Surprise win for the #10 Cadillac DPi.V.R at the Motul Petit Le Mans
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Surprise win for the #10 Cadillac DPi.V.R at the Motul Petit Le Mans

Ryan Briscoe and Renger van der Zande, drivers of the #10 Cadillac DPi.V.R, clinched a last-minute win at the 23rd Motul Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta this weekend.

With less than 12 minutes left on the clock, the plot of this year’s Motul Petit Le Mans took an unexpected turn. The #10 lay third, some 20 seconds behind Pipo Derani in the #31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac and Ricky Taylor in the #7 Acura Team Penske Acura ARX-05, when the leaders collided on Turn 6, leaving the way clear.
The #31 and #7 had been regularly swapping places up to that point, with barely a second between them in the last hour. Ricky Taylor piled the pressure on Pipo Derani on several occasions but none of the skirmishes was reprimanded with a penalty for either driver.

In LMP2, the #8 Tower Motorsports by Starworks Oreca LMP2 (Farano/Jensen/van Uitert) took the lead in the ninth hour and held on until the end.

In GTLM (equivalent of the FIAWEC LMGTE Pro class), the #911 Porsche 911 RSR-19 of Tandy/Makowiecki/Campbell claimed vic, ahead of the #3 Corvette Racing Corvette C8.R of Garcia/Taylor/Catsburg.

Full details of provisional results.

The next round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship is at Laguna Seca on 1 November and the championship culminates with the 12 Hours of Sebring on 14 November. The winners of the Jim Trueman and Bob Akin trophies, awarded to Bronze or Silver drivers in the LMP2 and GTD classes, will be offered a place on the grid of the 2021 Le Mans 24 Hours (12-13 June).

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