WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – Both the heat and the action rose as the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen reached its crescendo, ending with Acura winning the sixth round of the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season… but perhaps not the one many expected.
The drama intensified all the way down to the final minutes of the six-hour race, determined in large part by the amount of available energy the Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) cars had on-hand after their last scheduled stops with more than an hour and 10 minutes remaining.
Tom Blomqvist crawled across the line with just over one percent of usable energy remaining aboard his No. 60 Acura Meyer Shank Racing w/Curb-Agajanian Acura ARX-06 he shared with Colin Braun.
Blomqvist inherited the win as the race-leading Earl Bamber in his No. 31 Cadillac Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R pitted from the lead on the penultimate lap after a restart following three minutes to go.
It’s the Acura Meyer Shank Racing w/Curb-Agajanian’s second win in a row, as the team’s No. 93 car won the previous round at the Chevrolet Detroit Sports Car Classic to start the month and was poised for another having won the Motul Pole Award this race. It’s Braun’s 26th IMSA win and Blomqvist sixth, and the first for both since the 2023 Motul Petit Le Mans.
With more usable energy on hand to attempt to chase, the pair of Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac V-Series.R cars completed the podium in second and third with the No. 40 car ahead of the No. 10 car.
That wasn’t the only class where fuel and energy dictated the finish. Poised for their first win after three straight runner-up finishes, the No. 12 Vasser Sullivan Racing Lexus RC F GT3 of Jack Hawksworth ran out of steam heading into Turn 6 to lose the Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) class lead and ultimately, win.
That brought the win to Heart of Racing Team, with the No. 27 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo driven by Casper Stevenson, Tom Gamble and Casper Stevenson. The No. 70 Inception Racing Ferrari 296 GT3 and No. 32 Korthoff Competition Motors Mercedes-AMG GT3 were second and third.
In Grand Touring Daytona Pro (GTD PRO), Paul Miller Racing broke through for its first win of the year with the No. 48 BMW M4 GT3 EVO shared by Dan Harper and Max Hesse. It’s the first IMSA wins for both series newcomers. The No. 3 Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports Corvette Z06 GT3.R was second ahead of the No. 65 Ford Multimatic Motorsports Ford Mustang GT3.
Back for the first time since Sebring 2025, the 12-car Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) class recovered from some early-race challenges to provide a thrilling finish. Rolex 24 At Daytona winner Paul Di Resta held off 2024 Watkins Glen overall winner and 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans LMP2 Pro/Am class winner Dane Cameron for the class win by just 0.627 of a second. Di Resta shared the No. 22 United Autosports USA ORECA LMP2 07 with Daniel Goldburg and Rasmus Lindh, with Cameron coming up second in “Spike,” the No. 99 AO Racing ORECA LMP2 07 he shared with PJ Hyett and Jonny Edgar. The No. 04 CrowdStrike by APR ORECA entry completed the podium.
LMP2 and the two GT classes resume for the Chevrolet Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park on July 13, 2025, with the GTP cars back in action at Road America on Sunday, August 3.
