Taylor wins Petit Le Mans as TUDOR champions are crowned

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10:00 p.m. ET: Petit Le Mans powered by Mazda is in the books.

Easiest way to breakout the end of this race, for now, is just by listing the respective winners and champions:

  • Race winners: P, Wayne Taylor Racing (Jordan and Ricky Taylor, Max Angelelli; No. 10 Corvette DP); PC, Starworks Motorsport (Renger van der Zande, Mirco Schultis, Alex Popow; No. 8 Oreca FLM09); GTLM, Team Falken Tire (Bryan Sellers, Wolf Henzler, Marco Holzer, No. 17 Porsche 911 RSR); GTD, Paul Miller Racing (Bryce Miller, Christopher Haase, Matt Bell, UK, No. 48 Audi R8 LMS)
  • Driver champions: P, Joao Barbosa and Christian Fittipaldi (No. 5 Action Express Racing Corvette DP); PC, Colin Braun and Jon Bennett (No. 54 CORE autosport Oreca FLM09); GTLM, Kuno Wittmer (No. 91/93 SRT Motorsports Dodge Viper SRT GTS-R); GTD, Dane Cameron (No. 94 Turner Motorsport BMW Z4 GT3)

Sean Rayhall was released from the medical center following an accident with 20 minutes to go. Rayhall, who was leading in PC, was contacted by Tracy Krohn in his Ferrari F458 GT. It put the race under its 13th and final full course caution, which took up nearly three hours of the race.

7:10 p.m. ET: Two hours to go. The biggest shift since the last update was a major accident for Spencer Pumpelly in the No. 45 Flying Lizard Audi R8 LMS, capping a miserable day at the office for driver and team.

Christian Fittipaldi (P), Tom Kimber-Smith (PC), Wolf Henzler (GTLM) and Christopher Haase (GTD) lead the race as we head toward the finish.

P and PC season titles have been decided while the GTLM and GTD champs are still to be determined.

4:45 p.m. ET: We were now past the halfway mark. The WTR Corvette in the hands of the Taylor brothers and now Max Angelelli continues to lead, with Sebastien Bourdais and Scott Dixon, a pair of IndyCar champions, giving chase.

The herd has been thinned in PC, with PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports and RSR Racing in win contention. The second Porsche (No. 912) and Corvette (No. 4) have emerged ahead of the chaos in GTLM while in GTD, the Turner BMW is battling the pair of Alex Job Racing Porsches.

The latter battle is not only one for the race, but for the GTD class championship.

Thus far there have been 10 full-course yellows, one off the mark set at Sebring earlier this year.

2:40 p.m. ET: Since I last wrote, we’ve gone yellow. And we’ve gone yellow again. And we’ve gone yellow some more.

Past the three hour and 20 minute mark, we’ve had seven full-course yellows. It’s hard to keep track of all of them.

Jordan Taylor still leads overall with RSR Racing 1-2 in PC. Patrick Long lead GT Le Mans with Ben Barker leading in GT Daytona.

Perhaps the most interesting development has come in GT Le Mans. There was a three-way moment of contact in the pits that took the GTLM-championship contending No. 3 Corvette C7.R out of contention. The No. 911 Porsche 911 RSR and No. 62 Risi Competizione Ferrari F458 Italia also suffered damage, and Risi’s Ferrari was retired.

12:30 p.m. ET: The first hour is in the books at the 17th Petit Le Mans powered by Mazda. Ricky Taylor led in the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Corvette DP overall.

Two yellow flags flew, the first for a spin by the 8Star Motorsports PC car at Turn 7 and the second for a stopped No. 73 Park Place Motorsports Porsche 911 GT America on the exit of Turn 10.

Briefly, the DeltaWing led overall in its home race by virtue of running a longer first stint. Meanwhile the other non-DP of note in the Prototype field, the No. 42 OAK Racing Ligier JS P2 Honda, made a charge from 47th to sixth by Alex Brundle but lost three laps on the first pit stop with its engine cover off. It’s been a troubled weekend for the team, which has had to make two engine changes.

IndyCar results, points after 107th Indy 500

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INDIANAPOLIS — With his first victory in the Indy 500, Josef Newgarden became the first repeat winner through six race results of the 2023 NTT IndyCar Series season and made a move in the points.

Newgarden, who celebrated with fans in the grandstands, moved from sixth to fourth in the championship standings with his 27th career victory and second this season (he also won at Texas Motor Speedway).

The Team Penske star won his 12th attempt at the Brickyard oval, tying the record for most starts before an Indy 500 victory with Tony Kanaan (2013) and Sam Hanks (1957). Newgarden, whose previous best Indy 500 finish was third with Ed Carpenter Racing in 2016, became the first Tennessee native to win the Greatest Spectacle in Racing and the first American since Alexander Rossi in 2016.

He also delivered the record 19th Indy 500 triumph to Roger Penske, whose team ended a four-year drought on the 2.5-mile oval and won for the first time since he became the owner of Indianapolis Motor Speedway and IndyCar in 2020.

Newgarden, 32, led five laps, the third-lowest total for an Indy 500 winner behind Joe Dawson (two in 1912) and Dan Wheldon (one in 2011).

The race featured 52 lead changes, the third most behind 68 in 2013 and 54 in ’16, among 14 drivers (tied with ’13 for the second highest behind 15 leaders in ’17 and ’18). Newgarden’s 0.0974-second victory over Marcus Ericsson was the fourth-closest in Indy 500 history behind 1992 (0.043 of a second for Al Unser Jr. over Scott Goodyear), 2014 (0.0600 of a second for Ryan Hunter-Reay over Helio Castroneves) and 2006 (0.0635 of a second Sam Hornish Jr. over Marco Andretti.).

