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The 2015 Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix presented by Hawk Performance was a professional sports car racing event held at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park near Bowmanville, Ontario on July 12, 2015.[1] The race was the seventh round of the 2015 United SportsCar Championship season and the event marked the 30th IMSA sanctioned sports car race held at the facility.

Background

Canadian Tire Motorsports Park, where the race was held.

International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) president Scott Atherton confirmed the race was part of the schedule for the 2015 IMSA Tudor United SportsCar Championship (IMSA TUSC) in August 2014.[2] It was the second consecutive year the event was held as part of the Tudor United SportsCar Championship. The 2015 SportsCar Grand Prix was the seventh of twelve scheduled sports car races of 2015 by IMSA, and was the fourth round not held on the held as part of the North American Endurance Cup.[3] The race was held at the ten-turn 2.459 mi (3.957 km) Canadian Tire Motorsports Park in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada on July 12, 2015.[3] For 2015, the Tudor Championship race featured the Prototype (P) and GT Le Mans (GTLM) classes alongside the Prototype Challenge (PC) class which replaced the GT Daytona (GTD) class which competed at the 2014 edition of the Grand Prix.[3] The weekend also included races for the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge, Cooper Tires Prototype Lites, Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA, and the Mazda MX-5 Cup.[4]

Entries

A total of 23 cars took part in the event split across 3 classes. 8 cars were entered in P, 7 in PC, and in 8 GTLM.[5] In P, SpeedSource elected to run one entry for the third consecutive race. In PC, Mirco Schultis returned to the Starworks Motorsport entry. Matt McMurry joined Mikhail Goikhberg in the JDC-Miller MotorSports entry.

Practice

There were three practice sessions preceding the start of the race on Saturday, two on Friday and one on Saturday. The first two one-hour sessions were on Friday morning and afternoon. The third on Saturday morning lasted an hour.[6]

Practice 1

The first practice session took place at 11:20 am ET on Friday and ended with Ricky Taylor topping the charts for Wayne Taylor Racing, with a lap time of 1:10.451.[7]

Pos. Class No. Team Driver Time Gap
1 P 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Ricky Taylor 1:10.451 _
2 P 60 Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian Oswaldo Negri Jr. 1:10.616 +0.165
3 P 31 Action Express Racing Dane Cameron 1:10.660 +0.209
Source:[8]

Practice 2

The second practice session took place at 4:00 pm ET on Friday and ended with Oswaldo Negri Jr. topping the charts for Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian, with a lap time of 1:09.216.[9]

Pos. Class No. Team Driver Time Gap
1 P 60 Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian Oswaldo Negri Jr. 1:09.216 _
2 P 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Ricky Taylor 1:09.879 +0.663
3 P 31 Action Express Racing Dane Cameron 1:10.174 +0.958
Source:[10]

Practice 3

The third and final practice session took place at 10:00 am ET on Saturday and ended with Oswaldo Negri Jr. topping the charts for Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian, with a lap time of 1:09.168.[11]

Pos. Class No. Team Driver Time Gap
1 P 60 Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian Oswaldo Negri Jr. 1:09.168 _
2 P 31 Action Express Racing Dane Cameron 1:09.645 +0.477
3 P 5 Action Express Racing Christian Fittipaldi 1:09.709 +0.119
Source:[12]

Qualifying

Qualifying was broken into three sessions. The first session of qualifying was for the GTLM class. Nick Tandy qualified on pole in GTLM driving the No. 911 Porsche North America entry.[13]

The second session of qualifying was for the PC class. James French qualified on pole driving the No. 38 Performance Tech Motorsports entry.[14]

The final session of qualifying was for the P class. Ricky Taylor qualified on pole driving the No. 10 car for Wayne Taylor Racing.[15]

