- Daniel Suarez may not have qualified for Saturday night's Busch Light Clash at the Coliseum, but he picked up a consolation prize. Suarez took the lead away from Ruben Garcia Jr. with 30 laps to go Saturday night and held on to win the King Taco La Batalla en el Coliseo, the season opener for the NASCAR Mexico Series. Santiago Tovar was second, then Alex de Alba, Rogelio Lopez and Jake
Cosio.
- 99 Racing's Ahmad Al Harthy, Louis Deletraz and Nikita Mazepin led 74 of 119 laps Sunday to win the Asian Le Mans Series' 4 Hours of Dubai,for their second win of the season Their margin of victory was 3.499 seconds over Proton Competition's Julian Andlauer, Rene Binder and Giorgio Roda. CrowdStrike Racing by APR's Colin Braun, George Kurtz and Malthe Jakobsen were
third, then DKR Engineering's Tom Dillmann, Laurents Hoerr and Alexander Mattschull. TF Sport's Michael Dinan, Charlie Eastwood and Salih Yoluc were fifth.
In LMP3, COOL Racing's Alexsandr Bukhantsov and James Winslow claimed the class victory by 8.641 seconds over CD Sport's Nick Adcock, Mikkel Jensen and Fabien Lavergne. High Class Racing's Anders Fjordbach,
Audunn Gudmunsson and Seth Lucas were third.
Finally, Pure Rxcing's Klaus Bachler, Alex Malykhin and Joel Sturm claimed their second straight GT victory in their Porsche 911 GT3 R. The margin of victory was .775 seconds over Al Manar Racing by GetSpeed's Al Faisal Al Zubair, Anthony Liu and Fabian Schiller. AF Corse's Francois Heriau, Simon Mann and Davide RIgon were
third in their Ferrari, then the Audi of Sainteloc Racing's Sean Galael, Dennis Marschall and Zhou Bihaung. Triple Eight Engineering's Prince Abdul Rahman Ibrahim, Jordan Love and Luca Stolz were fifth.
With only a doubleheader weekend at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi remaining, 99 Racing has a 20-point lead over CrowdStraike Racing by APR. They will clinch the
LMP2 championship and the Le Mans automatic entry that comes with it in the first race of the doubleheader by scoring six more points than the Crowdstrike team.
In LMP3, COOL Racing's No. 17 team has a five-point lead over CD Sport. Bretton Racing is 21 points back in third.
In the GT ranks, Pure Rxcing has a 14-point lead over Sainteloc Racing's No. 42 Audi. Al Manar Racing by GetSpeed is third, then Sainteloc Racing's No. 43. Triple Eight Engineering is fifth.
Pure Rxcing already has an automatic bid to the 24 Hours of Le Mans by virtue of Malykhin winning the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe
powered by AWS Sprint Cup's Bronze Cup championship last year. If they were to decline the automatic bid, then it would become an at-large slot in the race.
