2019 Virginia Is For Racing Lovers Grand Prix at VIR

- the [Music] [Music] [Music] 17 corners three and a quarter miles if that's not difficult enough with the rise and fall of vir adding a bit of inclement weather that doesn't seem to be able to make its mind at what it wants to do and the challenge is just times by about 10 hello everybody and welcome along to our sound and vision coverage as we go live across the world from beautiful vir Virginia International Raceway where this circuit carved out of the local countryside is bring challenging drivers from all around the world since 1957 thank goodness it came back to life after we know almost lost it in the 70s and since 2000 the infrastructure has been improved there's been investment and there's been a lot of love and care invested in this particular three and a quarter miles and indeed the estate that it sits on it's like going racing in somebody's Country Park it's absolutely beautiful and we've got a full field of cars for the Michelin Pilot Challenge which this weekend is the Virginia is for lovers Grand Prix Jeremy Shaw is alongside me at the Virginia is for lovers Grand Prix for briefly global yes I forgot about the word Racing and that's entirely entirely appropriate given what the ownership group have done here down through the last couple of decades its improvement upon improvement and the whole experience not just the racetrack here the racetracks always been great but everything around it has just been added to and added to every year we've been coming in yeah a brilliant place to go racing a great atmosphere here just it's it's picture perfect right now you know the Sun isn't out but there's just there's certainly some the prospect of maybe some drizzle later in the afternoon I was just looking at the weather forecast a few minutes ago look the radar shows that there might be some pretty precipitation toward the end of the race we should be about par for the aim Submission pilot challenge because the the closest ages are always super exciting and Jeremy we mentioned there was no qualifying yesterday because of bad weather so championship positions means that the number 37 the Audi which leads the championship is on pole position its closest competitor will start alongside it and then everyone else lines up in championship positions back to to TCR but Adam has some drama for us before we've even got to the green flag the engine light is on on car number 17 now this is a TCR car that has run several different drivers this year it's Julien van der wat and Gaby Chavez sharing the car this weekend there was a light that was flashing on the dashboard when he was out on the track they think something might be loose with in the engine compartment but this car will not see the green flag out on the racetrack they're trying to get him to push the brake to make sure and rev the engine to make sure that everything is where it should be and hopefully get him out that's a shame because cut Gaby Chavez has taken the front wheel drive TCR as if he'd been doing it for the whole of his quite illustrious career not an easy thing to get your head around but he was quickest in one of the sessions earlier he was his first session he was fastest of all absolutely amazing job that that Gary Shaw is still a junior wonderf and Irwin he's no slouch either youngster African who's potentially got a big future ahead of him as well I am sorry to you if you'd like to get into this at the booth let's see if we can take a deep breath now because it's good to get very exciting very quickly car barn OD from bitter world BMW from Motorsports in action McLaren Park Place Motorsports bright yellow Allen Brynjolfsson driven at Porsche Kim and then Murillo racing with Jeff Moore Singh in the first of the mgs Riley Motorsports sitting alongside him then corporate sports with the fantastic Ford Mustang rebel rock racing Frank appear will start the Chevrolet Camaro ice front to the start like the miss gt-r safety car here at vir has the lights out it accelerates now using the advantage of its four-wheel drive to pull into the pit lane and the field is under the control of championship leader Tyler McQuarrie the car barn number 39 car or lovely double white line up everybody's heart rate will be rising now that's a great flag and we are racing 20 minutes allenge which is the Virginia is for racing lovers Grand Prix and the pole sitter gets the first part of the job turn into the horseshoe turns one and two looks like the motorsport an action McLaren drops in the 30s it was so the front row first second then Motorsports in action then the first of the EMGs that's Jeff Moore Singh getting a different I did a decent start and moving up a position from his starting place he's up in the fourth just ahead of the brightly-colored almost pink Mustang sits there then bring the option you can't miss that vodka as it is saw yellow and I mean saw yellow he's just dropped off the leading five for the moment whew everybody's got foot through the first couple of corners we're just hearing that that ticks er car has gone behind the wall Jeremy so that's bad news for those guys come by any look but we've got a clean start and we are racing two hours on the clock already doubt the one hour and 59 minutes yeah I did that's a great shame for that pair because they were super excited about having their first taste of the car yesterday there's that McLaren of acuña whip they move it up in the early stages caliber 75 it's Paul Holton who's actually taking the starting duties here today and that car is super faster should have won really the last round at world America cooter Witt was driving the final stood there and as he was celebrating to go across the finish line hit the button to to get up to the radio to celebrate with his crew unfortunately wasn't the radio but it was a bit late speed limiter the car suddenly slowed up and there goes Frank Frank de PUE and Robin Liddell to take the win extraordinary finish to a race where the driver all of these find a lot my think finished up sixth or seventh exactly yeah an extraordinary a still worth sticking with this one to the end wherever you are at sound and vision thanks again to our colleagues up in Charlotte and NASCAR TV production team who once again providing us with outstanding pictures and making the technology work to link from Charlotte back down to here at the circuit saw Macquarie in the carpark car pulling away the bars are further down the field let's bring the option getting a wiggle on but he's got wider turn three the old NASCAR Bend sawn in because so many big names have stopped cars found the fence there some years ago so britannians Ville took forever any Austin just trying to get through that on Jeff causing he's dropped back from that good start so it's Macquarie for Audi chips cliff the Boomer world BMW number 82 then colleague Fergus for the McLaren number 69 for motorsport in action Ford Mustang Nick Stacy that brightly colored 60 cart then Geoff Morty back down to fifth in TC are the two Hyundai Veloster 's 1st and 2nd 21 from 98 that's how he got second from mark Wilkins then Brian Henderson in the Honda Civic TC art of an 84 that is the allantois speed 4x car isn't in the third position you put a great sorrow from hiragana car number 21 they're all bottled up that behind Vince bar letter in that GS class turn the most what BMW but a great shot by Aaron got psycho he and Mason Felipe's scored their first win last time out at Road America it was a great result for them they worked super hard for that BMWs got to pull away a little bit on the straights but he's gonna be eaten up I think in the corners and it said the 200s at the front there with that Atlanta speed works Honda in third place right with them yeah the Atlanta speed works very much in Michigan colors which always throws me out the blue and the yellow I was thinking that should be a different color that car the two hunters Jeremy the velocities starting to find their form now with reliability to go with the speed that we saw at the early part of the season Bryan Herta author sports being developing that car with Hyundai in customer motorsport and I think we've seen some of those out in Europe as well they share very similar underpinnings and the same underpinnings is the i30 end that Brian's team were running and he didn't want a championship with here in the States last year but that car is available as a street car in the States whereas the velociter n es so end of last season of the wind they're quite a big undertaking to effectively read body the platform or at least three shell them to give them they've Veloster look and already a little bit of damage on the left front of the number 98 car which has gone to the laid there in TCR ahead of its teammate so the 98 is the blue car the 21 is the black car and they're still trying to fight their way past it's the back of the field in gs which includes I've been piloting a car the Rob fer realz in the Audi r8 number 18 as well just ahead of them when there's an Audi leading as well at the front of the field that is the dark gray and green number 39 in the hands of Tyler McQuarrie who has James player Korey Fergus and Nate Stacey battling between themselves for 2nd 3rd and 4th position might just allow that car barn Audi to pull away a little bit a great start there by Nate States in number 64 from 7th on the grid to 4th position in the early laps and he had sheet set the fastest lap last time around 150 4.1 so look at that was lit then let the old lap record was the 150 5.16 to the old qualifying that record from last year was a 154 point one seven five which has already beat beat on the first lap at the race first line lap of the race by eight Stacy in fourth position a big mover though at the beginning of this raises a keel Rabindra the Indian from where was he on the grid 21st up inside the top as well or in drink that hose up into the top five now the number 46 mercedes-amg so he's made up some positions as well after he needed six or seven on the first lap and a half so he's doing really well gonna keep the tight keep the car and the tires under Neath him dry weather conditions at the moment and that's John Ward the race engineer for Bryan Herta orders brought John Ward a designer of various legendary cars including the Eagle turret about three back from the early 90s that dominated it was a sports car racing a really clever guy they've been around the sport ever since engineering cars or and or designing them and he is kind of the brains on the box there for Brian hood or no sport and they're running at the fact about - he first thought because up in the second place now has gone the 84 car of Brian Henderson once again having a good run no no it's not is it no that's that's show me black sock up at the third place in this ayah 37 making a second in the second place yes second place now yeah he's got through and in Ferb let me check that as a goes through yes got it the second foot in the second place and we've got the 52 that's Colin Mullen car oh oh I thought that was the leader for a moment no it's the 93 that has gone of the Audi of mark Segal and he's gone off heavily and hit the he hasn't even managed to hit the tyre wall he's hit the concrete barriers and his off at drivers right just going up to the top of the aces he looked all right to turn seven it's got the car into reverse think he's trying to get it out of harm's way is he gonna try and win it back on the track yes he is there's some bodywork damage and maybe some suspension damage there so going up the esses it's very very damp grass been a lot of rain here over the last 48 I saw I was gone up to the circuit well turn to mark and that normally very immaculate number 93 Audi and looking a little the worse for wear and just for the moment when I saw the green stripes on that car thought it was the leader but it's not Tyler McQuarrie has it continued without any issue quite a stiff thump on the rear right corner that's deranged the concrete barriers on the infield there which is there to stop cars from going all the way across and coming back on to the other side of the circuit the TCR panel has exploded and now we've got a Honda at the front of the field and that shall be Blackstock Blackstock who led the championship along with Tom or Corbin and then had two races to forget would be the really the latest we're that and go oh and now we've got the alpha off this is the number three the red car with the tan and black front end that was coming up through hog pen on to the final out of the final corner on the street and I think there was another car off there as well a little bit earlier on which was the number 12 car that's one of the Audi's in TCR Shelby black stuff just getting a great run onto the front straight to take the lead there as I said we're leading the championship for a long time and then had two races to forget is the most diplomatic way I can put that where they didn't get the green flag Canadian Tire Motorsport Park give up the late Amara and give him the leaf that championship and now they are back at the front and still the GS Turner motorsport BMW even Barletta just at the front of this field there he's pulling away on the streets but he's getting bottled he's getting them bottled up behind them and another spin from the alpha this time it turned three four and is damaged this time to the left rear of the normally immaculate number and offers horsepower to you it's one of the win Ward cars and there's another cog oriented headed all my goodness that's a big one that's the faff McLaren the 13 car and that's at the top of the hill horse oil obviously I'm seeing the blue I'm thinking that was the mark Segal car that had made a part of the pitch this is at the top of the hill for the rule of course to turn a BMW number 96 is off the hole make the TCR run is very happy for the time being if he can't get back old pits are closed and we have a full course yellow now is that just rin at the top of the hill and in fact it's at the bottom of the roller coaster that those three cars have all gone in just over the top of the brow the good news is the door to the 13 McLaren is open and the driver is getting out there's a lot of steam around that now which of the Windward cars it's a 57 car that's gone off and dad that's Brice Brice Ward and that car is very heavily damaged to the right rear they've had no look at all with damage this year what a shame I'm just wondering if there's something gone down there at that part of the circuit when mark Segal brought the Audi back to the pit lane or is it just the fact that it's rearing heavier there there are definitely spots of red around the circuit so 13 and 57 57 the Mercedes going off first and then cannoning into it the McLaren and there was another car in there as well the 57 car was running in 11th position it done a really good job he moved up from 17th on on the starting grid but that was so that was a big off for price and then following him off he was trying to get a gear and then in backwards and on exactly the same trajectory came the 13 McLaren and then Frank de PUE in the 71 Camaro a little bit further down so he didn't take quite as far around the corner yeah that's bizarre to have two cars go through it and exactly that same turn to try it off that corner right both of the drivers from I've definitely seen Bryce out of the car and definitely for Danny was out and that was it for Danny yes sorry Yaphet Arnie is out at the car or if itani is out of the car to shame he's gone what