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This was also the first win for a Pro-Am entry since Race 1 at Watkins Glen last year. It was their first win and first podium since sweeping the opening weekend at Sonoma Raceway all the way back in April. The Safety Car was deployed, before Race Control elected to call the race with five minutes remaining, with Putt and Koch declared the winners.

Hodgen, thankfully, was uninjured – after a collision that ended what had been a solid run for he and co-driver Cameron Lawrence. The #4 Lone Star Racing Mercedes-AMG GT4 of Zane Hodgen crashed head-on into the barriers after losing control at the exit of the corner. Seconds later, the race was halted for an accident out of The Kink (turn 11), for the second day in a row. However, Sabo missed his braking point, overshot the corner into the tarmac runoff, and settled in right in front of Adelson. Seeing an opportunity to grab the lead, Sabo went for a late lunge up the inside of Putt at turn one. Sabo then caught Putt, and the two Aston Martins ran tail to nose. But it didn’t take long for Putt to find his way through, overtaking Coleman for the overall and class lead in turn one.Ī lap later, the #8 Flying Lizard Motorsports Vantage GT4 of Elias Sabo overtook Coleman for second, and then the lap after that, Adam Adelson in the #120 Premier Racing Cayman RS was through into third. Todd Coleman emerged from the pits with the lead aboard the #69 Toyota, followed closely by Bryan Putt in the #15 Aston Martin.

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Both leaders waited until the end of the ten-minute compulsory pit window to make their driver changes, entrusting the second half of the race to their amateur co-drivers. Telitz inherited the overall lead in front of Koch. Their streak of consecutive finishes in the Silver category came to an end.

It was the first retirement of the season for Filgueiras and Stevan McAleer, who had won eight of the first nine races in 2022. This brought out a Safety Car, which lasted for upwards of ten minutes. He couldn’t steer, making an agonising crawl into the gravel trap at turn nine. But seconds later, Filgueiras began limping slowly around the circuit, with a broken left front suspension. Then, on lap six, Telitz got past Filgueiras to take the overall lead at turn one. Polesitter Eric Filgueiras led the field into turn one, but his #18 RS1 Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport RS had fierce competition – Aaron Telitz in the #69 Smooge Racing Toyota GR Supra GT4 was putting early pressure on Filgueiras. Newell and Ian James were scratched from tenth on the grid. A slightly depleted field of 31 cars took the start of the race after multiple incidents earlier in the day, the most serious of which involved Gray Newell of The Heart of Racing Team. The race turned completely in the opening laps of the race, on a cloudy Sunday morning in Wisconsin. For the first time in 2022, a Pro-Am team has won overall in Pirelli GT4 America: Bryan Putt and Kenton Koch took the chequered flag first in their #15 BSport Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4, winners of Race 2 at Road America circuit.

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