Castroneves and Ricky Taylor win at Mid-Ohio, Acura double

The Acura DPi of Team Penske were untouchable this weekend at Mid-Ohio. Starting from pole, the n°7 of Helio Castroneves and Ricky Taylor retained control of the race to win with more than eight seconds ahead of the sister car of Juan Pablo Montoya and Dane Cameron.

This victory marks the first success for Helio Castroneves in IMSA. This is also Ricky Taylor's first victory with Team Penske.

Oliver Jarvis and Tristan Nunez gave Joest Racing their first podium since the German outfit joined forces with Mazda. Bomarito-Pigot's sister car retired following a collision with a GTD.

Joao Barbosa and Filipe Albuquerque maintain control of the Championship by taking fourth position in the No. 5 Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi. The No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac entrusted to Renger van der Zande and Jordan Taylor completed the Top 5.

In GTLM, victory went to Porsche which won with the 911 RSR of Laurens Vanthoor and Earl Bamber. The #912 built its success when the Belgian took the lead in the category following the stop of Connor de Phillippi, teammate of Alexander Sims in the BMW M8 GTE.

The category podium is completed by Jan's Corvette C7R Magnussen and Antonio Garcia who preceded the two Ford GTs, the No. 66 of Joey Hand and Dirk Müller ahead of the No. 67 of Ryan Briscoe and Richard Westbrook.

Lexus scored its first GTD victory thanks to the No. 3 14GT Racing RC F GT3 of Dominik Baumann and Kyle Marcelli.

IMSA will resume its rights the weekend of June 2 in Detroit (Michigan).