IMSA Watkins Glen: Qualifying abandoned after pile-up in rain

The 6 Penske Porsche will start the IMSA SportsCar Championship's Watkins Glen six-hour race from pole 🇺🇸 GTP, LMP2 and LMP3 grid positions are taken from championship order, after qualifying was abandoned following a rainstorm-induced pile-up ☔️

Mixed weather conditions greeted the fifth round of America’s premier sportscar series but, following the multi-car shunt that halted the joint LMP2/P3 session, that and the GTP session that was meant to follow were abandoned.

In the mixed LMP2 and P3 session, rain fell hard at the top of the hill just as the cars departed the pits. Under to IMSA rules, teams aren’t allowed to change tyres. In the GT classes, Jack Hawksworth led the early qualifying times in his #14 Lexus RC F GTD Pro entry with a time of 1m45.924s, backed up by the #12 sister car of Aaron Telitz which led the pro-am GTD category.

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