he's done well that's not just the a Chris green big incident and Bryce Wilson had Bryce Wilson a Bryce Ward is so annoyed with himself or something he was pointing back up the hill they're impossible to know how that started full-course yellow of course at the moment it looks like Frank de PUE has continued it was a really I mean unabated speed you're not gonna slow down once you're on the grass Jeremy put it was quick much quicker than the the faff car arrived yeah and then Frank de PUE turns up again a little even a little bit slower but further up the the hill for that one yeah that was but that was kind of weird I mean the number 57 car you've been in 11th place he was kind of kind of on his own I think he was right behind the number 35 of Jim Cox on that lap those two both they in Mercedes Jim Cox had fallen back from the sixth starting position Bryce Ward has made his way up from 17th and they're running 10th 11th on the previous stop and nobody was trying to get past Jim where there was any contact between those two so maybe great run to the lead by the way of TCR what the lap before by Shelby Blackstock and that was done before that full course yellow there'll be no pass around here in the early part of the race we're staying with how things stand behind the safety car once this is cleaned up pits are still closed wipers on on a lot of the cars now and remember everybody started on slick michelin racing tires so now the question will be when the pits are open what do you do there's rain in the area the drive time Jeremy here is 45 minutes if I remember rightly yeah so coming in now would mean that your driver would be in probably until the last 45 minutes this is when the race was won last year if you remember on tactics about who took what and when they came into the pit the tire barriers have really done their job but the problem with the faff McLaren and the Windward Mercedes were that they came into contact at the same part of the tire barrier having first come down the hill separately and there's quite a lot of damage now to the Mercedes yeah only some of which was caused by going off into the terabyte I think the Camaro might get back going again because that car is the least damaged of all three of them I would say so I completely agree with you there and the number 57 Mercedes that went off first he was backwards wasn't he into the tires he was fast a very quick Rayland lots when he hit the when he made that contact with the tire wall and then the car kind of bounced out of it but he was hit my brother McLaren that would have been there probably a harder yet but I swore to his dua there so the track definitely yeah is is pretty slick out there at the moment drizzle in the air Adam we're waiting well just before that really big damage at the rear corner of that AMG Mercedes and we've seen with far less damage than that cars having to be read shelled before Hinds their cars on Portland well we had a couple didn't win it Watkins Glen there's n1 of it last year seem to remember with damage I was right about the Frank de PUE there were 71 cars you know have dropped a few laps but he's good enough to carry on and we should stay outing it don't pull into the pits now Frank stay out well he'd already the back of the past where he wants to come in and check the car over it probably wouldn't be a bad idea because they got they don't have at least two three or four minutes so check it over and he's still would lose another lap but he's not going to do that he is going to stay out on the racetrack and I think you should have come in there's tire rod now on the right front I think he went in nose first so that would have pushed the body went on to the TS but not to the tire [Music] sure Adam has had to pick Paul although the pits are still closed it doesn't look very good for the number two of Tyler cooking Kenton cook pulled into the pit lane came to a stop shut the car off just turned it back on but it was stationary for about 15 seconds with the headlights off and now it's rolling once again so that's more than just missing the fact that the pits were so closed I think they just had to do a control-alt-delete everybody by he wants to get that car back round to the pits without any further issues actually it's the tiniest little bit of rub from the front wing that will that'll pry bar out I reckon he's just gonna let everybody drive by him the GS class split is occurring at the moment so that will put all of the GS class cars in front of all of the TCR cars between which to the Chevron I'm sure of the TCR cars that it just got parkford by later in the 96 car when he fell off all of the drivers got out of those cars under their own steam so without assistance so that's the best news there the metal might be bent but that will straighten or be replaced good news is that Rory for Donnie and Bryce wore a brace Ward were out of the cars I lost Frank's superiors continued to all good that side of things yeah got a feel there for a particularly for Bryce Ward I mean he's done a really really nice job to move himself up six positions in the early stage of this race and now he's been really fast he said well yeah I mean he's made he's made several mistakes no doubt about it but I mean the guy has relatively little racing experience and to be running as well as he was there on a track like this in the early stages would have been would have been really satisfying for him so whether he made a mistake whether he had a problem whether it was any contact to cause an accident we do not really know at this stage but he had been running up until very very well up until then hello to Moni Elisha heading home from Winter Park tuned in to the coverage here or in audio sure how long it would take you to get back home money but we still got an hour of 40 minutes to go so 100 minutes you might be able to catch some of the sound and vision together pits still not open and I know we're really not know we were in the first 15 minutes to the race so this will remain the pits will remain closed because this is gonna be a fairly lengthy clean up to that number 37 car very heavily damaged and well to get the record down there the flatbed out down out there already well now the problem will be getting the flatbed out of that Jeremy because that is you know that's right at the bottom of the hill it's very damp down there the may have to have something at all that out the flatbed because it is very wet and it's raining heavily now and it will be I think share Adam wet tires when they're picked to do open the question will be who will get all and stay out there for track position and who will come in well the pits shouldn't open because we were within the first little bit of the race but when they do open after the first green lap of the race I thought that's a good point you can't come in and follow the safety car in can you exactly let's do that as a PSA hey teams if you're gonna bring your car in wait until after the first green lap otherwise you're gonna get called for a drive-through penalty and that would not be good but I'm seeing a lot of wet weather tires up on the wall for championship leaders and those are the guys I tend to look at John that was a public information announcement on behalf of the pit lane you can't bring your car in straight after the following in the safety car you have to do one lap around on the green flag before the pits are open again Oh Carol brake who's out in Monterey who's just had a b-17 flyby to pass time during this yellow very nice all the a/v geeks and they are many in this product will be very will be very happy with that so we've burned 20 minutes of the race already a Tim's Andrea's your if you want to get in touch with us here's how its dance Tyler McQuarrie from Paul championship leader from second place James clear out he number 39 from BMW number 82 then the McLaren of Cory Ferg is third in the championship the 69 more is quite an action car then Ford Mustang in the McLaws pit Frank tapu now there will be able to fix the damage under emergency service rules and it only needs the pry bar well they're using an aluminium or aluminum baseball bat they've jack the car up now drop it down drop it down let's have a look see if it clears turn the wheel there changing one tire at the back the left rear oh no they're putting this they're putting it a treaded Tyrone well it would be a like to do that and emergency service right okay well they're already a couple of laps down so so we're not a drive-through penalty really would be that consequential I think at this stage so what if we can get them out without losing another lap it's gonna be when he comes around to save beyond what is right and even if he has to come in he does to do that within three laps so new said so it will not be the third win in three times behind the wheel for Frank de PUE of course it's the last twice the car is born and this is the team the Chevy logo has gone from the front of the Camaro this is the only team that's got two wins on the season in gs I think there's a bit more baseball but required on that right front fender on the underneath the wheel arch there yeah they've got a narrower crowbar under that now and the might as well tear the time to get this right meanwhile further down the pit lane everybody are everybody getting out there where the tires I'm waiting for the end of this safety car period and the green flag one green flag lap remember before they can come into the pit lane and now the pit now interestingly the pits closed light has gone off according to share Adam I wonder now this is I'm going to put something out here and I hope I'm right and if I'm not I apologize I think this is really smart really sufficient and I'll tell you why why would you force people to go up racing speeds on slick tires which aren't appropriate for the conditions and so they've opened the pit lane and therefore the GS cars will be able to come in yes pizza oven for GES pizza oven for GS now I think the safety car is going to steer out and they've opened the pits so that people can go in again I think that's a really smart piece of officiating I completely agree I'm sure we'll stay out I mean to clean up still going on down it's going to take quite a long time yet so I think that's a really great call by the officials to let them make make that decision if they want you and have to come in and put on wet weather tires if you don't know you're taking a bit of a risk in as a championship leaders I would I would I would I would say you know it might be worth coming in I mean they'll be looking at the weather that we're trying to see you what other schools are ready to come in and looked at the weather radar about 20 minutes ago it looked like the weather was so it was quite a long way away maybe the precipitation wouldn't be here till kind of closer to four o'clock until just after 235 now so knowing days it certainly come earlier than one might have anticipated so this is a a real crapshoot out there at the moment yeah Andrew barrer says the mission of pilot challenge series never fails to impress this year don't know what it is but every race has had something that's cranked the drama meter to 11 billion we've had to in fact recalibrate the drama meter our Andrew by a factor of 100 an Enka with the GS field yeah this is going to be full service it'll be a top-up on the fuel remember that it's unlikely to see anybody change the drivers because they haven't done their drive time yet Adam where are you in the pit lane I'm right smack dab in the middle because as you said the GS field comes in and all but one car comes into the pit lane it will be wet weather tires for the championship leading number 39 and the championship chasing number 82 so the Audi and the BMW both going to full wet weather tires it is five stud wheels for them but third in the championship that's the Mia McLaren they are going with what wheels as well they had flicks up on the wall but the decision has been made to go for wets now we've got some drama a little bit further up for the Aston Martin because the two cars share a pit box with two TCR cars they have not practiced pitting both cars at the same time first car back out rolling Oh intrigue learn the number 46 team t GM he also is on wet weather tires we have the 82 that's back out rolling next and then the Mia McLaren put the audit McLaren jumping up a ton of spots for compass racing in the number 75 next off the pit lane at this sick the Mustang and that our championship leaders the number 39 Tyler McQuarrie who came into the pit lane in the lead goes back out in six think actually the 75 McLaren got out ahead of the Ford Mustang 46 82-69 75 and 60 your top seven that's how I saw them commercial where's the championship leader right behind the the Mustang and that's down to eighth position in classes there came off the pit lane that's extraordinary more speed od with Rob furry all stared out of the GS there now that's interesting that's very interesting all the tick cigars will come in next time around what is he hoping it's going to actually watcher of it you know what it's it isn't reading here anymore yeah and it's going to be a little while yet before we go back to green I think they're still working on the on the table area down at turn 17 more speed car isn't in with a championship shout right they're here to get good finishes and to showcase the car if you do the same thing as everybody else does you're gonna get the same result worst thing that can happen you go couple laps and say I can't make this work will come in for mission and that's right plus if you can get to 45 minutes in race where are we now an hour 32 so almost half an hour into this race if he can stay out there for another 15 minutes or so when he comes in he could then make his driver change that side and and Spencer properly could go to the end plus the other factor gear what furry all remember he was out there earlier on today these sort of similar conditions in the Porsche gt3 Cup Challenge race he won the Gold Cup category by staying on the road whether the others around them did not so he knows kind of how the track is in these sort of conditions could be a different car of course he's in Sunday's Audi opposite situation where he was out on wet weather tires in a drying conditions dry weather tires and wet conditions still just watching a replay there number 57 car going off the road it didn't appear that was anybody around no I still really didn't see how that happened but there was three cars off in quick succession so I can only assume then that it was the damp conditions that caught everybody out came in pretty quickly still worked going on down there as Jeremy said down at the bottom of the hill out goes the number 97 Aston Martin that was last out Frank de PUE well I think get a penalty for working on the car and a clause people that's Jeremy mention these many laps down now tix yard will all come in this time one presumes and that's the one it's really or will they front-wheel drive only sort rigorously the trick tricky damp conditions it's full wet out there at the moment I would suggest so are places for a second think yes true but does it might be worth taking the gamble who's brave I would say now that the uphill towards behind us and up towards the oak tree corner is alright force leaks I would say over the top of the end of Madison out of it Avenue and out the start/finish line isn't so no one's brave what what person's brave Nick delante is brave he stayed out the number 23 as he has everyone else