2019 6 Hours of The Glen

Track Map of Watkins Glen International.

The 2019 Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen was an endurance race sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA). The race was held at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York on the June 30th, 2019. This race was the sixth round of the 2019 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, as well as the third round of the 2019 Michelin Endurance Cup.

Background[]

IMSA released two separate technical bulletins regarding the Balance of Performance for the six-hour race. The first one was released on May 23rd, 2019, for the GT Le Mans (GTLM) class. This was done to allow IMSA teams who were preparing for the 24 Hours of Le Mans in three weeks time, notably Corvette Racing and Chip Ganassi Racing, to have the beforehand knowledge of the Balance of Performance for the race so they could prepare better. In this bulletin, the BMW M8 GTE received a 12 horsepower increase, as well as a six liter increase in fuel capacity and turbo boost increase.^[1][2] The second technical bulletin was released on June 19th, 2019, which regarded the Balance of Performance for the Daytona Prototype International (DPi) and GT Daytona (GTD) classes. In DPi, after winning the previous two events, Team Penske's Acura ARX-05 was given a 15 kilogram weight increase, giving it the same weight as the Nissan DPi. The Cadillac DPi-V.R was given a 1 liter reduction in fuel capacity. In GT Daytona, despite no McLarens participating in the 6 Hour event, the McLaren 720S was given a power increase of 15 horsepower and made 25 kilograms lighter, in addition to a 12-liter fuel capacity increase. These adjustments made the McLaren 720S the lightest car in the class, as well as having the largest fuel capacity.^[3][4]

Entries[]

On June 19th, 2019, the entry list for the 6-hour-event was released, featuring 37 cars.^[5] There were 11 entries in Daytona Prototype international, eight cars in GT Le Mans, 16 in GT Daytona, and just two entrants in the Le Mans Prototype (LMP2) class. In GT Daytona, Sprint-race-only entrants Compass Racing and Lone Star Racing would not be taking part, while endurance-event-only entrants such as Land-Motorsport made their return. Black Swan Racing also returned to the grid after missing the 12 Hours of Sebring due to their team owner Tim Pappas sustaining an injury. As he was still recovering, Marc Miller took his place for The Glen. Joey Hand made a full recovery from suffering symptoms of the flu, and returned to the Chip Ganassi Racing team after being replaced by Sebastien Bourdais for the previous two rounds.

Practice and qualifying[]

Qualifying Results[]

