The 2024 Chevrolet Grand Prix was a sports car race held at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, on July 14, 2024. It was the seventh round of the 2024 IMSA SportsCar Championship.
The 2024 Chevrolet Grand Prix was a sports car race held at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, on July 14, 2024. It was the seventh round of the 2024 IMSA SportsCar Championship.
International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) president John Doonan confirmed the race was part of the 2024 IMSA SportsCar Championship (IMSA SCC) in August 2023. [1] It was the ninth time the IMSA SCC hosted a race at Mosport. The 2024 Chevrolet Grand Prix was the seventh of eleven scheduled sports car races of 2024 by IMSA. [2] The race was held at the ten-turn 2.459 mi (3.957 km) Canadian Tire Motorsports Park on July 14, 2024. [2]
The LMP2 Drivers' Championship was led by Josh Burdon, Felipe Fraga, and Gar Robinson after their second-place finish in Watkins Glen. They held a six-point lead over second-placed Ryan Dalziel, Dwight Merriman, Connor Zilisch, with Nick Boulle, Tom Dillmann, and Jakub Śmiechowski in third, 40 points behind Burdon, Fraga, and Robinson. [3] The GTD Pro Drivers' Championship was topped by Laurin Heinrich and Sebastian Priaulx with 1632 points, 49 ahead of Ben Barnicoat and Jack Hawksworth in second. Ross Gunn sat in third, 60 points behind Heinrich and Priaulx. [3] The GTD Drivers' Championship was led by Philip Ellis and Russell Ward with 1745 points after their fourth win of the season in Watkins Glen, 305 points ahead of Robby Foley and Patrick Gallagher in second. [3] The Manufacturers' Championships were led by Porsche and Mercedes-AMG, respectively, and the Teams Championships' were led by Riley, AO Racing, and Winward Racing, respectively. [3]
The entry list was revealed on July 3, 2024, and featured 35 entries: 12 entries in LMP2, 9 entries in GTD Pro, and 14 entries in GTD. The LMP2 class saw some changes: Filipe Albuquerque, Renger van der Zande, Scott Huffaker, Stuart Wilshire, Pipo Derani, and Louis Delétraz all participated in the headline LMP2 class during the event. In GTD Pro, Ross Gunn was once again partnered by Mario Farnbacher in the No. 23 Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin. [4] In GTD, Spencer Pumpelly re-joined the No. 27 Heart of Racing Aston Martin. Furthermore, the No. 43 Andretti Motorsports Porsche and No. 120 Wright Motorsports Porsche were absent during the event. [5]
Saturday's afternoon qualifying session was broken into two sessions, with one session for the LMP2, GTD Pro and GTD classes, which lasted 15 minutes each. [6] The rules dictated that all teams nominated a driver to qualify their cars, with the Pro-Am LMP2 class requiring a Bronze rated driver to qualify the car. The competitors' fastest lap times determined the starting order. IMSA then arranged the grid to put LMP2s ahead of the GTD Pro, and GTD cars. [7]
Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold and with ‡.