has come into the pit lane knows the two Hyundai TCR cars man they look a little bit better than beaten already in this race they both came in they are both doing four tire changes too wet weathers both at the La Honda world cars are going to wet weather tires as well we heard from Lee's Parrikar that they may play around look a little bit of strategy they're not ready to do that just quite yet we have both of the e euro parts out ease in as well they are both doing four tire changes and both that the alphas are doing four tire changes the Honda from Atlanta speed works they too are doing tires so every TCR car will be on wets except for the 23 very interesting we have seen though these TCR work very well in the intermediate style or the transitional editions and who is gonna be a for sure the car that has more podiums than anyone else in TCR so far this year that's the number 61 bit close greatest Alana Gavin or okay it went back to green just as he got there that made me really nervous next bullying is the number fifty-four Michael Johnson and then the 21 and 98 in that order the 12 ow d and then the 37 Honda so they've dropped back quite a few places has second in the championship so two teams should get the big gold star for the pit stops the Europe arts team for turning around governance done as quickly and he will be leading the TCR Catholic read I'd be second of course warning because Nick Nagar lucky were Bellini but also they're coming through I think in a thinking 3rd position at very worst is Owen drinkler in the 46 he was so that really turned that God he'll be fourth I think the other car that did not stop there was another two Audi that was in earlier Jordan at caution period are so he didn't so he didn't stop just now so I think the order when they come past again the referrals gonna lead then the number 21 car 23 car excuse me is in second place studies the TCR and true of nickel ante who did not stop then Tyler cook next up in the Audi that was in the pits true and of course and that hasn't stopped with everybody else and then behind that are all the pits the regular pit stoppers and the the guy that fared worse at worst out of that once again is automatic racing the number zero nine car is going to be right at the back of the pack - zero 997 were right at the back of the pack so once again were they only using one crew again yeah one car was up inside the top ten you got to prioritize that that came in ahead of the other one that should have been able to get they should have left probably left 97th car he was at the back of the pack in any case probably should have left him out to do one more lap and then come in perhaps but but otherwise just keep out of the way but that was a a costly stop for there 0:19 lack in Rabindra find himself back in the 20th position that the reset here's a question and I'm asking this genuinely because I don't know the answer we've already done the GS split before we opened the pits so do we do it again or do we restart with a TC our car in second place no final wave by there's no one in between the the safety car and the class leaders but it doesn't actually mention anything about a class split problem for the Atlanta speed Burke's car the on board jacks haven't retracted fully on the number 84 Honda the blue and yellow car and it's sparking all the way it can barely be on the ground there it's sitting up high with the tires it doesn't look quite right and the it's wearing away at the bottom of there Jack's that car will have to come back in to the pit lane now whether they just haven't retracted properly or whether they've just dropped down again or do you don't run off the sir I think you maybe he's trying to kind of dislodge them somehow and see if they'll pull faster but you know yeah maybe force him into submission yeah this is the 84 car and which was running well up and in fact it's still in ninth position for Brian Henderson yeah but he's gonna have to come into the pits there Jeremy he got as high a second or third but then felt back to fifth position before the caution came out that looks like that system needs to be charged and then released again oh where we are getting a second GS class split so that's twice in the space of this safety car so there's my question answered thank you wrist control so that makes the circulant will drop back down that new second all the way down to 22nd position [Music] remember the second-place car then Tyler cook ended and a closed pit but as far as we saw didn't have any work done on it and stop the engine restarted and drove out again so whether that attracts a penalty he did stop with his box he's pit box in the pit lane and that maybe I've seen cars coming it was fleet of last weekend that was we had on him to video there was a whole slew of races from Laguna see again from down through the years and we had the incident that actually sparked the move to what's now called emergency service was the creation of so the creation it was there Johansson and Johnnie Moreland car actually came in just seconds committed to coming in just seconds after the yellow flag was thrown for a standard pit stop with the wife they would have run out of petrol and they changed the rules after that to do the emergency pit stop but the the thing that they could have done was something in those days was sat in their pimp box and not touch the car until the pits were Roman that would have cost them even more time so that was a huge shuffle position to TCR lutely incredible number 61 car effectively comes out but effectively in the lead at least of those who made the pits on number 23 car of course did not come into the pits nickel on tow he is still on on slick tires and by the way Brian Henderson came in in the 84 Honda Civic TCR they have recharged and discharged the jack system and that has gone out without the jack standing down in spa and he's only I mean he's dropped down to 11th put he's on the tail of everybody else because he did that when the yellow flag so that's costed nothing then mere if they've had any sense they would have put some fuel in that as well and just put an extra lap of fuel in that's exactly as well yeah they got the jack to go up it actually went up a lot easier than they were expecting to so that's good and I have an answer for you on the Tyler Cooke situation because he did not do any work on the car they're letting it go it's not a penalty but he did stop in this box and when you enter a closed pit you were supposed to drive straight through to avoid a penalty but they deemed because he didn't do anything he's okay so just checking underneath the 84 car and that looks to be alright the lights are off on the Nissan GT hopefully not only for cars that there won't be another a problem its next stop as well correct that's exactly right Jeremy so restarting with the failed under the control of Rob Faria remember the only car in the field except for the Nick gallant number 23 that is still on slick tires wolf he's gone early he's gone very early did he pass the safety car in the pit lane it must have been very close but he's got a decent restart trailing him in second position is Tyler Cook now Tyler cook must be on still on slicks as well of course because they weren't allowed it to anything everybody else behind the two Audi's are on wet weather it sized out I think a 46 car I reckon of Florida's car is on slicks he's fallen right back in the back ear and I fancied that car might be on slicks they're taking a gamble if owned trigger can keep that car on the road when everybody else comes in if it drives out to put on slick tires he could be in the catbird seat here so they just fueled turned it around so quickly exactly I think so I'll buy that for a dollar and that is now confirmed to Avadi once again playing the tactical card and that remember would them the race last year born was actually in the pit lane coming in and they decided not to change tires and on drove brilliantly that day on slicks in damp conditions not quite as wet as this mind you so this is going to be a struggle for the first few laps but these michelin wet weather tires are so efficient we will get if it stops that doesn't mean any more the track will dry up very very quickly indeed I think from by the time they get around to complete this lap you know just about done worked at what's at 40 40 minutes yeah 40 minutes so we're now 38 and a half 38 and 38 minutes and 45 seconds into the race so another minute and a quarter and you're going to be good you know completely giving him a drive time and can make your pit stop the command driver change the Camaro is going to get a stop and 60 seconds for working on the car the clothespin we expected up to 71 car and the number 97 car the last and Martin will spin on jack stands so that will have to come in again that's just a drive through the years number 9 39 car making up step making up a position I think that's on the 82 BMW I think so a good restart there for Tyler McQuarrie that's the championship implications second in championship and Todd McCoy I think has made up several positions on this lap so back the green flag racing to the clowns wheel-to-wheel side-by-side the motorsport in action car trying to go around the outside of the darker colored compass racing car and does the job going into the horseshoe at turn one answer does it with some style and pulls away immediately to a great restart whereby number 39 car I wrote from 8th to third on that restart so at the front of the failed chamber Clarence Paul Holton now in the second chorus impressive in the damp session we had earlier on this week and so Jeremy that's throwing a cat amongst the pigeons as far as all of the all of the tactics is concerned I'm not really sure how all of that's going to play out now no but certainly number 46 guy he can states you just turn to kind of a regional place here he's already fallen back there's a complete lap 30 way back now into the what 13th position museum or firm that 19th position now he's already 23 seconds behind the leaders and but it's a long lap here and the track should should start drying out so within three or four laps if you're going to lose 20 seconds on lap that's around about what the Advisory you would need to make sure that the other guys making a pit stop isn't going to be an advantage so at this stage in the game I mean tricular it's got to just work work really really hard that's a sister car the team TGM entry kind of before that's javonni's to get off the road also at the extra to turn 12 with news for followers of the TCR number 17 that's the gaba chavez car share atom that car is back out from behind the wall they've just put it on wet weather tires it is now taking the start of the race effectively it was a fuel pressure pump the issue with that car off the surd they've changed it gotten it out T's they're just going to be out there for a bit of fun this afternoon now an hour 17 minutes to go mean that now in 80 minutes to go live from trackside in sound of vision across the world nor brings no blocks this is the Virginia his foot racing lover's Grand Prix [Music] TCR partners are plenty including for the number 98 that being the Hyundai Veloster moving at one thing 61 Aldi which was the governor and stolen car they would turn around very very quickly was there just a little bit of a touch between those two not all plane through turn one one zero nine car a killer abend retook the restart in the 20th position up its 11th already that's amazing the other interesting thing and hopes these conditions Disney supposedly just yeah just absolutely superb run by him and Cory Fergus Paulo who kind of struggled or was muscled around at the end of the race at Road America in the West a few weeks ago fell from the lead at a seventh place in the last 200 yards effectively or last couple of a couple couple of laps in any case he's now taking the lead of the race from Paul Holton so clearly we talked to him yesterday shared and touch him in the pit lane and he said he held held no no qualms about racing in the rain and he's showing it in these very very treacherous conditions now there is his in the lead of this race coming down to a hot pan one more time to see the completion of that 15 he's got the the other McLaren of Paul Holton writing his wheel track so as to maybe a couple of seconds ahead of Tyler McQuarrie in third position and Tyler's now etched away just a little bit from late Stacy in number 64 behind Nate Stacy is James clay and a bitter war BMW then Russell Ward doing a really nice job in carving 233 for win Ward racing and rounding out the top ten Geoff Bowes in kind of a 56 re Balog had kind of an aging for Steven Cameron rating in excuse me for Bill Ward racing in the BMW in Austin in the Porsche and Jim Cox encounter 35 rounding out the top ten that aims are weird you if you'd like to get in touch with us in TCR gots accolades for Hyundai Veloster TCR then over 21 cars worked its way back for the field that's the black car and Harry at the Mormon just six tenths of a second ahead of Gavin earn storm in second place in the number 61 machine he's gone Martin Wilkins right at me tailpipes s good this is good running from Gavin learn and very quickly amongst guys that he doesn't normally run with in fact he's just lost that second position to mark Wilkins in the 98 Castle Ernst uncle's through in third in the first of the Audi's then it's the mcdonough number 12 car then Rob furry all he's dropping down remember he's that's the 18 Audi he's still on slip tires Ted Giovanna Singh the number four car coming in and that's because he's tarnished 45 minutes you saw that they set now gonna be a change of driver and guy caused more to the end as we got to McClaren's battling at the top of the circuit at the south end 75 and the number 69 the motorsport in action car and the compass cot and that's for the lead of the race ya know we saw these two battling at Road America and the closing stages there now these are both MacLaren's one would wonder where the compass racing would try and help the number 16 icon that compass racing that number 75 they won the first race of the season at Daytona but struggled since then they've fallen way back in the points but number 69 mi a team is right there up in the championship and stakes right now coming into here in third position and only 13-point to be behind overall championship leaders you would think they might want to help him they certainly didn't at Road America and it looked like it's not going into here either fact the PIO is really struggling I'm not sure the front end of that that's number 71 kymaro has got both words pointing and quite the right direction there if I'm honest Ted giovanna's did come in I'm just watching this part of the first second of 3rd at the moment she'll will come to you in a moment because I think we've just seen something significant down there which I'll get you to report on in a sec down into turn one it is the two MacLaren's at just going round and also the carbon car in third position the audi is going round what was the Ted giovanna's car now that of course is guy Cosmo in that car he'll go to the end from here on slick tires and indeed it has stopped raining hard on the pit lane a very light drizzle not even enough for the umbrella hat though well Cher's umbrella hat is off that is always a good sign so how quickly will this Virginia International Raceway track dry off Virginia is for racing lovers Grand Prix two hours were on the clock for the intermission of pilot challenge got an hour and 