Pfaff Motorsports scored its second IMSA win on Sunday.
From the shortest track to the longest, Pfaff Motorsports has proven it can get the job done.
The Canadian team – new to the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship this year – came to Road America this weekend on the heels of its inaugural win in the GT Daytona (GTD) class one race ago.
That first win came at the 1.478-mile Lime Rock Park circuit, the smallest on the WeatherTech Championship calendar. To repeat at Road America, the longest track on the schedule at 4.048 miles, would take an entirely different approach.
The team nailed it.
Zacharie Robichon – who scored his first IMSA victory at Lime Rock with one-off co-driver Dennis Olsen – paired with fellow Porsche driver Matt Campbell this weekend in the No. 9 Porsche 911 GT3 R. Robichon qualified the car in fourth, but jumped early into second place in Sunday’s race, where he held steady for the entirety of his stint.
As the only full-time driver in the No. 9 entry, Robichon holds a solo position in the GTD championship standings with 176 points, jumping from seventh to third following Sunday’s win. Robichon also assumed a five-point lead in the championship standings for the WeatherTech Sprint Cup, which consists of all races two hours, 40 minutes in duration or less solely for the GTD class.
“That’s one thing you keep in the back of your mind, but you also can’t focus too much about,” Robichon said of the championship standings. “You’ve got to keep working on that one lap at a time, as they say. Hopefully, we can keep the momentum for the last few races.”
The runner-up finish for Paul Miller Racing is the team’s best of the season thus far. Sellers co-drove this weekend with Corey Lewis, subbing the rest of the season for Ryan Hardwick, who suffered an injury last month at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.
Bill Auberlen and Robby Foley placed third Sunday in the No. 96 Turner Motorsport BMW M6 GT3 to extend their run of podium finishes to four straight races.
Five manufacturers made up the top-five finishing order on Sunday, with the No. 14 AIM Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3 of Richard Heistand and Jack Hawksworth and GTD championship leaders Mario Farnbacher and Trent Hindman in the No. 86 Acura NSX GT3 for Meyer Shank Racing finishing fourth and fifth, respectively.
It’s a two-week break for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTD class, which returns to Virginia International Speedway on August 23-25 for the Michelin GT Challenge. VIR marks the second and final GT-only event on the WeatherTech Championship calendar.
The Michelin GT Challenge is scheduled for Sunday, August 25 at 1:30 p.m. ET with live coverage on NBCSN and live streaming available on the NBC Sports App and NBCSports.com.
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