2017 Advance Auto Parts Sportscar Showdown

The 2017 Advance Auto Parts Sportscar Showdown was a sports car race sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA). The race was held at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas on May 6, 2017. The race was the fourth round of the 2017 IMSA SportsCar Championship.

Map of the Circuit of the Americas - Grand Prix Circuit

Background

 

Circuit of the Americas (pictured in 2015), where the race was held.

IMSA's president Scott Atherton confirmed the Advance Auto Parts Sportscar Showdown was part of the series' schedule for the 2017 IMSA SportsCar Championship at Road America's victory lane in August 2016.^[1] It was the fourth consecutive year the event was held as part of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The 2017 Advance Auto Parts Sportscar Showdown was the fourth of twelve scheduled sports car races of 2017 by IMSA, and was the second round not held on the held as part of the North American Endurance Cup.^[2] The race was held at the ten-turn 3.426 mi (5.514 km) Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas on May 6, 2017.^[2] Unlike in previous years where the race was run alongside the FIA World Endurance Championship event as a double-header, the 2017 edition was a standalone event.^[3]

After the BUBBA Burger Sports Car Grand Prix four weeks earlier, Jordan Taylor and Ricky Taylor led the Prototype Drivers' Championship with 105 points, ahead of João Barbosa and Christian Fittipaldi with 89 points, and Misha Goikhberg and Stephen Simpson with 82 points.^[4] With 72 points, the PC Drivers' Championship was led by James French, Patricio O'Ward, and Kyle Masson with a twelve-point advantage over Sean Rayhall.^[4] Joey Hand and Dirk Müller led the GTLM Drivers' Championship with 91 points, ahead of Antonio García and Jan Magnussen with 89 points.^[4] In GTD, the Drivers' Championship was led by Ben Keating and Jeroen Bleekemolen with 98 points, ahead of Alessandro Balzan and Christina Nielsen with 77 points.^[4] Cadillac, Ford, and Mercedes-AMG were leading their respective Manufacturers' Championships, while Wayne Taylor Racing, Performance Tech Motorsports, Ford Chip Ganassi Racing, and Riley Motorsports Team AMG each led their own Teams' Championships.^[4]

Entries

Further information: 2017 IMSA SportsCar Championship § Entries

A total of 39 cars took part in the event split across 4 classes. 10 cars were entered in P, 3 in PC, 9 in GTLM, and 16 in GTD.^[5] In P, Marco Bonanomi replaced Tom Kimber-Smith in the PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports entry while José Gutiérrez returned after missing the previous race at Long Beach.^[6] In PC, Starworks Motorsport skipped the event.^[7] Nicholas Boulle joined Stefan Wilson in the #26 BAR1 Motorsports entry. In GTLM, Wolf Henzler replaced Kévin Estre in the #912 Porsche GT Team, due to a clash with the FIA World Endurance Championship round at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.^[8] In GTD, Lone Star Racing made their first appearance of the season.^[9] Parker Chase and Harry Gottsacker replaced Wolf Henzler and Jan Heylen in the #991 TRG entry.^[10] Kenny Habul returned to the #75 SunEnergy1 Racing entry. Mathieu Jaminet subbed for Michael Christensen in the #28 Alegra Motorsports due to a clash with the FIA World Endurance Championship round at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.^[5]

Practice

There were three practice sessions preceding the start of the race on Saturday, two on Thursday and one on Friday. The first two one-hour sessions were on Thursday morning and afternoon. The third on Friday morning lasted an hour.^[11]

Practice 1

The first practice session took place at 9:45 am CT on Thursday and ended with Ricky Taylor topping the charts for Wayne Taylor Racing, with a lap time of 1:57.116.^[12] The PC class was topped by the #38 Performance Tech Motorsports Oreca FLM09 of Patricio O'Ward with a time of 2:00.522.^[13] Dirk Müller was fastest in GTLM and Tristan Vautier set the fastest time GTD.^[12]

Pos.	Class	No.	Team	Driver	Time	Gap
1	P	10	Wayne Taylor Racing	Ricky Taylor	1:57.116	_
2	P	5	Mustang Sampling Racing	João Barbosa	1:57.193	+0.077
3	P	2	Tequila Patrón ESM	Ryan Dalziel	1:57.300	+0.184
Sources:^[14]^[15]