13 still to go beat crash that has taken out the number 13 McLaren now officially retired I think we can see in the 57 windward mercedes-amg GT 4 is gone as well and at the moment it's the two MacLaren's at the front of the field chased by the championship leader 69 75392 the few spits and spots on the southern end of the circuit a tall tree big gap back from Tyler McQuarrie to Nate Stacey who's the first of the front engined cars in 4th position the number 60 Mustang but he's a hit not for three seconds back from the leading trio yeah true all together now there were a couple of seconds apart on the last lap but because for that slow lap but to 11 it was last time around for Cory Fergus we know that the top three well the word knows to tell so where Cory focuses and we look at this picture coming around into his big roller coaster yeah Cory's foot pulled away a little bit so I wonder now whether Paul hot is trying to help Cory focus just a little bit meanwhile had softer Rob ferry or number 18 he stood 49 seconds behind the leader having not made a piss on his guy Cosmo goes off the road on his outside slick tires fly never up brought foreal still on on slick tires and he's well ahead interestingly although in drinkler 46 car who changed to slick tires yeah no you stayed on slick tire so he still has thick ties yes I'm sorry you're absolutely right but he did come into the pits I think Owens problem was he got passed by a whole lot of TCR cars off the start who were on wets and he hasn't been able to make that ground back as yet his lap time last time around a to 19 to 10 by the leader with Corey Ferguson it class of he's old at the moment as far as lap times are concerned as McLaren Cooper's McLaren 75 dark gray and rate another dark grid car behind him is the car barn OD the 39 car with the green flashes on them it's internecine battling for the two plum days and the 21 car goes back to the lead got Sacre head of Wilkins Gavin hood still hanging on don't start out the inside corner for the lead Gavin coming from a long way back does he get it stopped yes he does smashing mouth cough he's just take the late back that was absolutely awesome nor where near the kind of racing experience of the guys around him and Ernst on for Audi leads well-done calf that was a super super move new leader in TCR and earned leader as well as earn still goes back to the front of the field meantime who did I see coming into the pit lien was it the 60 car norm it was the 40 Mustang it was the other Mustang it was the pet car passing in the pit lid now yeah the pink for the PF racing Pesek family team you'll be seeing as they come to Jay Buford stakes are what's going on that car did you say she no I didn't I'm down by the Hyundai team but but I would have match and they would have got a slug second walk down I'll find out thank you she look at the lap times rook furry or last time happens to two minutes 16 he's on slicks we know the leader did a 210 the number 46 car I vote Rick they did a to meets 17 so still it would appear wet weather tires are still a little bit quicker at this stage share just seeing the Rick Reed on the pit lane is that mosquito a motorcycle real it's just in your head and bothering you still went out in the circuit in places that was the part for the TCR ladies part on again with Wilkins in the Hyundai number 98 muscling his way back to the lead Gavin Ernst oh he's doing a Rocky job holding on to these guys drops back in the second but he was super late on the bricks going down into turn one but no disrespect the cafe is here but it might be worth just sticking your head into the 61 pit making sure that he's still got there and John didn't jump into it but I did see them change drivers at the pit stop if I'm honest and they were very quick on the pit stop well if they did there were before the 40 year 40 exactly so they'd have to put back in again at the end to in the quickest car on a track on this lap was Acula Rabindra in the aston martin forward about a racing car number zero nine up into eighth position he took the restart my chart he was in a restart xx yourself excited top there they game so despite a horrendous pit stop a keel Rabindra is absolutely flying these now about three and a half seconds behind Russell Ward it kind of a 33 who's at next car in his sights last time around he was five at second to faster and the PF mustang went back out on wet tires wet tires put butt on that car [Music] wimba dressings of the car with Russell walk behind the wheel went for a little ride got some grass on the grill he's keeping an eye on the temperature he'll be swapping with indeed on she shortly is what the team are telling us by their social media accounts TC our leader might work instead o and shrink her last lap around caliber 46 is way down in 24th position now a 17th in GS was a to bits 13 to the race leader Cory Fergus to his 10 two point nine point nine now as Cory comes across the line - Cory Fergus - complete lap 19 in the a in the that six second spot an action that's six seconds quicker than he was going to laps ago or so he did a jail he was doing two one it was - - at 19's wasn't he so he's getting quicker and quicker but will it be enough the Ford Mustang now of mates daysius closed right up on that battle for what it's now second place Paul halting and McLaren as they head into turn four and five Paul Holt is under increasing pressure from the championship need to tell him a quarry but late Stacy windscreen wipers ablaze he's will act with those two as well that's a really good battle there's a big gap back to Jeff posing in car number 56 who is struggling to hold off James clay and a can rabindra we've got past Russell warding off the track so that was part of that battle definite dryer line up through the esses now by no means full dry as they head into the southern end of the circuit in the oak tree corner that's very greasy horrid yuck out there but definitely a dry line and the Mustang making the best of that I would say at the moment as the cars partly for second third and fourth fan out across the track for a moment we had three across the track there the two mid-engine cars leaving enough space down the middle for the Mustang if we can get through Paul Holton Tyler McQuarrie and then Nate Stacy now didnít put on wet tires at the stop yes you did so they're all on wet tires who did we think we left Rob furry on driver the taste is lap time last time up to 12 against now a night so it's stuck it's getting taller it's getting closer it's getting close liqui lat left his tires on as well of course tell you what what barrows laughing quicker than Owen trailer yeah that's no big feat that really isn't something goodness sake whoops first ever race in this car you know to track fairly well he's only been racing for a couple of years now in TCR we've got Nick gallant who kept his slicks on now lapping at the same speed as the leader mark Wilkins brought down in the two twelves in fact in fact they think he was a little quicker last time around on the slick snica lot yes he was oh poor down again no not to 12 again 2 to 13 to 12 yeah it's crush all the time for TCR it's across all the time for TCR not quite there but getting close for the 2s car 206 that time for a kill Rabindra in after-market caliber zero nice are on wets weights right and the race leader 208 point 7 the second third and fourth place cars all into 207's 287 for leader Cory Fergus 207's for 2nd 3rd 4th Costner's ving Barletta off the road hit the pit lane VIN he's come through though he's gonna and hit the barriers quite hard in that what is normally an immaculate to Turner BMW my guess is he went a little bit wide and then swimming across the track right in front of the TCR leader and clout at the inside barriers to drive his right really hard with the actually the left front of that kind almost gone all the way around there that's going to take that car out of any hope of a decent finish Rob ferry all 208 that lap as well though the crossover point is definitely here you want to be on on dry weather tars from here on and how far can you go on fuel Jeremy that's the question can you do an hour on fuel 15 85 minutes for the 50s for the GS car so they need to stay out a little bit longer if they can it was a pretty lengthy caution period but this is a fascinating race at this stage lots yet to play out 20 laps completed coming up for an hour 57 minutes we wanted three white could be down the front straight as we've got the battling Mustang and McLaren and that is a battle for position the 60 in the 75 across the line they were putting a lap on one of the TCR cars and the championship leaders behind both of them so must act now cause up in the second place Ford Mustang its dissing second place across the line from Portland Tyler McQuarrie the championship leader now down to fourth position the twenty second gap mines back from those four - James click and all of a sudden these cars are a lot closer to quarry Fergus Nate Stacy there is freaky - that was a great last lap for him it mature 6.54 Nate Stacy it's same time that time is owen trinka finally getting up to speed now he's down in 21st position in car number 46 right turn lover on the twitter at Ames Aurelio says his ocular bender from a part of India where it rarely rains therefore he doesn't know that it's supposed to slow you down he studied in Edinburgh and he's been racing in the UK RTL so trust me he knows all about how to drive in adverse conditions it's really tough out there now for the drivers because you've got the situation where this barely any water being thrown up from the tires and the wind screens are filthy absolutely filthy indeed on she jumps in to the remaining win Ward AMG GT four and that will see a set of slick tyres it's gotta be slick tires at this point and it is for the 33 mobile wonka yeah the question is can they get to it if it stays screen all the way can they do the remainder this race it's more than an hour it's gonna be a pretty tall order I think but if there's a full course caution they'll certainly be looking at very very good tell you what the mission and wets that have come off that guys in remarkably good condition so indeed unsure then north all about these Mercedes good driver for feel as well how will he go in that great silver and red mobile Warren sponsored EMG GT GT for out onto the circuit he's just lost the lead luck just lost the lead lap as the leader went through that yeah and that's why the decision where are the to see alleys heaping up the other side of the racetrack TCR leaders are just in the second sector now right so they have yet been lapped are they so the number 46 I just got on the last I'm actually own trinket got himself a head of the TCR car so that gamble by staying out as kind of played Leigh's favor except the fact you still got to make a full pit stop from here yeah but he'll appeal gore he what he'll do is he'll call for another 15 minutes Warren knee I suppose was everybody will at this point just hearing from the officials and it's good news nasty-looking incident that brought out the full course caution re for Donnie and Brice Ward had been evaluated and released from the circuit Medical Center as in to the pit lane comes the Audi of gabon and storm he's been doing a brilliant job Adam he's down at Europe odds he has done his job perfectly well and now it's up to John morally it will be stuff tires for John as they do go to slicks the number eight is off the circuit at the final term but trying to get things going again as Rodriguez Alice as the team the same team continues to service their TCR cars broken left front splitter for Governors zone when he brought this Brian and also I heard the words we're down a cylinder being talked to for John Marley so he is has a car underneath them that's not in perfect health but that will still be enough for them to try and go to get their first win of the year they've stood on every other step of the podium just not the top one and Gavin ern stone gets back over the wall behind them is the number 12 that is the sister car Ryan Nash and Russell McDonald sharing that and that car also taken off the wet sand going to slicks they should be good to the end they said that they're expecting at least one more caution before this thing wraps up and away goes the number three on the side let's see where they cycle back out when it's all said and done TCR cars could definitely go to the end from here they could do an hour no problem at all GS so I think that's a very marginal at best so they will try and they'll stay out here for a probably another five minutes or so if they can before they make the stops and they're turning good lap times now but look at I gap between first and second it's definitely closing down Nate Stacy a brilliant job in that car number 64 core for core Motorsports and a Ford Mustang in second place and he's gone the legs at the moment at Lisa Paul Holton in third Tyler McQuarrie well he's not far behind either they're in fourth position in the Audi the championship either kind of a 39 and as the pit stops are now starting the one-and-only pit stops for the TCR smart Wilkins he's drifting that light blue and red Hyundai Veloster wonder how long he'll stay out before he peels off into the pit lane he's not coming in this time I don't think it steers all the way over to the left-hand side of the track 57 and a half minutes still to go his teammate got sucker in second place Shelby Blackstock into third position as the ah got SATA peeled off Adam you've got the black Hyundai I was just about to say where's hairy gone there because I saw him coming down the hill but he's peeled off and comes into the pit lid he decided to visit his crew and to stay here for a little while giving Mason felici an opportunity to drive this is the car that won the last race the race before that they got their first podium of the season so they are really on a roll they are doing four tires putting on slicks as well those two scuffed rubber for the Hyundai so the number 21 getting a full service just waiting on the fuel at this point as it continues to pour in and now comes back up the fuel line so that is a fully full tank driver change so going on as is the right-side tire change so this looks like a pretty well-executed stop for Brian heard his boys and girls and slick tires presumably on that yes she did say that a killer rependa now up the seventh is doing exactly what he did yeah Adson Road America oh he just lost her position on the last lap around number 56 Mercedes at Jeff posing so but Mosley is now fully up to speed all the quick guys now are on low two minutes except the quickest car and track is now Owen trailer in caliber 46 the first guy sits the rain came to go subber two minutes but the fastest car on the track is guy Cosmo down in 21st one minute fifty six point nine four guy Cosmo he went on the slicks very very early remember that was just 45 minutes into the race he will have to stop again Adam we have had the win with number 33 car back into the pit lane without a problem at the pit stop well sort of it was speeding in the pit lane exit one-click over but even if you're over you're over so they had to come back in and serve a drive-through we're waiting on the 98 the Hyundai that's leaning the way Mark Wilkins driving it right now Mike Lewis getting back into it and they to have some scuffed no those are actually stickers on the slick tires and now that car comes into the pit lane and right behind them the next pit box back is the Boomer