The Frenchman took over from Scott Dixon, who both led or ran second all through his time period within the Cadillac V-Collection.R. Louis Deletraz, who took over from Ricky Taylor, ended up main nearly all of the final two hours till a late pit cease relegated the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-06 to 3rd, earlier than passing Jack Aitken with 2h43m left.
Aitken, driving the #31 Action Express Racing Cadillac, has been a fixture among the many high three. The 2 drivers are hovering at 13s and 14s every, respectively, behind Bourdais. Matt Campbell propelled the #7 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 as much as fourth.
The #60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura of Tom Blomqvist runs fifth, trailing the three forward by roughly 1.5s. A depressing day for the #6 PPM 963 continued when Laurens Vanthoor went off in Flip 3 with 3h25m remaining, inflicting heavy injury – once more – to the rear wing.
In LMP2, Ryan Dalziel is high of the category within the #Era Motorsport ORECA LMP2 07, forward of Nolan Siegel within the #04 CrowdStrike Racing by APR ORECA LMP2.
The PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports entry of Alex Quinn sits third. With 3h20m left, championship chief Mikkel Jensen overshot Flip 5 and pounded the tire barrier together with his #11 TDS Racing ORECA LMP2 07. Jensen, who was in a position to return to the pits and negate the prospect of a full course yellow, was working third on the time.
In LMP3, the #74 Riley Ligier JS P320 of Josh Burdon leads over Garett Grist within the #30 Jr III Racing Duqueine D08. The #38 Efficiency Tech Motorsports Ligier JS P320 of Brian Thienes crashed in Flip 3 with 4 hours left following contact from the #023 Triarsi Competizione Ferrari 296 GT3.
The GTD Professional class is led by the #63 Iron Lynx Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 of Jordan Pepper. Alex Riberas has the #23 Coronary heart of Racing Staff Aston Martin Vantage GT3 carefully behind the chief. The #9 Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) for Pfaff Motorsports is third with Patrick Pilet.
Simply 10 minutes previous the midway mark, race chief Tommy Milner was stopped off target in Flip 3 after an obvious mechanical challenge to the #3 Corvette Racing C8.R GTD.
Within the pro-am GTD class, The #32 Mercedes AMG GT3 for Korthoff/Preston Motorsports, with Mike Skeen driving, is out entrance.
Indy Dontje has the #57 Winward Racing Mercedes AMG GT3 in second. Wright Motorsports was main the category within the #16 Porsche 911 GT3 R (992), however the determination to pit after Jensen’s aforementioned off-track journey – anticipating a warning that by no means got here – dropped them down the working order to ninth, and off-sequence, with Zacharie Robichon on the helm. Nonetheless, Robichon was in a position rise to 3rd in school on the break.
The #1 Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 GT3 formally retired from the race with 3h30m remaining.