Practice 2

The second practice session took place at 2:55 pm CT on Thursday and ended with Jordan Taylor topping the charts for Wayne Taylor Racing, with a lap time of 1:56.595.^[16] James French set the fastest time in PC.^[17] The GTLM class was topped by the #25 BMW Team RLL BMW M6 GTLM of Alexander Sims with a time of 2:03.703.^[17] John Edwards was second in the sister #24 car and Laurens Vanthoor rounded out the top 3. Tristan Vautier was fastest in GTD.^[17]

Pos.	Class	No.	Team	Driver	Time	Gap
1	P	10	Wayne Taylor Racing	Jordan Taylor	1:56.595	_
2	P	5	Mustang Sampling Racing	Christian Fittipaldi	1:57.722	+1.127
3	P	85	JDC-Miller MotorSports	Stephen Simpson	1:57.978	+1.383
Sources:^[18]^[19]

Practice 3

The third and final practice session took place at 8:55 am CT on Friday and ended with Dane Cameron topping the charts for Whelen Engineering Racing, with a lap time of 1:56.117.^[20] Patricio O'Ward set the fastest time PC by 3.382 seconds ahead of Don Yount in the #20 BAR1 Motorsports entry.^[20] The GTLM class was topped by the #62 Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 GTE of Giancarlo Fisichella with a time of 2:02.915.^[21] Mathieu Jaminet was fastest in GTD.^[21]

Pos.	Class	No.	Team	Driver	Time	Gap
1	P	31	Whelen Engineering Racing	Dane Cameron	1:56.117	_
2	P	5	Mustang Sampling Racing	João Barbosa	1:56.332	+0.215
3	P	85	JDC-Miller MotorSports	Stephen Simpson	1:56.393	+0.276
Sources:^[22]^[23]

Qualifying

In Friday afternoon's 90-minute four-group qualifying, each category had separate 15-minute sessions. Regulations stipulated that teams nominate one qualifying driver, with the fastest laps determining each class' starting order. IMSA arranged the grid to put Prototypes ahead of the PC, GTLM and GTD cars.^[24][11]

Qualifying was broken into four sessions. The first was for cars in GTD class. Mathieu Jaminet qualified on pole for the class driving the #28 Alegra Motorsports, besting Jack Hawksworth in the #15 3GT Racing entry.^[25]

The second session of qualifying was for cars in the GTLM class. John Edwards qualified on pole driving the #24 BMW Team RLL entry, beating Giancarlo Fisichella in the #62 Risi Competizione entry by less than one tenth of a second.^[25]

The third session of qualifying was for cars in the PC class. James French set the fastest time driving the #38 Performance Tech Motorsports entry.^[26][27]

The final session of qualifying was for the P class. Ricky Taylor qualified on pole by nearly 1.6 seconds clear of Johannes van Overbeek.^[28]

Qualifying results

Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold and by ‡.

