RS1 Duo Doubles Up With Sebring Race 2 Win

Photo: Fabian Lagunas/SRO

RS1’s Spencer Pumpelly and Trent Hindman doubled up with victory in the second Fanatec GT World Challenge America powered by AWS race of the weekend at Sebring International Raceway.

Pumpelly, who was on an undercut strategy, got around the No. 120 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R of Adam Adelson with 25 minutes remaining in Sunday’s 90-minute contest.

He finished 7.648 seconds ahead of Adelson to take a sweep of the weekend in their No. 85 Porsche.

Bill Auberlen and Varun Choksey completed the overall and Pro class podium in third aboard the No. 28 ST Racing BMW M4 GT3.

The No. 38 ST BMW of pole-sitter Neil Verhagen led early on but served a drive-through penalty for a race start violation that dropped the Pro-Am class car out of contention.

It opened the door to the No. 29 Turner Motorsport BMW of Robby Foley and Justin Rothberg, who held off George Kurtz to claim his first career GT3 victory.

Rothberg emerged as the overall leader following Foley’s pace-setting opening stint but was quickly overtaken by Adelson that set up an inter-class battle in Pro-Am between the Turner and CrowdStrike by Riley Mercedes-AMG squads.

A likely podium finish on the debut weekend of DXDT Racing’s Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R was erased when Scott Smithson spun after closing in on the two Pro-Am class leaders with seven minutes to go.

Samantha Tan emerged to finish third in Pro-Am class following her and Verhagen’s recovery drive in the No. 38 ST BMW.

The only incident in the race came with contact from Philip Ellis to the rear of the No. 93 Racers Edge Motorsports Acura NSX GT3 Evo22 of Luca Mars, who checked up after an off-course excursion with less than 25 minutes to go.

Ellis, in the No. 91 Regulator Racing Mercedes-AMG, had been working through the field after the team’s reverse driver strategy that saw Jeff Burton start the race.

The No. 8 Flying Lizard Motorsports Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo retired early on with suspension issues.

RESULTS: Race 2

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