The Cadillac V-Series.R No. 31 of Action Express Racing started the weekend with pole and finished Sunday with 143 laps led out of 182 possible in the Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen. Jack Aitken, Earl Bamber and Frederik Vesti neutralised the only real threat, the Acura No. 93 of Meyer Shank Racing, with a pit stop in which they changed only the left‑side tyres. Their rival fitted four new tyres. Aitken exited the lane with an advantage over Nick Yelloly and stretched it to the final eleven seconds. The team had won at Detroit and now has eight consecutive top‑three finishes in GTP.

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GTP

The Acura of Renger van der Zande, Yelloly and Kaku Ohta was the most consistent pursuer throughout the six hours, but the strategy move left it with no answer at the finish. The Porsche 963 No. 5 of JDC-Miller MotorSports, with Tijmen van der Helm, Laurin Heinrich and Kaylen Frederick, finished in the top three after a late charge by Heinrich. The car had lost a wheel with three and a half hours to go and fell a lap down, but survived the setback and ended as the best‑placed Porsche, ahead of the two factory Porsche Penske entries, which have not won since Sebring.

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Barely one hour into the race, a crash in the Esses took out two GTPs in one go, with all classes having already pitted. Roman De Angelis lost control of the Aston Martin Valkyrie No. 23 of Heart of Racing in the Esses and slammed into the Acura No. 60 of Meyer Shank Racing, which was stopped. The Corvette GTD No. 81 of DragonSpeed was caught in the incident. Both GTP cars were out immediately. The Acura No. 60, shared by Colin Braun and Tom Blomqvist, was a serious contender for the top three, and its retirement left the No. 93 as the only Acura representative in the fight. The Aston Martin, which had qualified ninth with Ross Gunn, also said goodbye to the race.

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Later, a hit by the Porsche No. 911 of Manthey against the wall broke the right‑rear wheel and brought out another safety car. With an hour and a half to go, the Ferrari No. 21 of AF Corse went into the barriers after a brush with the leading Cadillac; the door and the left‑front wheel were torn off by the violence of the impact. The race ended with a final incident on the last lap, when Christopher Mies and Nicky Catsburg made contact and triggered the ninth caution.

LMP2

AO Racing scored its first victory of the season with the Oreca No. 99 of PJ Hyett, Dane Cameron and Jonny Edgar. The defending class champions arrived at Watkins Glen in fifth place in the championship and needed a result to get back in the fight. Cameron took the lead in the final part, held off the No. 04 of CrowdStrike Racing by APR and ended a run of frustration for a programme that had shown speed but had not been able to convert it into victories.

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GTD Pro

Jack Hawksworth and Ben Barnicoat gave Vasser Sullivan its first GTD Pro win since the 2024 12 Hours of Sebring in the Lexus RC F GT3 No. 14, which had started from pole. The BMW No. 1 of Paul Miller Racing, with Neil Verhagen and Connor De Phillippi, finished second and left Watkins Glen as the new championship leader. The Ford Mustang GT3 No. 64 of Dennis Olsen and Ben Barker finished third in class after leading much of the race, but an extra fuel load in the final minutes dropped it to the third step. The Porsche 911 GT3 R No. 77 of AO Racing — "Rexy" — is still struggling to find the podium this season, even though other customer Porsche teams, such as Manthey in GTD or Wright Motorsports, are winning with the same car.

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GTD

Manthey 1st Phorm scored its first victory in the GTD class with the Porsche 911 GT3 R No. 912 of Ryan Hardwick, Riccardo Pera and Richard Lietz. The win came through fuel strategy, as Pera regained the lead after the final stops of his main rivals and held the position to the checkered flag. Wright Motorsports finished second in the Porsche No. 120 of Adam Adelson, Callum Ilott and Tom Sargent, while the Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo No. 068 of Car Blanche, with Valentin Hasse Clot, Marius Fossard and Trenton Estep, completed the class podium.

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The Cadillac No. 31 also collected the Michelin Endurance Cup points and left Watkins Glen with 1,934 points in the drivers' championship, 148 ahead of the Acura No. 93. The next round of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship is at Mosport, a round in which only the LMP2, GTD and GTD Pro classes compete, before the full grid returns at Road America.

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Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen 2026