Pos.	Class	No.	Team	Driver	Time	Gap	Grid
1	P	10	Wayne Taylor Racing	Ricky Taylor	1:54.809	_	1‡
2	P	22	Tequila Patrón ESM	Johannes van Overbeek	1:56.401	+1.592	2
3	P	31	Whelen Engineering Racing	Eric Curran	1:56.429	+1.620	3
4	P	5	Mustang Sampling Racing	Christian Fittipaldi	1:56.655	+1.846	4
5	P	52	PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports	José Gutiérrez	1:56.884	+2.075	5
6	P	2	Tequila Patrón ESM	Scott Sharp	1:56.988	+2.179	6
7	P	55	Mazda Motorsports	Jonathan Bomarito	1:57.199	+2.390	7
8	P	90	VisitFlorida Racing	Marc Goossens	1:57.460	+2.651	8
9	P	85	JDC-Miller MotorSports	Mikhail Goikhberg	1:57.726	+2.917	9
10	P	70	Mazda Motorsports	Tom Long	1:57.929	+3.120	10
11	PC	38	Performance Tech Motorsports	James French	2:00.066	+5.257	11‡
12	GTLM	24	BMW Team RLL	John Edwards	2:02.833	+8.024	14‡
13	GTLM	62	Risi Competizione	Giancarlo Fisichella	2:02.865	+8.056	15
14	GTLM	25	BMW Team RLL	Alexander Sims	2:02.990	+8.181	16
15	GTLM	67	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Ryan Briscoe	2:03.014	+8.205	17
16	GTLM	66	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Dirk Müller	2:03.023	+8.214	18
17	PC	26	BAR1 Motorsports	Stefan Wilson	2:03.026	+8.217	12
18	GTLM	3	Corvette Racing	Jan Magnussen	2:03.030	+8.221	19
19	GTLM	911	Porsche GT Team	Patrick Pilet	2:03.085	+8.276	20
20	GTLM	4	Corvette Racing	Tommy Milner	2:03.594	+8.785	21
21	GTLM	912	Porsche GT Team	Wolf Henzler	2:03.759	+8.950	22
22	PC	20	BAR1 Motorsports	Don Yount	2:04.264	+9.455	13
23	GTD	28	Alegra Motorsports	Mathieu Jaminet	2:06.264	+11.722	23‡
24	GTD	15	3GT Racing	Jack Hawksworth	2:06.623	+11.814	39^1
25	GTD	48	Paul Miller Racing	Madison Snow	2:07.724	+12.915	24
26	GTD	16	Change Racing	Corey Lewis	2:07.757	+12.948	25
27	GTD	73	Park Place Motorsports	Patrick Lindsey	2:07.778	+12.969	26
28	GTD	57	Stevenson Motorsports	Andrew Davis	2:07.882	+13.073	27
29	GTD	14	3GT Racing	Scott Pruett	2:07.959	+13.150	28
30	GTD	33	Riley Motorsports – Team AMG	Ben Keating	2:08.033	+13.224	29
31	GTD	93	Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian	Katherine Legge	2:08.089	+13.280	30
32	GTD	63	Scuderia Corsa	Christina Nielsen	2:08.210	+13.280	31
33	GTD	75	SunEnergy1 Racing	Kenny Habul	2:08.515	+13.706	32
34	GTD	50	Riley Motorsports – WeatherTech Racing	Cooper MacNeil	2:08.697	+13.888	33
35	GTD	86	Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian	Oswaldo Negri Jr.	2:08.761	+13.952	34
36	GTD	96	Turner Motorsport	Bret Curtis	2:09.039	+14.230	35
37	GTD	991	TRG	Parker Chase	2:09.295	+14.486	36
38	GTD	80	Lone Star Racing	Dan Knox	2:09.500	+14.691	38^2
39	GTD	54	CORE Autosport	Jon Bennett	2:10.221	+15.412	37
Sources:^[29]^[30]

• ¹ The No. 15 3GT Racing entry was moved to the back of the GTD after failing post qualifying technical inspection.^[31]
• ² The No. 80 Lone Star Racing entry was moved to the back of the GTD as per Article 43.6 of the Sporting regulations (Change of starting tires).^[24]

Race

Post-race

With a total of 141 points, Jordan Taylor and Ricky Taylor's victory allowed them to increase their advantage over Fittipaldi and Barbosa in the Prototype Drivers' Championship to 22 points.^[32] In PC, Yount and Rice advanced from fourth to second.^[32] With 124 points, García and Magnussen's victory allowed them to take the lead of the GTLM Drivers' Championship.^[32] With a total of 133 points, Bleekemolen and Keating's victory allowed them to increase their advantage over Balzan and Nielsen to 24 points.^[32] Cadillac and Mercedes-AMG continued to top their respective Manufacturers' Championships while Chevrolet took the lead of the GTLM Manufactures' Championship.^[32] Wayne Taylor Racing, Performance Tech Motorsports, and Riley Motorsports kept their respective advantages in the their respective of Teams' Championships while Corvette Racing took the lead of the GTLM Teams' Championship with eight races left in the season.^[32]

Results

Class winners are denoted in bold and ‡.

