2017 Monterey Grand Prix

Track map of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca

The 2017 Monterey Grand Prix was a sports car race sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA).The Race was held at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California on September 24, 2017. The race was the eleventh round of the 2017 IMSA SportsCar Championship.

Background

Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, where the race was held.

IMSA's president Scott Atherton confirmed the Monterey Grand Prix was part of the series' schedule for the 2017 IMSA SportsCar Championship at Road America's victory lane in August 2016. ^[1] It was the fourth consecutive year the event was held as part of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The 2017 Monterey Grand Prix was the eleventh of twelve scheduled sports car races of 2017 by IMSA, and was the eighth round not held on the held as part of the North American Endurance Cup. ^[2] The race was held at the eleven-turn 2.238 mi (3.602 km) Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey County, California on September 24, 2017. ^[2] After wrapping up the two "West Coast Swing" rounds also consisting of Long Beach in previous years, Laguna Seca moved to September and swapped places on the calendar with Circuit of the Americas. ^[1] The event also returned to a single race format after utilizing a split race format the previous year due to the field size. ^[3] For the first time since the 2009 running of the event, the PC class would not be competing. ^[4]

After the Michelin GT Challenge at VIR four weeks earlier, Jordan Taylor and Ricky Taylor led the Prototype Drivers' Championship with 258 points, ahead of João Barbosa and Christian Fittipaldi with 232 points, and Dane Cameron and Eric Curran with 227 points. ^[5] Antonio García and Jan Magnussen led the GTLM Drivers' Championship with 274 points, ahead of Bill Auberlen and Alexander Sims with 258 points. ^[5] In GTD, the Drivers' Championship was led by Alessandro Balzan and Christina Nielsen with 282 points, ahead of Jeroen Bleekemolen with 269 points. Cadillac, Chevrolet, and Mercedes-AMG were leading their respective Manufacturers' Championships, while Wayne Taylor Racing, Corvette Racing, and Scuderia Corsa each led their own Teams' Championships. ^[5]

On September 19, 2017, IMSA released the latest technical bulletin outlining Balance of performance for the event. ^[6] In P, the Nissan Onroak DPi received a reduction in turbo boost and a fuel capacity reduction of 1 liter. The Cadillac DPi-V.R received an increase in the cars minimum rear wing angle as well as a fuel restrictor reduction of 1 mm. In GTLM, the Porsche 911 RSR received a 0.6 mm larger air restrictor, 1 extra liter of fuel capacity, and a 0.5 mm larger fuel restrictor. The BMW M6 GTLM received a fuel restrictor reduction of 1 mm while the Chevrolet Corvette C7.R got a fuel restrictor increase of 0.5 mm. In GTD, the Audi R8 LMS and Acura NSX GT3 received fuel restrictor increases of 1mm and 0.5 mm, respectively. The BMW M6 GT3 and Lexus RC F GT3 received fuel capacity increases of 6 and 7 liters, respectively.

On September 20, 2017, Continental Tire announced their exit from IMSA after the 2018 season. ^[7] Following the announcement, IMSA announced Michelin would replace Continental Tire as their official tire supplier beginning in 2019. ^[8]

Entries

Further information: 2017 IMSA SportsCar Championship § Entries

A total of 33 cars took part in the event split across 4 classes. 8 cars were entered in P, 9 in GTLM, and 16 in GTD. ^[9] In GTD, Ben Keating returned to the #33 Riley Motorsports - Team AMG entry. ^[10] No changes happened in P and GTLM.

Practice

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 morning and afternoon. The third on Saturday morning lasted an hour. ^[11]

Practice 1

The first practice session took place at 10:00 am PT on Friday and ended with Jordan Taylor topping the charts for VisitFlorida Racing, with a lap time of 1:18.462. ^[12] The GTLM class was topped by the #67 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Ford GT of Ryan Briscoe with a time of 1:23.344. ^[13] Patrick Long set the fastest time in GTD. ^[14]

Pos.	Class	No.	Team	Driver	Time	Gap
1	P	10	Wayne Taylor Racing	Jordan Taylor	1:18.462	_
2	P	2	Tequila Patrón ESM	Ryan Dalziel	1:18.628	+0.166
3	P	90	VisitFlorida Racing	Renger van der Zande	1:19.045	+0.583
Sources: [15] [16]

Practice 2

The second practice session took place at 2:50 pm PT on Friday and ended with Ryan Dalziel topping the charts for Tequila Patrón ESM, with a lap time of 1:18.026. ^[17] The GTLM class was topped by the #62 Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 GTE of Toni Vilander with a time of 1:22.635. Alexander Sims was second in the #25 BMW Team RLL entry and Oliver Gavin rounded out the top 3. ^[18] Oswaldo Negri Jr. was fastest in GTD. ^[17]