world number 82 will be coming in here shortly and they too will be getting sticker michelin tires so it's that point of time where people are getting really brave oh and also it is the number 52 and the 37 La Honda world cars they are pitting together both cars are going on - brand new Michelin tires and both cars full service meaning that Tommy Gorman takes over the 37 and max Parker winner last year in the st Cory is taking over for Colin Mullen in the 52 and then the head of the failed the top three are together coming down the roller-coaster throw sixteen and down into the hog pen at turned 70 and this is very interesting indeed who plates first from the latest 54 minutes to go so they can only go about another 10 minutes and remember we have seen people being excluded for drive time violations by just seconds so they need to make sure that this worked right top 4 make that the top 4 now pretty much together could be down into the horseshoe with the number 69 motorsport in action McLaren Cory Fergus leading by less than a half a second over leach dissing he's putting the pun on the move over the last five or six laps in the number 60 the bright pink Mustang with the black rear end on that car then the first of the two gray cars is the number 75 that's got the orange on at Paul Holton and that's the McLaren GT for of cuntmas racing behind that the championship leader is just a little bit further back and his guy gospel and lapping himself from the leaders in the number 40 G Vilas mortis vodka he is downing at 17th position and the a lap off the leads now is he just one lap off the lead yes yes okay and I can revenger by the way it's moving stuff up into the fifth position now I got past both James clay and oh and Jeff posing the last couple of laps before 27 seconds behind a leading quartet who are pretty much nose-to-tail no 39 card just back a second or so but it's pretty close certainly and you can see now Nate Stacy trying to get to the damper part of Madison Avenue the maid backstroke coming up toward the roller-coaster just trick trying to keep those wet weather tires as cool as he possibly can there's no real wetness out there now there's certain it's a dampness the track there will be a little bit cooler that will help the Michelin tires yes it will it's off again no to rock ferry all he's about nine seconds behind that before t6 carbo in shrink ler Road for making his debut in the Michelin Pilot challenge own truth the most experienced driver in the series history this is Owens 157 start rock fell in his first he's only nine seconds behind him it's a very very impressive effort for Rob ferial who's yet to make his pit stop in at night's positioning caliber 18 for the for speed a bt yeah that's worth saying that that cars on the the ties it started on here comes guy cosmo on the race leader and blazes past him remember he's on slick ties that he's got to temperature and pressure and guys last lap around was a 159 nine against a two or two six from the leader he's not the only man in under 2-minutes Owen trailer has got past robbery all as Jeremy says he did a 57 for last time around now a 56 one for trig blur as he's trying to chase down Jeff more ting it's not going to take him very long because he's taking five seconds a lap out of him but he's took ten seconds a lap after him out there of last time around and who's just gone quit indeed on she's just on a fifty five six don't she with a 55 six on you slick tires so these guys at the front of the field TR they're going to have to be careful because they are going to find that all of that lead that they are built up is going to disappear very quickly you're taking six and seven seconds a lap out to people Jeremy all those big leads are gonna disappear very quickly indeed yeah but all of these leaders have 51 minutes remaining in this race we're getting close now to window where they can make it to the end the interesting thing of course is another 46 car that came in and took on some fuel way back on lap nine so a long time ago now it's going to be wrong this is important leader in TCR at the moment James Vance the Audi number 23 penalty for wheel rotation whilst on the jack stands and here's another penalty from the pit stops as well this time for the number 52 pit lane speed violation akin that was just one over for the number 52 machine so that's bad luck for them but that's why you have a pit lane speed limit now the idea is to stop you from doing that always best to set in a little bit law as well normal sense in being close to the limit sir battle for the lead at the moment going through nascar bend at turn three he comes near tier see it's mclaren versus mustang would seem a fairly unequal fight but their gt3 GT for regulations allowing vastly different cars to run very similar lap times balance and performance often described as it fairly dirty words except of letters but it's working well here for two very different cars the spelt british mclaren against the bluff muscle of Detroit iron the talkingest Hawk British cars I can repeat Drake must about off one the BB is lots lost a lot of ground who maintain a position if that was ended up to swell up to fifth place he's now down to two eight and got quite a lot of work to do again now and number 46 Oh in trickler he's the first of the cars that don't slick tars he's up at the sixth position at about 36 seconds behind the leaders but catching ways about to pass if he hasn't already the number 82 cars came to play four minutes before starting drivers have to come in at the PISA 40 to 45 or 40 minutes Jeremy for to drive still in 40 minutes alright in close right 8 8 minutes then for the leading drivers before they have to film in to give their drivers the right amount of time Li this times last time out to the two or three for Corey Ferguson it's dear she still just a little bit quicker but a 159 7 for Tyler cook into the pits for Tyler McQuarrie championship leader coming in we'll keep an eye on that with Cher Adam who's down in the pit lane really patiently for an interview but the battle for the lead just won't let up at the moment down into turn four sits the opportunity for the Mustang almost a touch as they go through to turn three meantime Tyler McQuarrie is out of the car at the 39 ow deep it's let's go down to out of it Mick Vontae got called for it drive through with wheels spinning on the jack you were the first one to say that's your fault you didn't put it in park but we're gonna move on to something a little bit happier you were one of two cars to stay out there on slicks in the wet conditions he said that was fun that was fun towards the end of course you know whenever you make that decision you're biting your nails through the glove for the first couple laps when it is wet as soon as it starts to dry you know you're praising your team for the best call they've ever made Chris Valley and Dillon they made a great call and you know I'm just happy to be out here representing the Alzheimer's charity then we have going the race in the end Alzheimer's and to do a good Drive like I just did hopefully that penalty won't bother us too much you know I know my wife's watching at home and thinking of her most of all I hope to hope to bring home a trophy here I've never won here at vir and I love this track so much and I love him so so much so so thanks for being part of it good luck the rest of the way Thank You Shane so that leads it in TCR number 61 that dragon racing to create pit stops for them Jeremy and when everybody came in after the end of that turf in that full course caution they turned Gavin around brilliantly and I've got to see it Gavin stood his partner tier because he was racing with the hyundai's and doing a great job here's the leader he's first in second into the pit lane McLaren and Mustang does the Paul Holton car come in as well yes he does top three into the pit lane does Jeff Moore's incoming in the 56 AMG or we're luck allow and will not allow to Tyler cook to go through Adam watching the top two who are put together they are hurry they're separated by almost nothing as a matter of fact it is a solid wheel nut in the middle for the McLaren so one gun over the wall they're putting on Quora slick tires it's a traditional five stunt for these 60 my Mustang that is a driver change as well that is now Kalmar Sulley taking over from Nate Stacy at the compass racing McLaren again another senator locking wheel nut that's kudo Whitmer taking over to bring this one home and he's not allowed to touch the radio button at the end of the race I've already checked with Carl Thompson and so we don't first card add the Flipboard come back up isn't it for 69 Motorsports in action but it's slow to lead and as it leaves it gos pulls out in front of the number 60 Mustang the junior separated by nothing I really hope the Marcel II does not have one mile an hour more on his fake pit lane speed limiter otherwise he's gonna be the chump of that McLaren there's a lot of mud on the front of the compass McLaren as well as Zack gets rolling and the 56 did come in so that will be Eric Foss taking it back out for new tires and a new driver and a lot of fuel for that car and there's a pit board down for team TGM but I'll have to wait and see which one it is because go to your and the 46 and this is the battle between the two Canadians Jesse Lazar and to Carl Barks early number 69 and the 60 great pit stops by both of those two teams and it will be four guy Cosmo coming in for a splash to get him to the finish he was in around about 45 minutes ago no less than that of course we won't need a full tank of fuel and so the leader then it'll just be fuel for guy Cosmo who's back on the lead lap remember now Patek stay on the lead lap with just this short pit stop 96th car has been retired we're hearing from their team so again Turner motorsport I mean that was a big incident early on with my letter no real surprise there we already know that the Hwa McLaren is out of action for re for Donnie and Brice Ward for Winwood racing an HTTP motorsport not seen that car coming back either of course after that accident earlier on so did Tim Robert go through and get the lead no I do think did when the top three came in so Hugh plums now aboard 46 did uncle Rabindra pit in the end yes he did he was it on the previous up a lot with her at wrinkler and the other race number 79 card a baby 246 and 0 diamonds came in on the same lap so it's still showing the second Rabindra and the wheel of caliber 0 9 but I think that must be they forgot to make the to change the driver plug and I can't short across can't Ross too excited yeah at the wheel of that car now and Ross is about 9 seconds behind trip Hinman in can't my servant so he's gonna he's not gonna be an easy guy to you a can should get past it to complete lap 30 now that the guys that have made their pit stops number 69 car still leads that is Jesse Lazar here Carl Paulson is writing his wheel tracks and then the big gap back to Carl Whitman in car number us a 75 and then Jeff Westfall in the number 39 car yeah and just for those following along that's McLaren number 69 Mustang number 60 McLaren number 75 and Audi r8 number 39 and watch Jeff Westfall because he's putting some very decent times in at the moment and trying to close down those leaders it was a very quick pit stop by the number 46 car that and just needed their fuel so Hugh plant was rejoined in the fish if you've got into that car yeah new problems rejoined hit the fifth position right behind a Jeff westerland's a big gap back to the number 33 they've not changed the tire since the start of the race they aren't running the Michelin's that they started on ok in that race so that was a pit stop that was entirely decided by how much fuel had to go into that car and Hugh and all in how to do the driver change in that time mate I'm leading in TCR Jamali for a year apart doing a cracking job in that dark road colored early with the red accents the 61 car is heading of the s is at the moment that TCR rs3 by Audi now Ross gun now with his name alongside the Aston Martin immediately puts in the fastest first sector of the race and that's where he was super strong in the early running in the free practice sessions he is little bit back down the field now in tenth position but watch that car go because I think Ross is going to have a bit of fun in the night last 41 minutes and he has got what was he got let me see cut back to the next car is about three seconds to Eric Foss movement marilla crazy it's just past her at for the last week then because he was behind him on the last lap okay Oh week's light side the 82 car yeah as David Jones hit these weak nerves over at the position locked it up going into turn one the horseshoe Jeremy and hit the kerb on the inside to avoid contact with Indy that wasn't with Indy actually it was I think with the yeah was with the bright yellow Park Place Cayman she's got Trent Hinman behind the whale ah dudes Trent knit by him there there was definitely big avoidance at the orders that came across the line about the 33 82 events ever so I think maybe - yeah it's dropped behind Trenton hitman sir yeah top of the curb with a race nope I got it yeah 5308 oh three eight new lap record oh yes oh oh yes says Jeremy rather inevitably well done so now let's see how far that automatic asked Martin can get for that for the front of the field the battle is still Jesse listen Kyle Miceli the two Canadians Keenan Whitmer in third position the 75 car in the with the Canadian team behind it as well of course the gt4 from compass racing so there's a strong north of the border feel to the front three cars clearly what happens here when you wear your umbrella hat with the mere belief on it and faff on poverty TV certainly is roskam doing even quicker down in tenth position still to get past Eric Foss thought as he is under three seconds behind him now but lapping a couple of seconds a lap quicker dangling from the left-hand side of the car Mustang just be a piece of tape or something and your door seal sitting underneath the left-hand side door yeah maybe something like that John Morley with a 8 second lead in TCR running 12th overall he'll go to the end from here James Vance in the similar car in second position that's the number 23 Honda is the fast MD racing the niccola started yeah that car service penalty though has served a long time ago yeah so yeah really really good run by those guys a great opening stint it was by yet by nickel ante so the was contact the turn Warren between the BMW number 82 of Devon Jones and Trent Hinman in the seven it's been reviewed noir action required by the risk control as the lead is come back down through the final corner and this is the closest the Mustang has been to the very slim form of the McLaren McLaren just ages out maybe a cars lengthen they're coming up to traffic in the shape of the number 9800 which has really dropped away it down in the seventh position now that car the leaders stream through the night it was off course at 17 tells me a couple of three laps ago so that's where that car lost some time inside 37 minutes now to go and the question will be now Jeremy who out of the GS teams can go to the end last pit stops for the three leaders at lap 30 we did have some people who stopped stopped much earlier than that including Hugh plum at lap 24 can he go all the way to the end will they have to be a splash for that number 46 championship defending car last season's teams and driver champion sir AMG from tech giovanna's motorsport