- David Gravel led all 35 laps Wednesday night from the pole to win the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series Federated Auto Parts Gettysburg Clash at Lincoln Speedway. It is Gravel's fourth win of the year and the 100th career victory for Big Game Motorsports car owner Tod Quiring.
Gravel won by 1.252
seconds over Giovanni Scelzi. Carson Macedo, who threatened Gravel early in the feature, was third, followed by Anthony Macri. Donny Schatz was fifth.
In the points, Gravel continues to lead Schatz by 58 points through 19 races. Scelzi is third, then Macedo and Logan Schuchart.
- Practice is
already underway for this weekend's 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps for the FIA World Endurance Championship in Belgium.
In the opening Free Practice session this morning. Ferrari AF Corse's Antonio Fuoco was fastest overall with a lap at 124.650 mph in his Ferrari 499P. Fuoco's lap was 1.141 seconds faster than teammate Antonio Giovinazzi. Lamborghini Iron Lynx's Daniil Kyvat was third in his
factory Lamborghini, then Signatech Alpine's Nicolas Lapierre. Yifei Ye in AF Corse's customer Ferrari was fifth.
The factory Porsches were seventh (with Laurens Vanthoor) and eighth (with Frederic Makowiecki), respectively. The Toyotas were outside of the top 10 with Sebastien Buemi 11th and Mike Conway 16th.
In LMGT3, TF Sport's Daniel Juncadella was fastest in his Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R with a lap at 111.206 mph, the only LMGT3 driver to dip into the 140-second bracket. Juncadella's lap was .335 seconds faster than Vista AF Corse's Davide Rigon. The Heart of Racing's Aston Martin for Daniel Mancinelli was third fastest, then Michelle Gatting in the Iron Dames Lamborghini. Team WRT's Maxime Martin was fifth in his BMW.
The session was more or less clean. There were no red flags during the session, but there was a brief slowdown so that marshals could retrieve debris at Les Combes.
