August 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\nCadillac and Porsche were at the centre of the chaos. There was another scary moment for the #7 Porsche 963, which took evasive action at Turn 6 to miss trackside workers.<\/p>\n
That entry was given a one-minute stop-and-go penalty for overdriving under full course yellow.<\/p>\n
There were more than 40 penalties delivered over the course of six-hour race, including once that denied New Zealand\u2019s Hunter McElrea a potential podium.<\/p>\n
McElrea\u2019s co-driver Mikkel Jensen in the #2 United Autosports entry collided with the sister #22 car driven by Paul Di Resta out of the final turn.<\/p>\n
Di Resta spun and hit the inside wall. They finished seventh while third place became ninth for McElrea, Jensen and Phil Fayer<\/p>\n
\u201cMotorsport should be a non-contact sport. Sometimes it happens, but it shouldn\u2019t happen between teammates,\u201d said United Autosports CEO and team principal Richard Dean.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t just lose valuable podium positions & points today, we threw away our championship campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel bad for the entire team who fought hard to get back into contention and into a race-winning position.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey had given the drivers a fast car as proven by our pole position and our race pace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scott Andrews was Australia\u2019s top performer in sixth in the GTD class Lone Star Mercedes-AMG GT3.<\/p>\n
Compatriot and fellow GTD class driver Tom Sargent suffered a heavy crash at Turn 11 in the Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R.<\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing an incident on track, Tom has since been seen and released from the infield medical centre,\u201d the team said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you to IMSA and Road America\u2019s safety and medical teams for their quick response and care. We greatly appreciate all the support.\u201d<\/p>\n
The race was won outright by Ricky Taylor and Felipe Albuquerque in their Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac.<\/p>\n
It was the first time since 2024 on the streets of Detroit that the pair stood on the top step of the podium together.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs you know, we\u2019ve been having such a hard time,\u201d said team owner Wayne Taylor.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very much in my stomach. As long as you keep working harder, digging deeper and pushing everybody, it does happen. Today was just tremendous.\u201d<\/p>\n
The IMSA SportsCar Championship continues at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on September 21 for the Battle on the Bricks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The remains of Jack Aitken’s Action Express Racing Cadillac after clashing with Team Penske Porsche driver Kevin Estre.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-841325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe remains of Jack Aitken’s Action Express Racing Cadillac after clashing with Team Penske Porsche driver Kevin Estre.<\/p>\n