SRO Motorsports America and K-PAX Racing hosted a group of engineering students from nearby universities’ SAE teams, including Rochester Institute of Technology’s (RIT) Formula SAE and Baja teams, as well as Cornell University’s FSAE team. We have to take it as it is at the end of the day, it’s still a win and I think that’s what we have to build on that and carry that momentum into the next race.” It’s tough that we didn’t get the overall again, but it could have been a lot worse. “Probably the strongest car out there both days and you know, yesterday was very unfortunate and today the same thing. “I think we just have to take the kind of momentum we have now, because we always perform quite well, especially in the long runs,” said Ellis. The Winward duo were clearly deflated at losing the overall victory, but still were able to relish the Pro class win and the fact that they had the field covered in the second weekend the team has run this season. We hope that’s rectified, but we took advantage of it and at the end of the day, we won overall it’s it’s a big win for Colin and I.” “We had the pace today and we just kept our head down, cranked out the laps and with a little bit of luck, we got the win. Our guys did a great job giving us a great car,” said Kurtz. 04 CrowdStrike with Riley Motorsports Mercedes-AMG to claim the overall victory for he and Colin Braun. But a problem at the rear of the Winward car, not immediately identified after the race, meant that Ward had to slow, allowing George Kurtz to sweep through in the No. They had the field, including K-PAX, covered on outright pace, Ward maintaining a gap to Aghakhani in second before Aghakhani began to drop off the pace. Things looked much better for Winward on Sunday, having taken the lead from US RaceTronics on the pit stop. 45 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3R that officially broke the K-PAX streak. Instead, it was Charlie Luck and Jan Heylen in the No. Had they not had that issue, they could have been the overall winners. 93 Racers Edge Motorsports Acura NSX GT3 Evo22 of Ashton Harrison and Mario Farnbacher. The first car to have a tire issue, though, was the Pro-Am leading No. That left Robby Foley in the Turner BMW in the lead of Pro, but not overall nevertheless they claimed the first class win for the new BMW M4 in GT World Challenge America. Then Spinelli had a tire go down as well. 6 US RaceTronics Mercedes-AMG of Steven Aghakhani and Loris Spinelli for the lead. 33 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG of Russell Ward and Philip Ellis (below) had tire trouble while Ellis was battling with the No. 1 and Turner, it was proving to be a very bad day for anyone at the front. 3 Lamborghini of Jordan Pepper and Misha Goikhberg had already spent several laps in the pits to fix a misfire.įrom that first incident involving the K-PAX No. Due to a miscommunication, Beretta drove through the pits instead of stopping, so he had to come back in to serve the penalty, putting the No. 96 BMW M4 GT3 off the track, and received a one-minute stop as a penalty. 1 K-PAX Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo had contact early on with Turner Motorsport’s Michael Dinan while fighting for the lead, forcing the No. Juggernaut K-PAX Racing had its year-long winning streak broken as penalties, mechanical issues, tire trouble and just general lack of pace piled onto the Lamborghini team’s two cars. It was a tough weekend at Watkins Glen International for all the Pro teams in Fanatec GT World Challenge America – although two of them did get their maiden wins of the season – as Pro-Am squads took the overall victories in both races.
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