Pos.	Class	No.	Team	Driver	Time	Gap
1	P	2	Tequila Patrón ESM	Ryan Dalziel	1:18.026	_
2	P	10	Wayne Taylor Racing	Ricky Taylor	1:18.112	+0.086
3	P	22	Tequila Patrón ESM	Pipo Derani	1:18.449	+0.423
Sources: [19] [20]

Practice 3

The third and final practice session took place at 8:00 am PT on Saturday and ended with Jordan Taylor topping the charts for Wayne Taylor Racing, with a lap time of 1:18.216. ^[21] The GTLM class was topped by the #66 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Ford GT of Dirk Müller with a time of 1:22.678. ^[22] Bryan Sellers was fastest in GTD with a time of 1:24.711. ^[23]

Pos.	Class	No.	Team	Driver	Time	Gap
1	P	10	Wayne Taylor Racing	Jordan Taylor	1:18.216	_
2	P	52	PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports	José Gutiérrez	1:18.285	+0.069
3	P	2	Tequila Patrón ESM	Ryan Dalziel	1:18.294	+0.078
Sources: [24] [25]

Qualifying

Saturday afternoon's 65-minute three-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 then arranged the grid to put Prototypes ahead of the GTLM and GTD cars. ^{[26] [11]}

The first was for cars in GTD class. Madison Snow qualified on pole for the class driving the #48 car for Paul Miller Racing, besting Daniel Morad in the Alegra Motorsports entry. ^[27]

The second session of qualifying was for cars in the GTLM class. Toni Vilander qualified on pole driving the #62 car for Risi Competizione, beating Dirk Müller in the #66 entry Ford Chip Ganassi Racing by over two tenths of a second. ^[28]

The final session of qualifying was for the P class. Ricky Taylor qualified on pole driving the #10 car for Wayne Taylor Racing, beating Christian Fittipaldi in the #5 entry from Mustang Sampling Racing. ^[29]

Qualifying results

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

Pos.	Class	No.	Team	Driver	Time	Gap	Grid
1	P	10	Wayne Taylor Racing	Ricky Taylor	1:16.853	_	1‡
2	P	5	Mustang Sampling Racing	Christian Fittipaldi	1:17.682	+0.829	2
3	P	90	VisitFlorida Racing	Marc Goossens	1:17.730	+0.877	3
4	P	31	Whelen Engineering Racing	Eric Curran	1:17.809	+0.956	4
5	P	52	PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports	José Gutiérrez	1:17.822	+0.969	5
6	P	2	Tequila Patrón ESM	Scott Sharp	1:17.998	+1.145	6
7	P	22	Tequila Patrón ESM	Johannes van Overbeek	1:18.039	+1.186	7
8	P	85	JDC-Miller MotorSports	Mikhail Goikhberg	1:18.646	+1.793	8
9	GTLM	62	Risi Competizione	Toni Vilander	1:21.914	+5.061	9‡
10	GTLM	66	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Dirk Müller	1:22.156	+5.303	10
11	GTLM	24	BMW Team RLL	John Edwards	1:22.177	+5.324	11
12	GTLM	25	BMW Team RLL	Alexander Sims	1:22.178	+5.325	12
13	GTLM	67	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Ryan Briscoe	1:22.580	+5.727	13
14	GTLM	911	Porsche GT Team	Patrick Pilet	1:22.756	+5.903	14
15	GTLM	3	Corvette Racing	Jan Magnussen	1:22.789	+5.936	15
16	GTLM	912	Porsche GT Team	Laurens Vanthoor	1:22.840	+5.987	16
17	GTLM	4	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin	1:23.009	+6.156	17
18	GTD	48	Paul Miller Racing	Madison Snow	1:24.469	+7.616	18‡
19	GTD	28	Alegra Motorsports	Daniel Morad	1:24.721	+7.868	19
20	GTD	73	Park Place Motorsports	Patrick Lindsey	1:24.954	+8.101	20
21	GTD	96	Turner Motorsport	Jens Klingmann	1:25.086	+8.233	21
22	GTD	14	3GT Racing	Sage Karam	1:25.394	+8.541	22
23	GTD	16	Change Racing	Corey Lewis	1:25.499	+8.646	23
24	GTD	86	Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian	Oswaldo Negri Jr.	1:25.518	+8.665	24
25	GTD	15	3GT Racing	Scott Pruett	1:25.533	+8.680	25
26	GTD	63	Scuderia Corsa	Christina Nielsen	1:25.603	+8.750	26
27	GTD	50	Riley Motorsports - WeatherTech Racing	Cooper MacNeil	1:25.643	+8.790	27
28	GTD	93	Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian	Katherine Legge	1:25.800	+8.947	28
29	GTD	57	Stevenson Motorsports	Andrew Davis	1:25.832	+8.979	29
30	GTD	33	Riley Motorsports - Team AMG	Ben Keating	1:26.260	+9.407	30
31	GTD	54	CORE Autosport	Jon Bennett	1:27.304	+10.541	31
32	GTD	80	Lone Star Racing	Dan Knox	1:27.325	+10.472	32
33	GTD	75	SunEnergy1 Racing	Kenny Habul	1:27.447	+10.594	33 1
Sources: [30] [31]