so Ross grant has made he's found his way past to Eric Foss on that lap be to the one-minute 52.8 the race leader went fifty-four point four one fifty two seven in was his best lap so he's right on lap record pace there Jeremy and getting the best out of the JT for now he's a lap going on the number 65 AMG that's in the hands of just going piscatella at the moment by the leader and he blocks him out coming down the hill and that's giving a chance for the Mustang goes up side-by-side that's a touch think there was a touch between the two leaders there right front of the most active left rear of the McLaren if not the McLaren must have ridden off the curb because it certainly did a very very interesting maneuver coming down the hill good at Ronettes pond the Audi r8 over its turn five going up the hill but continued how anybody can see anything out of the window of the 39 Jeff Westfall then it wiped the window on the driver's side but all of today's made it worse as we already knew that Jeff had superhuman powers I didn't realize it was x-ray vision right now but he's you're doing exactly what it needs to do running in the fourth position fall back a little bit from the third most car car Witmer we still got about three seconds in hand over hue climbing up the 46 car attorney brief similar lap times actually last time around Jeff was considerably quicker to the 1539 actually it's pretty pretty stout effort by Jeff West one that was third 39 Audi happy hi Gibbs a lot gap but back to 16 seconds back to it number 33 car of indeed doctor he's been pursued heartily by the trent hitmen in cannabis 7 and then looping close behind it or a couple seconds back back is David Jones the second place of the championship kind of 82 and then that McVeigh Aston Martin of Ross gun Ross gun absolutely brilliant a store film top good very good we'll use that that would be the headline leave is still in traffic as we headed in the last 35 minutes still the leaders parting it out 65 Gaston with them there and staying in between them good half a lap it's the EMG right orange now what's happening in TCR when I tell you John Morley asset sales well the gaps they've said about the same for the last yeah put some GS cars between all the GS cars coming back exactly what's up I guess number 35 car David Dillard Moreau excuse me always going to do that that yokes delivery it can't the 35 and the bikes Keaney caliber 80 at guy cosmetic Carter before of all the upside between the two TCR leaders [Music] at the moment second place car number 60 of Kyle Marcel II being rather frustrated by that number 65 AMG GT in front I'm a lap down to the leader but that is pitting Pearce it's just a biscuit L is keeping pace with the lay them but he's rather holding up second place at the moment mark Wilkin having it no it's not mark welcome now in the 98 is it no it is his teammate in turned that car over so that's it Mike Louis he's behind the wheel did go off at 17 a few laps ago she told me that who you had slide through the gap the grass but kept his foot lead and eventually the spinning front wheels pull you straight and front-wheel drive car don't always have as much room as you have here vir for that to happen but there's a lot of room here and he did very well indeed Michael Hetherington says the Ford and McLaren I saw Klaus I think they'll be announcing they're expecting a beer before the end of this race I like it Mickey head very good and finally the pass is made on Justin piscatella but that's been a frustrating cooked off three laps Kalmar celli he was a guy lost out most air because just as I was able to get by bastard a few corners before pull out just a little bit of her breathing says space means can't be much more than a second but there's a lot more these had for the last well half dozen lateral since the bit sorta Kamath literally nose-to-tail almost touching and as less than a second between them now with just over a half an hour remaining in this fascinating motor race fastest laps of their race with Kunal Whitman in McLaren number 75 in third Jeff Westfall for Audi number 39 in fourth and for Hugh Norfolk a lead on chi in the 33 car which is now up to despite having to come back in and serve a penalty of the sixth position for the 33 car that's the Mercedes AMG well has it so yes yeah mustard yeah I said it they'd been in through the pit Lee and it was pitting then it was pit lane speeding that was some time ago so Don she's carving his way back through the field d'leh Marie as well in the Mercedes number 35 also doing their fastest lap so things as the cars are lightening up using their fewer Lords it's all beginning to get exciting half an hour on the nose to go charity enter don't make the headlines for this one quite yet drop morally though is done just an excellent job takeover Gavin stood so the brilliant first hit bike a brilliance and John Paul II now he's been out of this sport for so many years he was a front-runner in the barber Dodge Pro Sue's let's go back in the early early 2000s since then he's been making a career for himself as a driver coach very accomplished one as well you got hooked up the Gavin turn sorry Gavin liked him so much it gave me opportunity to drive alongside him they've had a bunch of podium finishes this year in the TCR this disappearing coming into this weekend they've been on the podium a four times in the last five races so they're coming on strong and they've been knocking on that door and today they're well out in front the championship leader in TCR well that remains but number eight the 98 car but still back in the seventh place in the class and a long long way behind dirt we aren't anybody else I think next day ahead of it would be Tom O'Gorman in sixth place the gap between them who's coming across the line it's it's a lot whoops and that's so happy behind it that goes across the grass is that a second off I think it is if the 98 under spinning not while actually sliding pylons beneath were taking the long way back on the circuit has remarkably little brass debris I think everybody else is cleared of all the cooking's to be honest back pointing in the right direction now although mikonos has dropped out a seventh position yes so that was a second off just not enough hate I would expect there in the rear tires that's what's going on there for that guy's committing massively to throwing the car in the front wants to go but the back ends just sliding yeah so he's looking down from the turn seven camera to turn five so things are warming up out there expect some fast laps here yep the Gavin battle the front remains as intense as ever just two tenths of a second across the line to complete that 37 the gap back to third position that's hakuna Ripper in McLaren and stayed stable around about nine seconds but two behind here Jeff Wes was closed in now we got a battle for third fourth between number 7,500 of a 39 car about eight seconds further back from him is Hugh plum who's falling back from that 2/3 fourth place battle indeed option meanwhile just ten seconds behind last time around he's been closing in by balls in the second a lap in that number 33 car came out chipped up to 46 and bringing strength Inman with him behind them those two is Ross garden who's the fastest car on the track you can't be zeroed on the automatic racing Aston you just rub your hands together anyway we just went to yellow for debris on the front straight which means that Cunha Webber has to catch up to the front - and then get around him you've been enjoying watching him do his thing yeah you know he's doing a really great job actually on the under that first caution we got a DSC fault so we have no traction control so we were struggling a little off the corner in the wet and once it dried up really really good cars the setups really money so Kunekune O'Donnell said it work I didn't practice at all that was my first time in the car since like five laps on Thursday yeah the raining yesterday kind of kind of messed up our plans a little bit so learning out there was a lot of fun you know actually all the guys Cory and and Nate both were racing super great super clean even the guys on slicks on that restart did a really good job to kind of stay out of the way well I don't think anyone in the paddock would be upset to see a compass win after the last week of Road America fingers crossed for you thank you very much well the debris on the front straight a think coming from was that the Audi number eight that was going through I think it was good at Jeanette's car and dented to Alan Prosser who is dig out the frame grub which I have to see I didn't see at the time when the leaders were coming to put a lap on the number 65 mercedes-amg now that had the leading mclaren half on the grass going down the far side of the circuit so that was very close for Jesse Lazar there as he was putting a lap on the 65 course or no wonder clean and Whitmer behind that car Miceli rather behind was a little circumspect having just seen that happen ahead second full course yellow now anybody who's got any worries about fuel and this is really good news this will help the 46 car who was one of the first cars to pit the 46 car came in along with it made that second stop remember it came in a lot with everybody else with with around about 45 minutes to go so though all the leaders ought the same strategy now who came in on I was indeed on she hears on lap 24 yes yeah that was his dance responses I threw that 21 I was reading like so I think yeah I can't see how he could possibly get to the end even with a lengthy caution period but to Trent him and he's got a very very fast car that number seven volt racing park place Motorsports Porsche 718 Cayman gt4 clubsport he's been running really really nicely in the wheel tracks Aditya Dodger as both of them had been closing on Hugh plant before this course repaired and then the fastest car on a track Ross gun in eighth position in 2:09 we've got a potential constancy to affect now because of course everybody's going to close up now and this is going to be a very hectic what maybe 20 minutes watch out for the Aston Martin Ross gun he will be very very quick indeed on the restart so who needs fuel at the end maybe the remaining Winwood car Adam no maybe about it there up on the wall for the 33 so when the pit lane opens which because this is a short yellow will not be until after the first screen lap guys there's a warning he will be coming in oh I didn't say that they should been called a short yellow my apologies they have done aware inside the final okay sorry yes yeah it's about 27 minutes to go there have done a pass around now that's ongoing at the moment yes and for those of you who not familiar with this form of racing a passer I mean any cars on the track between the safety car and the class leader this is really only apply to TCR because the safety car would have picked up the overall and GS class leader that being Carnival 69 so any cars in between the safety car and the TCR leader will be able to cycler now saw one of the alphas getting a run around yeah things to carry it 7-3 kind he is now but he is on the lead actually he's still with the TCR leaders so we're gonna have nine cars in TCR in order sixty one twenty three twenty one twelve 54:37 ninety eight and the two alphas five and three wall nose to tail when we get ready for the restart class split now going on going at the moment so all the GS cars will cycle ahead of the TCR so now having put that alpha back where it goes now all the GS cars that are behind the TCR leanness John Morley and James Vance they will go through including kentley cook in the number two Audi worked little word for Kenton has been driving really well that set out he not perhaps showing the Pierce that they would like out of that car VT Eurosport we've got to give a shout out ken I think he's doing some of express driving I've seen and he's won championships and not maybe maybe worth having a chat with him about this on air sometime before the end of the season I'm not sure he's driven any better than he's doing now even when he's won championship well entirely cook as well to be fair I don't think a great team yeah much luck this she's on a dog but they're totally truthful well they're still in lead lap now so even with the shout as his great layer fouché in Carrboro 88 he's at the back of the pack in 16th position but all those top 60 GS cars are on the lead lap so Jeremy 23 managed to do I was gonna say to you the Jeff Westfall he can't the 39 the Audi he must have snuck past the McLaren kind of a 75 he likes before yes the caution period came out so there's a couple of cars that are a lap down to the GS leaders there's probably just in piscatella I'll watch out come over 65 and maybe Jay Buford as well I can't have in that lead pack of cars but the order overall 6960 39 the Audi the green a black car in third position then McLaren 75 at 46 and then 33 the silver Mercedes then the bright yellow can't miss it the vault racing Porsche of Trent hitman then the Aston Martin the primarily white car cannabis zero nine twenty minutes of recently caught by the time we go back green his prediction I think it might have an Aston Martin on the podium I hope that's not the curse the comments here I think Ross guns got the pace here whether he'll get through the traffic that quick enough how patient how patient can he be he has the fastest car on a track he's proven that by selling the fastest lap of the race yes yeah I think did that pretty early in lighter out on the Nissan GTR the vir safety car it would be line astern single-file restart and they'll be just on 20 minutes or they're about to go maybe a tad more than that are you sitting comfortably well stop that immediately get to the edge of your seat or stand up and take a deep breath because we're getting ready to turn it up to 11 again as we make the dash for the final run to the flag for the Virginia is for racing lovers Grand Prix we're back to green flag racing 20 minutes and 45 seconds on the clock and the Canadians Jesse Lazar and a 69 white and black McLaren behind at the big Mustang and it does look big hauling interview the number 60 car through the horseshoe for the first time and everybody trying to get past the lapped traffic would keep the car underneath them at the same time Hugh plum right in there he's making some positions as the leaders are side by side through turn three and the lead has gone off the lead has gone off that was he ushered off I don't think there's any contact there was a clean move down at the inside I wish I were on first glance there by karma so it was a forceful move no doubt about it but that's how I cut Karl Barth early drives I think it was a great one after looking through the game to make sure he didn't force the issue too much but it looked to me like in the braking area that must I was right there alongside the McLaren at the turning point you plums right with Kim OH Kumar Whitman for fourth position the dark rear an orange McLaren and the Mercedes AMG the 46 car blue and silver car right in behind it but this one of the automatic Aston Martin's oh no that's is that the 56 yes it is Erik cross has gone off from tenth position the marilla racing car that car was chasing his third consecutive podium finish ain't gonna happen and now Bob down on the infield heading up the hill at South Bend turn number 90 now has he got damage to the left rear of that Cox it doesn't want to turn around pass under yellow for the 98 the deer goes from bad to worse for Michael Lewis in