2017 6 Hours of The Glen

Track Map of Watkins Glen International.

The 2017 Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen was an endurance race sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA). The race was held at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York on the July 2nd, 2017. This race was the sixth round of the 2017 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. ^[1]

Background

Watkins Glen International, where the race was held.

IMSA's president Scott Atherton confirmed the 6 Hours of The Glen was part of the series' schedule for the 2017 IMSA SportsCar Championship at Road America's victory lane in August 2016. ^[2] It was the fourth consecutive year the event was held as part of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The 2017 Sahlen's 6 Hours of the Glen was the sixth of twelve scheduled sports car races of 2017 by IMSA, and was the third round of the Patron North American Endurance Cup. ^[3] The race was held at the eleven-turn 3.450 mi (5.552 km) Watkins Glen International circuit on July 2, 2017. ^[3] After the Chevrolet Sports Car Classic four weeks earlier, Jordan Taylor and Ricky Taylor led the Prototype Drivers' Championship with 177 points, ahead of João Barbosa and Christian Fittipaldi with 147 points, and Dane Cameron and Eric Curran with 143 points. ^[4] With 144 points, was led by James French and Patricio O'Ward with a twenty six-point advantage over Don Yount. ^[4] Antonio García and Jan Magnussen led the GTLM Drivers' Championship with 124 points, ahead of Joey Hand and Dirk Müller with 118 points. ^[4] In GTD, the Drivers' Championship was led by Ben Keating and Jeroen Bleekemolen with 150 points, ahead of Alessandro Balzan and Christina Nielsen with 141 points. ^[4] Cadillac, Chevrolet, and Mercedes-AMG were leading their respective Manufacturers' Championships, while Wayne Taylor Racing, Performance Tech Motorsports, Corvette Racing, and Riley Motorsports Team AMG each led their own Teams' Championships. ^[4]

Entries

Further information: 2017 IMSA SportsCar Championship § Entries

A total of 38 cars took part in the event split across 4 classes. 10 cars were entered in P, 3 in PC, 8 in GTLM, and 17 in GTD. ^[5] In P, Rebellion Racing missed the event due to logistical issues. ^[6] Olivier Pla joined José Gutiérrez in the PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports entry. ^[7] Ed Brown missed the event due to injury and retired from prototype racing. ^{[8] [9]} In PC, Starworks Motorsport were absent. ^[10] Buddy Rice and Daniel Burkett returned to the #20 BAR1 Motorsports entry. Brian Alder and Derek Jones joined Gustavo Yacamán in the #26 BAR1 Motorsports entry. In GTLM, Risi Competizione were forced to miss the event due to budgetary issues following the 24 Hours of Le Mans where the teams Ferrari 488 GTE was several damaged in an accident. ^{[11] [12]} Gianmaria Bruni made his debut for Porsche joining Laurens Vanthoor in the #912 Porsche GT Team entry. ^[13] In GTD, Alex Job Racing, and Dream Racing Motorsport made their first appearances since the 12 Hours of Sebring. Michael Christensen and Michael de Quesada returned to Alegra Motorsports. ^[14]

Practice

There were three practice sessions preceding the start of the race on Saturday, two on Friday and one on Saturday. The first two one-hour sessions were on Friday morning and afternoon. The third on Saturday morning lasted an hour. ^[15]

Practice 1

The first practice session took place at 11:05 am ET on Friday and ended with Stephen Simpson topping the charts for JDC-Miller MotorSports, with a lap time of 1:35.491. ^[16]

Pos.	Class	No.	Team	Driver	Time	Gap
1	P	85	JDC-Miller MotorSports	Stephen Simpson	1:35.491	_
2	P	2	Tequila Patrón ESM	Ryan Dalziel	1:35.530	+0.039
3	P	5	Mustang Sampling Racing	João Barbosa	1:36.813	+1.322
Source: [17]

Practice 2

The second practice session took place at 3:30 pm ET on Friday and ended with Pipo Derani topping the charts for Tequila Patrón ESM, with a lap time of 1:34.696. ^[18]

Pos.	Class	No.	Team	Driver	Time	Gap
1	P	2	Tequila Patrón ESM	Pipo Derani	1:34.696	_
2	P	22	Tequila Patrón ESM	Bruno Senna	1:35.293	+0.597
3	P	52	PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports	Olivier Pla	1:35.377	+0.681
Source: [19]

