Prototype

Poleman Castroneves held the lead from Cameron at the start, with Oliver Jarvis just about holding off Mazda teammate Jonathan Bomarito and the Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac of Renger van der Zande.

Further back, however, Johannes van Overbeek’s Nissan tapped Robert Alon’s JDC Miller Motorsports Oreca into a spin. Van Overbeek was immediately called into the pits for a drive-through penalty.

In fact there was double trouble for the ESM Nissan squad, as the #2 car of Scott Sharp picked up rear end damage and had to pit early for body-rub on the rear tires.

The top four quickly separated themselves from the Cadillacs of van der Zande and Joao Barbosa, but Bomarito took advantage of a slight delay for Jarvis in traffic and swooped past into third. 

Bomarito was first of the top four to stop, followed by Jarvis, who moved up to third. The Penske-Acuras then both stopped, with Taylor taking over the #7 from Castroneves.

On cold tires at Turn 2, Cameron had the confidence to outbrake Taylor, who also gave in to the charging Mazdas of Jarvis and Bomarito, and fell to fourth.

Taylor came back at the Mazdas in traffic but bounced Bomarito off the track in order to get up to third, although no penalty was called.

Taylor stopped on Lap 62 and remained in situ, while Bomarito pitted two laps later to hand over to Spencer Pigot, who dropped from 1sec to 7sec behind before he was struck by an errant GTD car and pitted for a checkover, and remained there.

Second-placed Jarvis meanwhile had been held up by Colin Braun in the CORE autosport Oreca, two laps down, and had fallen to 5sec behind leader Cameron.

On lap 70, the lead Acura and lead Mazda stopped, with Montoya taking over from Cameron and Tristan Nunez taking control of the #77 Mazda. Both would emerge behind Taylor’s Acura – 5sec in Montoya’s case, 12sec in Nunez’s case.

Taylor extended his lead to 12sec over Montoya by the time he made his final scheduled stop on Lap 91, at the same time as Nunez. Montoya stopped next time by, and whittled the lead down to 1.8sec as Taylor hit traffic.

A lapped Pipo Derani refused to give way to Montoya, though, and next time by the lead was back out to 3.3sec, and eventually the #7 led the #6 past the checkered flag with an 8.5sec advantage, with the Nunez-driven Mazda a further 18sec back in third.

The top Cadillac DPi-V.R, the #5 Action Express Racing machine of Barbosa and Filipe Albuquerque, was almost a minute further back in fourth and only 1sec ahead of the WTR car of van der Zande and Jordan Taylor.

Top LMP2 was the PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports entry of Sebastian Saavedra and Gustavo Yacaman in sixth, just under two seconds ahead of the JDC-Miller Oreca of Stephen Simpson and Misha Goikhberg.

GT Le Mans

On the opening lap, polesitter John Edwards in the #24 BMW was forced off-track by Alon spinning his prototype, allowing the two Porsche 911s of Nick Tandy and Earl Bamber to move into a 1-2 followed by Alexander Sims in the other BMW M8 and Antonio Garcia in the #3 Corvette.

At the first stops, Sims gave up his seat to Connor de Philippi, and Garcia handed over to Jan Magnussen. Tandy handed over the leading Porsche to Patrick Pilet, and Laurens Vanthoor took over from Bamber. The Porsches had exchanged places, with Vanthoor now ahead.

By the time Ryan Briscoe stopped the #67 Ford GT, he had a 34sec lead, and that allowed co-driver Richard Westbrook to emerge in third, just ahead of teammate Joey Hand who had taken over from Dirk Muller. De Philippi ran sixth behind Magnussen.

On the 64th lap, into Turn 4, Westbrook outbraked Pilet's Porsche for second place but was now 10sec down on Vanthoor. Hand, meanwhile, would stop on Lap 70, and Westbrook went back ‘on strategy’ with a stop just a couple laps later.

De Phillippi did a long middle stint, and held a 37sec lead by the time he pitted for the second time, emerging nine seconds behind Vanthoor but right ahead of a fantastic battle between Westbrook’s Ford, Magnussen’s Corvette and Hand’s Ford.

The BMW driver had no problem staving them off, and cut Vanthoor's lead down to six seconds. Behind de Phillippi, Westbrook had a moment and fell behind Magnussen and Hand.

De Phillippi kept charging and drew to within 1.5sec of Vanthoor in the closing 10 minutes, eventually losing out by 1.67sec at the checkers, but he was 10.6sec ahead of the #3 Corvette of Magnussen. Pilet brought home the second works 911 sixth behind the two Fords.