| Pos. | Class | No. | Entry | Driver | Time | Gap | Grid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LMP2 | 99 |  AO Racing | P. J. Hyett | 1:09.582 | — | 1‡ |
| 2 | LMP2 | 22 | United Autosports USA | Dan Goldburg | 1:09.672 | +0.090 | 2 |
| 3 | LMP2 | 74 | Riley | Gar Robinson | 1:09.690 | +0.108 | 3 |
| 4 | LMP2 | 52 |  Inter Europol by PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports | Nick Boulle | 1:09.756 | +0.174 | 4 |
| 5 | LMP2 | 11 |  TDS Racing | Steven Thomas | 1:09.824 | +0.242 | 5 |
| 6 | LMP2 | 04 | CrowdStrike Racing by APR | George Kurtz | 1:10.017 | +0.435 | 6 |
| 7 | LMP2 | 2 | United Autosports USA | Ben Keating | 1:11.392 | +1.810 | 7 |
| 8 | LMP2 | 8 | Tower Motorsports |  John Farano | 1:12.020 | +2.438 | 8 |
| 9 | LMP2 | 33 | Sean Creech Motorsport | Lance Willsey | 1:13.891 | +4.309 | 9 |
| 10 | LMP2 | 18 | Era Motorsport |  Stuart Wiltshire | 1:13.919 | +4.337 | 10 |
| 11 | LMP2 | 88 |  Richard Mille AF Corse |  Luis Pérez Companc | 1:14.195 1 | +4.613 | 11 |
| 12 | GTD Pro | 3 | Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports | Alexander Sims | 1:14.373 | +4.791 | 13‡ |
| 13 | GTD Pro | 14 | Vasser Sullivan | Jack Hawksworth | 1:14.640 | +4.791 | 14 |
| 14 | GTD | 12 | Vasser Sullivan | Frankie Montecalvo | 1:15.060 | +5.478 | 15‡ |
| 15 | GTD Pro | 4 | Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports | Tommy Milner | 1:15.105 | +5.523 | 16 |
| 16 | GTD Pro | 64 | Ford Multimatic Motorsports | Harry Tincknell | 1:15.177 | +5.595 | 17 |
| 17 | GTD Pro | 1 | Paul Miller Racing | Madison Snow | 1:15.193 | +5.611 | 18 |
| 18 | GTD Pro | 23 | Heart of Racing Team |  Mario Farnbacher | 1:13.318 | +5.736 | 19 |
| 19 | GTD Pro | 9 | Pfaff Motorsports | Marvin Kirchhöfer | 1:15.390 | +5.808 | 20 |
| 20 | GTD | 27 | Heart of Racing Team | Spencer Pumpelly | 1:15.392 | +5.810 | 21 |
| 21 | GTD Pro | 77 | AO Racing | Sebastian Priaulx | 1:15.519 | +5.937 | 22 |
| 22 | GTD | 96 | Turner Motorsport | Patrick Gallagher | 1:15.560 | +5.978 | 23 |
| 23 | GTD | 32 | Korthoff/Preston Motorsports | Mikaël Grenier | 1:15.605 | +6.023 | 24 |
| 24 | GTD | 70 | Inception Racing | Brendan Iribe | 1:15.693 | +6.111 | 25 |
| 25 | GTD | 57 | Winward Racing | Russell Ward | 1:15.742 | +6.160 | 26 |
| 26 | GTD | 45 | Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti | Kyle Marcelli | 1:15.807 | +6.225 | 27 |
| 27 | GTD Pro | 65 | Ford Multimatic Motorsports | Joey Hand | 1:16.000 | +6.418 | 28 |
| 28 | GTD | 78 | Forte Racing | Misha Goikhberg | 1:16.314 | +6.732 | 29 |
| 29 | GTD | 66 | Gradient Racing | Sheena Monk | 1:16.372 | +6.790 | 30 |
| 30 | GTD | 55 | Proton Competition | Giammarco Levorato | 1:16.614 | +7.032 | 31 |
| 31 | GTD | 13 | AWA | Orey Fidani | 1:16.821 | +7.239 | 32 |
| 32 | GTD | 86 | MDK Motorsports |  Kerong Li | 1:18.122 | +8.540 | 33 |
| 33 | LMP2 | 20 |  MDK by High Class Racing | Dennis Andersen | No Time Established 2 | 12 | |
| 34 | GTD | 34 | Conquest Racing | No Time Established 3 | 34 | ||
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The final results kept Fraga and Robinson atop the LMP2 Drivers' Championship with 1308 points, 12 ahead of race winners Boulle and Dillmann. [10] The final results of GTD Pro meant Heinrich and Priaulx extended their advantage to 98 points as Gunn advanced to second. Sims and García jumped from sixth to fourth while Sellers and Snow dropped to fifth. [10] Ellis and Ward's second-place finish allowed them to extend their advantage to 340 points over fourth-place finishers Foley and Gallagher in the GTD Drivers' Championship. [10] Porsche and Mercedes-AMG continued to top their respective Manufactures' Championships while Riley, AO Racing, and Winward Racing kept their respective advantages in their of Teams' Championships with four rounds remaining. [10]
Class winners are in bold and ‡.
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