the Hyundai Veloster that's the championship leader and that will be a drive-through and that's going to be costly after the fields been reset after that full course yellow he's gonna drop way back at the TCR ranks 19 minutes ago jeremy new leader at the line will be the core motorsport mustang brightly colored car with the stripe roof rumbles across the battle for second is heating up as indeed on she comes into the pit lane for his final stop and gives up a top ten position top three together the horseshoe now Jeff Westfall pushing hard in the 39 outta the green and gray car then the locked Aston then a bit of a gap back to cue plum now in fourth position Hugh plumbers got past a couple of cars yeah and the people losing their was was Ross gun in the automatic racing Aston Martin of a09 he's gone from eight down to 11th the mover sir as you said not before he saves car made up one position the number 82 car made up four or five positions Devon Jones he went from 12 from ninth to six he made up three positions killer witness rockets there as well so the two males he happens to serve inspector properly caliber 18 for more speed suit that might have all been around the marilla racing 56 brightly orange car that went off and weather that delayed people or not sure about that but there's a couple of cars that have dropped we're back Cunha Whitmer was having a battle for fifth position fourth or fifth not so very long ago and Hugh plums now up there Trent Hinman scared by that as well he's up to fifth and he did have Ross gun right behind him but cross has dropped back in the Aston Martin no he's got some work to do now fall back several positions just under 18 minutes to go meantime John Mollie talaq really could restart and the number 61 dark grey Audi rs3 LMS TCR DSG James France in the similar vehicles behind him and we have any more three-letter acronyms TL is Hyundai Veloster NTC are missin Phillippi in third position but he's trying to keen on the two Audi's ahead of him good we tell you what there's something the matter with the McLaren number 75 it's after I say this no disrespect at all to the number 61 of Jupiter John morally but it shouldn't be dragging past the McLaren on the front straight lot of grass on the front of the Aston Martin I'm hearing from shear Adam and the Murillo racing number 56 has got left rillette suspension damage and he's off the track again that's the Erik force driven car car normally at the sharp end of the field but Erik is not good a finish today the Astin's everything in the pits number zero nine had to come in he's been off the track clear the grill that's what she was just saying so the latest are going to be pegged back for course yellow this is not all over it's going up the esses again he'll ever shred him and watch out for Tretton had been a brilliant restart by not number seven from six up at the fourth place he got past Hugh plum on that last lap around I'm sure he's got the pace of the three leaders but we will find out soon enough essentially I was gonna say and if people ahead of him keep throwing themselves off into the scenery Jeremy anything can happen I mean here before they remembered before the caution bid he was he was chasing a number 33 car which was catching rapidly up towards number 46 car and since then with this caution period seized close a gap to nothing he's made the past number 33 cars been in to the pits for its splash of fuel will rejoin at the back of the pack but at least there will be now a class reset again so I'll give the number 33 current opportunity to make up some positions jeremy years I know we've only got a few minutes left and then we probably have under 10 minutes left by the time we get back to green flag racing that's what we talked about the rip but right at the beginning of the race didn't we we thought there was there was rain potentially potential for rain at around about 4 o'clock yeah Adam are you feeling spots of rain down in the pit then we're definitely getting a little bit on the broadcast center patio whoo just walked outside to check it out I'm gonna put my rain jacket back on the umbrellas not going back up yet but we're probably not far off if it gets any heavier I think the 56 car needs more than just a flat toe I think it's got left rear suspension damage and that's why I struggled getting that car out of the infield but they're going to try and flat tow it with the Nissen titan pickup truck and the big v8 will have plenty of torque even on the dress here comes the ring in the pit lane yeah yeah suspension left free suspension damage on the 56 so that'll have to be a very slow tour back and it's just a point for that to you it is 14 minutes ago Jeremy and this is proper and this is proper and coming in from turn worn upwards she is putting the Hat umbrella back on again so just when we thought it was safe around about 4 o'clock is on to nail the 4 o'clock that started to come it's the first thing that weather men have got all the way in fairness John are you ready for this well that's very true because we know how good EMSA are and getting races back to green flag now he's just a how quick will this yeah nah they're gonna do that said it but nothing else yes right so they're doing that split now just as the GS cars again will move ahead of all the TCR so the cogs the GS cars that I had made a pizza more and had some sort of a problem will now be able to go past the TC RS and hang on to them to the talent of the of the cars that haven't had a problem that the best were the worst of those if you like the 11th place car is kind of a four guy Cosmo who took over 35 is it a good run if this gets wet Trent Hinman can win this in that case well he's been flying in any case he's got one of the fastest cars on the racetrack no question about that car is really good in the way it's got a lovely Palance that little mid-engine car lights are out the safety car so I'm going to suggest that absolutely superbly risk control of hit another one out of the park and they're just gonna tour that number 56 AMG GT the bright orange car into the old pit or into the South pit lane Green is persistent now at turn one anybody gonna dive in and and risk is our wet weather does with I tell you what with 12 minutes left Jeremy if it gets much wetter and we've seen how how quickly it can get nasty at the end of the lap and the advantage that you'd have coming down the hill and onto the front straight yeah huge if TC i--'s I'm not too sure whether you do as a TC are they there's a couple of alphas sitting at the end of the lead lap there that might drop in but don't forget they've gotta do one green flag lap first the Nissan is in fabulous start by the leading pair and the third place howdy of Jeff Westfall is left doors and here comes the McLaren two drivers left the outside coming into the Horseshoe at turn one Trent Hinman diving down the inside of a couple of cars behind them is the lead swaps back to McLaren and there's a little cheer gorson foot that McLaren supports including at McLaren Philadelphia who tuned in all afternoon hello guys and girls I know that you will be watching and listening intently here the McLaren of motorsport in action leads but it's not going to be given up by second place Jesse herbs exactly as car marsala Jeff West follows go back to the Dow and Trent Hitman's muscling his way through as he's getting past the lapped cars he's got the automatic Aston that's a lap I'll sort down before he's onto the back of the leading tree or fourth place then for Trent Hindman who plum following him through trying to get a bit of traction there as well there's a lot of lapped cars in that leading group the top three up through the esses another spin for put the cars further back down the field and it's the bigger world take our second place in a chair bishop locally based car seeing me David Jones is running in a six positions under intense pressure from Spencer Pumpelly worse a teaspoon as well one turn three so did those three get together those two get together sorry how annoying Dylan Murray was right with those two wrong 35 I think so now it is McLaren leading and here comes Trent Hindman on the full course caution sout hinman was he through while see through I don't think he was I don't know they were absolutely neck-and-neck were they going into the roller-coaster the split-second the yellow came out I don't know I'm not going to call that one this is for the bitter world car across the track so they're not going to get a finish of any decent amount of points as critical for their championship aspirations came in here just nine points behind the number 39 car this is going to lose him a lot of ground they had such high hopes here for that team's home race based in Virginia only what 80 or 90 miles from here well Jeremy once again this is going to reset the field and put the onus back on the drivers in difficult difficult conditions Robert Modell will wish that he was part of this again now that passed by by Justin Lazar there how could it mean has it no it hasn't been given back right which the the seventh and the seventh evoke racing Kimon is still in third position at the moment they'll be watching that the timing points it was very close as Jeremy and I were intimating when the yellow flag came out to zero nice and hot it's back in but absolutely back in its that the problem for anybody outside the top four at the moment is the lap cars Jeremy that are in between them I kind of wish that wave laws out of it to be honest yeah before they take themselves out of the way so minor concern that Lee one of those cars it's our lap down it's a quick car as the other Aston Martin - car number 97 it's three laps down to the overall leaders if it's running at around about fourth or fifth place on the road from your fifth place on the road and a few plot bikes scheme they've done a really good job I take it out from our eBay log in a number 18 bit more well BMW so it's not going to be all bad news for bit Mewar but certainly their championship challenging cart number 82 as we see the Devon Jones climbing out of that car from Mooresville Carolina just 24 years of age as Devon he's done a really good job he and James this season in general we've had just a string of top finishes they had a couple of nights actually don't including last race at Road America which costs them some ground in the shower chip this is gonna be a lot lower than that of that they've had a couple of second-place finishes a couple of fourths and that is what kept them in the championship reckoning well Jeremy do you think they'll get back under green here maybe with three or four minutes to go I really hope so I think yeah with a bit of luck if web seen that car lately where they're coming up Madison Avenue now they say at least what all that where they will and that will take us down about three minutes we might get two laps we might get two laps one that might be enough the record truck is already on the way to the BMW just have to be talked very far I didn't see that for the pit lane sure yeah if I come down to the pit out and just wear the Porsche boxes if you're looking games whether technically you can see straight through all the way up to turn five so I can actually see the safety truck up there and the record is just arrived so hopefully we can get that cleared off fairly quickly okay there is a place that can pull it to safety they're two drivers right and access points where they don't have to get it very far which is the good news six minutes and ten seconds on the clock the ring still falling at turn to put 14 through 17 and down a little bit to turn one it has it it has now reached us here properly that's the Patriot course and is falling heavy enough to make the wood decking outside of our broadcast Center wet now yes this is treacherous race daily right tricky a really really tricky at this stage it's the two with the lap cars out there the top for Norman lead lap then the love and I said aasta.martin that is a lap down there number 65 Maceda Turner also is a lap down X behind out to number 46 car passes over that lap then the pink Mustang that is a lap down behind that I think was now I think Mike's Gaines next up watching the number 80 and number 88 and then I was in number 0-9 not got that car back on of my time not our friend at the moment we said this abroad America Jeremy and somehow the track services and the recovery team managed to get the cleanup done and we got back to green for a very exciting run to the flag it's gonna be tight at Merritt isn't it if it's five minutes inside five minutes to go now and if this car is not out of the way by the time the Kartli the safe guys going up Madison Avenue which is only about another minute and a half I don't think we're going to be able to get to go back to green and then one more lap and it'll all be over yeah me and McLaren would be quite happy to throw the checkered flag now I'm sure for more sporting action but they it was a replay of the that final restart just Oh brilliant restart by Jesse Lazar the outside he did I mean Carlile said he got on the floor pretty early those who left everybody else Jeff Westfall was kind of sleeping there but but Jesse Lazar was emphatically not he stayed right with it break deep on the outside line I took the lead a brilliant passer by Jesse Lazar earlier we saw that great pass on the inside for turn three by Carmel's early and Jesse Lazar there a nice clean beautifully executed move around the outside McCleary is pretty quick on the straights he took a full advantage of that but he he did was able to do so because he nailed the throttle at that restart last time around the lap was three minutes 20 and we're at 342 now there was no way I don't think we're going to get another green flag lap unfortunately unless those lights on the safety car go out right now the safety guys slowing right down here right down now is that just to give the safety truck a chance to get out of the way and will we see the lights go off I think it's too late oh I don't know I don't know they've nearly cleared we might get it it's gonna have to happen this time around though brilliant work again from the guys on the corner the city car lights are out oh that's genius stuff I'm just I've stood up again I sat down for a moment anything can just consider my thoughts and pull it all together we're going to get another three point two seven miles and the point two seven might be very very important indeed right here we go ladies and gentlemen it's the - four points as the Virginia is for racing lovers Grand Prix comes to its final chapter the Nissan safety car has backed everybody up Hugh plum looking down the inside to see who he's got the pass to get somewhere near being on the podium how it was that cars perfect well their next Honda in line here we go two minutes 32 to go and this could be a great restart at ease now will we get the white flag this time I don't think we will get one after this at all we have white flag white flag is in the air green and white together so down towards the horseshoe corner Trent Hinman's going round the outside that little Kim in his very nimble he's gonna get second here he's gonna power slides worried the later slides wide hint but through I did say watch him in that came in because it's a very nimble car indeed and the 60 Mustang cowboy selling struggling for grip the bars are for the late now right off the track for Trend him hit mitts hit the leader and he'll get pin for that that was not the best after a lovely move and turn