Practice 3

The third and final practice session took place at 8:00 am ET on Saturday and ended with Olivier Pla topping the charts for PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports, with a lap time of 1:48.566. ^[20]

Pos.	Class	No.	Team	Driver	Time	Gap
1	P	52	PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports	Olivier Pla	1:48.566	_
2	P	5	Mustang Sampling Racing	Christian Fittipaldi	1:49.281	+0.715
3	P	90	VisitFlorida Racing	Renger van der Zande	1:50.769	+2.203
Source: [21]

Qualifying

In Saturday afternoon's 90-minute four-group qualifying, each category had separate 15-minute sessions. Regulations stipulated that teams nominate one qualifying driver, with the fastest laps determining each class' starting order. IMSA arranged the grid to put Prototypes ahead of the PC, GTLM and GTD cars. ^{[22] [15]}

The first was for cars in GTD class. Andy Lally qualified on pole for the class driving the #93 Meyer-Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian, beating Lawson Aschenbach in the #57 Stevenson Motorsports entry. ^[23]

The second session of qualifying was for cars in the GTLM class. Joey Hand qualified on pole driving the #66 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing entry, besting Alexander Sims in the #25 BMW Team RLL entry by just over three tenths of a second. ^[24]

The third session of qualifying was for cars in the PC class. James French set the fastest time driving the #38 Performance Tech Motorsports entry. ^[25]

The final session of qualifying was for the P class. Pipo Derani qualified on pole, besting Olivier Pla in the #52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports entry. ^{[25] [26]}

Qualifying Results

Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold and by ‡.

Pos.	Class	No.	Team	Driver	Time	Gap	Grid
1	DPi	2	Tequila Patrón ESM	Pipo Derani	1:34.405	_	1 ‡
2	DPi	52	PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports	Olivier Pla	1:34.567	+0.162	2
3	DPi	5	Mustang Sampling Racing	Christian Fittipaldi	1:35.306	+0.901	3
4	DPi	10	Wayne Taylor Racing	Ricky Taylor	1:35.496	+1.091	4
5	DPi	22	Tequila Patrón ESM	Johannes van Overbeek	1:35.637	+1.119	5
6	DPi	31	Whelen Engineering Racing	Eric Curran	1:36.103	+1.698	6
7	DPi	90	VisitFlorida Racing	Renger van der Zande	1:36.129	+1.724	7
8	DPi	85	JDC-Miller MotorSports	Misha Goikhberg	1:36.799	+2.394	8
9	DPi	55	Mazda Motorsports	Tristan Nunez	1:36.886	+2.481	9
10	DPi	70	Mazda Motorsports	Joel Miller	1:36.981	+2.576	10
11	PC	38	Performance Tech Motorsports	James French	1:40.049	+5.644	11 ‡
12	PC	20	BAR1 Motorsports	Don Yount	1:42.125	+7.720	12
13	GTLM	66	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Joey Hand	1:42.507	+8.102	14 ‡
14	GTLM	25	BMW Team RLL	Alexander Sims	1:42.813	+8.408	15
15	GTLM	24	BMW Team RLL	Martin Tomczyk	1:42.881	+8.476	16
16	GTLM	67	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Richard Westbrook	1:42.884	+8.479	17
17	GTLM	911	Porsche GT Team	Patrick Pilet	1:43.140	+8.735	18
18	GTLM	4	Corvette Racing	Tommy Milner	1:43.189	+8.784	19
19	GTLM	912	Porsche GT Team	Laurens Vanthoor	1:43.192	+8.787	20
20	GTLM	3	Corvette Racing	Antonio García	1:43.243	+8.838	21
21	PC	26	BAR1 Motorsports	Brian Alder	1:43.575	+9.170	13 1
22	GTD	93	Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian	Andy Lally	1:46.051	+11.646	22 ‡
23	GTD	57	Stevenson Motorsports	Lawson Aschenbach	1:46.271	+11.866	23
24	GTD	15	3GT Racing	Jack Hawksworth	1:46.724	+12.319	24
25	GTD	86	Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian	Jeff Segal	1:46.816	+12.411	25
26	GTD	27	Dream Racing Motorsport	Paolo Ruberti	1:47.490	+13.085	26
27	GTD	96	Turner Motorsport	Justin Marks	1:47.551	+13.146	27
28	GTD	16	Change Racing	Corey Lewis	1:47.774	+13.369	28
29	GTD	48	Paul Miller Racing	Madison Snow	1:47.826	+13.421	29
30	GTD	14	3GT Racing	Sage Karam	1:48.058	+13.653	38 2
31	GTD	63	Scuderia Corsa	Christina Nielsen	1:48.098	+13.693	30
32	GTD	33	Riley Motorsports – Team AMG	Ben Keating	1:48.282	+13.877	31
33	GTD	75	SunEnergy1 Racing	Boris Said	1:48.778	+14.373	32
34	GTD	73	Park Place Motorsports	Matt McMurry	1:48.895	+14.490	33
35	GTD	28	Alegra Motorsports	Michael de Quesada	1:49.131	+14.726	34
36	GTD	50	Riley Motorsports – WeatherTech Racing	Cooper MacNeil	1:49.878	+15.474	35
37	GTD	23	Alex Job Racing	Townsend Bell	1:50.647	+16.242	36
38	GTD	54	CORE Autosport	Jon Bennett	1:50.973	+16.568	37 3
Sources: [27] [28] [29]

