Jones’ Win Clinches LMP3 Team Title for FastMD

The IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge driver’s championship was out of reach for Jagger Jones, but he wasn’t to be denied securing the title for his team in Friday’s season finale at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.

Jones led the entire 45-minute race on the 2.54-mile, 12-turn road course in the No. 87 FastMD Racing with Remstar Duqueine D08 Nissan.

The win lifted FastMD past MLT Motorsports in the LMP3 team standings by just 20 points. MLT’s Steven Aghakhani – the 2024 driver champion – finished second on Friday in the No. 6 Ligier JS P320 Nissan, 4.835 seconds behind Jones.

The victory capped a magical season for Jones, who after missing the opening doubleheader round of the season joined FastMD and crossed the finish line first in 10 straight races.

Two of the triumphs were negated – one by a postrace technical inspection infraction and the other for a postrace time penalty assessed in Thursday’s race – but he still collected a series-high eight wins.

Hoffman Takes GSX Win to Give Toyota First IMSA Victory of 2024

In the GSX class, Tyler Hoffman rode the No. 9 Kingpin Racing Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO to the class victory to cap an impressive debut weekend for driver and team.

The victory for Toyota means that all 18 manufacturers competing in IMSA have won at least once in 2024 across the sanctioning body’s seven sanctioned series.

Hoffman, who finished third in Thursday’s race, started second in GSX on Friday, passed pole sitter Patrick Wilmot (No. 88 Split Decision Motorsports BMW M4 GT4) on the first lap and never looked back.

He took the checkered flag 3.231 seconds ahead of Bob Michaelian, who hopped into the No. 59 KohR Motorsports Ford Mustang GT4 that Luca Mars clinched the GSX driver and team championships in the day before and drove from the rear of the field to finish runner-up.

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