warned him it's taken the leader out and he must surely get it sanctioned for that we'll leave that up to the race officials big contact down the inside of for trend had gone off the road to the right hand side cruelly flew three and got a great run dived down the inside I don't think he needed to me on a pass completely agree with you he had a fast car he did not need to move make that move there there was a couple of other places he could you could availab if he was not clearly alongside in the breakout area and I think this is gonna hand the win to the most Doug the thing is you can't give the positions back to the motorsport action McLaren and there and actually they're pitted together down on the pit lane and this could be awkward this could be awkward and the Mustangs down there in the same part the pit lane this well because of course they're all in the same part of the championship fight the motorsport in action McLaren there will be absolutely fuming that Hinman's are we're and gone the battle for what might be the lead is behind them because the Mustang has got a car Marcela has got Westfall right there mate I'm it's three wide for the lead at 8:23 garden of the Lord is a judge round cause job Molly that's going to be a huge hit in the tires as the 23 car had indeed gone through amazing stuff there Hinman comes through who comes through in second because that could be important the vault racing car park place borders the win on the road the Mustang comes through in seconds the number 60 car under review that incident if it's under review surely that was advancing in his position by causing an incident who wins TCR James Vance Vance goes his room Phillippi in second for the black 21 Hyundai and then Stephen Simpson on the podium in third position what happened there he took the reefs are in the fifth position all of a sudden found himself there with that incident I put the front number 61 car was in was in the lead of course Pratt the restart but he got shuffled back first of all by James Vance and then bad number 21 car as well share Adam is in the pit lane I think we can say with some certainty that James France was the leader I can't tell you who's Martin GS because this business review or in goings no way that's not going to be a penalty he just dived to the inside number 69 I was already turning into the corner yes when the contact was made no question that is going to be a penalty for Trent him and that's a such a shame he driven a brilliant race the trend hitman he just needed to be a little bit more patient should have realized I think how much faster he was Stephen Simpson getting into the right rear of the 61 car as well who was scored in second at that point and Gavin Ernst and very very unhappy about that after all the hard work for their team let's go down to the pit lane and what we know is that we've got a winner James Vance and Mitch dear see you have warning for Nick gallant constitutes reading out of your eyes it's raining from the sky you were kicking yourself so hard after that pit stop and I said hey it could be a yellow you never know look what happened you finally want a vir che you called it for those fans at home who can't see this right now che is wearing this beautiful Maple Leaf umbrella hat it's gorgeous and I think that was just the trick that did it for James the Toronto legend he just this is first him to win and he drove his heart out and a lot of people don't know how how quick and how great the driver he is he doesn't often get handed a car that's in one piece and he shared it today and he battled back from my mistake and what a fun race this team's were working hard all year Dillon Dunsmore on the engineering side and Chris Valley team owner in master planner here done a great job and I couldn't do it without the help from the race and end Alzheimer's project head to our two and alz.org and you'll find out exactly what we're doing and hello to Erica at home I love you and can't wait to see you well Nick I know it's been a while since you've gotten a trophy Daytona was a long time ago the podiums that way they're gonna give you a really cool one that I said number one on it Congrats thank you so much sure that's why we love it the emotion of this sport job absolutely agree and such a brilliant cause that seneca lab has been racing for for a while the checkered flag is in the hands of our overall winner which is cor motorsport and Kalmar sally has got the checkered flag a penalty assessed for incident responsibility to Trent Hinman it's a drive through he can't serve that after the checkered flag so there will be a time penalty added to his finishing time and that will drop him down through the field and so the top three will be Kyle Marcel II finishing off for the sixty court motorsport Mustang in second place championship leaders Jeff Westfall and Tyler McQuarrie in the car Vaughn outtie and then in third Mike skiing in the BMW the number 80 car comes through in third the forged line alloy wheels sponsored car goes through and forged light spirit of the race award still to be awarded hashtag forgeline s or TR forgeline world spirit of the race award get your votes in and we'll get them added up let's say cool down to Adam Dean Martin the team owner of Corp Motorsports it's been a little while since the top step of the podium for the Ford Mustang and for this team but to engineer a win like this you you were a little bit nervous a bit earlier on when calm Russell he was nowhere to be found well he was just saving it all up for the track yeah we were worried he's in the restroom just as we were getting ready to go in the car but yeah it's good result we were a little frustrated when the McLaren just drove past him after we got the lead and then you know we were stressing out a little bit but unfortunate to see the race and the way I did but you know we feel like the gods have owed us one here all year so we'll take it second podium of the year for the team this time it's a win Congrats thank you we needed it [Music] magnificent stuff in TC are then OD number 23 James Vance that brilliant racing to End Alzheimer's car in the purple and blue wins it from a Hyundai the black number 21 in seconds and the 54 the red and blue car Michael Johnson and Stephen Simpson in third position get your 14 to hash tag forgeline s or TR for your spirit of the race Awards so much going on at the end there who gets it is it someone who drove back what about the Aston boys who did so well Ross gun and a killer bender finishing seventh at the end of all of that make that six with the perfect ever safe then for Q plum annoying drinkler as well he'll get an extra position on that there's a lot of very furry yeah my refinery skiing on the podium I first race back in this chapter it didn't get the finish that they wanted but I'm gonna say it my fault wood got the Gavin earn stone for his rib for his wrist from that restart when he was among guys who eats not risked with before and he more than held he's all there and particularly the race ended so bad for them how about the forged line spirit the race that's my particular Ford a hashtag forged line SOT our for the forged line race spirit of the risk award get them in right now two atoms or 80 or Jeremy's been doing some quick addition before we get some more words from the fire down in the pit layer for James Vance they're finally a first win in this chapter he's had a third before now and that was really really well deserved in quickly a quick look at the point so it's all difficult with all the penalties are going to be handed out but I think in TCR Marc Wilkins and Michael Lewis they finished fourth on the day in the end because the very shuffling and shenanigans on the final lap so they will have 22 24 points their teammates Mason Phillippi and Harry got sacker they were they won last time out they were third the race before that second-place finish today just for just five points behind in second place show we black stocking up Tommy Gorman will be four points behind them in third I think also getting some votes in the forged line spirit of the reward for the MIAA McLaren for the me and McLaren as well which was so close to a victory here hashtag forged line SOT our for the forged line Wales spirit of the race award Jeremy and TCR yeah into those the points the teeth yard 224 folk Wilkinson Lewis they will continue to lead manufacturers cherish it though is getting it really really close I think 259 for Honda 258 for Audi and 257 for Hyundai so three manufacturers Honda Aldi and Hyundai each separated by one point in the top three position to the manufacturer average at TCR right as the season 1 car is brought back looking very very secondhand the good news is the deep that it went in driver's side John moly did get out of the car also occasionally on that last lap by the way the number 37 Honda the Tommy Gorman shall be black car which has come back missing part of the front end look like it had a big incident left from well punctured and taken out some of the bodywork of that car hashtag forgeline sot art let's get them in with doing the addition even as we speak as the hard-working crew at track services put back together the tyre wall jeremy is having a quick look at the GS point yet seventh different team to win in GS the six different manufacturer is ford by the way with six different winners also in TCR now with that wind by nickle aunt and james Vance in the in the in the GS champ the overall championship Tyler McQuarrie Jeff Westfall with a second place finish with a penalty for Trent hitman will extend their lead now to a full 24 points over Jesse Lazar and Cory Fergus who were come away I believe with a tenth place finish from this race they deserve so much more I'm going to try and figure out the manufacturers chair which it was gonna be awfully tight as well just to let you know that there was another review the Alpha and the number three and the 98 Hyundai Veloster that has been reviewed no action I haven't seen anything yet about the three wide that would have been the 54 in the 61 car the two out he's getting together or whether that's been reviewed yet we'll try and keep you up to date with that that might affect the TCR podium of course in manufacturers send for a GS I reckon unofficially Mercedes and Audi are tied on to 39 that's my that's my initial calculation here and on to 30 will be BMW and 227 falling a position McLaren with Tyler McQuarrie you were saying what happened oh man I can't believe it well you finished second you now have twenty four point lead isn't she yes his eyes just got really really wide it saying that do you have any idea at the end of that race how things could have gone a little bit more bonkers cuz I mean that was absolutely insane you know this entire race was just all over the place from the beginning the car was awesome in the dryer that started raining and we're still pretty good and you know the 75 car sprayed mud all over their windshield and we literally couldn't see anything all kinds of conditions Jeff the same thing got totalmix conditions and you know three minutes to go I'm sooner going okay we're gonna have a little extension on our point lead it would be okay and then it just absolutely unraveled for our competition in the championship and Wow like that was crazy the last lap and you know I'm sooner go we're gonna get third and you know the 82 is out and then the seven takes out the 69 and now we're second and both those guys are down it's just absolutely crazy and it's just you never know what to expect especially this year with the conditions like this every single race it's but we've capitalized on it so it's awesome the team did a great job all weekend and man that was crazy and going out to your country for the next round your side of the country for the next couple of races so it should be pretty good yeah go into Laguna it's our home track you know for the entire team we're all from the Bay Area so to go there with a 24-point lead with all our friends and family coming and meeting he couldn't paint a better picture congrats on today thank you I want to dive in with Jeff Westfall really quickly because how in the world did you see out of the windshield and how crazy were the last two restarts we'll the windshield the team wiped it which was a step forward it wasn't access it wasn't necessarily clear the restarts were absolute mayhem and as racers that's kind of what we love right and we did you know we don't want to be dangerous but at the same time it's a huge amount of excitement there's a big variable the track was changing every lap I'd come around and it was wet in five the next lap it was wet and yes is the next lap it was wet in ten and you're on slicks and you're just trying to hang onto the thing while not falling backwards and able to make a few spots too so it's a it's a great day for us for carbon Peregrine's and audi we got a good points day so I can't can't thank the team enough and the supporters great job today thank you Adam in the Mele down there well Jeremy once again we've still got a couple of votes to count for the forge line wheels spirit the race award hashtag forgeline SOT our to at Ames Racing windward racing automatic racing getting a few votes as well the gyro spare 61 car for the grid drive by Gavin and cruelly denied on the final lap says Alistair Alice MD guys I mean first win for that team you see Lucy's first winning TCR funiculi to Brit and first win ever for James darts brilliant drive by those I saw her becoming a penalty nick's brave decision to stay out in the early stages of this race that's what won that race as well I think that was a great performance yeah a lot of people we've got no clear winner there at the moment so in the last couple of minutes while Jeremy and I that sort this out we'll hand that over to the responsible adult by proxy who will let us know on our screen in front of us how that goes Jeremy how do you sum that race up we had some great racing early on couple of long yellow was one long yellow too early on which to really spice things up the way they the race was was was playing out there but once again fabulous work by race control and track services to get us back to green at the end not once but twice yeah it was a yet another thriller Shane me at those cautions towards the end and you don't like to see those sort of instance where people are bumping into each other ie wasn't deliberate by train didn't but no question about that he didn't do it on purpose but say he was I think he got a bit too carried away in the moment they're from my persona I'm a huge trend Hitman supporter but I think I think the decision made by race control was absolutely right he wasn't close stuff you if he tried to dive the inside but at the turn input he was not there he made contact with the rear number 69 car equals a penalty well we can't split the spirit of the race award it's going to go to the Ford McLaren battle at the front of the field that's the forged lying spirit of the race award thank you to everybody voted on hashtag forged line s or TR for the forged nine wheel spirit of the wrist award brilliant action mati to the vault racing apart place car decided at the end governor and stone drove his socks off and comes away with nothing well done to calm our Sally and to makes disappearing GS it's been another great race for the Emser michelin pilot challenge live from vir

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Length: 139min 32sec (8372 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 31 2019