motorsport Shank Ligier leads Petit Le Mans at 3 hour mark

Shank Ligier leads Petit Le Mans at 3-hour mark

Despite an ongoing pitstop problem, Olivier Pla got Michael Shank Racing back into the lead at Road Atlanta as Corvette Racing appeared to gain a strong grip on the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar GTLM championship honors.The second round of pitstops, caused by a spun PC car around the 90-minute mark, saw Action Express Racing do its traditionally fine job in not only getting championship leader Dane Cameron back in the lead, but also sending Christian Fittipaldi out ahead of the two Mazdas and into second place.At the restart, Fittipaldi couldnt so much focus on his title rival and teammate, so much as ensure that Trista n Nunez in the #55 Mazda remained behind him.

Michael Shank Racing earns Fairy tale victory at Petit Le Mans

Despite a one hour and four-minute delay in track repairs, Saturdays Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta showcased some monumental finishes on the track in Braselton.Olivier Pla and Luis Felipe Derani in the JS P2 Honda race car took the Petit Le Mans with a 1-2 punch, respectively, and brought Michael Shank Racing a monumental victory in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship â€" a fitting farewell for the teams DP prototype.Fellow teammate Oswaldo Negri Jr. considered this team win as sweet revenge for their previous losses.
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Michael Shank Racing Dominates to Win Petit Le Mans

All week, Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanians No.60 has been the class of the field.Olivier Pla topped three of the four practice sessions.
Phil Allaway

Shank leads Ligier-Honda 1-2 finish at Petit Le Mans

Michael Shank Racing held on to beat ESM Racing to clinch victory in the finale of the 2016 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, as Dane Cameron and Eric Curran won the Prototype championship.Aside from getting knocked into a spin in a collision with a GT Daytona-class Porsche just before the final hour at Road Atlanta, neither Ozz Negri nor Olivier Pla had a problem over the final stint… except for Pla having to keep an eye on his mirrors over the final stint, as there was a yellow with 13mins to go.Pipo Derani and the ESM Racing Ligier had come alive over the final couple of hours, slicing past Dane Cameron in the #31 Action Express Racing Corvette DP and Joel Miller in the Mazda Prototype to draw within nine seconds of the winner.

Michael Shank Racing Wins IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Petit Le Mans

BRAS ELTON, Ga.â€"John Pew, Oswaldo Negri, and Olivier Pla, drivers of the #60 Michael Shank Racing Honda HPD Ligier JS P2, won the 2016 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Petit Le Mans endurance race, completing 403 laps of the 2.56-mile Road Atlanta racetrack 24 seconds faster than the Extreme Speed Motorsport team of Scott Sharp, Luis Felipe Derani, and Johannes van Overbeek in their similar Ligier-Honda, over ten hours of racing.The Extreme Speed team was the pre-race favorite, having won the two other extreme endurance races of the season, the Twelve Hours of Sebring and the Rolex 24 at Daytona.ESM came on strong in the later laps of the race but couldnt close the gap to the speeding Shank car.
Chris Jasurek