Watkins Glen IMSA: Red flag halts race with under 90mins to go

The clock has continued running during the red flag conditions, and with race organizers obliged to wait at least 30mins until the final lightning strike within a given radius of the course, the likelihood is that the clock will run out.

On that same lap, Pla pitted the #31 AXR Cadillac but remained onboard. Two laps later, the other DPi cars pitted in anticipation of a second full-course yellow, and Meyer Shank Racing got Blomqvist out ahead of Albuquerque. Ally Racing lost three spots, Jimmie Johnson – the only DPi driver-change – emerging in seventh after a brief refueling issue, and Ganassi resuming in third and fourth ahead of Pla and Vautier.

The off-strategy WTR Acura finally pitted with 3h46m to go and dropped to the back of the class, leaving Blomqvist in charge. At the same time, Lap 59, the charging Derani moved past Vautier to take fourth. On Lap 109, 2h24m to go, Taylor got held up by traffic, allowing Jarvis right onto his tail, and so Ricky pitted the Konica Minolta Acura to hand back to Albuquerque.

However, the restart saw Scherer snatch the class lead, and Jensen displaced Dalziel for third, but then Murray passed the Dutch car to reclaim the lead. Twenty minutes in, Gar Robinson spun the Riley Motorsports car at Turn 1, and the Forty7 Motorsport car Anthony Mantella spun in sympathy, striking the inside barrier at Turn 1 and bringing out the first caution period. It was a collision between the LMP3 cars of Jarett Andretti and Lance Willsey that brought out the second caution. And the third, as well, as Orey Fidani’s AWA car got nudged onto the grass at the Bus Stop chicane by Andretti.

During the fourth caution, finally Heart of Racing pitted Gunn, leaving De Phillippi out front once more, with four GTD cars between himself and Barnicoat, and now Taylor’s C8.R was up to third immediately ahead of Campbell and Rigon. The fifth restart saw Rigon take fifth from the Porsche driver.

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