Long Beach – Felipe Nasr and Pipo Derani without rivals

The tenth round of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season took place overnight from Saturday to Sunday on the streets of Long Beach. While the Cadillacs had achieved perfect qualifying by setting the three best times, Filipe Albuquerque, leading the championship with Wayne Taylor Racing, made an excellent start by getting rid of Denis Cameron and Loic duval from the first moments of the race. Felipe Nasr retained the lead during his first stint but Pipo Derani was surprised at the exit of the pits by a superb maneuver from Dane Cameron for the lead of the race. The American did not stay at the top of the standings for very long as he had to return to the pits to make way for Olivier Pla. The Auriverde duo then regained the lead of the race. The Frenchman clashed with a Corvette C8.R, itself battling with an AF Corse, and was forced to retire. Felipe Nasr and Pipo Derani won and took advantage of the fourth place of Filipe Albuquerque and Ricky Taylor to stay in the championship race.

The ranking of the DPi category:

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In GT LM, Tommy Milner took advantage of the traffic to get the better of his partner at Corvette, Jordan Taylor, and take the lead in the race with less than an hour to go before the end of the event. Nick Tandy took care of the second part of the event and Corvette signed a double in this category with second place for Antonio Garcia and Jordan Taylor ahead of Cooper MacNeil and Mathieu Jaminet in the Porsche 911 RSR – 19 from WeatherTech Racing.

The ranking of the GT LM category:

Starting from first place in GTD, Bryan Sellers and Madison Snow were never worried and won in their category ahead of Zacharie Robichon and Laurens Vanthoor (Pfaff Motorsports #9 / Porsche 911 GT3R). Frankie Montecalvo and Zach Veach (VASSER SULLIVAN #12 / Lexus RC F GT3) complete the podium.

The ranking of the GTD category: