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No. 6 Porsche falls out of title contention at Petit Le Mans
One of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTP title contenders was eliminated from the fight when Nick Tandy was involved in a big crash in the No. 6 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963, the car ending up in the Turn 10 gravel and dashing the hopes of Tandy and Mathieu Jaminet to claim the inaugural crown for the new-era GTP.
The incident began when Dennis Andersen in the No. 20 High Class Racing ORECA LMP2 car made light contact with Charles Scardina in the No. 023 Triarsi Racing Ferrari 296 GT3, sending the Ferrari spinning across track into Brendan Iribe's No. 70 Inception Racing McLaren, which then struck Tandy's Porsche.
Tandy appeared to plead with the emergency personnel to pull the 963 out of the the gravel with him inside, but he was coaxed out of the car before it was lifted onto a flatbed. While the extent of the damage is unknown and it's possible the car will return to the race, if so it will be many laps down.
Louis Deletraz in the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport was leading after a round of pit stops during the ensuing full-course caution.
Richard S. James
Richard James is motorsports journalist living in Orange County, Calif, who has been involved in the sport to some degree for three decades. He covers primarily sports car racing as a writer and photographer, with occasional forays into off-road and other forms of racing. A former editor of the SCCA’s publication, SportsCar, he has a special love for the grass-roots side of the sport and participates as a driver in amateur road racing.
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