Petit Le Mans – Wayne Taylor and Porsche winners, Action Express and Corvette champions

With total suspense until the finish, the 2018 edition of Le Petit Le Mans has not failed in its reputation. In the lead a few hundred meters from the checkerboard, the No. 5 Cadillac DPi-VR fielded by Action Express Racing for Filipe Albuquerque-Christian Fittipaldi-Tristan Vautier was only able to painfully climb the hill of the Road Atlanta circuit one last time because …running out of gas.

A boon for Wayne Taylor Racing and its trio Jordan Taylor-Renger van der Zande-Ryan Hunter Reay. The No. 10 Cadillac of the American team, which scored its second success in this event after that gleaned in 2014, precedes the arrival of the two Mazda RT24-Ps, although they are in good spirits. Slowed down in particular by a puncture at the very start of the race and a drive-through at the end of the race, the No. 22 Nissan Onroak DPi was unable to play for victory until the end, for what was the last appearance of Tequila Patron – and presumably Extreme Speed ​​Motorsports – in the series. Derani, Bernhard and Van Overbeek ultimately finished sixth behind the No. 5 Cadillac and the No. 05 Acura ARX-7.

The #07 Oreca 54 seventh, Core Autosport did not achieve the hold-up so hoped for. The American team and its duo Jon Bennett-Colin Braun – supported in the NAEC by Romain Dumas – finally finished second in the championship, three short lengths behind Action Express Racing and the Felipe Nasr-Eric Curran pair, eighth yesterday. If this is Nasr's first coronation, it is Curran's second after 2016 and Action Express Racing's fourth in five years!

In GTLM, the trio Frédéric Makowiecki-Patrick Pilet-Nick Tandy won a second major victory this year in IMSA after that gleaned last March at the 12 Hours of Sebring. There Porsche 911 RSR No. 911 precedes the No. 7 Corvette C4.R of Gavin-Milner-Fässler and the No. 8 BMW M24 GTE of J. Edwards-J. Krohn-Mostert. Delayed by a spin from the Spaniard – leaving the pit lane and under yellow flag! - Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia only finished eighth in their class. But the Ford GT n°67 (Westbrook-Briscoe-Dixon) and n°66 (Hand-D. Müller-Bourdais) having been unable to do better than 5th and 7th, this is enough for the duo of the No. 3 Corvette to win a second title in a row... without having climbed once this year to the highest step of the podium.

The #488 Ferrari 3 GT63 Team Corsa wins the GTD thanks to Daniel Serra, Cooper MacNeil and Gunnar Jeannette. The three men share the podium with the combinations of Legge-Parente-Hindman (Acura NSX GT3 n°86) and Madison Snow-Bryan Sellers-Corey Lewis (Lamborghini Huracan GT3 n°48). Snow and Sellers, like their employer Paul Miller Racing, took advantage of this good result to take the crown.