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

Pos.	Class	No.	Team	Driver	Time	Gap	Grid
1	DPi	77	Mazda Team Joest	Oliver Jarvis	1:29.639	_	1
2	DPi	6	Acura Team Penske	Dane Cameron	1:29.862	+0.223	2
3	DPi	7	Acura Team Penske	Ricky Taylor	1:29.928	+0.289	3
4	DPi	55	Mazda Team Joest	Harry Tincknell	1:29.983	+0.344	4
5	DPi	10	Konica Minolta Cadillac	Renger van der Zande	1:30.758	+1.119	5
6	DPi	5	Mustang Sampling Racing	Filipe Albuquerque	1:31.170	+1.531	6
7	DPi	31	Whelen Engineering Racing	Felipe Nasr	1:31.177	+1.538	7
8	LMP2	52	PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports	Gabriel Aubry	1:31.735	+2.096	8
9	DPi	85	JDC-Miller Motorsports	Misha Goikhberg	1:32.316	+2.677	9
10	DPi	84	JDC-Miller Motorsports	Simon Trummer	1:32.409	+2.770	10
11	LMP2	38	Performance Tech Motorsports	Kyle Masson	1:32.459	+2.820	11
12	DPi	50	Juncos Racing	René Binder	1:33.134	+3.495	12
13	DPi	54	CORE Autosport	Jonathan Bennett	1:33.466	+3.827	13
14	GTLM	3	Corvette Racing	Antonio García	1:40.799	+11.160	14
15	GTLM	67	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Richard Westbrook	1:41.116	+11.477	15
16	GTLM	4	Corvette Racing	Tommy Milner	1:41.291	+11.652	16
17	GTLM	24	BMW Team RLL	John Edwards	1:41.301	+11.662	17
18	GTLM	66	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Joey Hand	1:41.304	+11.665	18
19	GTLM	25	BMW Team RLL	Connor De Phillippi	1:41.414	+11.775	19
20	GTLM	911	Porsche GT Team	Nick Tandy	1:41.545	+11.906	20
21	GTLM	912	Porsche GT Team	Laurens Vanthoor	1:42.206	+12.567	21
22	GTD	86	Meyer-Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian	Trent Hindman	1:44.978	+15.339	22
23	GTD	57	Heinricher Racing with Meyer-Shank	Christina Nielsen	1:45.295	+15.656	23
24	GTD	96	Turner Motorsport	Dillon Machavern	1:45.506	+15.867	24
25	GTD	63	Scuderia Corsa	Jeff Westphal	1:45.595	+15.856	25
26	GTD	29	Montaplast by Land-Motorsport	Ricardo Feller	1:45.597	+15.858	26
27	GTD	9	Pfaff Motorsports	Zach Robichon	1:45.842	+16.203	27
28	GTD	33	Mercedes-AMG Team Riley Motorsports	Ben Keating	1:45.961	+16.322	28
29	GTD	14	AIM Vasser Sullivan	Richard Heistand	1:46.066	+16.427	29
30	GTD	540	Black Swan Racing	Marco Seefried	1:46.100	+16.461	30
31	GTD	47	Precision Performance Motorsports	Brandon Gdovic	1:46.388	+16.749	31
32	GTD	48	Paul Miller Racing	Ryan Hardwick	1:46.620	+16.981	32
33	GTD	44	Magnus Racing	John Potter	1:47.041	+17.402	33
34	GTD	8	Starworks Motorsport	Parker Chase	1:48.041	+18.402	34
35	GTD	73	Park Place Motorsports	Nicholas Boulle	1:48.923	+19.284	35
36	GTD	12	AIM Vasser Sullivan	None	No time	_	36
37	GTD	19	Moorespeed	None	No time	_	DNS
Source:[6]

Results[]

Class winners are denoted in bold and .

