Ricky Taylor and Felipe Albuquerque secured a breakthrough win for Wayne Taylor Racing in the Six-Hour SportsCar Endurance Grand Prix at Road America, the team’s first victory in over two years. The No. 10 Cadillac V-Series.R found its way to victory lane for the first time since Detroit in 2024, under caution Sunday afternoon.
Wayne Taylor Racing entered the race in dire straits, 10th in the GTP standings. Albuquerque was the pilot in the car for the win in a race that included nine cautions and a huge crash in GTP between the championship-leading Action Express Racing Cadillac and the No. 7 Porsche Penske.
They were struggling, but the team managed to turn it around. The win was a significant achievement, considering the team’s position before the race.
With just over 10 minutes to go, Jack Aitken in the No. 31 and Kevin Estre in the No. 7 made contact entering the first corner while battling for second. Prior to the caution, the two were battling and obviously upset with each other.
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Both cars ended up in the wall, ending the No. 31 podium streak and making it all the more possible for the No. 5 JDC-Miller MotorSports Porsche to challenge Cadillac for this year’s championship. This incident will be reviewed post-race.
The possibility of a championship challenge was made even larger when the No. 23 Aston Martin Valkyrie was handed a time penalty at the end of the race, demoting it from second and promoting the No. 5 to the second spot on the podium.
The pole-sitting No. 93 Acura of Sheldon van der Zande and Nick Yelloly was promoted to fourth, scraping back from misfortune throughout the race. With Valkyrie’s demotion, Wayne Taylor Racing achieved a double podium with the No. 40 of Lewis Deletraz and Jordan Taylor promoted to third.
Romain De Angelis and Ross Gunn will be recorded in fifth following their penalty ahead of Felipe Nasr in the No. 7 Penske Porsche Motorsport 963. Both the Acuras and BMWs had issues throughout the race, with both BMWs retiring before the end, leaving Estre in eighth and Aiken in ninth.
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In GTD Pro, Pfaff Motorsports’ Andrea Calarelli and Sandy Mitchell brought Lamborghini its first US and first Endurance race win in the brand-new Temerario; this follows the car’s first worldwide win last week in DTM.
The Inter Europol Competition No. 43 of Todd Dillmann, Garg, and Clark won the LMP2 class. The No. 57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 won the GTD class.
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