• ¹ The No. 75 SunEnergy1 Racing entry was moved to the back of the GTD field as per Article 43.6 of the Sporting regulations (Change of starting tires). ^[26]

Race

Post-race

The result kept Jordan Taylor and Ricky Taylor atop the Prototype Drivers' Championship with 288 points, 29 points ahead of second-place finishers Cameron and Curran. Barbosa and Fittipaldi dropped from second to third in the standings. ^[32] In the GTLM Drivers' Championship, Briscoe and Westbrook advanced from fourth to second. Hand and Müller dropped from third to fourth. ^[32] As a result of winning the race, Balzan and Nielsen extended their points lead to twenty-six points ahead of Bleekemolen in the GTD Drivers' Championship. Lally and Legge advanced from seventh to fourth while Aschenbach and Davis dropped from fourth to sixth. ^[32] Cadillac and Chevrolet continued to top their respective Manufacturers' Championships. Ferrari took the lead of the GTD Manufactures' Championship while Wayne Taylor Racing, Corvette Racing, and Scuderia Corsa kept their respective advantages in the Teams' Championships with one round left in the season. ^[32]

Results

Class winners are denoted in bold and ‡.

Final race classification Pos Class No. Team Drivers Chassis Tire Laps Time/Retired Engine 1 P 90 VisitFlorida Racing Marc Goossens Renger van der Zande Ligier JS P217 C 114 2:41.04.538‡ Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 2 P 31 Whelen Engineering Racing Dane Cameron Eric Curran Cadillac DPi-V.R C 114 +2.248 Cadillac 6.2 L V8 3 P 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Ricky Taylor Jordan Taylor Cadillac DPi-V.R C 114 +8.391 Cadillac 6.2 L V8 4 P 85 JDC-Miller MotorSports Mikhail Goikhberg Stephen Simpson Oreca 07 C 114 +9.321 Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 5 P 5 Mustang Sampling Racing João Barbosa Christian Fittipaldi Cadillac DPi-V.R C 114 +10.411 Cadillac 6.2 L V8 6 P 2 Tequila Patrón ESM Scott Sharp Ryan Dalziel Nissan Onroak DPi C 114 +21.241 Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Turbo V6 7 P 52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports Olivier Pla José Gutiérrez Ligier JS P217 C 114 +52.076 Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 8 P 22 Tequila Patrón ESM Johannes van Overbeek Pipo Derani Nissan Onroak DPi C 113 +1 lap Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Turbo V6 9 GTLM 24 BMW Team RLL John Edwards Martin Tomczyk BMW M6 GTLM M 110 +4 Laps‡ BMW 4.4 L Turbo V8 10 GTLM 62 Risi Competizione Toni Vilander Giancarlo Fisichella Ferrari 488 GTE M 110 +4 Laps Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8 11 GTLM 911 Porsche GT Team Patrick Pilet Dirk Werner Porsche 911 RSR M 110 +4 Laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 12 GTLM 3 Corvette Racing Jan Magnussen Antonio García Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 110 +4 Laps Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8 13 GTLM 67 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook Ford GT M 110 +4 Laps Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Twin-turbo V6 14 GTLM 66 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Dirk Müller Joey Hand Ford GT M 110 +4 Laps Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Twin-turbo V6 15 GTLM 25 BMW Team RLL Bill Auberlen Alexander Sims BMW M6 GTLM M 108 +6 Laps BMW 4.4 L Turbo V8 16 GTLM 4 Corvette Racing Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 107 +7 Laps Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8 17 GTLM 912 Porsche GT Team Gianmaria Bruni Laurens Vanthoor Porsche 911 RSR M 107 +7 Laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 18 GTD 63 Scuderia Corsa Christina Nielsen Alessandro Balzan Ferrari 488 GT3 C 107 +7 Laps‡ Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8 19 GTD 93 Michael Shank Racing with Curb Agajanian Andy Lally Katherine Legge Acura NSX GT3 C 107 +7 Laps Acura 3.5 L Turbo V6 20 GTD 73 Park Place Motorsports Jörg Bergmeister Patrick Lindsey Porsche 911 GT3 R C 107 +7 Laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 21 GTD 54 CORE Autosport Jon Bennett Colin Braun Porsche 911 GT3 R C 106 +8 Laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 22 GTD 96 Turner Motorsport Jens Klingmann Jesse Krohn BMW M6 GT3 C 108 +8 Laps BMW 4.4L Turbo V8 23 GTD 50 Riley Motorsports – WeatherTech Racing Cooper MacNeil Gunnar Jeannette Porsche 911 GT3 R C 108 +8 Laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 24 GTD 48 Paul Miller Racing Bryan Sellers Madison Snow Lamborghini Huracán GT3 C 108 +8 Laps Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 25 GTD 33 Riley Motorsports – Team AMG Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating Mercedes-AMG GT3 C 108 +8 Laps Mercedes AMG M159 6.2 L V8 26 GTD 16 Change Racing Corey Lewis Jeroen Mul Lamborghini Huracán GT3 C 108 +8 Laps Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 27 GTD 86 Michael Shank Racing with Curb Agajanian Jeff Segal Oswaldo Negri Jr. Acura NSX GT3 C 108 +8 Laps Acura 3.5 L Turbo V6 28 GTD 57 Stevenson Motorsports Andrew Davis Lawson Aschenbach Audi R8 LMS C 108 +8 Laps Audi 5.2L V10 29 GTD 75 SunEnergy1 Racing Tristan Vautier Kenny Habul Mercedes-AMG GT3 C 108 +8 Laps Mercedes AMG M159 6.2 L V8 30 GTD 15 3GT Racing Scott Pruett Jack Hawksworth Lexus RC F GT3 C 108 +8 Laps Lexus 5.0L V8 31 GTD 14 3GT Racing Robert Alon Sage Karam Lexus RC F GT3 C 105 +9 Laps Lexus 5.0L V8 32 GTD 80 Lone Star Racing Dan Knox Mike Skeen Mercedes-AMG GT3 C 105 +9 Laps Mercedes AMG M159 6.2 L V8 33 DNF GTD 28 Alegra Motorsports Patrick Long Daniel Morad Porsche 911 GT3 R C 47 Drivehsaft Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 Sources: [33] [34]

