2019 BUBBA Burger Sports Car Grand Prix

The layout of the Long Beach Street Circuit

The 2019 BUBBA Burger Sports Car Grand Prix was a sports car race sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA). It was held at Long Beach street circuit in Long Beach, California on 13 April 2019. The race was the third round of the 2019 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

Background[]

This event was run in conjunction with the Grand Prix of Long Beach in the IndyCar Series, held a day after the IMSA event, on 14 April.

On 4 April 2019, IMSA released a technical bulletin regarding the Balance of Performance for the race. In the Daytona Prototype International (DPi) class, the Acura ARX-05 was made 20 kilograms lighter, and received an increase in turbo boost, along with the Nissan DPi. The Mazda RT24-P was restricted in its boost, while being made five kilograms lighter. The Cadillac DPi-V.R, which won the previous two events of the 2019 season, was given a 10 kilogram increase. In GT Le Mans (GTLM), there were less significant changes. The Porsche 911 RSR was lightened by 10 kilograms, while the Ford GT had a slight reduction in boost.^[1]

Entries[]

On 3 April 2019, the entry list for the event was released, featuring 19 cars in total. There were 11 cars in the Daytona Prototype International class, and eight entries in GT Le Mans (GTLM). The Le Mans Prototype (LMP2) and GT Daytona (GTD) classes would not be participating in the event. There were few changes to the full-season lineups in either class. Kyle Kaiser, who joined the #50 Juncos Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R for the 24 Hours of Daytona, returned to the car alongside full-season driver Will Owen on a one-race deal.^[2] The Thursday before the race, it was announced one of Ford Chip Ganassi Racing's full-season drivers, Joey Hand, would be unable to compete due to suffering symptoms of the flu. His place would be taken by one of their endurance-event drivers, Sébastien Bourdais, who would also be competing in the IndyCar event.^[3]

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	7	Acura Team Penske	Hélio Castroneves	1:11.332	—	1
2	DPi	31	Whelen Engineering Racing	Felipe Nasr	1:11.550	+0.218	2
3	DPi	6	Acura Team Penske	Juan Pablo Montoya	1:11.847	+0.515	3
4	DPi	5	Mustang Sampling Racing	João Barbosa	1:11.870	+0.538	4
5	DPi	55	Mazda Team Joest	Jonathan Bomarito	1:11.884	+0.552	111
6	DPi	77	Mazda Team Joest	Tristan Nunez	1:12.147	+0.815	5
7	DPi	10	Konica Minolta Cadillac	Jordan Taylor	1:12.312	+0.980	6
8	DPi	84	JDC-Miller Motorsports	Simon Trummer	1:12.455	+1.123	7
9	DPi	85	JDC-Miller Motorsports	Misha Goikhberg	1:12.650	+1.318	8
10	DPi	50	Juncos Racing	Kyle Kaiser	1:12.694	+1.362	9
11	DPi	54	CORE Autosport	Jon Bennett	1:13.389	+2.057	10
12	GTLM	911	Porsche GT Team	Nick Tandy	1:16.313	+4.981	12
13	GTLM	912	Porsche GT Team	Laurens Vanthoor	1:16.377	+5.045	13
14	GTLM	4	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin	1:16.520	+5.188	14
15	GTLM	66	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Sébastien Bourdais	1:16.662	+5.330	15
16	GTLM	3	Corvette Racing	Antonio Garcia	1:16.685	+5.353	16
17	GTLM	67	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Ryan Briscoe	1:16.874	+5.542	17
18	GTLM	25	BMW Team RLL	Tom Blomqvist	1:17.021	+5.689	18
19	GTLM	24	BMW Team RLL	John Edwards	1:17.236	+5.904	19
Source:[4][5]

1. ^ Car number 55 was moved to the back of the DPi field as a result of Jonathan Bomarito's crash in Turn 6 during qualifying. A crack was found in the car's monocoque chassis which required the team to rebuild the car using the team's spare tub. In accordance with Article 23.5.3 of the IMSA Sporting Regulations the car was moved to the back of the starting grid in its class.^[6]

Results[]

Class winners are denoted in bold and .

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Laps	Time/Retired
					Engine
1	DPi	5	Mustang Sampling Racing	Filipe Albuquerque João Barbosa	Cadillac DPi-V.R	73	1:41:01.368
					Cadillac 5.5 L V8
2	DPi	7	Acura Team Penske	Hélio Castroneves Ricky Taylor	Acura ARX-05	73	+0.740
					Acura AR35TT 3.5 L Turbo V6
3	DPi	6	Acura Team Penske	Dane Cameron Juan Pablo Montoya	Acura ARX-05	73	+1.873
					Acura AR35TT 3.5 L Turbo V6
4	DPi	77	Mazda Team Joest	Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez	Mazda RT24-P	73	+21.066
					Mazda MZ-2.0T 2.0 L Turbo I4
5	DPi	84	JDC-Miller Motorsports	Simon Trummer Stephen Simpson	Cadillac DPi-V.R	73	+25.483
					Cadillac 5.5 L V8
6	DPi	31	Whelen Engineering Racing	Pipo Derani Felipe Nasr	Cadillac DPi-V.R	73	+35.280
					Cadillac 5.5 L V8
7	DPi	50	Juncos Racing	Kyle Kaiser Will Owen	Cadillac DPi-V.R	72	+1 Lap
					Cadillac 5.5 L V8
8	GTLM	912	Porsche GT Team	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor	Porsche 911 RSR	72	+1 Lap
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
9	GTLM	3	Corvette Racing	Antonio García Jan Magnussen	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	72	+1 Lap
					Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8
10	GTLM	4	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	72	+1 Lap
					Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8
11	GTLM	66	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Sébastien Bourdais Dirk Müller	Ford GT	71	Did Not Finish
					Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Turbo V6
12	GTLM	911	Porsche GT Team	Patrick Pilet Nick Tandy	Porsche 911 RSR	71	+2 Laps
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
13	GTLM	67	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook	Ford GT	71	+2 Laps
					Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Turbo V6
14	GTLM	25	BMW Team RLL	Tom Blomqvist Connor De Phillippi	BMW M8 GTE	71	+2 Laps
					BMW S63 4.0 L Twin-turbo V8
15	DPi	55	Mazda Team Joest	Jonathan Bomarito Harry Tincknell	Mazda RT24-P	71	+2 Laps
					Mazda MZ-2.0T 2.0 L Turbo I4
16	GTLM	24	BMW Team RLL	John Edwards Jesse Krohn	BMW M8 GTE	71	+2 Laps
					BMW S63 4.0 L Twin-turbo V8
17	DPi	85	JDC-Miller Motorsports	Misha Goikhberg Tristan Vautier	Cadillac DPi-V.R	68	+5 Laps
					Cadillac 5.5 L V8
18	DPi	10	Konica Minolta Cadillac	Jordan Taylor Renger van der Zande	Cadillac DPi-V.R	30	Did Not Finish
					Cadillac 5.5 L V8
19	DPi	54	CORE Autosport	Jon Bennett Colin Braun	Nissan DPi	—	Did Not Finish
					Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Turbo V6
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