Tandy was on the wheel of their works #6 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 heading down Street Atlanta’s lengthy straight towards Flip 10 whereas pushing by means of visitors when a pair of automobiles made contact forward and triggered the incident.
Dennis Andersen was occupying the center of the observe and moved barely proper, however his Excessive Class Racing LMP2 ORECA-Gibson 07 hip-checked Triarsi Competizione’s Ferrari 296 GT3 of Charles Scardina.
The contact pushed Scardina sideways earlier than cannoning into Brendan Iribe’s Inception Racing McLaren 720S GT3 EVO and Tandy, who spun along with Scardina into the wall.
Andersen was clipped from behind by the spinning Tandy, with all sliding into the gravel entice.
Tandy suffered right-rear injury and appeared looking forward to a tow to proceed on, however was left unaided for something greater than a tow earlier than stepping out of the automotive.
“It is damaged, I can see that,” mentioned the Englishman, who received Petit Le Mans outright with a GTLM class Porsche amid heavy rain in 2015. “We nonetheless had drive, I used to be simply caught within the gravel.
“All I wanted was somewhat pull onto the grass, I might drive to the pitlane, and we might possibly restore it. However now we have misplaced 10 laps for the automotive to get again.”
#20 Excessive Class Racing Oreca LMP2 07: Dennis Andersen, Ed Jones, Anders Fjordbach
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He added: “At the very least we have it again nevertheless it’s broken. We’ll try to get it again out. It is a bit of a disgrace.”
Tandy and Jaminet entered the ultimate spherical of IMSA’s first season with hybrid equipment third in factors, solely 5 factors behind leaders Pipo Derani and Alexander Sims within the #31 Motion Categorical Cadillac.
“I perceive their state of affairs, there’s two automobiles collectively and we’re making an attempt to get them out of the best way as shortly and safely as attainable, however I actually simply needed a fast tow,” Tandy mentioned of the security workforce.
“I 100% admire what the observe employees do for us, it is wonderful, however I simply needed to provide everybody on this workforce one of the best probability to get again out within the race.”