Tunjo Wins Mixed Condition Saturday Mid-Ohio Race

Oscar Tunjo in LMP3 and Westin Workman in GSX maintained their season long form en route to a pair of victories in Saturday’s mixed-condition IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge 45-minute race at Mid-Ohio.

Tunjo had track experience in his back pocket from winning his first VP Racing Challenge event at the Mid-Ohio circuit in 2025 in similar treacherous conditions.

But what was new to him this weekend, at least in North America, was his No. 1 Gebhardt Motorsport Duqueine D09 Toyota, a loaned chassis from Duqueine run by Forbush Performance at the most recent IMSA Airbnb Endurance Challenge race at Circuit of The Americas.

The Colombian has raced Duqueine’s third generation LMP3 chassis in Europe but made his first start in the new car in the U.S. this race as his primary Duqueine D08 chassis has been sent to France for updates.

This weekend has seen Tunjo spend time adapting to the new chassis at this track and learning in real-time through evolving race conditions.

Although Tunjo led flag-to-flag from pole en route to his fourth total and third sprint win this season, he didn’t have it entirely easy.

A lead of more than six seconds briefly whittled down to just over two seconds in the final 15 minutes of the race in GSX traffic, before Tunjo expanded the gap back to a healthy 20.415 seconds by the end of the race.

His Gebhardt-affiliated teammate, Danny Soufi, posted his best race of the season in his own new Duqueine D09 chassis, the No. 11 PINAXIS-ZONE 4 Racing entered car.

It’s not technically a Gebhardt-entered 1-2, but it is the team’s first 1-2 finish in IMSA LMP3 competition since the first race at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta last October when Tunjo led home 2025 LMP3 champion Valentino Catalano.

In third, Bronze Cup winner Travis Hill delivered an impressive drive in the No. 2 Shopify Racing Ligier JS P325 Toyota.

Hill’s TWOth Autosport team rebuilt the Ligier chassis going into Mid-Ohio and secured his first Bronze Cup win of the season. In the final seven minutes, Hill made a pass of series returnee Lincoln Day in his No. 95 Toney Driver Development Ligier JS P325.

GSX: High-Five for Workman to Start Season

Westin Workman’s name can’t be spelled without the word “win.” In the wet-to-dry race, Workman continued his win streak to open the VP Racing Challenge GSX season.

The driver of the No. 8 RAFA Racing Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO2 captured his fifth victory in as many races in an unchallenged drive from pole, leading flag-to-flag to win by a lap.

Workman gained experience in the wet for the first time aboard his GT4 Supra at Daytona earlier this year.

Though the 3.56-mile combination oval/road course at Daytona and the 2.258-mile rolling, natural terrain Mid-Ohio road course couldn’t be further apart in terms of venue type, Workman figured out how to manage the changing conditions in both easily.

Series returnees Justin Di Benedetto and Ismaeel Ellahi, both of whom missed the Circuit of The Americas sprint race double in February, completed the GSX podium.

Di Benedetto enjoyed a smooth drive to second in his No. 4 Di Benedetto Racing Porsche 718 GT4 RS CS, while Ellahi drove up to and past Courtney Crone for third in his No. 25 CSM Porsche 718 GT4 RS CS.

Rob Walker, in his first start of the year, won the GSX Bronze Cup in his No. 53 Kingpin Racing Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO2 ahead of the top-finishing full-season Bronze Cup entrant, Dan Ammann in the No. 91 VRC Motorsports Group, LLC Porsche 718 GT4 RS CS.

Sunday’s second race of the weekend goes green at 8 a.m. ET. It streams on Peacock (in the U.S.) and globally on the IMSA Official YouTube channel and IMSA.tv.

RESULTS: Race 1