Tyre manufacturers Key Symbol Tyre manufacturer C Continental M Michelin

Standings after the race

Prototype Drivers' Championship standings [32] Pos. +/– Driver Points 1 Jordan Taylor Ricky Taylor 288 2 1 Dane Cameron Eric Curran 259 3 1 João Barbosa Christian Fittipaldi 258 4 Misha Goikhberg Stephen Simpson 252 5 Ryan Dalziel Scott Sharp 238

PC Drivers' Championship standings [32] Pos. +/– Driver Points 1 James French Patricio O'Ward 252 2 Don Yount 212 3 Buddy Rice 150 4 Gustavo Yacamán 121 5 Kyle Masson 108

GTLM Drivers' Championship standings [32] Pos. +/– Driver Points 1 Antonio García Jan Magnussen 302 2 2 Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook 283 3 1 Bill Auberlen Alexander Sims 282 4 1 Joey Hand Dirk Müller 282 5 Patrick Pilet Dirk Werner 270

GTD Drivers' Championship standings [32] Pos. +/– Driver Points 1 Alessandro Balzan Christina Nielsen 318 2 Jeroen Bleekemolen 292 3 Jens Klingmann 278 4 3 Andy Lally Katherine Legge 269 5 1 Patrick Lindsey 268

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

Prototype Teams' Championship standings [32] Pos. +/– Team Points 1 #10 Wayne Taylor Racing 258 2 1 #31 Whelen Engineering Racing 232 3 1 #5 Mustang Sampling Racing 227 4 #85 JDC-Miller MotorSports 224 5 #2 Tequila Patrón ESM 213

PC Teams' Championship standings [32] Pos. +/– Team Points 1 #38 Performance Tech Motorsports 252 2 #26 BAR1 Motorsports 217 3 #20 BAR1 Motorsports 212 4 #8 Starworks Motorsport 58 5 #88 Starworks Motorsport 28

GTLM Teams' Championship standings [32] Pos. +/– Team Points 1 #3 Corvette Racing 302 2 2 #66 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing 283 3 1 #25 BMW Team RLL 282 4 1 #67 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing 282 5 #911 Porsche GT Team 270

GTD Teams' Championship standings [32] Pos. +/– Team Points 1 #63 Scuderia Corsa 318 2 #33 Riley Motorsports Team AMG 292 3 #96 Turner Motorsport 278 4 2 #93 Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian 269 5 #73 Park Place Motorsports 268

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

Prototype Manufacturers' Championship standings [32] Pos. +/– Manufacturer Points 1 Cadillac 312 2 Nissan 285 3 Mazda 216

GTLM Manufacturers' Championship standings [32] Pos. +/– Manufacturer Points 1 Chevrolet 316 2 Ford 312 3 BMW 307 4 Porsche 297 5 Ferrari 174

GTD Manufacturers' Championship standings [32] Pos. +/– Manufacturer Points 1 1 Ferrari 327 2 1 Mercedes-AMG 318 3 Porsche 313 4 1 Acura 310 5 1 Lamborghini 305

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

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