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| 2015 Road America - Results & Other News | |
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|  | | August 17 2015 12:43:14 AM EST | |
| The #3 crew returned to Elkhart Lake, WI with the freshly rebuild chassis that suffered the massive accident at Le Mans. Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia held a 2 point lead over the #25 BMW.
AoP Adjustments: Effective at Road America
The Ferrari and Porsche both had weight and aero adjustments before the race, and it showed on track. They were the quickest cars all weekend.
#3 Corvette qualified P2 and #4 was P5. The top 4 cars in GTLM broke the previous lap record for the GTLM class.
Come race day, it was clear there were two separate races. Corvette vs BMW and Porsche vs Ferrari. There was no chance to keep up with the Porsche's pace, and ultimately Porsche finished 1-2.
The important was with the championship leaders #3 Corvette and #25 BMW. Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia fought hard and pulled off a 4th place finish, ahead of both BMWs. The #3 now has a 4 point lead in the Championship.
The #4 Corvette, despite having a flawless run, could only manage a 7th place finish.
ANTONIO GARCIA
"I was excited, and at some points angry (during a battle with the No. 25 BMW) but that is where it is. We are heading into the last few races of a championship. Everybody needs to run as hard as they can. I wouldn't say that I wouldn't have done the same thing, but probably; everybody tries to find the limit on protecting. At the end of the day, we didn't touch, we didn't have any major issues. He got caught on the only way - in traffic. At the end of the day I played my card. Traffic is part of the deal. I really used my opportunity to go by. It was difficult since I got back in the car again on our second stop. During the first stint I was saving my tires just in case, then I was just 100 percent the rest of the way because I needed to pass everybody out there. We went off sequence (on pit strategy) so we probably forced most everyone to follow us, and at the end of the day it paid off. They stayed out as much as they could. I was really aggressive when I needed to be and I passed all those cars when they were on their first two or three laps. To be fair looking at our pace, that was the best result we could achieve today, so I am happy with that."
JAN MAGNUSSEN
"To start out with, things were pretty good. I liked the balance of the Corvette. I lost some time at the end of my stint with pickup on the tires. It might be something I'm doing or something that we need to try and help the car with to not produce all the pickup. I'm not sure why I had it in the warmup and during my stint. It's something we have to work at for the next race."
OLIVER GAVIN
"I think we all drove really hard, and raced hard with the BMWs. It was a little frustrating at the end there. I thought I was racing Lucas (Luhr) pretty fair, but he put me in the grass coming out of (Turn) 13. I'm a little frustrated about that. I didn't think that needed to happen, but sometimes that is just racing. I looked after the tires reasonably well throughout the stint, and really gained some time back on all the guys in front of me. But there were definitely two races in the (GTLM) race today. There was the Corvette/BMW race, and then there was the Porsche/Ferrari race. When it is like that it is just very demoralizing and very frustrating that you can't have everybody in the class racing overall for all of the positions. We knew from the very start that we didn't have a chance to finish on the podium unless either one of the Porsches or the Ferrari broke down. I hope the series is going to look at and do something about that before we go to VIR, otherwise the rest of the season is going to be very frustrating."
TOMMY MILNER
"The track felt pretty good. The sun certainly helps the grip level. We fought really hard with the cars around us. There was some tight and good racing. We really have nothing for the factory Porsches. They're in a different class. We've really done nothing wrong today."
DOUG FEHAN
"Today, I think we did the best with what we had to work with. It was a very interesting race between our Corvettes, the BMWs and the Falken Porsche. I know the fans got a kick out of it. We would have liked to have a higher finish but with the way the cars are situated right now, that wasn't going to be. We advanced ourselves in Driver and Team championship points and gathered points in the Manufacturer Championship. We'll move on to Virginia where we're hoping for a better result. We're going to work hard to achieve that."
Post-Road America Championship Points
VIDEO: Road America Qualifying
VIDEO: Road America Race Boroadcast
VIDEO: Sounds of Speed From Road America
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OTHER TEAM NEWS
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BMW M6 GTLM in Build; 2016 TUSC Effort Being Finalized |
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