GMG Racing’s James Sofronas led flag-to-flag Sunday morning (Aug. 18) to win GT America Race No. 2 from Highway America. It’s Sofronas’ first win of the season in a part-time marketing campaign.
“I’ve been coming right here since 1994 and this feels good,” Sofronas instructed SRO America’s DJ Clark in victory lane. “We’ve had the tempo [this year]. We’ve received poles and led laps. The Audi in [the second sector was] wonderful, so I simply needed to maintain [Justin Rothberg] off via the Kink and pray that he didn’t get an excellent run.
Sofronas’ margin of victory was .379 seconds over Rothberg within the Turner Motorsport BMW. SKI Autosports’ Johnny O’Connell was third, whereas CRP Racing’s Jason Daskalos was fourth. Mishumotors’ Mirco Schultis was fifth.
Within the factors. O’Connell at present holds an eight-point lead over Daskalos with 4 races to go. Rothberg is nineteen factors again.
By advantage of setting the quickest lap within the moist in Race No. 1 Saturday, Sofronas began from the general pole and opened a small hole over Rothberg.
Rothberg then ran Sofronas down for the lead. He tried a transfer to the surface at flip 5 and clipped one of many curbs, nonetheless moist from Saturday’s rains. He briefly misplaced management and went vast, permitting Sofronas to broaden his lead.
After this second, Rothberg was in a position to settle in and switch the quickest laps of the race to catch again as much as Sofronas. The 2 drivers then battled fiercely for the lead.
Lapped site visitors did get in the best way of the battle at instances, however Rothberg was ready to stick with Sofronas. On the ultimate lap, he tried a dive for the lead at Canada Nook, however Sofronas was in a position to maintain the transfer and take the win.
In GT4, ACI Motorsports’ Curt Swearingin began from pole in his Porsche with factors chief Isaac Sherman in tow. Sherman stayed behind till he was in a position to get a run exiting flip 13.
The 2 drivers ran via flip 14 and many of the frontstretch side-by-side. In any case that, Sherman was in a position to clear Swearingin in flip 1 for the lead.
As soon as out entrance, Sherman slowly pulled away, opening up a spot of almost seven seconds. Additional again, The Coronary heart of Racing’s Grey Newell spun out on the primary lap exiting flip 6 and needed to spend the remainder of the race enjoying catch up.
The most important race of the day in GT4 ended up being a battle for fourth between Newell, Nick Shanny and Farhan Siddiqi. The three drivers fought arduous earlier than Newell finally snagged fourth and drove away. Siddiqi ended up reducing a tire on his Audi R8 GT4 and was compelled to cease.
Sherman was by no means threatened as soon as he bought he bought the lead. He was in a position to hold his Porsche straight and take his ninth victory of the 12 months.
Sherman’s margin of victory was 7.623 seconds over Swearingin. Newell was in a position to stand up to 3rd after his spin whereas Flying Lizard Motorsports’ Todd Parriott was fourth. Shanny was a lap down in fifth.
GT America powered by AWS groups can be off for the following two weeks. The thirteenth race of 2024 can be held at Barber Motorsports Park on Sept. 7. Protection can be streamed reside at 2 p.m. ET on the GT World YouTube channel and on SpeedSport1.
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