Qualifying results

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

Pos. Class No. Team Driver Time Gap Grid
1 P 10 United States Wayne Taylor Racing United States Ricky Taylor 1:09.705 _ 1
2 P 5 United States Action Express Racing Brazil Christian Fittipaldi 1:09.864 +0.159 2
3 P 01 United States Chip Ganassi Racing United States Scott Pruett 1:10.138 +0.433 3
4 P 90 United States VisitFlorida.com Racing Canada Michael Valiante 1:10.399 +0.694 4
5 P 31 United States Action Express Racing United States Eric Curran 1:10.508 +0.803 5
6 P 60 United States Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian United States John Pew 1:10.725 +1.020 6
7 P 0 United States DeltaWing Racing Cars with Claro/TracFone United Kingdom Katherine Legge 1:11.276 +1.571 7
8 P 07 United States SpeedSource United States Tom Long 1:12.629 +2.924 8
9 PC 38 United States Performance Tech Motorsports United States James French 1:12.667 +2.962 9‡
10 PC 11 United States RSR Racing Canada Chris Cumming 1:12.699 +2.994 10
11 PC 54 United States CORE Autosport United States Jon Bennett 1:13.007 +3.302 11
12 PC 52 United States PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports United States Mike Guasch 1:13.022 +3.317 12
13 PC 85 United States JDC-Miller MotorSports Canada Mikhail Goikhberg 1:13.169 +3.464 13
14 PC 16 United States BAR1 Motorsports United States John Falb 1:13.220 +3.515 14
15 PC 8 United States Starworks Motorsport Germany Mirco Schultis 1:14.458 +4.753 15
16 GTLM 911 United States Porsche North America United Kingdom Nick Tandy 1:14.829 +5.124 16‡
17 GTLM 25 United States BMW Team RLL Germany Dirk Werner 1:14.857 +5.152 17
18 GTLM 24 United States BMW Team RLL Germany Lucas Luhr 1:14.984 +5.279 18
19 GTLM 62 United States Risi Competizione Germany Pierre Kaffer 1:15.298 +5.593 19
20 GTLM 3 United States Corvette Racing Denmark Jan Magnussen 1:15.325 +5.620 20
21 GTLM 912 United States Porsche North America Germany Jörg Bergmeister 1:15.386 +5.681 21
22 GTLM 4 United States Corvette Racing United Kingdom Oliver Gavin 1:15.463 +5.758 22
23 GTLM 17 United States Team Falken Tire United States Bryan Sellers 1:15.544 +5.839 23
Source:[16]

Report

Race summary

The race was won overall by Jordan Taylor and Ricky Taylor, driving a Corvette Daytona Prototype for Wayne Taylor Racing.[17] They finished just ahead of a similar car driven by Action Express Racing pairing Dane Cameron and Eric Curran, while the podium was completed by the Ligier JS P2 of Michael Shank Racing, driven by Oswaldo Negri Jr. and John Pew.[18] In eighth place overall, CORE Autosport won the Prototype Challenge class with drivers Jon Bennett and Colin Braun,[19] while the GT Le Mans honors were taken by Porsche North America – run by CORE Autosport – in twelfth place overall, with a Porsche 911 RSR driven by Patrick Pilet and Nick Tandy.[20]