It also marked only the third last-lap pass in Indy 500 history — all within the past 17 years (Hornish over Andretti in 2006; Wheldon over J.R. Hildebrand in 2011).

Ericsson’s runner-up finish was the ninth time the defending Indy 500 finished second the next year (most recently four-time winner Helio Castroneves in 2003).

Here are the IndyCar results and points standings after the 107th Indy 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway:


RESULTS

Click here for the official box score from the 200-lap race on a 2.5-mile oval in Indianapolis.

Lap leader summary

Full lap chart

Best section times

Full section data

Event summary

Pit stop summary

Here is the finishing order in the Indy 500 with starting position in parentheses, driver, engine, laps completed and reason out (if any):

1. (17) Josef Newgarden, Chevrolet, 200, Running
2. (10) Marcus Ericsson, Honda, 200, Running
3. (4) Santino Ferrucci, Chevrolet, 200, Running
4. (1) Alex Palou, Honda, 200, Running
5. (7) Alexander Rossi, Chevrolet, 200, Running
6. (6) Scott Dixon, Honda, 200, Running
7. (8) Takuma Sato, Honda, 200, Running
8. (16) Conor Daly, Chevrolet, 200, Running
9. (21) Colton Herta, Honda, 200, Running
10. (2) Rinus VeeKay, Chevrolet, 200, Running
11. (18) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Chevrolet, 200, Running
12. (27) Callum Ilott, Chevrolet, 200, Running
13. (25) Devlin DeFrancesco, Honda, 200, Running
14. (14) Scott McLaughlin, Chevrolet, 200, Running
15. (20) Helio Castroneves, Honda, 200, Running
16. (9) Tony Kanaan, Chevrolet, 200, Running
17. (24) Marco Andretti, Honda, 200, Running
18. (32) Jack Harvey, Honda, 199, Running
19. (30) Christian Lundgaard, Honda, 198, Running
20. (13) Ed Carpenter, Chevrolet, 197, Contact
21. (11) Benjamin Pedersen, Chevrolet, 196, Contact
22. (33) Graham Rahal, Chevrolet, 195, Running
23. (12) Will Power, Chevrolet, 195, Running
24. (5) Pato O’Ward, Chevrolet, 192, Contact
25. (22) Simon Pagenaud, Honda, 192, Contact
26. (26) Agustin Canapino, Chevrolet, 192, Contact
27. (3) Felix Rosenqvist, Chevrolet, 183, Contact
28. (15) Kyle Kirkwood, Honda, 183, Contact
29. (23) David Malukas, Honda, 160, Contact
30. (19) Romain Grosjean, Honda, 149, Contact
31. (31) Sting Ray Robb, Honda, 90, Contact
32. (28) RC Enerson, Chevrolet, 75, Mechanical
33. (29) Katherine Legge, Honda, 41, Contact

Winner’s average speed: 168.193 mph; Time of Race: 2:58:21.9611; Margin of victory: 0.0974 of a second; Cautions: 5 for 27 laps; Lead changes: 52 among 14 drivers. Lap leaders: Palou 1-2; VeeKay 3; Palou 4-9; VeeKay 10-14; Palou 15-22; VeeKay 23-27; Palou 28-29; VeeKay 30-31; Rosenqvist 32; Rossi 33-34; Palou 35-39; VeeKay 40-47; Palou 48-60; VeeKay 61-63; Rosenqvist 64-65; O’Ward 66; Power 67; Herta 68; Rosenqvist 69; O’Ward 70-78; Rosenqvist 79-81; O’Ward 82-89; Rosenqvist 90-94; Ilott 95-99; Rosenqvist 100-101; O’Ward 102; Rosenqvist 103-107; O’Ward 108-109; Rosenqvist 110-113; O’Ward 114-115; Rosenqvist 116-119; O’Ward 120-122; Rosenqvist 123-124; O’Ward 125-128; Rosenqvist 129-131; Ferrucci 132; Ericsson 133-134; Castroneves 135; Rosenqvist 136; Ericsson 137-156; Newgarden 157; Ericsson 158; Ferrucci 159-168; Ericsson 169-170; Rossi 171-172; Sato 173-174; O’Ward 175-179; Hunter-Reay 180-187;
O’Ward 188-191; Ericsson 192; Newgarden 193-195; Ericsson 196-199; Newgarden 200.


POINTS

Click here for the points tally in the race.

Here are the points standings after the GMR Grand Prix:

Drivers

Entrants

Engine manufacturers

Pit stop performance

Top 10 in points: Palou 219, Ericsson 199, O’Ward 185, Newgarden 182, Dixon 162, McLaughlin 149, Rossi 145, Grosjean 139, Power 131, Herta 130.

Rest of the standings: Lundgaard 122, Kirkwood 113, Rosenqvist 113, Ilott 111, Ferrucci 96, VeeKay 96, Rahal 94, Malukas 84, Armstrong 77, Daly 73, Castroneves 69, Harvey 65, DeFrancesco 63, Canapino 61, Pagenaud 55, Pedersen 51, Robb 47, Sato 37, Carpenter 27, Hunter-Reay 20, Kanaan 18, Andretti 13, Enerson 5, Legge 5.

Next race: The Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix, which has moved from Belle Isle to the streets of downtown, will take place June 4 with coverage starting on Peacock at 3 p.m. ET on NBC.