• ¹ The No. 26 BAR1 Motorsports entry was moved to the back of the PC field as per Articles 43.5 and 43.6 of the Sporting regulations (Change of starting driver) and (Change of starting tires). ^[22]
• ² The No. 14 3GT Racing entry was moved to the back of the GTD field as per Article 43.6 of the Sporting regulations (Change of starting tires). ^[22]
• ³ The No. 54 CORE Autosport entry was moved to the back of the GTD field as per Article 43.6 of the Sporting regulations (Change of starting tires). ^[22]

Race

Post-race

The result kept Jordan Taylor and Ricky Taylor atop the Prototype Drivers' Championship. Goikhberg and Simpson moved to third after being fourth coming into Watkins Glen. ^[30] In the PC Drivers' Championship, French and O'Ward extended their points lead to thirty points over Yount, while Yacamán advanced from seventh to fifth. ^[30] In the GTLM Drivers' Championship, Garcia and Magnussen further increased their gap to eighteen points ahead of Müller and Hand. Auberlen and Sims advanced from fourth to third while Pilet and Werner dropped to fifth. By finishing second in GTD, Balzan and Nielsen took the lead of the GTD Drivers' Championship while Lally and Legge moved from sixth to third. ^[30] Cadillac, Chevrolet, and Mercedes-AMG continued to top their respective Manufacturers' Championships, while Wayne Taylor Racing, Performance Tech Motorsports, and Corvette Racing kept their respective advantages in the Teams' Championships with six rounds remaining. ^[30] Scuderia Corsa took the lead of the GTD Teams' Championship going into the next race at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park. ^[30]

Results

Class winners are denoted in bold and ‡.