Final race classification Pos Class No. Team Drivers Chassis Tire Laps Time/Retired Engine 1 P 10   Wayne Taylor Racing   Ricky Taylor   Jordan Taylor Cadillac DPi-V.R C 73 2:41:14.508‡ Cadillac 6.2 L V8 2 P 31   Whelen Engineering Racing   Dane Cameron   Eric Curran Cadillac DPi-V.R C 73 +18.555 Cadillac 6.2 L V8 3 P 5   Mustang Sampling Racing   João Barbosa   Christian Fittipaldi Cadillac DPi-V.R C 73 +19.818 Cadillac 6.2 L V8 4 P 85   JDC-Miller MotorSports   Mikhail Goikhberg   Stephen Simpson Oreca 07 C 73 +27.239 Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 5 P 22   Tequila Patrón ESM   Johannes van Overbeek   Ed Brown Nissan Onroak DPi C 72 +1 lap Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Turbo V6 6 PC 38   Performance Tech Motorsports   James French   Patricio O'Ward Oreca FLM09 C 72 +1 lap‡ Chevrolet 6.2 L V8 7 GTLM 3   Corvette Racing   Jan Magnussen   Antonio García Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 71 +2 Laps‡ Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8 8 GTLM 25   BMW Team RLL   Bill Auberlen   Alexander Sims BMW M6 GTLM M 71 +2 Laps BMW 4.4 L Turbo V8 9 PC 26   BAR1 Motorsports   Stefan Wilson   Nicholas Boulle Oreca FLM09 C 71 +2 Laps Chevrolet 6.2 L V8 10 GTLM 24   BMW Team RLL   John Edwards   Martin Tomczyk BMW M6 GTLM M 71 +2 Laps BMW 4.4 L Turbo V8 11 GTLM 911   Porsche GT Team   Patrick Pilet   Dirk Werner Porsche 911 RSR M 71 +2 Laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 12 GTLM 66   Ford Chip Ganassi Racing   Dirk Müller   Joey Hand Ford GT M 70 +3 Laps Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Twin-turbo V6 13 GTD 33   Riley Motorsports – Team AMG   Jeroen Bleekemolen  Ben Keating Mercedes-AMG GT3 C 69 +4 Laps‡ Mercedes AMG M159 6.2 L V8 14 GTD 63   Scuderia Corsa   Christina Nielsen   Alessandro Balzan Ferrari 488 GT3 C 69 +4 Laps Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8 15 GTD 75   SunEnergy1 Racing   Tristan Vautier   Kenny Habul Mercedes-AMG GT3 C 69 +4 Laps Mercedes AMG M159 6.2 L V8 16 GTD 48   Paul Miller Racing   Bryan Sellers   Madison Snow Lamborghini Huracán GT3 C 69 +4 Laps Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 17 GTD 96   Turner Motorsport   Jens Klingmann   Bret Curtis BMW M6 GT3 C 69 +4 Laps BMW 4.4L Turbo V8 18 GTD 50   Riley Motorsports – WeatherTech Racing   Cooper MacNeil   Gunnar Jeannette Mercedes-AMG GT3 C 69 +4 Laps Mercedes AMG M159 6.2 L V8 19 GTD 28   Alegra Motorsports   Mathieu Jaminet   Daniel Morad Porsche 911 GT3 R C 69 +4 Laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 20 GTD 73   Park Place Motorsports   Jörg Bergmeister   Patrick Lindsey Porsche 911 GT3 R C 69 +4 Laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 21 GTD 14   3GT Racing   Scott Pruett   Sage Karam Lexus RC F GT3 C 69 +4 Laps Lexus 5.0L V8 22 GTD 57   Stevenson Motorsports   Andrew Davis   Lawson Aschenbach Audi R8 LMS C 69 +4 Laps Audi 5.2L V10 23 GTD 86   Michael Shank Racing with Curb Agajanian   Jeff Segal   Oswaldo Negri Jr. Acura NSX GT3 C 69 +4 Laps Acura 3.5 L Turbo V6 24 GTD 80   Lone Star Racing   Dan Knox   Mike Skeen Mercedes-AMG GT3 C 69 +4 Laps Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 25 GTD 15   3GT Racing   Robert Alon   Jack Hawksworth Lexus RC F GT3 C 69 +4 Laps Lexus 5.0L V8 26 GTD 54   CORE Autosport   Jon Bennett   Colin Braun Porsche 911 GT3 R C 69 +4 Laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 27 GTD 93   Michael Shank Racing with Curb Agajanian   Andy Lally   Katherine Legge Acura NSX GT3 C 69 +4 Laps Acura 3.5 L Turbo V6 28 P 2   Tequila Patrón ESM   Scott Sharp   Ryan Dalziel Nissan Onroak DPi C 68 Fire Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Turbo V6 29 GTD 991   TRG   Parker Chase   Harry Gottsacker Porsche 911 GT3 R C 68 +5 Laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 30 DNF P 90   VisitFlorida Racing   Marc Goossens   Renger van der Zande Riley Mk. 30 C 63 Power steering Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 31 GTLM 67   Ford Chip Ganassi Racing   Ryan Briscoe   Richard Westbrook Ford GT M 63 +10 Laps Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Twin-turbo V6 32 DNF PC 20   BAR1 Motorsports   Don Yount   Buddy Rice Oreca FLM09 C 52 Mechanical Chevrolet 6.2 L V8 33 P 70   Mazda Motorsports   Tom Long   Joel Miller Mazda RT24-P C 52 +21 Laps Mazda MZ-2.0T 2.0 L Turbo I4 34 P 52   PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports   José Gutiérrez   Marco Bonanomi Ligier JS P217 C 43 +30 Laps Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 35 GTLM 4   Corvette Racing   Oliver Gavin   Tommy Milner Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 41 +32 Laps Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8 36 DNF P 55   Mazda Motorsports   Tristan Nunez   Jonathan Bomarito Mazda RT24-P C 27 Electrical Mazda MZ-2.0T 2.0 L Turbo I4 37 DNF GTD 16   Change Racing   Corey Lewis   Jeroen Mul Lamborghini Huracán GT3 C 22 Driveshaft Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 38 DNF GTLM 912   Porsche GT Team   Wolf Henzler   Laurens Vanthoor Porsche 911 RSR M 10 Crash damage Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 39 DNF GTLM 62   Risi Competizione   Toni Vilander   Giancarlo Fisichella Ferrari 488 GTE M 1 Crash Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8 Source:^[4] ^[33]

