By alley - Jun 3, 2017, 3:07 PM ET

IMSA Motor City miracle win for Taylor Cadillac

Turn out the lights, the party's over.

Ricky and Jordan Taylor recorded a comeback drive for the ages on Saturday as the championship leaders took the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R to its fifth consecutive win this season. Starting 12th after Ricky crashed in qualifying and was subsequently

moved to the back of the Prototype and PC field

, the Wayne Taylor Racing drivers appeared destined to see their win streak end at four.

But when the pressure started to mount in the final sprint to the end of the short 1h40m Chevy Sports Car Classic, supreme driving by Jordan Taylor, phenomenal pit work by their WTR crew, and a big strategy error by the race-leading No. 31 Action Express Racing Cadillac team paved the way for the brothers to choke the life out of the Prototype championship.

Cameron held on for second to give the brand a 1-2 in front of its global headquarters, and Mazda Racing – thanks to some massively inspired passes by Joel Miller – captured a welcome third in the No. 70 RT24-P.

"I almost ruined it yesterday. Holy cow," said Ricky Taylor, who watched Jordan finish 4.9 seconds ahead of Cameron. "I can't get over our guys. The pit stop in the beginning; jumping two cars. And then the stop at the end and the strategy all through the race was unbelievable. Our car was in a million pieces yesterday and they stayed up 'til midnight putting it together."

Unbeaten after five of 11 rounds, it will take a miracle to derail the No. 10 team, the Taylor boys, and Cadillac from sweeping every season-long championship offered in the Prototype category.

"What can I say?" Taylor continued. "We're in Detroit, the home of Cadillac and General Motors. Can't believe it. Five straight...this one I didn't expect."

The decisive moment came with just over 40 minutes left on the clock. With Jordan Taylor at the controls, the young Floridian went into attack mode on his in and out lap while completing his final pit stop. Entering the pits in third place, the team opted to keep his hot Continental tires on the car and sent him out as Miller in the second place Mazda went one lap longer before making his final stop.

Taylor's push and the WTR crew's rapid stop allowed the No. 10 Cadillac to take second from the Mazda, and with Cameron holding a comfortable lead of over 30 seconds on Taylor, calling the No. 31 Cadillac in for its last stop would have kept Taylor in second. But that isn't what happened.

Running in clean air, Taylor took chunks of time out of Cameron, and while some of that time was returned when the No. 10 hit traffic, the decision to keep the No. 31 on track until 22 minutes remained was a risk that not only failed to pay off – it gave away a win for no reason. With Cameron's lead down to 28.9 seconds when he pitted, Taylor motored by as the AXR driver sat helpless on pit lane.

From there, Taylor controlled the pace and crossed the finish line with an almighty gift from its Cadillac rival in hand.

The PC class followed a similar theme to Prototype as the No. 38 Performance Tech Motorsports entry driven by Pato O'Ward and James French captured its fourth win from four races this year. Storming away from pole, the No. 38 was in a race of its own, finishing 42 seconds ahead of Bruno Junqueira in the No. 26 BAR1 Racing cars.

"I wish there were more cars, honestly, but we had a strong go," O'Ward said of the three-car PC class. "We'll go off to Watkins Glen and hopefully we can keep the streak going. This race is basically competing with ourselves and the walls. So it was keep it nice and simple and steady and we should come out with a victory. But sometimes you lose a little bit and maybe aren't focused and you hit a wall. And here, everywhere it's a wall. There is no grass, no nothing. If you go off, the wall will receive you with a lot of love."

If the Prototype finish was incredible for the unexpected outcome, the first-time win for Michael Shank Racing, Acura and Honda Performance Development in GT Daytona ticked the box for incredible due to the short period of time the NSX GT3 model has gone from brand-new to reaching Victory Lane.

The No. 93 MSR Acura driven by Katherine Legge – who opened the race with a stellar stint – and Andy Lally – who took it home with nine GTD competitors breathing down his neck – took the lead coming out of the first caution on Lap 25 and held it until the checkered flag on Lap 64.

Where the Taylors benefited from at least one gift, and the Performance Tech PC was on its own planet, the Acura team had to earn every lap on the way to winning by 2.4 seconds over the feisty Alessandro Balzan in the No. 63 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488 GT3 and a blindingly fast Madison Snow in the No. 48 Paul Miller Lamborghini Huracan GT3.

One week after making his Indy 500 debut as a team owner, Shank was visibly moved by the program's achievement.

"It's unbelievable," he said. "I'm so pleased for Acura. It was awesome, I can't say enough about the performance of every person on this team."

Legge was in lockstep with her boss.

"I'm just so happy for Michael Shank Racing, Acura and HPD," she added. "They gave us a car that was capable of winning, and it did. For us, it doesn't matter who we're racing against, and we're very grateful today was our day."

The only major caution of the day came on Lap 18 as Ben Keating launched over a bump in the GT Daytona championship-leading No. 33 Riley Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3 and stoved into the wall, which ripped the right-front wheel from the car.

Making matters worse, Kenny Habul in the No. 75 SunEnergy1 Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 added to the Lap 18 drama as he hammered the right side of the No. 90 Riley/Multimatic Mk 30-Gibson piloted by Renger van der Zande entering Turn 3. All three cars were done for the day, with Habul's move worthy of probation, at minimum.

UP NEXT: Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen, June 29-July 2.

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