Final race classification Pos Class No. Team Drivers Chassis Tire Laps Time/Retired Engine 1 P 5 Mustang Sampling Racing Christian Fittipaldi João Barbosa Filipe Albuquerque Cadillac DPi-V.R C 200 6:01:18.592‡ Cadillac 6.2 L V8 2 P 85 JDC-Miller Motorsports Misha Goikhberg Stephen Simpson Chris Miller Oreca 07 C 200 +1.183s Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 3 P 55 Mazda Motorsports Tristan Nunez Jonathan Bomarito Spencer Pigot Mazda RT24-P C 200 +8.546s Mazda MZ-2.0T 2.0 L Turbo I4 4 P 52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports Olivier Pla José Gutiérrez Ligier JS P217 C 200 +17.583s Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 5 P 90 VisitFlorida Racing Marc Goossens Renger van der Zande Riley Mk. 30 C 198 +2 laps Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 6 P 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Ricky Taylor Jordan Taylor Cadillac DPi-V.R C 197 +3 laps Cadillac 6.2 L V8 7 PC 38 Performance Tech Motorsports James French Patricio O'Ward Kyle Masson Oreca FLM09 C 195 +5 laps‡ Chevrolet 6.2 L V8 8 GTLM 25 BMW RLL Racing Alexander Sims Bill Auberlen BMW M6 GTLM M 192 +8 laps‡ BMW 4.4 L Turbo V8 9 GTLM 67 Ford Chip Ganassi Richard Westbrook Ryan Briscoe Ford GT M 192 +8 laps Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Twin-turbo V6 10 GTLM 3 Corvette Racing Antonio García Jan Magnussen Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 192 +8 laps Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8 11 PC 20 BAR1 Motorsports Don Yount Daniel Burkett Buddy Rice Oreca FLM09 C 192 +8 laps Chevrolet 6.2 L V8 12 GTLM 66 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Joey Hand Dirk Müller Ford GT M 192 +8 laps Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Twin-turbo V6 13 GTLM 4 Corvette Racing Tommy Milner Oliver Gavin Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 192 +8 laps Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8 14 GTLM 912 Porsche GT Team Laurens Vanthoor Gianmaria Bruni Porsche 911 RSR M 192 +8 laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 15 GTLM 911 Porsche GT Team Patrick Pilet Dirk Werner Porsche 911 RSR M 191 +9 laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 16 DNF P 31 Whelen Engineering Racing Eric Curran Dane Cameron Filipe Albuquerque Cadillac DPi-V.R C 190 DNF Cadillac 6.2 L V8 17 GTD 93 Meyer-Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian Andy Lally Katherine Legge Acura NSX GT3 C 187 +13 laps‡ Acura 3.5L V6 Turbo 18 GTD 63 Scuderia Corsa Christina Nielsen Alessandro Balzan Matteo Cressoni Ferrari 488 GT3 C 187 +13 laps Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8 19 GTD 96 Turner Motorsport Justin Marks Jens Klingmann BMW M6 GT3 C 187 +13 laps BMW 4.4L Turbo V8 20 GTD 50 Riley Motorsports - Team AMG Cooper MacNeil Shane van Gisbergen Gunnar Jeannette Mercedes-AMG GT C 187 +13 laps Mercedes AMG M159 6.2 L V8 21 GTD 15 3GT Racing Jack Hawksworth Austin Cindric Robert Alon Lexus RC F GT3 C 187 +13 laps Lexus 5.0L V8 22 GTD 14 3GT Racing Sage Karam Scott Pruett Lexus RC F GT3 C 187 +13 laps Lexus 5.0L V8 23 GTD 28 Alegra Motorsports Michael de Quesada Michael Christensen Daniel Morad Porsche 911 GT3 R C 187 +13 laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 24 GTD 73 Park Place Motorsports Matt McMurry Patrick Lindsey Porsche 911 GT3 R C 187 +13 laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 25 GTD 57 Stevenson Motorsports Lawson Aschenbach Andrew Davis Audi R8 LMS C 186 +14 laps Audi 5.2 L V10 26 GTD 33 Riley Motorsports - Team AMG Ben Keating Jeroen Bleekemolen Mario Farnbacher Mercedes-AMG GT C 186 +14 laps Mercedes AMG M159 6.2 L V8 27 GTD 27 Dream Racing Motorsport Paolo Ruberti Cédric Sbirrazzuoli Lamborghini Huracán GT3 C 186 +14 laps Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 28 GTD 48 Paul Miller Racing Madison Snow Bryan Sellers Lamborghini Huracán GT3 C 186 +14 laps Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 29 GTD 54 CORE Autosport Jon Bennett Colin Braun Niclas Jönsson Porsche 911 GT3 R C 186 +14 laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 30 GTD 23 Alex Job Racing Townsend Bell Frankie Montecalvo Bill Sweedler Audi R8 LMS C 184 +16 laps Audi 5.2 L V10 31 GTD 75 SunEnergy1 Racing Boris Said Kenny Habul Tristan Vautier Mercedes-AMG GT3 C 184 +16 laps Mercedes AMG M159 6.2 L V8 32 DNF P 2 Tequila Patron ESM Pipo Derani Ryan Dalziel Scott Sharp Nissan Onroak DPi C 177 Throttle Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Turbo V6 33 PC 26 BAR1 Motorsports Gustavo Yacamán Derek Jones Brian Alder Oreca FLM09 C 176 +24 laps Chevrolet 6.2 L V8 34 DNF GTD 86 Meyer-Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian Jeff Segal Oswaldo Negri Jr. Acura NSX GT3 C 167 Hub Acura 3.5L V6 Turbo 35 DNF GTLM 24 BMW Team RLL Martin Tomczyk John Edwards BMW M6 GTLM M 161 Radiator BMW 4.4 L Turbo V8 36 DNF P 22 Tequila Patron ESM Johannes van Overbeek Bruno Senna Nissan Onroak DPi C 160 Oil Pressure Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Turbo V6 37 DNF GTD 16 Change Racing Corey Lewis Jeroen Mul Brett Sandberg Lamborghini Huracán GT3 C 89 Crash Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 38 DNF P 70 Mazda Motorsports Joel Miller Marino Franchitti Tom Long Mazda RT24-P C 61 Turbo Mazda MZ-2.0T 2.0 L Turbo I4 Sources: [31] [32]

