +11.121 | 33 |
| 34 | GTD | 33 | Riley Motorsports | Jeroen Bleekemolen | 1:49.119 | +11.217 | 34 |
| 35 | GTD | 45 | Flying Lizard Motorsports | Spencer Pumpelly | 1:49.253 | +11.351 | 35 |
| 36 | GTD | 44 | Magnus Racing | Andy Lally | 1:49.371 | +11.469 | 36 |
| 37 | GTLM | 57 | Krohn Racing | Tracy Krohn | 1:49.558 | +11.686 | 37 |
| 38 | GTD | 35 | Flying Lizard Motorsports |  Dion von Moltke | 1:49.783 | +11.861 | 38 |
| 39 | GTD | 555 | AIM Autosport | Townsend Bell | 1:49.850 | +11.948 | 39 |
| 40 | GTD | 007 | TRG-AMR North America | James Davison | 1:50.020 | +12.118 | 40 |
| 41 | GTD | 23 | Team Seattle/Alex Job Racing | Mario Farnbacher | 1:50.024 | +12.122 | 41 |
| 42 | GTD | 63 | Scuderia Corsa |  Alessandro Balzan | 1:50.025 | +12.123 | 42 |
| 43 | GTD | 27 | Dempsey Racing | Andrew Davis | 1:50.050 | +12.148 | 43 |
| 44 | GTD | 58 | Snow Racing |  Jan Heylen | 1:50.450 | +12.548 | 44 |
| 45 | GTD | 81 | GB Autosport |  Damien Faulkner | 1:50.456 | +12.544 | 45 |
| 46 | GTD | 46 | Fall-Line Motorsports | Charles Espenlaub | 1:50.589 | +12.687 | 46 |
| 47 | GTD | 30 | NGT Motorsport |  Kuba Giermaziak | 1:51.009 | +13.107 | 47 |
| 48 | GTD | 48 | Paul Miller Racing | Bryce Miller | 1:51.347 | +13.445 | 54 |
| 49 | GTD | 73 | Park Place Motorsports | Jaap van Lagen | 1:51.502 | +13.600 | 48 |
| 50 | GTD | 18 | Mühlner Motorsports America | Peter Ludwig | 1:53.744 | +15.842 | 49 |
| 51 | GTD | 51 |  Spirit of Race | Jack Gerber | 1:56.625 | +18.723 | 50 |
| 52 | PC | 08 | RSR Racing | None | No Time Established | 51 | |
| 53 | PC | 85 | JDC-Miller MotorSports | None | No Time Established | 52 | |
| 54 | GTD | 19 | Mühlner Motorsports America | None | No Time Established | 54 | |
| 55 | GTD | 71 | Park Place Motorsports | None | No Time Established | 55 | |
| Sources: [7] [8] | |||||||
Class winners are denoted in bold and ‡. P stands for Prototype, PC (Prototype Challenge), GTLM (Grand Touring Le Mans) and GTD (Grand Touring Daytona).
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