GT Daytona

Jack Hawksworth and Kyle Marcelli held station to run 1-2 for Lexus at the start ahead of Katherine Legge in the #86 Acura NSX and Madison Snow in the #48 Lamborghini Huracan.

Marcelli was the first of the Lexus RC Fs to stop and he handed over to Dominik Baumann, who went past David Heinemeier Hansson when the latter took over from Hawksworth.

Alvaro Parente moved the Acura closer to the second Lexus, having taken over from Legge, while Bryan Sellers was nearby, too, having replaced Snow. Parente finally split the Lexuses on Lap 66, albeit 20sec behind Baumann.

Once Heinemeier Hansson had done his mandatory 45mins, Hawksworth would return to the cockpit, but he was having to come from fifth place.

Up front, Baumann successfully kept the #14 Lexus ahead of Parente but it got perilously close in the final stages, Parente crossing the line less than 0.2sec in arrears. The 3GT Lexus team thus scored its first win.

This pair were a full 18sec up on the third-placed Sellers/Snow Lamborghini, while late on, the charging Hawksworth deposed the #93 Acura, driven by Justin Marks and Lawson Aschenbach, to claim fourth.

IMSA Mid-Ohio, race results:

Pos.	Class	#	Driver	Chassis	Gap
1	P	7	Helio Castroneves    Ricky Taylor	Acura DPi	125 laps
2	P	6	Juan Pablo Montoya    Dane Cameron	Acura DPi	8.464
3	P	77	Oliver Jarvis    Tristan Nunez	Mazda DPi	26.774
4	P	5	Filipe Albuquerque    Joao Barbosa	Cadillac DPi	56.826
5	P	10	Jordan Taylor    Renger van der Zande	Cadillac DPi	57.825
6	P	52	Gustavo Yacaman    Sebastian Saavedra	Ligier LMP2	1'13.876
7	P	99	Mikhail Goikhberg    Stephen Simpson	ORECA LMP2	1'15.636
8	P	31	Eric Curran    Felipe Nasr	Cadillac DPi	1 lap
9	P	22	Pipo Derani    Johannes van Overbeek	Nissan DPi	1 lap
10	P	2	Scott Sharp    Ryan Dalziel	Nissan DPi	2 laps
11	P	38	James French     Kyle Masson	ORECA LMP2	2 laps
12	P	85	Simon Trummer    Robert Alon	ORECA LMP2	2 laps
13	P	54	Jon Bennett    Colin Braun	ORECA LMP2	2 laps
14	GTLM	912	Earl Bamber    Laurens Vanthoor	Porsche 911 RSR	7 laps
15	GTLM	25	Connor de Phillippi    Alexander Sims	BMW M8 GTE	7 laps
16	GTLM	3	Jan Magnussen    Antonio Garcia	Corvette C7.R	7 laps
17	GTLM	66	Joey Hand    Dirk Müller	Ford GT	7 laps
18	GTLM	67	Ryan Briscoe    Richard Westbrook	Ford GT	7 laps
19	GTLM	911	Nick Tandy    Patrick Pilet	Porsche 911 RSR	7 laps
20	GTLM	24	John Edwards    Jesse Krohn	BMW M8 GTE	7 laps
21	GTLM	4	Oliver Gavin    Tommy Milner	Corvette C7.R	7 laps
22	GTD	14	Kyle Marcelli    Dominik Baumann	Lexus RC F GT3	9 laps
23	GTD	86	Alvaro Parente    Katherine Legge	Acura NSX GT3	9 laps
24	GTD	48	Bryan Sellers    Madison Snow	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	9 laps
25	GTD	15	David Heinemeier Hansson   Jack Hawksworth	Lexus RC F GT3	9 laps
26	GTD	93	Justin Marks    Lawson Aschenbach	Acura NSX GT3	9 laps
27	GTD	96	Bill Auberlen    Dillon Machavern	BMW M6 GT3	10 laps
28	GTD	58	Patrick Long    Christina Nielsen	Porsche 911 GT3 R	10 laps
29	GTD	63	Cooper MacNeil    Alessandro Balzan	Ferrari 488 GT3	10 laps
30	GTD	33	Jeroen Bleekemolen    Ben Keating	Mercedes-AMG GT3	10 laps
31	GTD	44	Andy Lally    John Potter	Audi R8 LMS GT3	10 laps
32	GTD	16	Wolf Henzler    Michael Schein	Porsche 911 GT3 R	12 laps
33	GTD	75	Kenny Habul    Maro Engel	Mercedes-AMG GT3	26 laps
Ret	P	55	Spencer Pigot    Jonathan Bomarito	Mazda DPi	52 laps