No. 01 Ganassi Cadillac Wins IMSA at Mosport

Renger van der Zande and Sebastien Bourdais drive the lead car in Cadillac's factory Chip Ganassi Racing program, the only pure factory program in this season's top IMSA DPi category. A car with that level of prestige brings fairly significant expectations. The car seems plenty fast enough to contend for wins on a weekly basis, but, unfortunately for the No. 01 team, a wide variety of crashes, issues, and mistakes have led to as many finishes in the bottom third of the class field as in the top half. The good news is that the clean races usually end in wins.

Today was a clean race. Van der Zande was running second late in today's IMSA round at Mosport, just behind the No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura of Oliver Jarvis and Tom Blomqvist, on a late restart. Over the next ten minutes of racing, he chased down and passed Jarvis for the lead on a track that seemingly benefitted the Acura. He never looked back, taking the program's third win and fourth podium in an up-and-down season while confining the MSR Acura to its fifth straight runner-up finish. The No. 31 Action Express Racing Cadillac finished third, while the No. 02 and No. 5 Cadillacs finished fourth and fifth after the sixth-place No. 10 Acura was spun by the No. 02 in the closing hour.

In GTD Pro, the No. 9 Pfaff Racing Porsche team responded to being back home in Canada for the first time since 2019 with overwhelming speed. Matt Campbell held off the No. 3 Corvette and No. 23 Aston Martin on the final restart for the win, securing a major win for Porsche's strongest GT contender. The No. 79 Mercedes, No. 25 BMW, and No. 14 Lexus rounded out the six-car class, with Kamui Kobayashi unable to move the Lexus past sixth in class on his IMSA GT debut. Heart of Racing's No. 27 Aston Martin took the pro-am GTD class win by half a second over the No. 57 Winward Racing Mercedes. CORE Autosport's No. 54 took the LMP3 class win, the only support prototype class in this weekend's race.

IMSA's GT teams head to Lime Rock Park in two weeks. The prototype programs, however do not race again until Road America in August.

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