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Gordon Enjoys More Competitive Second Porsche Race at IMS
Gordon Enjoys Extra Aggressive Second Porsche Race at IMS
Parker Thompson and Riley Dickinson drove to general victories within the two Porsche Carrera Cup North America Offered by the Cayman Islands races Sept. 3-4 throughout Porsche Sports activities Automobile Collectively Fest at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Former Highway to Indy driver Thompson gained the 40-minute race Saturday, whereas Dickinson triumphed within the 40-minute race Sunday on the 14-turn, 2.605-mile street course.
Visitor driver Jeff Gordon, winner of 5 Brickyard 400 races at IMS and 4 NASCAR Cup Sequence championships, simply missed a top-10 class end Sunday within the No. 24 Hendrick Efficiency Porsche GT3 Cup automotive.
Gordon improved to eleventh at school after inserting fifteenth Saturday in his debut on this planet’s premier one-make collection that includes 500-horsepower Porsches. Gordon’s first Cup Sequence crew chief, fellow NASCAR Corridor of Famer Ray Evernham, led the crew for Gordon’s automotive this weekend.
“I wished to do some enjoyable issues, make some passes,” Gordon stated of his race Sunday. “I made a go on the white flag lap. That made my complete weekend. I feel we ended it on a optimistic notice.
“All week I’ve been completely happy I’m right here, having a good time with Ray, Steve Barkdoll, my dad, Jon Edwards and the entire workforce. I need to say that yesterday, I believed, ‘Man, I get beat out right here,’ and I don’t like that. If I’m going to be in an surroundings like this, I need to be aggressive. However right this moment turned the nook for me. So, I hope I get to do one other one someday.”
Sports activities automotive racing will return to IMS from Oct. 7-9 for the Indianapolis 8 Hour.
The elite sports activities automotive drivers and evocative manufacturers of the Intercontinental GT Problem Powered by Pirelli will compete for the third consecutive yr at IMS within the endurance race. The Indianapolis 8 Hour will start at midday ET on Saturday, Oct. 8 and run to eight p.m., permitting followers a novel probability to observe automobiles race after sundown at IMS.
Since 2016, the collection has introduced collectively a few of the world’s nice standalone endurance occasions to compete underneath the FIA’s world GT3 sports activities automotive laws. The race weekend at IMS is a part of a globe-trotting marketing campaign that races on not less than three continents.
Tickets for the Indianapolis 8 Hour are on sale at IMS.com.