Pos	Pos. class	class	#	drivers	team	car	laps	Gap
1	1	GTP	#31	Jack Aitken Earl Bamber Frederik Vesti	Cadillac Whelen	Cadillac V-Series.R	182	-
2	2	GTP	#93	Renger van der Zande Nick Yelloly Kaku Ohta	Acura Meyer Shank Racing w/Curb Agajanian	Acura ARX-06	182	+11.166
3	3	GTP	#5	Tijmen van der Helm Laurin Heinrich Kaylen Frederick	JDC-Miller MotorSports	Porsche 963	182	+13.742
4	4	GTP	#24	Dries Vanthoor Sheldon van der Linde	BMW M Team WRT	BMW M Hybrid V8	182	+17.859
5	5	GTP	#7	Felipe Nasr Julien Andlauer	Porsche Penske Motorsport	Porsche 963	182	+23.263
6	6	GTP	#6	Laurens Vanthoor Kevin Estre	Porsche Penske Motorsport	Porsche 963	182	+23.970
7	7	GTP	#10	Ricky Taylor Filipe Albuquerque	Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing	Cadillac V-Series.R	182	+43.600
8	8	GTP	#40	Jordan Taylor Louis Deletraz	Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing	Cadillac V-Series.R	182	+44.462
9	9	GTP	#25	Philipp Eng Marco Wittmann	BMW M Team WRT	BMW M Hybrid V8	182	+1:24.688
10	1	LMP2	#99	PJ Hyett Dane Cameron Jonny Edgar	AO Racing	ORECA LMP2 07	180	2 Laps
11	2	LMP2	#04	George Kurtz Alex Quinn Toby Sowery	Crowdstrike Racing by APR	ORECA LMP2 07	179	3 Laps
12	3	LMP2	#18	Naveen Rao Ferdinand Habsburg Jacob Abel	Era Motorsport	ORECA LMP2 07	179	3 Laps
13	4	LMP2	#43	Tom Dillmann Bijoy Garg Jeremy Clarke	Inter Europol Competition	ORECA LMP2 07	179	3 Laps
14	5	LMP2	#22	Daniel Goldburg Paul Di Resta Rasmus Lindh	United Autosports USA	ORECA LMP2 07	179	3 Laps
15	6	LMP2	#52	Misha Goikhberg Parker Thompson Harry Tincknell	Bryan Herta Autosport with PR1/Mathiasen	ORECA LMP2 07	179	3 Laps
16	7	LMP2	#8	John Farano Tristan Vautier Sebastian Alvarez	Tower Motorsports	ORECA LMP2 07	179	3 Laps
17	8	LMP2	#73	Pietro Fittipaldi Manuel Espirito Santo Chris Cumming	Pratt Miller Motorsports	ORECA LMP2 07	179	3 Laps
18	9	LMP2	#2	Phil Fayer Hunter McElrea Mikkel Jensen	United Autosports USA	ORECA LMP2 07	179	3 Laps
19	1	GTDPRO	#14	Jack Hawksworth Ben Barnicoat	Vasser Sullivan Racing w/Dreyer & Reinbold	Lexus RC F GT3	171	11 Laps
20	2	GTDPRO	#1	Neil Verhagen Connor De Phillippi	Paul Miller Racing	BMW M4 GT3 EVO	171	11 Laps
21	3	GTDPRO	#64	Ben Barker Dennis Olsen	Ford Racing	Ford Mustang GT3	171	11 Laps
22	4	GTDPRO	#3	Antonio Garcia Alexander Sims	Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports	Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R	171	11 Laps
23	5	GTDPRO	#62	Daniel Serra Davide Rigon	Risi Competizione	Ferrari 296 GT3 EVO	171	11 Laps
24	1	GTD	#912	Richard Lietz Riccardo Pera Ryan Hardwick	Manthey 1St Phorm	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	171	11 Laps
25	2	GTD	#120	Tom Sargent Callum Ilott Adam Adelson	Wright Motorsports	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	171	11 Laps
26	3	GTD	#068	Valentin Hasse Clot Trenton Estep Marius Fossard	Car Blanche	Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo	171	11 Laps
27	4	GTD	#12	Aaron Telitz Benjamin Pedersen Frankie Montecalvo	Vasser Sullivan Racing w/Dreyer & Reinbold	Lexus RC F GT3	171	11 Laps
28	5	GTD	#27	Dudu Barrichello Tom Gamble Zacharie Robichon	Heart of Racing Team	Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo	171	11 Laps
29	6	GTD	#34	Albert Costa Lorenzo Patrese Fran Rueda	Conquest Racing	Ferrari 296 GT3 EVO	171	11 Laps
30	7	GTD	#96	Patrick Gallagher Robby Foley Francis Selldorff	Turner Motorsport	BMW M4 GT3 EVO	171	11 Laps
31	8	GTD	#023	Onofrio Triarsi Kenton Koch Robert Megennis	Triarsi Competizione	Ferrari 296 GT3 EVO	171	11 Laps
32	6	GTDPRO	#033	James Calado Riccardo Agostini	Triarsi Competizione	Ferrari 296 GT3 EVO	171	11 Laps
33	7	GTDPRO	#77	Nick Tandy Harry King	AO Racing	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	171	11 Laps
34	8	GTDPRO	#4	Tommy Milner Nicky Catsburg	Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports	Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R	171	11 Laps
35	9	GTD	#28	Eric Lux Dillon Machavern Jan Heylen	Rs1	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	171	11 Laps
36	10	GTD	#80	Scott Andrews Lin Hodenius James Roe	Lone Star Racing	Mercedes-AMG GT3	171	11 Laps
37	9	GTDPRO	#9	Andrea Caldarelli Sandy Mitchell	Pfaff Motorsports	Lamborghini Temerario GT3	170	12 Laps
38	11	GTD	#36	Mason Filippi Salih Yoluc Charlie Eastwood	DXDT Racing	Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R	170	12 Laps
39	12	GTD	#66	Jake Walker Till Bechtolsheimer Corey Lewis	Gradient Racing	Ford Mustang GT3	170	12 Laps
40	13	GTD	#13	Orey Fidani Matthew Bell Lars Kern	13 Autosport	Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R	170	12 Laps
42	14	GTD	#16	Sheena Monk Felipe Fraga Jenson Altzman	Myers Riley Motorsports	Ford Mustang GT3	161	21 Laps
43	15	GTD	#57	Russell Ward Philip Ellis Indy Dontje	WINWARD RACING	Mercedes-AMG GT3	145	37 Laps
45	16	GTD	#81	Henrik Hedman Giacomo Altoè Casper Stevenson	DragonSpeed	Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R	137	45 Laps