2017 BUBBA Burger Sports Car Grand Prix
The 2017 BUBBA Burger Sports Car Grand Prix was a sports car race held on the Long Beach Street Circuit in California, United States, on 8 April 2017 as part of the Long Beach Grand Prix event weekend. The race was the third round of the 2017 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and was held for the Prototype, GT Le Mans and GT Daytona categories. The race was the shortest of the 2017 WeatherTech Championship calendar.
Jordan Taylor and Ricky Taylor won an incident packed race in their Cadillac DPi-V.R to take their third win in the opening three races of the championship. The Nissan Onroak DPi of Scott Sharp and Ryan Dalziel and the Mazda RT24-P of Tristan Nunez and Jonathan Bomarito completing the podium. Corvette Racing's Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner won in the GLTM class driving a Chevrolet Corvette C7.R while the Riley Motorsports - WeatherTech Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 of Cooper MacNeil and Gunnar Jeannette won in the GTD class.[1]
Three GTD cars who crashed into the wall on the outside of the hairpin on the last lap caused chaos for a number of cars as it partially blocked the track. The biggest loser was the #3 Corvette of Jan Magnussen and Antonio García. They had been leading the GTLM class but their path through the hairpin was blocked and they dropped from 6th outright and first in class to 10th outright and 5th in class, handing the class win to their team mates. Although the passing had happened under yellow flags, IMSA officials took the view, as they had done earlier in the race when a crash at the hairpin partially blocked the track, that the passing was done to avoid completely blocking the track and no penalties were handed out.
Race
Results
Class winners are denoted in bold.[1]
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Statistics
- Pole Position - #10 Ricky Taylor - 1:13.549
- Fastest Lap - #2 Ryan Dalziel - 1:14.367
References
- 1 2 "2017 BUBBA BURGER SPORTS CAR GRAND PRIX AT LONG BEACH Race Results" (PDF). International Motor Sports Association. 8 April 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
External links
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