IMSA: Mazda Team Joest collects first victory in Six Hours of the Glen - MotorSportsTalk

Mazda Team Joest finally broke through and won their first race in IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship competition Sunday afternoon, as their 55 Mazda RT24-P took the checkered first in the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen with Henry Tincknell behind the wheel.

Tincknell, who shared the driver’s seat with co-drivers Jonathan Bomarito and Oliver Pla, won the race with a 0.353-second margin of victory over teammate in Timo Bernhard in the No. 77 entry.

Ticknell experienced bodywork issues late in the race which saw both Joest entries slow in pace and remain 1-2 through the finish due to team orders.

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The No. 6 Acura Team Penske ARX-05 of Juan Pablo Montoya and Dane Cameron finished the race in the third position. Montoya and Cameron now lead by one point over Whelen Engineering Racing’s Pipo Derani and Felipe Nasr in the points standings.

Porsche wins in GT Le Mans

The Porsche GT team claimed their fourth consecutive GT Le Mans class win with Nick Tandy and Patrick Pilet behind the wheel of the No. 911 RSR, as Tandy held off the No. 3 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R of Antonio Garcia in the closing laps to win by 0.452 seconds.

The No. 67 Chip Ganassi Racing Ford GT of Richard Westbrook and Ryan Briscoe completed the class podium, finishing third.

Farnbacher hold off Auberlen to take GTD honors for Acura

Mario Farnbacher held off Bill Auberlen to claim the GTD class victory for Meyer Shank Racing.

Farnbacher passed the No. 8 Starworks Motorsport Audi of Ryan Dalziel for the class lead with less than 16 minutes remaining in the race. Dalziel’s car was low on fuel and had to pit a few laps later.

With their class victory, Farnbacher and co-driver Trent Hindman extended their lead in the standings. The duo now has a 16-point margin over Jack Hawksworth and Richard Heistand.

The No. 63 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari of Cooper MacNeil, Toni Vilander, and Jeff Westphal finished third.

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The next race of the 2019 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship is the Mobil 1 Sportscar Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park on July 7. Live coverage begins at 1:00 p.m. ET on NBC.

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INDIANAPOLIS — The first Indy 500 victory for Josef Newgarden also was the richest in race history from a record 2023 purse of just more than $17 million.

The two-time NTT IndyCar Series champion, who continued his celebration Monday morning at Indianapolis Motor Speedway earned $3.666 million for winning the 107th running of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

The purse and winner’s share both are the largest in the history of the Indianapolis 500.

It’s the second consecutive year that the Indy 500 purse set a record after the 2022 Indy 500 became the first to crack the $16 million mark (nearly doubling the 2021 purse that offered a purse of $8,854,565 after a crowd limited to 135,000 because of the COVID-19 pandemic).

The average payout for IndyCar drivers was $500,600 (exceeding last year’s average of $485,000).

Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Roger Penske, whose team also fields Newgarden’s No. 2 Dallara-Chevrolet, had made raising purses a priority since buying the track in 2020. But Penske but was unable to post big money purses until the race returned to full capacity grandstands last year.

The largest Indy 500 purse before this year was $14.4 million for the 2008 Indy 500 won by Scott Dixon (whose share was $2,988,065). Ericsson’s haul made him the second Indy 500 winner to top $3 million (2009 winner Helio Castroneves won $3,048,005.

Runner-up Marcus Ericsson won $1.043 million after falling short by 0.0974 seconds in the fourth-closest finish in Indy 500 history.

The 107th Indy 500 drew a crowd of at least 330,000 that was the largest since the sellout for the 100th running in 2016, and the second-largest in more than two decades, according to track officials.

“This is the greatest race in the world, and it was an especially monumental Month of May featuring packed grandstands and intense on-track action,” Penske Entertainment president and CEO Mark Miles said in a release. “Now, we have the best end card possible for the 107th Running of the Indianapolis 500: a record-breaking purse for the history books.”

Benjamin Pedersen was named the Indy 500 rookie of the year, earning a $50,000 bonus.

The race’s purse is determined through contingency and special awards from IMS and IndyCar. The awards were presented Monday night in the annual Indy 500 Victory Celebration at the JW Marriott in downtown Indianapolis.

The payouts for the 107th Indy 500:

1. Josef Newgarden, $3,666,000
2. Marcus Ericsson, $1,043,000
3. Santino Ferrucci, $481,800
4. Alex Palou, $801,500
5. Alexander Rossi, $574,000
6. Scott Dixon, $582,000
7. Takuma Sato, $217,300
8. Conor Daly, $512,000
9. Colton Herta, $506,500
10. Rinus VeeKay, $556,500
11. Ryan Hunter‐Reay, $145,500
12. Callum Ilott, $495,500
13. Devlin DeFrancesco, $482,000
14. Scott McLaughlin, $485,000
15. Helio Castroneves, $481,500
16. Tony Kanaan, $105,000
17. Marco Andretti, $102,000
18. Jack Harvey, $472,000
19. Christian Lundgaard, $467,500
20. Ed Carpenter, $102,000
21. Benjamin Pedersen (R), $215,300
22. Graham Rahal, $565,500*
23. Will Power, $488,000
24. Pato O’Ward, $516,500
25. Simon Pagenaud, $465,500
26. Agustín Canapino (R), $156,300
27. Felix Rosenqvist, $278,300
28. Kyle Kirkwood, $465,500
29. David Malukas, $462,000
30. Romain Grosjean, $462,000
31. Sting Ray Robb (R), $463,000
32. RC Enerson (R), $103,000
33. Katherine Legge, $102,000

*–Broken down between two teams, $460,000 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, $105,500 Dreyer & Reinbold Racing/Cusick Motorsports