Race results

Final race classification
Pos Class No. Team Drivers Chassis Tire Laps
Engine
1 P 10 United States Wayne Taylor Racing United States Ricky Taylor
United States Jordan Taylor
Chevrolet Corvette DP C 128
Chevrolet LS9 5.5 L V8
2 P 31 United States Action Express Racing United States Eric Curran
United States Dane Cameron
Coyote Chevrolet Corvette DP C 128
Chevrolet LS9 5.5 L V8
3 P 60 United States Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian United States John Pew
Brazil Oswaldo Negri Jr.
Ligier JS P2 C 128
Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6
4 P 90 United States VisitFlorida.com Racing United Kingdom Richard Westbrook
Canada Michael Valiante
Chevrolet Corvette DP C 128
Chevrolet LS9 5.5 L V8
5 P 5 United States Action Express Racing Portugal João Barbosa
Brazil Christian Fittipaldi
Chevrolet Corvette DP C 128
Chevrolet LS9 5.5 L V8
6 P 01 United States Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates United States Joey Hand
United States Scott Pruett
Riley MkXXVI C 127
Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Turbo V6
7 P 07 United States SpeedSource United States Tom Long
United States Joel Miller
Mazda Prototype C 126
Mazda Skyactiv-D 2.2 L Turbo I4
(Diesel)
8 PC 54 United States CORE Autosport United States Jon Bennett
United States Colin Braun
Oreca FLM09 C 125
Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
9 P 0 United States DeltaWing Racing Cars with Claro/TracFone Mexico Memo Rojas
United Kingdom Katherine Legge
DeltaWing DWC13 C 125
Élan 1.9 L Turbo I4
10 PC 16 United States BAR1 Motorsports United States John Falb
United States Sean Rayhall
Oreca FLM09 C 124
Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
11 PC 85 United States JDC-Miller MotorSports Canada Mikhail Goikhberg
United States Matt McMurry
Oreca FLM09 C 123
Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
12 GTLM 911 United States Porsche North America United Kingdom Nick Tandy
France Patrick Pilet
Porsche 911 RSR M 122
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
13 GTLM 24 United States BMW Team RLL United States John Edwards
Germany Lucas Luhr
BMW Z4 GTE M 122
BMW 4.4 L V8
14 GTLM 3 United States Corvette Racing Denmark Jan Magnussen
Spain Antonio García
Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 122
Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8
15 GTLM 25 United States BMW Team RLL United States Bill Auberlen
Germany Dirk Werner
BMW Z4 GTE M 122
BMW 4.4 L V8
16 PC 11 United States RSR Racing Brazil Bruno Junqueira
Canada Chris Cumming
Oreca FLM09 C 122
Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
17 GTLM 4 United States Corvette Racing United Kingdom Oliver Gavin
United States Tommy Milner
Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 122
Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8
18 GTLM 62 United States Risi Competizione Germany Pierre Kaffer
Italy Giancarlo Fisichella
Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 M 122
Ferrari 4.5 L V8
19 GTLM 912 United States Porsche North America Germany Jörg Bergmeister
New Zealand Earl Bamber
Porsche 911 RSR M 121
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
20
DNF
PC 52 United States PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports United States Mike Guasch
United Kingdom Tom Kimber-Smith
Oreca FLM09 C 104
Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
21
DNF
GTLM 17 United States Team Falken Tire United States Bryan Sellers
Germany Wolf Henzler
Porsche 911 RSR F 103
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
22
DNF
PC 8 United States Starworks Motorsport Netherlands Renger van der Zande
Germany Mirco Schultis
Oreca FLM09 C 101
Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
23
DNF
PC 38 United States Performance Tech Motorsports United States James French
United States Conor Daly
Oreca FLM09 C 86
Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
Source: [21]
Tyre manufacturers
Key
Symbol Tyre manufacturer
C Continental
M Michelin
F Falken Tire

Media

Television

The race was broadcast live by Fox Sports on Fox Sports 1 in the United States and on Fox Sports Racing in Canada, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.[22] The event was televised internationally by Motors TV in Europe and Network Ten in Australia.

United SportsCar Championship on Fox Sports
Booth Announcers Pit reporters
Announcer Bob Varsha Brian Till
Jamie Howe
Color Calvin Fish
Justin Bell

Radio

The race was broadcast by IMSA Radio with announcers John Hindhaugh and Jeremy Shaw calling the race on IMSA.tv and radiolemans.com, which was simulcast on Sirius channel 117 satellite radio and on 90.7 FM at the track.

IMSA Radio
Booth Announcers Pit reporters
Announcer John Hindhaugh Shea Adam
Greg Creamer
Color Jeremy Shaw

Support race results

CTSC Prototype Lites GT3 Cup USA MX-5 Cup
GS United States Jade Buford
United States Austin Cindric
Race 1 United States Kenton Koch United States Elliott Skeer United States Chad McCumbee
ST United States Spencer Pumpelly
United States Luis Rodriguez Jr.
Race 2 United States Clark Toppe United States Elliott Skeer United States Patrick Gallagher

References

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