Tyre manufacturers Key Symbol Tyre manufacturer C Continental M Michelin

Standings after the race

Prototype Drivers' Championship standings^[32] Pos. +/– Driver Points 1     Jordan Taylor   Ricky Taylor 141 2     João Barbosa   Christian Fittipaldi 119 3   2   Dane Cameron   Eric Curran 111 4   1   Misha Goikhberg   Stephen Simpson 110 5   1   Ryan Dalziel   Scott Sharp 106

PC Drivers' Championship standings^[32] Pos. +/– Driver Points 1     James French   Patricio O'Ward 108 2   2   Don Yount   Buddy Rice 88 3   2   Kyle Masson 72 4   1   Nicholas Boulle 68 5   3   Sean Rayhall 60

GTLM Drivers' Championship standings^[32] Pos. +/– Driver Points 1   1   Antonio García   Jan Magnussen 124 2   1   Joey Hand   Dirk Müller 118 3   1   Patrick Pilet   Dirk Werner 110 4   4   Bill Auberlen   Alexander Sims 108 5   2   Ryan Briscoe   Richard Westbrook 107

GTD Drivers' Championship standings^[32] Pos. +/– Driver Points 1     Jeroen Bleekemolen   Ben Keating 133 2     Alessandro Balzan   Christina Nielsen 109 3     Daniel Morad 100 4   4   Bryan Sellers   Madison Snow 93 5     Lawson Aschenbach   Andrew Davis 91

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for all sets of standings.

Protoype Teams' Championship standings^[32] Pos. +/– Team Points 1     #10 Wayne Taylor Racing 141 2     #5 Mustang Sampling Racing 119 3   2   #31 Whelen Engineering Racing 111 4   1   #85 JDC-Miller MotorSports 110 5   1   #2 Tequila Patrón ESM 106

PC Teams' Championship standings^[32] Pos. +/– Team Points 1     #38 Performance Tech Motorsports 108 2     #26 BAR1 Motorsports 93 3   1   #20 BAR1 Motorsports 88 4   1   #8 Starworks Motorsport 58 5     #88 Starworks Motorsport 28

GTLM Teams' Championship standings^[32] Pos. +/– Team Points 1   1   #3 Corvette Racing 124 2   1   #66 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing 118 3   1   #911 Porsche GT Team 110 4   4   #25 BMW Team RLL 108 5   2   #67 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing 107

GTD Teams' Championship standings^[32] Pos. +/– Team Points 1     #33 Riley Motorsports Team AMG 133 2     #63 Scuderia Corsa 109 3     #28 Alegra Motorsports 100 4   2   #48 Paul Miller Racing 93 5   1   #57 Stevenson Motorsports 91

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for all sets of standings.

Prototype Manufacturers' Championship standings^[32] Pos. +/– Manufacturer Points 1     Cadillac 140 2     Nissan 126 3     Mazda 122

GTLM Manufacturers' Championship standings^[32] Pos. +/– Manufacturer Points 1   1   Chevrolet 133 2   1   Ford 127 3     Porsche 118 4   1   BMW 114 5   1   Ferrari 112

GTD Manufacturers' Championship standing^[32] Pos. +/– Manufacturer Points 1     Mercedes-AMG 135 2   1   Ferrari 118 3   1   Porsche 117 4     Audi 109 5   1   Lamborghini 109

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for all sets of standings.

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