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|  | | July 14 2014 10:35:10 PM EST | |
| For round 6 of 11 we head north of the border to Canadian Tire Motorsports Park (Mosport).
Corvette has dominated this track, winning 12 times in the past 15 years.
Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia in the #3 Corvette C7.R have been on a roll, coming off of 3 wins in a row is the ultra competitive GTLM class, while their team mates Tommy Milner and Oliver Gavin in the #4 Corvette C7.R have had the pace, but have lacked the luck so far this season.
In qualifying the #3 car took P2 while the #4 car was struggling with the setup and took P4. Top 5 in GTLM were within 0.3 seconds. The #93 Viper took the pole.
A heavy rain came through the morning of race day and Corvette Racing took 1-2 overall in morning warm-up, ahead of the top class prototypes.
As race time came, the rain disappeared and we had a sunny and dry racetrack. We saw a close battle, what we are calling Jake vs The Snake, for the first hour until the #93 Viper ran off course and the #3 Corvette took the lead. At that point it was just a matter of executing the perfect pit stops and managing traffic. The #3 crew performed flawlessly and took home their 4th victory in a row.
The #4 Corvette was running well and was up to P3 until a slower GTD class Ferrari made contact and spun our the Corvette. No damage was done to the car, but this put the Corvette down to P7, virtually killing any chance of a podium finish. The race went caution free and the #4 finished P7. This is the 3rd race in a row that the #4 Corvette has been taken out of podium contention by another car on track.
VIDEO: Qualifying
VIDEO: Race Broadcast
Driver Points, Post-Mosport:
1. ANTONIO GARCIA / JAN MAGNUSSEN (190pts)
2. BILL AUBERLEN / ANDY PRIAULX (-19pts)
2. MARC GOOSSENS / DOMINIK FARNBACHER (-19pts)
3. JONATHAN BOMARITO / KUNO WITTMER(-20pts)
4. OLIVER GAVIN / TOMMY MILNER (-25pts)
*Driver/Team/Manufacture points are not officially posted as of the time of this post. When they are posted, they can be found HERE.
The next round is at the Indianapolis road course, FRIDAY 7/25 at 7:00pm ET on FS1
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