Tyre manufacturers Key Symbol Tyre manufacturer C Continental M Michelin

Statistics

Fastest Lap - #52 Oliper Pla - 1:33.314 ^[33]

Standings after the race

Prototype Drivers' Championship standings [30] Pos. +/– Driver Points 1 Jordan Taylor Ricky Taylor 202 2 João Barbosa Christian Fittipaldi 182 3 1 Misha Goikhberg Stephen Simpson 167 4 1 Dane Cameron Eric Curran 164 5 Ryan Dalziel Scott Sharp 153

PC Drivers' Championship standings [30] Pos. +/– Driver Points 1 James French Patricio O'Ward 180 2 Don Yount 150 3 Buddy Rice 120 4 Kyle Masson 108 5 2 Gustavo Yacamán 89

GTLM Drivers' Championship standings [30] Pos. +/– Driver Points 1 Antonio García Jan Magnussen 154 2 Joey Hand Dirk Müller 146 3 1 Bill Auberlen Alexander Sims 144 4 1 Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook 139 5 2 Patrick Pilet Dirk Werner 134

GTD Drivers' Championship standings [30] Pos. +/– Driver Points 1 1 Alessandro Balzan Christina Nielsen 173 2 1 Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating 171 3 3 Andy Lally Katherine Legge 147 4 Daniel Morad 146 5 2 Bryan Sellers Madison Snow 142

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for all sets of standings.

Prototype Teams' Championship standings [30] Pos. +/– Team Points 1 #10 Wayne Taylor Racing 202 2 #5 Mustang Sampling Racing 182 3 1 #85 JDC-Miller MotorSports 167 4 1 #31 Whelen Engineering Racing 164 5 #2 Tequila Patrón ESM 153

PC Teams' Championship standings [30] Pos. +/– Team Points 1 #38 Performance Tech Motorsports 180 2 #26 BAR1 Motorsports 155 3 #20 BAR1 Motorsports 150 4 #8 Starworks Motorsport 58 5 #88 Starworks Motorsport 28

GTLM Teams' Championship standings [30] Pos. +/– Team Points 1 #3 Corvette Racing 154 2 #66 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing 146 3 1 #25 BMW Team RLL 144 4 1 #67 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing 139 5 2 #911 Porsche GT Team 134

GTD Teams' Championship standings [30] Pos. +/– Team Points 1 1 #63 Scuderia Corsa 173 2 1 #33 Riley Motorsports Team AMG 171 3 3 #93 Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian 147 4 #28 Alegra Motorsports 146 5 2 #48 Paul Miller Racing 142

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for all sets of standings.

Prototype Manufacturers' Championship standings [30] Pos. +/– Manufacturer Points 1 Cadillac 210 2 Nissan 186 3 Mazda 186

GTLM Manufacturers' Championship standings [30] Pos. +/– Manufacturer Points 1 Chevrolet 163 2 Ford 159 3 1 BMW 149 4 1 Porsche 146 5 Ferrari 112

GTD Manufacturers' Championship standing [30] Pos. +/– Manufacturer Points 1 Mercedes-AMG 187 2 Ferrari 182 3 2 Acura 172 4 1 Porsche 167 5 1 Lamborghini 162

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for all sets of standings.

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