Pos	Class	No.	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Laps	Time/Gap To/Reason Retired
					Engine
1	DPi	55	Mazda Team Joest	Jonathan Bomarito Olivier Pla Harry Tincknell	Mazda RT24-P	211	6:00:07.332
					Mazda MZ-2.0T 2.0 L Turbo I4
2	DPi	77	Mazda Team Joest	Timo Bernhard Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez	Mazda RT24-P	211	+0.353s
					Mazda MZ-2.0T 2.0 L Turbo I4
3	DPi	6	Acura Team Penske	Dane Cameron Juan Pablo Montoya	Acura ARX-05	211	+11.783s
					Acura AR35TT 3.5 L Turbo V6
4	DPi	10	Konica Minolta Cadillac	Jordan Taylor Renger van der Zande	Cadillac DPi-V.R	211	+24.837s
					Cadillac 5.5 L V8
5	DPi	7	Acura Team Penske	Hélio Castroneves Ricky Taylor	Acura ARX-05	211	+38.864s
					Acura AR35TT 3.5 L Turbo V6
6	DPi	5	Mustang Sampling Racing	Filipe Albuquerque João Barbosa Mike Conway	Cadillac DPi-V.R	209	+2 laps
					Cadillac 5.5 L V8
7	DPi	31	Whelen Engineering Racing	Eric Curran Pipo Derani Felipe Nasr	Cadillac DPi-V.R	208	+3 laps
					Cadillac 5.5 L V8
8	DPi	50	Juncos Racing	René Binder Will Owen	Cadillac DPi-V.R	206	+5 laps
					Cadillac 5.5 L V8
9	DPi	84	JDC-Miller Motorsports	Chris Miller Stephen Simpson Simon Trummer	Cadillac DPi-V.R	204	+7 laps
					Cadillac 5.5 L V8
10	LMP2	52	PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports	Gabriel Aubry Eric Lux Matt McMurry	Oreca 07	201	+10 laps
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
11	DPi	85	JDC-Miller Motorsports	Misha Goikhberg Juan Piedrahita Tristan Vautier	Cadillac DPi-V.R	199	+12 laps
					Cadillac 5.5 L V8
12	GTLM	911	Porsche GT Team	Patrick Pilet Nick Tandy	Porsche 911 RSR	195	+16 laps
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
13	GTLM	3	Corvette Racing	Antonio García Jan Magnussen	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	195	+16 laps
					Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8
14	GTLM	67	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook	Ford GT	194	+17 laps
					Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Turbo V6
15	GTLM	66	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Joey Hand Dirk Müller	Ford GT	194	+17 laps
					Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Turbo V6
16	GTLM	24	BMW Team RLL	John Edwards Jesse Krohn	BMW M8 GTE	194	+17 laps
					BMW S63 4.0 L Twin-turbo V8
17	GTLM	912	Porsche GT Team	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor	Porsche 911 RSR	194	+17 laps
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
18	GTD	86	Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian	Mario Farnbacher Trent Hindman Justin Marks	Acura NSX GT3	188	+23 laps
					Acura 3.5 L Turbo V6
19	GTD	96	Turner Motorsport	Bill Auberlen Robby Foley Dillon Machavern	BMW M6 GT3	188	+23 laps
					BMW 4.4 L Turbo V8
20	GTD	63	Scuderia Corsa	Cooper MacNeil Toni Vilander Jeff Westphal	Ferrari 488 GT3	188	+23 laps
					Ferrari F154 3.9 L Turbo V8
21	GTD	57	Heinricher Racing w/Meyer Shank Racing	Bia Figueiredo Katherine Legge Christina Nielsen	Acura NSX GT3	188	+23 laps
					Acura 3.5 L Turbo V6
22	GTD	14	AIM Vasser Sullivan	Philipp Frommenwiler Jack Hawksworth Richard Heistand	Lexus RC F GT3	188	+23 laps
					Lexus 5.0 L V8
23	GTD	9	Pfaff Motorsports	Scott Hargrove Zacharie Robichon	Porsche 911 GT3 R	188	+23 laps
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
24	GTD	44	Magnus Racing	Andy Lally John Potter Spencer Pumpelly	Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo	188	+23 laps
					Lamborghini 5.2 L V10
25	GTD	29	Montaplast by Land-Motorsport	Ricardo Feller Christopher Mies Daniel Morad	Audi R8 LMS GT3	188	+23 laps
					Audi 5.2 L V10
26	GTD	12	AIM Vasser Sullivan	Townsend Bell Frankie Montecalvo Aaron Telitz	Lexus RC F GT3	188	+23 laps
					Lexus 5.0 L V8
27	GTD	540	Black Swan Racing	Marc Miller Marco Seefried Dirk Werner	Porsche 911 GT3 R	186	+25 laps
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
28	GTD	47	Precision Performance Motorsports	Jacob Eidson Brandon Gdovic Don Yount	Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo	185	+26 laps
					Lamborghini 5.2 L V10
29	GTD	8	Starworks Motorsport	Parker Chase Ryan Dalziel Mike Skeen	Audi R8 LMS GT3	185	+26 laps
					Audi 5.2 L V10
30	LMP2	38	Performance Tech Motorsports	Cameron Cassels Andrew Evans Kyle Masson	Oreca 07	181	+30 laps
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
31	GTLM	25	BMW Team RLL	Tom Blomqvist Connor De Phillippi	BMW M8 GTE	159	Did not finish
					BMW S63 4.0 L Twin-turbo V8
32	DPi	54	CORE Autosport	Jon Bennett Colin Braun Romain Dumas	Nissan DPi	111	Did not finish
					Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Turbo V6
33	GTD	73	Park Place Motorsports	Nicholas Boulle Patrick Lindsey Patrick Long	Porsche 911 GT3 R	86	Did not finish
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
34	GTD	48	Paul Miller Racing	Ryan Hardwick Bryan Sellers	Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo	68	Did not finish
					Lamborghini 5.2 L V10
35	GTLM	4	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	0	Crash
					Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8
36	GTD	33	Mercedes-AMG Team Riley Motorsports	Jeroen Bleekemolen Felipe Fraga Ben Keating	Mercedes-AMG GT3	0	Crash
					Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8
--	GTD	19	Moorespeed	Andrew Davis Will Hardeman Alex Riberas	Audi R8 LMS GT3	--	Did not start[a]
					Audi 5.2 L V10
Source: [1]

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